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Articles Tagged with ''sales tips''

I can do it

Flooring Sales Tip: Attitude is Your Success to Selling

Buddy Wisdom
September 9, 2016
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What makes attitude so mysterious and yet essential to selling? Understand that your mind is a computer that you can program.
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Flooring Sales Tip: Relating

Buddy Wisdom
August 4, 2016
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“Now let’s see. We’ve been together about 30 minutes. I can tell you know nothing about me, my home, my lifestyle or what I like. What was it you were trying to sell me again?”
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Selling Flooring: Helping Couples Come to a Consensus

Kelly Kramer
Kelly Kramer
August 4, 2016
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Just last week, I had a couple come into my store that had purchased flooring from me about a year ago.
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relaxed and upfront with customers

Selling Flooring: Sharing Information with Consumers

Kelly Kramer
Kelly Kramer
July 15, 2016
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When I’m doing training for retail flooring chains or talks at floor covering association dinners, I always include a section on “what needs to be said” to prospective buyers.


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Flooring Sales Tip: The Greeting

Buddy Wisdom
July 15, 2016
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It has been said that the opening is more important than the closing.
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Selling Floors Means Sharing the Pros and Cons

Kelly Kramer
Kelly Kramer
October 7, 2015
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Every time I’m in a situation where a salesperson is presenting a product to me, I generally have a couple of problems believing what I’m being told.


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Warren Tyler

Selling in Today’s Retail Environment

Warren Tyler
Warren Tyler
January 5, 2015
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In the early 1960s, I opened a small flooring store in New York.


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The Trusted Sales Advisor

Functionality, Demonstrations and Cost Expectations

Kelly Kramer
Kelly Kramer
January 5, 2015
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This issue marks 20 years since I started writing for the flooring industry trade journals back in 1995.


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The Trusted Sales Advisor

The Past and Future of Laminate Floors

Kelly Kramer
Kelly Kramer
December 5, 2014
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It seems like not so long ago, I remember being a much younger sales advisor at a retail floor covering store in Southern California.


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The Trusted Sales Advisor

Why I Love My Job

Kelly Kramer
Kelly Kramer
November 4, 2014
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Recently, I had an elderly lady who I had worked with for about 40 minutes say something to me I had never been told before in all my years selling retail.


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