Tips On How To Maximise The Christmas Sales Season.

Its estimated that 20% of every business gross sales revenue is made during Christmas season. For that reason, you should prepare this event towards maximizing your sales, taking advantage of this occasion to push your business forward.

Are you ready foe that mega profit this season?

• Plan now. Don’t delay in forming a strategy.
• Create a festive ambiance in your office,  store locations
• Do the same for your website if you have one.
• Steer attention towards your best-selling products
• Display your best and most popular products up at the front.
• Assemble your best products in gift packages.
• To increase the conversion rate of your boutique and maximize your sales. A promo code is a good way to attract clients.
• Continually promote your Christmas sales offer
• Maximise online sales. Online retail has grown this year. Place your product on online retail platforms. Dealdey.
• Be visible! There is nothing better than communication: articles and/or advertising in local newspapers,  etc.
• Ask people in your circle to lend you a hand. Workload is greatly increased during the Christmas holidays. Be smart and “hire friends, family and all good souls.
• Value good customers. Show your regulars that you appreciate their custom by sending cards.
• Stock up. Make sure your suppliers know exactly what you need and by when.
• Update your website.
• Make it easy for customers. Stand out from the competition by making life as easy as possible for your customers. Offer a present advisory service, for example, gift-wrap items or open late for people shopping after work?
• Raise your profile. Lift the profile of your business in the pre-Christmas period. For example, take a stall at a Christmas fair, take part in seasonal charity events or offer gifts for charity Christmas prize draws.
• Repackage your offers. Consider whether a seasonal twist might improve sales of any of your lines. For example, can products be packaged together and presented as a Christmas basket?
• Look to the future. Once the Christmas season is over, measure the results so you know what worked, and what was less successful, in order to make Christmas 2010 even better.
• Manage your inventory. Be prepared and stock-up on key products to avoid being out-of-stock

 

5 Behaviors That Are Holding You Back from More Sales

Sales is a numbers game. In fact, it’s two numbers games. There’s one game of financial numbers, and another game of hitting numbers with people. If your numbers aren’t what you want them to be, you might be playing the game wrong. 

The five issues below can help you determine what you’re doing or not doing to hurt your sales. If you can pinpoint your problems, you can open yourself up to growth and find solutions.

1. Lack of Desire  

There are a lot of people in sales who hate sales. They have no desire to be in this line of work. Perhaps they heard that you can make a lot of money in sales. Or maybe one thing led to another and it sounded like a good job at the time, but it’s not enjoyable work for them. Or maybe they used to like sales, but a few years down the road, they lost the desire for it. If you relate to any of these situations, you either need to find some motivation and decide you do want to be in sales, or you need to get out. It’s as simple as that. A lot of people do make a lot of money in sales, but you have to want it.

2. Failure to Set Goals

Sales is an industry that absolutely requires being results-focused. If you’re not setting specific goals, whether they’re measured monthly, quarterly, or annually, you will not have the success you want. You need to be constantly bettering your skills and setting goals, and measuring results helps you do that. If you are not a natural goal setter, don’t simply disregard that part of the job and try to work around it. It may take more work for you to learn the habit of goal setting, but it’s a necessary step in personal growth if you want to be a great salesperson.

3. Bad Attitude

A negative attitude isn’t appreciated in any line of work, but it’s a huge hindrance in sales. Your job is to speak to a need or desire that customers have and inspire them to buy your product. I haven’t seen many motivational speakers with bad attitudes, and that’s because you can’t be inspirational if you’re not inspired yourself. You also can’t fake this; people will see right through you if you are negative.

If you’re in sales, have a good job, and can make good money, that’s a great thing! Focus on these positive aspects of your life throughout the workday, and your optimism will be apparent to customers.

4. No Interest in Studying Your Profession  

People are your profession. You must study them in order to sell to them. Different people find different things offensive and appealing. There is a wide variety of personality types, ethnic backgrounds, and economic statuses in the world. The more you understand your customers, the easier it will be to connect to them and communicate effectively. You should also have an understanding of who your customers should be. Too many salespeople spend too much time in front of the wrong people, who either can’t – or won’t – buy their products. A greater understanding of your customers leads to more efficient use of your time.

5. Not Believing in Your Product 

You can’t sell something you don’t believe in (at least not well). If you don’t believe in your product, get out of that job and find something to sell that you can really stand behind. You don’t have to necessarily be a customer as well as a salesperson, but you need to believe in the product. For example, if you sell N10million car, you don’t have to own one, but you do have to believe that you’re selling the highest-quality vehicle that money can buy. If you want to be a successful salesperson, you need to take a long look at yourself and your sales history. You need to be willing to grow and improve in areas in which you might be weak. If you can take your profession seriously and dedicate yourself to these improvements, you can be as great as any salesperson out there

Sales Job Vacancy.

Our organization is a trades and services company looking for a qualified candidate to fill this position

Responsibilities:

• The Assistant Sales Executive will be required to promote, sell and secure orders from existing and prospective customers through a relationship-based approach, demonstrates products and services to existing or potential customers to assist them in selecting those best suited to their needs
• Establishes, develops and maintains business relationships with current and prospective customers in the assigned territory/market segment to generate new business for the organizations product and services
• Researches sources for developing prospective customers and for information to determine their potential
• Develops clear and effective written proposals/quotations for current and prospective customers
• Analyzes the market’s potential and determines the value of existing and prospective customers to the organization
• Creates and manages a customer value plan for existing customers
• Supplies management with oral and written reports on customer needs, problems, interests, competitive activities and potential for new products and services
• Keeps abreast of product applications, technical services, market conditions, competitive activities, advertising and promotional trends through the reading of pertinent literature and consulting with technical service areas
• Participates in trade shows, conventions and exhibitions

Qualification and Requirements:

• Minimum of SSCE
• Minimum of 0-1 years experience
• Good interpersonal relationship skills
• Excellent communication skills

email their CV to 229cc@jbng.me to apply for this job

Tips On How To Sell Yourself & Your Career Or Profession On Linkedin

Have a Professional Picture

 

Make Your Headline Unique

Your Summary Should Be focused On “WIIFM’s”

Hand Hold Them Through The Call To Action

Spread Keywords Throughout Your Profile

Don’t Rehash Your Resume

Share Industry News & Intelligence

Join & Participate In Groups

Follow Companies That Interest You

Personalize Invitations To Connect

Nokia Appoints Nick Imudia MD for West, Central Africa

Nokia has appointed Nick Imudia as managing director for its West and Central Africa operations.
Covering a territory that includes Nigeria, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Liberia, Chad, Niger, Benin and Togo, Imudia will be based in the Nokia office in Lagos.

Nick Imudia joined Nokia in 1998 and has held several senior positions within the organisation over the past 15 years, including senior manager for retail IT products and systems, based out of Singapore; director of consumer and marketing solutions and head of sales and marketing solutions.

Prior to his move to West Africa, Imudia was based in Finland as director for the sales and marketing capability unit, a role in which he held global responsibility for all of the processes, tools and systems for the Nokia sales and marketing function.