HOW HAIR SALONS CAN DOUBLE THEIR SALES
I’m a little obsessed with helping businesses find new streams of revenue, in case you haven’t noticed… I’ve thought a lot about hair salons specifically, and it all comes down to a system. The first piece they get wrong in most hair salons is scheduling....
LEARNING FROM JCPENNEY AND SAVING SEARS
It’s no secret that retail is in a tailspin. The leaders of that tailspin are companies like Sears and JCPenney. To illustrate my point, at the beginning of 2016, Sears Holdings operated 941 Kmart stores and 705 full-line Sears stores. By the end of the year, they had...
HOW TO COMPETE AND WIN IN BUSINESS
Want to know your advantage in the marketplace and how you fight the big boys to end up on top? CUSTOMER SERVICE. What nobody thinks about when it comes to customer service is if you’re selling a commodity, somebody else can sell it for less. If you have...
TRAIN YOUR SALES TEAM WITH FUN THROUGH GAMIFICATION
When you think of training your sales team, do you picture a conference room with a bunch of sales reps sitting around a projector half-asleep? It doesn’t have to be that way! Here at Chris Collins Inc., we specialize in making sales training...
BEST PRACTICES FOR MOTIVATING A SALES TEAM
When it comes to motivating a sales team, not just to sell, but to sell the right items to maximize their company’s profits – not to mention just to come to work on time every day, and not move on and add to expensive turnover – there is no...
HOW LOCAL BUSINESSES CAN INCREASE SALES AND CUSTOMER RETENTION
Sometimes it can just seem unfair! The amount of money that big retail chains can throw at marketing, running TV ads, full coupon inserts in the newspaper, large-scale mailer campaigns and more, can be overwhelming. So how is a small local...
HOW TO USE GAMIFICATION TO ENGAGE EMPLOYEES AND DRIVE SALES
Welcome to Chris Collins, Inc.! I’m Chris, “The Bulldog,” and I want to show you how to use gamification to engage employees, drive sales and transform your business in a way you probably never even dared to dream about. Normal sales training...
A LOOK AT ONE OF THE BEST SALES TRAINING TOOLS – GAMIFICATION
Hello and welcome! I’m Chris, “The Bulldog,” Collins, and I’m glad you stopped by. Let me tell you a little about one of the best sales training tools available in the world today: gamification. I’m sure you’ve been in a sales training...
CRAZY WAYS TO INCREASE SALES IN YOUR SERVICE DEPARTMENT THIS YEAR
In 2010, one of the main sales problems within service departments was identified to be inadequate manpower to take care of customers. In 2012, this is still a problem plaguing the automotive servicing industry. Entrepreneurial experts have been trying to figure out...
SOCIAL MEDIA FOR BUYER PROSPECTING – A RISK OR A MUST?
Automotive industries and other companies should take advantage of the social media as people are using these sites to communicate, socialize and interact with others. The internet and social are important components of a comprehensive marketing program and are...