Making the Most of your Direct Sales holiday selling season: Meeting the needs of stressed out moms!
The holidays are fast upon us and as work at home moms we knowhow it feels to have just one more thing to think about! Meantto be a time of excitement, joy, memories and fun, often theholidays drive the home based business mom over the edge andinto the land of stress and craziness.But you, Direct Sales Mom, have what many of those stressed outmoms need this time of the year. You have the gift of GIFTS!Without having to battle the lines at Kohl's or the mall, momscan email or ...
...call you and have their holiday shopping donewithout even leaving the house! By adding a little sparkle of"extra mile" to your already excellent customer service skills,you can help busy moms everywhere bring back the joy and funthis holiday season.So, let's talk about what you can do in your direct salesbusiness to help these over the edge moms starting today!** Give them a simple organization gift - Send out a blank wishlist sheet to your customer mailing list. Offer it as a gift tonew subscribers to your newsletter list too. This can be assimple as a chart with columns and rows for "Name" and "Gift"for them to keep track as they shop. It's a nice gesture andcould be just what an overwhelmed mom needs to help her getorganized with this part of the season. You can create oneyourself in word or excel, or search the web for some fanciertemplates. Just make sure it has your resource box on there,"Compliments of..." so they know who to call!** Offer gift-wrapping and "delivered to their door" service formoms who purchase gifts from you. Yes, it might cost you alittle more, but think of the help you're giving to another momand the potential for future business you're generating by thesacrifice.** Group your products into gift packages. Get creative hereladies. Take a good look throughout your catalog and createlovely packages of complimentary products at various pricepoints. Do the thinking for your customers to take away one morelayer of stress. Go beyond just suggesting and up selling andcreate packages with package pricing so all they have to do iscall or email you and say, "I want 3 of that $15 package youmentioned on your email". Offer the gift-wrapping above andinclude that in your package pricing to make it even easier forthem.** Provide gift certificate services so your customers can giveyour catalog and the certificate as a gift. Not only does thishelp your customer with her stress level, but it gives you theopportunity to win over a new customer as well.** Most of all brainstorm about what would help YOU feel morerelaxed about your holiday shopping this holiday season and thensee how you can help other moms in the same way.Make the most of your holiday selling season by reaching out andhelping others. You'll be glad you did!You can find an easy to download version of this article whenyou CLICK HERE .
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