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Opening another store location.
« on: August 10, 2006, 10:22:14 pm »
We'll soon be opening another Spa/pool store 15-20 miles away as the crow flies.
Many of you are dealers and professional business people outside your soaking antics(no pun).

Can you give a young man some advice as to some of the things you may have experienced while you were doing something similar?

Some info about the new spot- Watkins spas, Bioguard Pool and spa products, Big Green Egg Grills, TEC Grills, A/G pools, Pool stuff, 1500-3500 sq. ft., High traffic location.

Any input is appreciated.
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Opening another store location.
« on: August 10, 2006, 10:22:14 pm »

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Re: Opening another store location.
« Reply #1 on: August 11, 2006, 11:41:55 am »
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Re: Opening another store location.
« Reply #2 on: August 11, 2006, 12:40:43 pm »
Yes, don't trust whitey.

Also, besides that, I would suggest investing in a large flat screen plasma TV you can put on the wall.  I have one hooked up to a laptop and a wireless network.

It is a great sales tool to be able to put up a picture of any of your spas in any color the customer would like to see.  You can also put spas up for side-by-side comparisons as well as put your spa up beside your competitors' in order to point out the differences.  I have sold many a spa just by showing pictures to the customer.

I can also pull up relevant threads on this forum and let people read them.

On busy days, I pop the HotSpring Customer DVD in and let people see the factory and how the spas are made.  If there are little kids, I put a movie or cartoons in and let them watch while I fleece their parents.

I can use the Detechtive Program to show them how easy it will be to get parts for their spa now or 20 years from now.

I bought a Circuit City brand ED model for around $2k.  I take it to home shows, boat shows, etc and it is a crowd pleaser.  We're putting them in our 2 new stores in Tyler and Shreveport.

Good luck!

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« Reply #3 on: August 11, 2006, 11:13:43 pm »
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Re: Opening another store location.
« Reply #4 on: August 12, 2006, 03:47:43 pm »
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Don't trust whitey.


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« Reply #5 on: August 12, 2006, 04:32:00 pm »
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Can you give a young man some advice...

Don't lay low wif da fidgets and chucklin' in yore stomach.

Also, keep some good beer and a cigar humidor handy as these really create a "just sitting around in the back yard drinkin' and shootin'" atmosphere and helps to put people at ease.

A nicely appointed mood room is a MUST have.  I'd guess that 80% of my sales are closed in the mood room.

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« Reply #6 on: August 13, 2006, 02:59:05 pm »
thank's term.
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« Reply #7 on: August 14, 2006, 09:38:50 am »
If you are putting all that stuff in a store, you'll want to go bigger.  The 1500 sq. ft. location would never work.  As a consumer, I want to see as many spas as I can in one store.  I also don't want them stuffed into the store so it makes it difficult to really look at the spas.  Also, please have more than one spa with water.  When I was looking, I went to places that had no spas with water and some with only one.  I couldn't really get a feel for the spas that way.  Also, don't make it look like a pool store.
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« Reply #8 on: August 14, 2006, 11:01:28 am »
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Don't trust whitey.


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oh yea...
 
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