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Proven Tactics To Grow Sales After You Open A Dollar Store
Opening an online dollar store is a great work at home opportunity for many people to day. But where do you find customers if you have an online dollar store? Here are some great ideas that work online just as well as offline.
Proven Tactics To Grow Sales After You Open A Dollar Store
If you are about to open a dollar store be sure you recognize the need to focus on continually growing your business. You need to spend time and money to keep your sales increasing. If handled correctly this challenge can actually become one the more interesting and one of the most rewarding areas of focus for you and your managers. It is easy to track your efforts and the results achieved because of your efforts. In this article I present proven tactics to grow sales after you open a dollar store.
Growing sales should focus on two distinct measurements of success if you open a dollar store. First there is simply the number of sales transactions made in your store. All things remaining equal then the greater the number of sales transactions, the greater the sales volume in your store. Generally the best way to increase total sales transactions is to increase the traffic into your store. As the traffic increases so too will that sales numbers.
The second measure of success for growing sales is increasing the average size of all sales transactions in your store. This one involves some effort. You must really understand your shoppers, including their basic needs and wants. Then your challenge is to make sure you are meeting those needs and wants with exactly the right products. Never allow your store to run out of key products. The worst thing to happen would be a shopper coming into your store expecting an item you normally carry and then finding it is out of stock.
The other important step to take is to create excitement throughout your store. This is accomplished in many ways. For example, do you have lots of impulse items in your store? There needs to be a wide variety of items, including many hot, new items people are hearing about. Next is to offer products shoppers just don’t expect in a dollar store. Products in this category include name brand items, products that never sell for a dollar – they sell for much more with all your competitors and they aren’t typically seen in dollar stores. Finally if you open a dollar store add special purchases of regularly used items. These special purchases will generally increase your profit margin, and an end cap display filled with those products will draw the attention of most shoppers.
If you open a dollar store, don’t discount the importance of your store and employees in creating the results you seek. Creating a great shopping experience accompanied by outstanding customer service factors into both of these efforts. Customers will come back time and again when they enjoy the experience in your store. They are also likely to stay longer whenever they visit if the total experience is positive. The longer they stay in your store, they greater the number of purchases they are likely to make.
To your dollar store business success!
By: Bob Hamilton
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Dollar Store Finds For Decorating On A Budget
Owning an online dollar store can be just as much fun as owning your own business in town. However internet marketing can be fun and much easier than becoming a slave to your brick and mortar store in town. Think of the tremendous savings of time and money if you work at home with your own online dollar store.
Decorating with Thrift Store Finds
Creating a classy, stylish home doesn’t have to cost a fortune. Thrift and second hand stores provide a source for quality, elegant items if you know what you are looking for, stick to your style and make wise decisions.
Finding really great, quality items at thrift or consignment stores, yard sales or swap meets takes time. But it’s well worth the foot work you will do to score great items that would cost you a fortune otherwise and can take your home beyond the "basics", turning it in to something really fabulous!
The trick to great finds is to go often. Frequent your favorites at least every two weeks (giving them time to get more merchandise in stock). The early bird really does catch the worm in this case because unique or quality items are snatched up quickly. When I am in search of a particular item, I tend to go every week on Mondays. This is typically the day when new merchandise is set out after the weekend rush.
What you are looking for are items in your decorating style that have quality construction (even if you need to turn a screw, replace a hinge or do a bit of paint or repair). Decide what your room needs, make a list that you keep with you when perusing these wonderful treasure shops to keep you from purchasing things you really don’t need.
Fully examine the item then ask yourself what you will have to do to get it in shape. Recover it? Paint it? Fix it? And are you willing to do it.
Remember that these types of outlets are fabulous for finding accessories as well!
I used to see beautiful chaise lounge chairs in romantic old movies and found them to be so sophisticated and classy. I always dreamed of having one. But check out the prices of a new one! But one day, while roaming the aisles of our local swap meet, a woman was selling a rather shabby looking model for a mere $35.00. I grabbed it without even a thought of dickering the price. Ones similar to it retail at over $700.00 . Knowing I could re-cover it, I hauled it home with great pride!
Check out do it yourself home decorating websites for step by step instructions on how to recover furniture. It’s really quite easy.
A very stylish occasional table cost me only $20.00 at an out of the way antique store. With high gloss black paint and a stenciled design in gold, the table now graces a guest bedroom and commands raves from visiting overnight guests.
Perfectly "Traditional" in styling and in great shape, I ran across a marble base table lamp with Victorian iron scroll work and all I had to do was to redo the gold finish on the metal with a antiquing kit from the paint store. $10.00 is all I paid for it. A $12.00 replacement shade completed this now treasured piece.
I nearly threw myself through the windshield when I slammed on the brakes in front of a yard sale that featured an exquisite, hand carved occasional chair. $40.00 later (they wanted much more!), I was laying it gently in the back seat and screaming home to place it in my living room. I’ve since found the perfect material in which to create a padded seat on it. This chair looks so expensive that visitors to my home comment about what a fortune I must have paid for it.
By now you are beginning to see that thrift store and yard sale finds don’t have to mean that you are decorating your home with "junk". If you make good choices, use a bit of common sense and hone your "fix it" skills, you can have a very classy home on a dime.
For many wood items such as chairs and tables, a simple coat of paint, an antique finish and a stencil can create an elegant, one of a kind piece for your home.
I found a luscious oval coffee table at a thrift store that is made of very heavy wood (it took everything I had just to get it in the truck all by myself!). But I couldn’t resist with its oval top and super quality, let alone the shocking price tag of just $5.00. Why was it $5.00? Because it had the most ugly, bright blue paint on it! A can of orange gel paint stripper later, the application of one of the designs from my stencil collection done with gold acrylic paint made it fabulous!
Now the beauty of the wood shows through and is our coffee table in our "soon to retire to" home in Idaho.
Enjoy your searches….turn them in to a fun treasure hunt, go often, be wise in your choices and you too can have beautiful furnishings on a budget.
Victoria Larsen 2006
Victoria Larsen is a professional wall stencil designer and interior specialist. Her products and ideas have been featured in Better Homes and Gardens, Women’s Day, Craft Trends, Creating Keepsakes, Rubber Stamping Retailer and Memory Maker magazines and The Wall Street Journal. Visit Victoria on line at http://www.victorialarsen.com. Blog: http://victorialarsen.typepad.com
| By Victoria Larsen Published: 1/31/2007 |
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