What the best ‘sellers’ do that the rest do not

The Best

The Rest

Great Display: Have the flip flops well presented with a full stand with all colors. Stand is in a prominent location such as being clearly view-able in the clinic waiting room.

Poor display: The stand is not in a prominent location. The display stand is not full and only has a couple of the colors.

Staff wear the flip flops: Reception staff and workers all wear the flip flops. They are all well-educated on the features and benefits of the product. The know the ‘ins’ and ‘outs’ of the product such as the two different arch profiles, how to stretch the strap, manufacturing variance in the lengths and so on. They are super enthusiastic about the product and often end up ‘selling’ the flip flops to patients / customer in the waiting room based on pure enthusiasm for the product.

Staff do not wear the flip flops: Staff do not have a pair of the flip flops. As such, they can only speak about what they have heard about the flip flops and cannot speak from experience. It’s hard to be enthusiastic for a product you have not experienced for yourself. The staff have not been well educated on the features and benefits of the product and therefore cannot answer questions or educate patients / customers.

See the opportunity: If a patient comes in wearing flip flops, the individual sees this as an opportunity enthusiastically tell the patient the issues with normal flip flops and how Archies Flip Flops addresses these issues.

Miss the opportunity: For whatever reason, shyness, lack of confidence in the product, time constraints or simply disinterest, the staff member does not recognize that someone coming into the store or practice wearing flip flops is a great opportunity to educate them about the negative effects of typical flip flops and what Archies Flip Flops have done to try and address these issues.

Education in spare time: In the case of a Health Professional, rather than filling in the spare time of treatment session with small talk, they use this time when and where feasible to actively seek out opportunities to educate customers / patients about the issues with the design of typical flat flip flops and how Archies Flip Flop design addresses these issues. They don’t wait for customers to bring it up.

Small talk in spare time: Staff only bring up the flip flops into conversation if they are asked about them. In the case of a Health Professional, once their issue has been well attended to, rather than using the ‘spare’ or ‘downtime’ of a treatment session as a means to provide some further health education, they go on to talk about current affairs or the weekends sport.

Use the most effective promotion: Using photos from the Archies Flip Flops image library, the practice or store runs a ‘Like, comment, share competition for a free pair of flip flops on Facebook. In the process, they not only ‘tap’ into their current customers, but also their friends and friends of friends.

Uses ‘Ok’ Promotion: Practice / store post on their Facebook that they are stocking Archies Flip Flops, however, they do not run a like, share, comment competition, as such, they only ‘tap’ into their current database and do not utilize the friends of their current followers and so on.
Ask questions: When the customer has tried the flip flops on, the staff ask the customer questions such as how does the arch feel, how does the strap feel and if these are issues, they let them know how they can be solved. E.g Stretching the strap. The staff also pay particular attention to the customer’s body language and look for incongruity between what the customer tells them and what their body language is saying. They then seek to solve the hidden objection or apprehension accordingly continuing to pay close attention to their spoken word and body language.

Does not ask questions: Staff fail to seek feedback from the customer and fail to monitor their body language. As such, they unwittingly make the customer uncomfortable by not adequately attending to their needs or concerns.

Stretch the strap: Staff let the customer know why a tight strap is important and that with a couple of wears it will mold to the shape of their feet, however, if it is too tight, they stretch it for them then and there.

Do not stretch the strap: Staff do not educate the customer as to why a tighter strap is important and do not stretch it for them when it is too tight. As such, the customer may either think that the flip flops are not for them or they may wear them and have the straps uncomfortably cut into their feet.

Get the patient to go for a walk in the flip flops: Almost always if a customer tries the flip flops on, they end up purchasing them. As such, the best sellers goal is always just to get the person to try the flip flops on. Even better, if a customer / patient is wearing flip flops, the therapist or sales person gets their potential customer to see what the flip flops feel like by walking 5 meters in Archies Flip Flops and then 5 meters in their existing flip flop for a direct comparison.

Do not get the customer to go for a walk in the flip flops: They often fail to get to the crucial step of simply getting the customer to try the flip flops on.

Friendly, kind sales people with their patient’s best interest at heart: The best sales staff are friendly, confident and super enthusiastic and they approach selling the flip flops from the mindset that they are doing their customer a favor by educating them about the design issues of normal flip flops and how Archies Flip Flops addressees these issues. Once a customer has been educated and they have given their professional recommendation, they leave it up to the customer to make their own mind up. They always remember our motto of ‘Make a friend before you make a sale’ and they always have the customers best interest at heart. They are in this to help the person get an awesome flip flop, not just to get a sale! The end result if often high sales and happy customers!

Pushy sales people: People do like to feel they are being sold anything and often do not respond well into being ‘coerced’ into buying something. This often results in less sales and less happy customer.