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Advanced Fashion: Standard 6 Selling. Created by: Kris Caldwell Timpanogos High School. Selling. Rational Buying Behavior: Involves logical thinking and decision making. Emotional Buying Behavior: Based on feelings.
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Advanced Fashion: Standard 6Selling Created by: Kris Caldwell Timpanogos High School
Selling • Rational Buying Behavior: Involves logical thinking and decision making. • Emotional Buying Behavior: Based on feelings. • Nonpersonal Selling: The type of selling that does not involve interaction between people. • Personal Selling: The type of selling that involves direct interaction between sales associates and potential buyers by telephone or in person.
Selling • Product Features: Physical characteristics of items. Ex: Fabric, construction, style • Benefits: Solutions that product features provide. Ex: comfort, saving money or time, safety, ease of care, higher social status. • Add-ons: A customer purchases an additional related item. • Trading up: A customer substitutes an item that is higher priced or of better quality.
Steps of Selling • Approach • Determine needs • Present the product • Overcome objections • Close the Sale • Perform suggestion selling • Follow up
Approach • Sales associate greets customer when they enter the store, usually by saying “hello”.
Determine Needs • Learn as much as possible about the customer’s preferences in order to decide which products to show the customer. • Ask open-ended questions • Encourage customer to talk • Listen
Present the Product • Translate features into benefits. • Customers buy benefits!
Overcome Objections • Objections are concerns, hesitations, doubts, or other reasons a customer has for not making a purchase. • They might involve: price, product, timing, etc. • Use a positive approach
Closing the Sale • Closing means that the customer agrees to buy the merchandise. • Observe the customer for signs they are ready to make a positive purchasing decision.
Suggestion Selling • Selling additional goods or services to the customer. • It is a way to increase sales, including: • Add-ons • Trading-up • More than one • Special offer
Follow-Up • After you close the sale, it is the beginning of the relationship building process. • Follow up with the customer • Build a rapport