016 Saturday: Focus on Sales, Clients & Team Building Remarkable Retailer | The Show for Savvy Shopkeepers

Vicki Adrian brings a daily dose of Inspiration
& Education for Remarkable Retailers and Savvy Entrepreneurs.
In today's "Scope", Vicki concludes her series on "Theming Your
Work Days" with some productivity hacks. If you've missed the
previous episodes in this series, go back and listen or watch
Episode 117 through 122.

In our business, our Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday are slower,
and business picks up Thursday, Friday & Saturday. This is why
in the “Theming Your Days” plan that I use, the first part of the
week is used for concentrated, detail work. Financials on Monday,
Email & Social Media Marketing on Tuesday & Connection –
Building professional relationships & education on Wednesday.
Things change later in the week! The last half of the week we are
busier with customers in the store, and SATURDAY is the busiest day
of our week!

So here’s what our Saturday should look like: Many times we
start with our staff having breakfast at our local coffee shop.
This gives us a chance to connect on a personal level, talk
informally about our week and what’s been going on…also a great
chance for some girl time!

For those of you who follow me regularly, you know what comes
next…Morning Meeting with all of our staff. We do this most days of
the week, but it is pretty rare that we miss this on Saturday. Most
of our Saturday staff only works this one or maybe two days per
week, so it is up to us to bring them up to date with new arrivals,
product focus and education, what specials might be going on, etc.
Our staff arrives 30 minutes before our store opens and is expected
to be clocked in and ready to go by 9:30 every morning.

I usually have a few notes for the essential things I want to
cover, and many times will play a product training video, or a
sales training video, or read an article to the staff that I think
is relevant to help them grow professionally or personally. I know
my friend Flo from Michigan does an amazing job with encouraging
her staff members to keep educating themselves, and to work on
their health, both mentally and physically. She is a trainer and
cheerleader for her team members! Very inspiring!

On Saturday’s, our re-send of our weekly email goes out. I love
to give our weekly email (created this last Tuesday) a second
chance at success! We re-send this email to only the people that
DID NOT OPEN it earlier in the week, and we usually get an
additional 600 – 900 opens on that email. It takes 5-10 minutes to
do this and is well worth it! I have a little step-by-step tutorial
on exactly how to do this that I will be happy to email out to you.
Just email Vicki@RemarkableRetailer.com with 2nd Chance in the
subject line and I will get it right out for you.

I hope you have enjoyed this series on Theming Your Work Days
and that you have learned a little bit about setting time aside
each day to tackle the most important tasks that will lead to
success in YOUR business!

Thank you for joining me...and I hope to see you "LIVE" on
Periscope soon! Please "FOLLOW" Remarkable Retailer on Periscope so
I can answer your questions, and learn from you as well!

We’ve got a couple of helpful FREE resources for you today!
Would you take a minute after this Periscope ends and stop by
RemarkableRetailer.com? On the right side of the page, you’ll see
my picture…click the button to sign up for our email list and
you’ll get a link to our Remarkable Retailer Resource book right
away. I think you’ll find some great information there!

Also, if you’re interested in the Step by Step Tutorial on
giving your weekly emails a second chance at success, just email
Vicki@RemarkableRetailer.com with “2nd Chance” in the subject line,
and I will get it right out for you!

Vicki Adrian

RemarkableRetailer.com

Vicki@RemarkableRetailer.com