TIPSY TUESDAY: Ten EXPERT Tips For Sales Motivation (PLUS Five More INSIDER Tips!!)

The link (easy to read): Ten Expert Tips For Sales Motivation

We at Cheers POS can tell you, as a small business, EVERY PERSON COUNTS!!

Most business' sell the idea that they are Customer Friendly or Customer Oriented.

1. If you want to have a GREAT business, be Employee Friendly and Employee Oriented. Your employees make your business, especially if you are in sales, treat them as people, not consumables.

2. Spend time with your employees and train them yourself. If you cannot, get someone you trust, who knows your business (not just his or her own job) inside and out to train your staffer, this way, you know the new employee will get the RIGHT training). DO NOT rely on videos. They are impersonal and shows your employee you cannot be bothered and that he or she is not an individual.

3. Get to know your employees -- if they feel more comfortable with you and your direction, they will put more into your company. If they feel like they are expendable, they will put in the minimum they must for the hours they have to work, not really perform well, and probably look for a better job that has more to offer. Job-searchers are leery of companies with high turn-over rates, customers HATE THEM because they are always talking to someone new and have to explain from the start, again and again, to each person, why they are calling.
Furthermore, if you know your employees, you can be more comfortable with them and be more confident in your team and your vision.

4. Stop problems BEFORE they start. Correct your employee(s) if they have made a mistake or are performing poorly. Re-train them if you have to do so. Spend more time with the employee(s) so that you do not loose time and money having to bring in a new person and start from the beginning.

5. Discourage. All. Gossip. This decreases productivity and sets up an, "us vs them," mentality, or at least ostracizes at least one person at any given time. You do not need this in a small business, especially one that is as difficult as sales. Make sure, if your team is not a, "family," they are more than just, "co-workers." Have it so that everybody is a work mate. They may not be besties, but, they are more than acquaintances. Everybody should be friendly, not just polite. Everybody should be friends at work, not just professionals.

Big business' can get away with high turnover rates because they know they already have a solid clientele base. Medium businesses may lose customers because the customers are not treated well because the employees are not treated well. Small businesses cannot afford to hemorrhage employees. Treat your employees as your Number One Priority and your business will grow!

~Cheers!

Happy Friday!! Two FREE Tips for Business Owners AND a YouTube Video

Initially, we wanted to help our followers with another video, BUT, demurred after one of the segments. We will ask that, if you are marketing your product(s) to 1. please be truthful in advertising. Let us repeat that again, PLEASE BE TRUTHFUL IN ADVERTISING. Some companies faced HUGE lawsuits and had to pay our millions. The purpose of business is to make money.

We present to you instead this video, the Top 10 Marketing Failures (according to WatchMojo). We do wonder how some commercials make it to air and some advertisements make it to media. We would like to offer this helpful tip, 2. if you own your own business, run your advertising idea(s) past your co-founder, or employees, or anybody else in your business. If you are self-employed, have your friends or trusted mentors go over your advertisements and marketing promotions and wording. Do not let this be an echo chamber, do not take criticisms personally. If other people do not view your promotions and advertisements the way you intend, you will not be able to promote (and grow) your business and you will lose time and money.

You may remember other failures; remember how they stood out as failures and also, remember the advertisements that caught your eye for the right reason(s) -- and emulate them.

~Cheers!

Were You Able To Spot The Lies?

Comment below if you watched the video, what you thought of it, and if you were able to spot the lies.

We have another helpful article for our followers, business owners especially, 10 Ways To Convert More Customers Backed By Science.

Who doesn't want more customers, and who can't trust science!  It's Science!!  It surely has all the answers!!!  YAY SCIENCE!*

The article is very informative and references studies that show how people can be persuaded.

Let us know if you have had success with any of these or will try them in the future.

~Cheers!

*There is a caveat at the bottom of the article saying studies are good, but, they do not solve everything.

Tipsy Tuesday: Lying Liars Link

This article lists five ways to spot a liar in an interview.  There is a short (3.5 minute) video as well demonstrating true and false answers.

http://www.aol.com/article/2016/06/30/5-ways-to-tell-someone-is-lying-in-a-job-interview/21421972/

We found it VERY informative and entertaining!!

Were you able to spot the false answers from the honest answers?  Let us know!

~Cheers!

Taglines & Updates

Two things this Thursday:

1. We have been developing LOTS of new taglines and slogans which will will rotate in the months ahead.

2. Our Social Media Developer/Content Builder was updating some key pages of your Cheers Point of Sale Retail Solution this morning. We will place them on www.cheerspos.com soon.

~Cheers!

Cigars, Wetbars, Chew, & Brew

Cheers POS will now do all of these for you!

...Eh...does this sound too much like a Lonnie Blackburn ad?  He's on the radio everywhere here in Kansas.  Please forgive us.

The point is, Cheers POS is slightly diversifying to help more people.  We have decided we have the ability to provide for liquor stores as well as wine shops, winery's, vineyards, smoke shops, and gift stores associated with these categories.  We are reaching out to the 18+ crowd; we've matured.

Though we are expanding to help more people, we would like to emphasize, we, Cheers POS, specialize where others generalize; Cheers POS is NOT for restaurants, grocery stores, or other general retail shops.  We exist to be the best point of sale system for the products we know.

For more information, please go to our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/liquorpos/

Also, the blog is getting an update: we will be moving from Blogger to WordPress.  Our new blog will be right on our website's page, allowing readers to stay at cheerspos.com.

~Cheers!

New Computer...Tomorrow...Hopefully

Good Monday Morning, All!!

It is a beautiful day here at Cheers POS and a great day to start over!

Speaking about starting over, did you know that between February 25 and March 24, Cheers POS ordered FOUR (4) computers for our secretary?  The first three did not hold a charge.  The battery would say, "Plugged in, charging," but, would constantly show 0%.  We sent the first three computers back on Thursdays.

The last computer did not even recognize the battery, showing a red "X," on it.  We called the company, who trouble shot the issue for us.  Our computer was finally, FINALLY, charging (showing, # minutes to full charge and everything)!!

Taking this as a good sign, we decided to install Windows 10.  We also installed an anti-virus program...BUT, we forgot to uninstall the anti-virus program already installed on the computer.

These two things may have slowed it down.

A lot.

As in, we lost at least one day of work because our secretary was on the phone trying to resolve this.

Aaaaaannnnddddd...at some point, the computer lost the ability to charge.  Boooooo.

All these computers we got online, through a reputable retailer.  However, all of them were 2014 refurbished computers.  We share this so that others may learn from it.  When it comes to technology 1) Wait.  Do not get the newest, shiniest, most belled & whistled gadget as soon as it comes out.  It will have bugs and issues.  Let others get the thing, and, as they complain, the company will fix the complaints.  Wait a few months until the big bugs are squashed.  2) Do get the latest and greatest if possible.  Read the reviews, see what you need, maybe you do not need the absolute latest model number, BUT, remember, the older models may not be supported and/or the technology for them may be discontinued sooner rather than later &/or phased out.  3)  Read the reviews.  On multiple sites.  See if there are any reoccurring complaints.  If there are, heed them seriously.  This is your money and/or time.  If you want to save yourself frustration, do not get a model that you know cannot do what you need, despite how much it advertises itself.  See what those who have used it say.

The NEW computer should arrive tomorrow.  HOPEFULLY it will be fully functional, with all the programs and apps by the end of this week.

Our secretary is planning to record videos to show how to maneuver around in Cheers POS, but, in order to do this, she needs to download a certain video recording software on her own computer (not the temporary notebook computer she is borrowing).  She also NEEDS to get the company's current phone provider VoIP on the new computer.

In other news, the next big drinking day is...Tax...Day?  Eleven days away -- next Friday.

We looked up what's happening this April.  We have Thomas Jefferson's Birthday on the 13th, Tax Day on the 15th, and Take Our Daughters & Sons to Work Day on the 28th.  There's not a lot happening this April (NEXT, April, 2017, Easter, on both the Western and Orthodox Calendars, is April 16).

We will see if there are any presidential drinks or Tax Day drinks.  If we find any, and we have time (and the ability), we will most definitely share these!

~Cheers!