Improve Retail Sales Performance With These Sales Coaching Tips
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Boost Retail Sales Performance with These Effective Sales Coaching Tips
Your point-of-sale (POS) system is a treasure trove of vital statistics reflecting your retail sales performance, such as average sale, transactions per hour, items per sale, conversion rate, and sales per hour. However, did you know that tracking these metrics at an individual salesperson level can uncover valuable insights for boosting performance?
Most POS systems may not allow you to monitor individual sales performance or generate tailored Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). If yours does, it can transform your coaching strategies.
Coaching on Low Average Sale
Salespeople should enhance the perceived value of a sale by showcasing higher-priced items, which requires skill and product knowledge. Understanding customer needs through effective probing is crucial. Without this, failed attempts to upsell or losing sales altogether become more likely. Rushed sales approaches often lead to low items per sale and/or high transactions per hour.
Familiarity with add-ons such as warranties, customization, and delivery options can also help improve average sales.
Coaching on Low Transactions Per Hour
Spending excessive time with customers without closing sales often stems from a lack of skill or motivation. Identifying behaviors impacting performance, such as excessive breaks or unfocused customer interactions, is essential. Increase transactions per hour by connecting with more customers and efficiently managing interaction time.
Coaching on Low Items Per Sale
Encouraging salespeople to attempt selling multiple items is key. This involves product knowledge and sales confidence. Probing customers with broad questions can reveal opportunities for add-ons. Timing is also critical, as customers are more receptive to additional purchases before deciding on their main item.
It is important to shift the focus from saving customers’ money to finding value in more purchases, especially during quieter store hours.
Coaching on Low Conversion Rate
Low conversion rates typically result from inadequate probing, a lack of selling skills, and insufficient product knowledge. Increasing the conversion rate is often the quickest way to boost sales averages. Even converting one additional customer per period can significantly impact daily sales.
Clear, targeted demonstrations coupled with strong product knowledge enhance the likelihood of closing deals promptly.
Coaching on Low Sales Per Hour
Typically, a low sales per hour rate is tied to deficiencies in other areas. Accurate tracking of this statistic is crucial. If the recorded hours don’t match the actual selling hours, sales per hour will appear low.
Conclusion
Pinpointing individual deficiencies in sales statistics provides store managers with targeted areas for coaching. Focusing on the most deficient statistic will yield the fastest and most pronounced results in sales performance.
The author has developed a retail software program to conveniently calculate individual salespeople’s statistics, enhancing performance tracking and coaching efficiency.
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