Archive for July, 2011

How to sell 50% more bridal gowns

Jul 27

In this post, I’ll show how my bridal shop increased the average bridal gown closing ratio from 27% to 40% representing a 50% improvement. Before reading on, you may want to read my other blog post on how compute bridal gown closing ratio for your store. First, a little background. My bridal shop is in [...]

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How to calculate bridal gown closing ratio

Jul 18

Closing Ratio measures how effective your sales staff is at making the sale. There are 2 ways to calculate this number – Contact Based or Visit Based. Contact Based # of Sales / # of Unique Contacts Visit Based # of Sales / # of Visits The contact based approach computes closing ratio by dividing [...]

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Don’t get screwed when your employee leaves

Jul 14

Have you ever had an employee leave (bridal consultant, ordering manager, etc) and since you didn’t have ‘systems’ in place it was difficult to quickly train a new employee to pick up where her predecessor left off? If you are anything like the hundreds of bridal shops that I’ve worked with over the years, you [...]

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