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How To Save A Sale By Dealing With Stump The Chump
 

Good day Colleague,

Stump the Chump usually refers to someone in the audience trying to try to trip up a speaker with aggressive and sometimes downright nasty-sounding questions.

While it’s never easy to deal with that as a speaker because the dynamic can quickly turn into kill the leader where you lose the audience completely, I want to share with you two places Stump the Chump can occur in your store.

The first is when a customer comes in armed with data about one specific model. We’re talking appliances, housewares, sports equipment, jewelry and the like.

But the salesperson can also initiate Stump the Chump. We’ve all been in the presence of the know-it-all who has to make sure you know he or she knows more than you.

They may point out features very fast or regale the unwitting shopper with personal stories about how they solved another customer’s problem. The danger again is, shoppers do not want to feel stupid. They want to feel smart.

How do you deal with both types? Check out my brand new post by clicking 
the title below to read it. 

How To Save A Sale By Dealing With Stump The Chump

 

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Season Two Of The Podcast Has Begun!
 

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Podcast Episode 201: NRF 2019 | 3 Takeaways from Retail's Big Show

Season 2 kicks off from the NRF's Big Show in New York as Bob Phibbs speaks with Mark Bunny from Ingenico about how to deal with a diner's pet peeve about waiting for a check, Joel Reed CEO, IAM Robots and why there is such a need for robots and Bob talks data with My Store-E Co-Founder Idan Sergi about his new app that combines online and offline data for more effective merchandising and selling . Just click here to listen to it.

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Remember...you don't have the luxury of a negative thought or an untrained crew.

 

Sincerely,
Bob Phibbs
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