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Salomon SPK project

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hype
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Hey so i'm in my last week of college and i have to sell something to my prof and a few classmates for our professional selling class. I set up the situation so that they are a ski shop (not a chain) and i want them to sell my company's boot (the spk). Anyways, i;m a bit pressed for time so i figured i would come to NS for help. Basically i was wondering if you guys had any tips about selling points, recent ads (so i can show them that they are advertised to us) and things like that.......

Thank you


Dec 8 2008 3:06PM
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upthebrackette
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I always try to sell the shop along with the product. Make the buyer know you'll stand behind what you're selling and that you'll be there if they're not happy with it
Dec 8 2008 3:21PM
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hype
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good point. but i am not selling for the shop. I am acting as a wholesaler for Salomon, trying to get the shop to buy my boot, so they can retail it.....so i 'm trying to get them to buy, say 50 boots in various sizes, ect...
Dec 8 2008 3:28PM
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spudz
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get an awesome venn diagram to show the rate of shin bang to no shin bang to how awesome your shins feel in the middle

get some testimonials!

get some cat and whisker plots

throw in a bar graph! and your set
Dec 8 2008 4:27PM
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ski_DC
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pros rocking the product. If it sells to all the kids on NS, im sure it will do the same to a shop
Dec 8 2008 4:31PM
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ski_ENDUB
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Not even close, Pros rocking some boots aren't going to sell them in a shop, kids off NS make a very thin margin for what is already the small market of selling ski gear. If I was to argue that my shop carry the SPK boot I would point out that park skiing is continuing to rise and shape the future of skiing in general and that by diversifying their selection of boots can help their sales, make the shop believe that they need the SPK boots in their shop.
Dec 8 2008 5:26PM
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kepler.
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1. Call your local ski shop
2. Ask for the local Salomon rep's phone number
3. Phone him
4. Get all the information you could ever want
Dec 8 2008 5:52PM
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Silence
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"This boot is one of the few which cater for the wide feet among us. At 106mm it stands over 5mm wider than many of its rivals, which places the boot in a fortunate position to be able to satisfy unique demand"

"Endorsed by many professional skiers as their boot of choice. Much like other equipment, this helps with increasing sales as the buyers can identify with these athletes (particularly in the freestyle market which is heavily driven by role model behaviour)"

Blah blah blah
Dec 8 2008 7:04PM
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SteezyOhio
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winner
i used to work at a shop and the salomon ski reps know what they are doing they could make me want to buy small girls ski boots with the points they bring up just call and ask for the salomon reps number and then explain and see what he says
Dec 8 2008 8:32PM
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kepler.
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Thanks.

Ohio? Do you happen to frequent Perfect North Slopes?
Dec 8 2008 9:00PM
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SteezyOhio
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thrown karma like no other
but thats a legit idea i know a guy who is a nike rep and hes super chill i get sweet hook ups
buy no im so unfamilar with slopes away from boston mills brandywine i know of snow trails and seven springs then whats north
wheres perfect north at?
Dec 8 2008 9:24PM
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kepler.
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Southeast Indiana. Like 20 minutes outside of Cincinnati. If you can ever make it down that way hit me up. Free pass if you come on a weekday.
Dec 8 2008 9:27PM
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SteezyOhio
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im about to take that up cause free lift tickets are always worth it dang i was just in cincy yesterday well ill be down there in spring so ill see whats up of your ever up here by CrAkron tell me i got some tickets somewhere
Dec 8 2008 9:34PM
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kepler.
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Ha for sure.

But you were in cincy and didn't even know about Perfect's? That's surprising.
Dec 8 2008 9:36PM
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SteezyOhio
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well i was in west chester for some retarded aau cross country thing for my sis and there was no chance of me getting to ski oh well ill do it up at the local mound of dirt
Dec 8 2008 9:59PM
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hype
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haha thanks for the help.....

haha looks lke you guys have your own lil forum here now.
Dec 8 2008 11:08PM
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kepler.
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Haha yeah, sorry for jacking your thread.

And if you need any help getting into contact with the salomon rep, shoot me a PM, I should be able to help you out.
Dec 8 2008 11:32PM
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JayDope
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yeah that doesnt work, like previously stated freeskiers mae up a VERY small margin of the skiers. We sold the spk last year at our shop, and sent it back to salomon early becuase it just didnt sell. Now this year, we dont even sell it, and sell the technica agent boot series instead
Dec 8 2008 11:41PM
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Flowsion
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106mm? damn, the widest i've really seen has been like 102mm.
Dec 9 2008 1:25AM
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Silence
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Unless they have changed the last over the past 2 years, i'm pretty sure 106 is the width.
I'm not sure if the width changes across the pro/kreation/kaos etc though, i was under the impression that it didn't and the main differences were flex and liner
Dec 9 2008 3:42AM
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