Tag: Sales Strategy
3 Key Objectives to Achieving Superior Sales in 2016: Mid-Year Spot Check
Articles, Retail Space Management
In the early days of 2016, with Auld Lang Syne still ringing in our ears, we put forth a post designed to offer concrete steps that beverage producers should take toward making 2016 their best year of sales ever. We offered three…
GreatVines Makes Promotion Optimization Institute’s 2016 Vendor Panorama
Articles, News, Sales Execution
The POI Analysis Evaluates Leading Software Solutions for Retail Execution
St. Helena, CA – Monday, July 7, 2016 – GreatVines was included in the Promotion Optimization Institute’s (POI) 2016 Retail Execution…
Don’t Just Survey, Sell!
Articles, Retail Space Management
Since the repeal of prohibition, suppliers have been conducting retail and on-premise surveys to gather information about their brands and competitors in the market. This market intelligence has been gathered, analyzed and presented…
Effective Sales and Depletion Reporting is More than Just “Cases Sold”
Articles, Retail Space Management
If you’re not leveraging contemporary best practices for sales and depletion reporting in today’s hyper-competitive beverage marketplace, you’re falling behind. Things have changed and old, volume-focused depletion…
Unlock Your Pricing Potential
Articles, Pricing
There are tangible benefits to exerting greater control over pricing, particularly when it comes to selling beverages via the 3-tier system. But, just what does that mean to “exert greater control” over pricing? Some say…
4 Ways to Manage Wholesaler Changes to Come out Ahead
Articles, Retail Space Management
“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change” – Charles Darwin
Change is inevitable. It’s also an opportunity to grow. To make the best of…
3 Ways To Improve Sales Execution With Social Media
Articles, Sales Execution
When our partner Salesforce.com first introduced “Chatter” and “Social Contacts” as part of their new Social Enterprise Platform in 2011, I was already hooked. In his Dreamforce keynote a year earlier, CEO Marc…
5 Ways to Stop “Heat Loss” in Your Sales Process
Articles, Sales Execution
Last summer I was doing some research for a speech I was giving about the role of technology in the “flavor experience.” I was fascinated by the latest advancements in commercial cooktops. With the old way of cooking, you…
On-Premise – The Squeeze Continues
Articles, Retail Space Management
With competition getting more intense, a solid foundation around your relationship building strategy in place is key. We all understand this is a relationship business and we all “know” what to do, but sometimes we get too…