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Vendor Presentations
from Profits Plus and Tom Shay

Manufacturers, wholesalers, vendors and sales representatives are an invaluable component in the equation for a successful small business. Tom Shay has created topics that are designed to help these individuals and companies to build their profitable relationship with their accounts.

PDF of Vendor Presentations

Cultivating accounts that must have you! - For those vendors that have experiences accounts that purchase from you because you had the lower price as well as accounts that were loyal to you based upon the service provided to them. If you want more accounts to leave the former group and join the later group, this is a topic you want to hear.

 

Why fly paper works! Attracting buyers to your tradeshow exhibit! - You know that your space at a trade show costs a lot of money. Add to that the expense of travel, hotel, and meals and you have spent a lot of money. If you do not think you are getting the results from your trade show exhibit that you should get, this is a presentation that needs to be heard.

Lessons from a Postman - How to deliver as a vendor - "What is your price on ...?" If that is the questions your sales staff is hearing far too often from your accounts, then we need to look at what is missing from the formula of what your business is trying to deliver. It appears what you are trying to deliver is not what your account is needing or wanting.

Presentations based upon Tom Shay's book "How to become the Preferred Vendor - 251 Strategies for doing more business with retailers!

See the video about Mr. O.C North; one of Tom Shay's favorite sales representative stories as shown on You Tube.

 

MAY 2024
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Small Business

AdvisorieS

The May Small Business Advisory is titled "Planning for a successful accountant" and is appropriate for many with the April 15 tax deadline having passed.

 

Did you work with your accountant? Or, did you just give them a bunch of papers and wait to receive a completed tax return?

 

Successfully working with an accountant requires a partnership. This month's Small Business Advisory gives suggestions of how to make this happen in 2024.

Small Business

News

Top Story

We see that many small business owners have too much of a focus on the "top line" of their income statement.

 

Increasing revenue is great, but it is not a cure all for any challenges your business is facing. And sometimes, incresing revenue can create a challenge.

Article of the Month

Who is your customer? Some small businesses have no focus. Their customer is whoever calls or walks in the door.

 

And some small businesses have determined which customers, in sufficient numbers, they should spend their efforts to attract.

 

The article of the month shares an old Southern rhyming couplet about business; "The bertter you niche, the more you get rich."


Book of the Month

Lean Startup by Eric Reis is our suggested book for May.

 

As the title suggests, the reader of the book would be someone that is starting their business. However, we see more value than just that.

 

Perhaps you have been in business for many years. We think this book could give insight to items, and methods, that a small business owner should think about with their business today.

BOOK US

With over 25 years of frontline experience Tom Shay is America's leading Small Business Management Expert. He's a "Must Have" for your next event.

Small Business

Advisories

The May Small Business Advisory is titled "Planning for a successful accountant" and is appropriate for many with the April 15 tax deadline having passed.

 

Did you work with your accountant? Or, did you just give them a bunch of papers and wait to receive a completed tax return?

 

Successfully working with an accountant requires a partnership. This month's Small Business Advisory gives suggestions of how to make this happen in 2024.

Small Business

News

 

Top Story

We see that many small business owners have too much of a focus on the "top line" of their income statement.

 

Increasing revenue is great, but it is not a cure all for any challenges your business is facing. And sometimes, incresing revenue can create a challenge.


Article of the Month

Who is your customer? Some small businesses have no focus. Their customer is whoever calls or walks in the door.

 

And some small businesses have determined which customers, in sufficient numbers, they should spend their efforts to attract.

 

The article of the month shares an old Southern rhyming couplet about business; "The bertter you niche, the more you get rich."


Book of the Month

Lean Startup by Eric Reis is our suggested book for May.

 

As the title suggests, the reader of the book would be someone that is starting their business. However, we see more value than just that.

 

Perhaps you have been in business for many years. We think this book could give insight to items, and methods, that a small business owner should think about with their business today.