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   Programs Manager
   Staples.Com


Dave Felts, Felts Shoe
Sapulpa, OK

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Rick's Selected Tips
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Rick's Retail Tip of the Week

The More You Know
The more you know about a customer the easier it is to sell to them. These words are the basis of customer relationship management or as I like to call it “pinpoint marketing”...
How Much for Me?
Everyone likes to feel special and there is nothing wrong with that. Especially if they are the customer. It’s their money and they have the ability to spend it any where they chose. The retailer’s job is to make the customer feel important...
Misery Meter
When I first penned this term, my purpose was to use it as a humorous memory peg for a simple concept. The concept is that the more miserable the customer thinks the retailer is, the more they will attend the sale...
Don't Worry About The Mule
That expression is my all-time favorite and I have used it consistently over the past 35 years. The reason is that it addresses an issue that every manager has had to address and something that all of us have done at some point of our career: worrying about issues that might never occur...
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