Shop Talk
slow day...need new activations!
last month i sold more new lines than i ever have before. this month, i am struggling to make my 16 new line quota. what do you guys do to bring in business when you are having a slow month? any ideas would be appreciated!
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Haven't had a slow month in two years. But two years ago we gave away $5-$30 gift certs for products (not services like on their bill) for every new activation. We did the entire months quota in less than a week.
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It's amazing to me as well! My store is in a town of around 3000 people, there is a town of about 10,000 about 10 minutes away. 2 1/2 years ago when we came here, we barely made our quotas and almost lost our status needed to get our retention checks. Since then, we have only had one month where we didn't get at least our activations quota, and usually we get our three month quota in the first two months of the quarter. We've also increased our returning customers from around 1200 to almost 4000. We have been seeing returning customer rate of about 75-85%. We are one of the few one agency agents, most have between 4-4000 stores, we just this one store. In an area where other agents are complaining about saturation, we haven't seen any...
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There was a VZW dealer in western Michigan. I believe near lansing. They were giving away tickets to the Michigan v Michigan State game with every new 2 year activation. Hell, if I did that, I'd run out of phones.
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Pull people off the street? I got a 3 new line act. a couple weeks ago by doing that. Or call around to businesses asking them if you can do a free bill analysis. Worked for me. I'm working a 31 port-in deal right now. Ka-Ching!
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angl8798 said:
last month i sold more new lines than i ever have before. this month, i am struggling to make my 16 new line quota. what do you guys do to bring in business when you are having a slow month? any ideas would be appreciated!
Out of curiousity, what carrier are you with? Is it a corporate store, or a third-party dealer?
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We've got a 60 new line activations per month quota.
Yeah, gotta love that.
Yeah, gotta love that.
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