Industry Ideas & Insights
Helping You Build a Thriving Premium & Luxury Appliance Business
We talk to appliance dealers nearly every day and have been for the last decade. Those conversations give us unique insights into what a healthy business looks like and how successful dealers are growing their high-end business. We share many of our observations in our regular blog posts. Make sure you join our email list to have those insights delivered to your inbox monthly.
Working With Designers: Making the Right Match Inside Your Sales Team is Crucial
Having provided marketing services to premium appliance dealers for over a decade, we’ve met and worked with many sales professionals over the years. Inside the appliance showroom, team members often earn a reputation for their different strengths. One we are commonly...
Video Appointments for the High-End Sale
This spring we have all adjusted to find new ways of doing things. Like many other businesses, you’ve had to shift to using more online communication tools than you had before. You might just be thinking this is a tool to help keep your business going through...
How to Plan for a Different Season of Growth
Maybe it’s been business as usual despite closed showrooms. Maybe sales have remained steady, or even picked up as storefronts are slowly opening again. There’s been a wave of pent-up demand and customers ready to spend money again. But this surge of business is...
Take Back Control of Your Showroom
The crisis phase of the COVID-19 situation seems to be behind us. You’re now ready to take back control of your showroom and move forward from a business perspective, while still being sensitive to the changing situation, and in compliance with your local or state...
One Dealer’s Strategy For Survival Through COVID-19
Over the last few months, sales have been tough for most businesses. We asked our list of premium dealers how they fared during the front-end of the COVID-19 crisis and more specifically, what sales looked like in April, as that was the month many appliance dealers...
Progressive Communication in Crisis
Did you get a bit rattled over the last few weeks? It's okay, you can be honest and say yes. I don't know anyone who was completely prepared for the dramatic challenges we suddenly faced or the speed at which information was changing. From a business...
What Is Your Real Gross Margin Number?
Did you notice any trends with your gross margin when working through your numbers from 2022? We work closely with independent appliance dealers in multiple markets across the U.S., and we have started to see a trend ourselves that uncovers a bigger conversation about...
Ease Backorder Concerns with These Positive Talking Points
At this point, most customers understand that supply chain issues will have an impact on the delivery schedule for new appliances. But they still may not be prepared for the reality of current timelines for high-end brands. With home improvement industry...
The Art of Connecting with Builders and Designers
Every dealer puts a different emphasis on their trade business. For some, builders and designers only make up a small percentage of their sales, but for others, trade professionals are a primary source of business. In our experience, the healthiest dealers are the...
Key Takeaways from an Unpredictable Year
Remember when we thought 2021 was going to be the year everything goes back to how it once was? Instead, what is and isn't "normal" has remained in a constant state of flux for both consumers and businesses. We may not know what major changes 2022 holds, if any, but...
How Will AI Impact High-End Appliance Marketing?
Artificial intelligence (AI) is here to stay, and it will absolutely impact your business if it hasn’t already. While machine learning has been used for a wide range of business functions for quite some time, a new form of AI known as generative AI was introduced to...
Playing a Smarter Game with Manufacturers
The game has changed with premium and luxury appliance manufacturers, and appliance dealers should rethink how they spend advertising funds. In this 3 Minute Marketing Strategy Session, we offer recommendations for high-end appliance dealers to spend ad funds...
The Audience Who Is Constantly Buying
No matter what's happening in the market, the Affluent Audience™ will continue to make purchases from appliance dealers. Learn more about this essential audience for premium and luxury appliance dealers in our three minute marketing strategy session....