Retail Marketing 
Retail Sales Training 
Speaker Programs Choose from a variety of Rick's most popular topics for keynotes, seminars, training sessions and break-outs.
 
 
 


Anna Barker, Pink Bliss
Little Rock, AK

"We were both meek and mild when dealing with our vendors. We came out of the seminar roaring and learned we were more in control than we thought we were."
"For anybody starting out it would be great to do this beforehand, but if not get into it afterwards."

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“Just had to tell you what a hit you have been here. Your articles and answers to our readers’ questions are right on target and your instore presentations have all the managers raving about you. Thank you so much..”
 - Peter Skrypka
   Programs Manager
   Staples.Com


Dave Felts, Felts Shoe
Sapulpa, OK

"Rick Segel is an unending source of information for me."
"Rick showed me a formula that increased my day's receipts by 75% over the previous year. I had people beating down my doors to spend money."
"At his seminar you'll get many more ideas in one session than you can implement in a year. Your hardest decision will be which one to use first."

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“A terrific presentation! Our merchants were amazed by how well they could relate to your information — and how much they learned.”
- Christine Beckman
  Marketing Director
  The Empire/Empire
  East Sioux Falls
  South Dakota


“Here are some of the comments about your presentation:
 
    'You should have him every year.'
    'Funny, excellent for everyone.'
    'We need Rick Segel more often.'
  
Your presentation was simply outstanding. We want you back."
- Melanie Hodges, Retail Alliance, Norfolk, VA
 

Ways to WOW Your Customers and Keep Them Coming Back
How to convert customers into loyal followers — and keep them coming back. Learn what it takes to hear your customer say “WOW”. Learn what constitutes a WOW from merchandise to display to pricing to service and know when to use them.
Bring Your Business to the Next Level…Learn the Ways to Differentiate and Become A Destination Business
This program helps businesses define what their next level is and creates a path to that level by offering various differentiating strategies and techniques.
The Essential Online Solution…A Five Step Formula for Small Business Success
This program, modeled from Rick Segel’s new book of the same name, demystifies the use of ecommerce and online marketing tools for the average “non-technical” independent business. This is a marketing program that utilizes online tools to create dramatic financial successes.
Signage: The Overlooked Killer Resource
Signage can be a retailer’s secret weapon—their silent salesperson that can produce more than the strongest salesperson. Learn how to increase sales between 10-500% with the I.S.E.E. Formula for signage effectiveness and put your customers in a buying mood with creative signage.
The Art of Running A Sale
Based on Rick Segel’s book, How To Run A Sale, this program is a complete how to and how not to class on the tricks and techniques to create powerful profit producing promotions and sales.
The Art of Making More Money from Your Business
This program uncovers the hidden assets and income potentials in your business. Strategies discussed will help the business owner avoid the financial potholes on the road to maximum profitability.
How to Thrive During A Slowing Economy
Knowing the right strategies and tactics can help a business survive and thrive during an economic turndown. This program will prepare you for the worst and position you for success.
Million Dollar Advertising Ideas on a Shoestring Budget
There are numerous ways to spend money in advertising today. This program explores all of the possibilities and teaches the tricks of effective marketing and advertising to get the biggest bang for the buck.
Customer Service…Who Needs It?
Customer service can be the greatest differentiator or detriment in your business. However, the problem is that customer service represents a variety of things to a variety of people. This presentation helps to better understand the different types of service needed to serve the many different types of people.
Effective Suggestive Selling
The days of the high pressure “shake the customer until all the money comes out” way of selling is over. No one wants to be sold anymore, but they all want help in buying. This program redefines selling into a non-threatening suggestion driven soft approach that will increase store morale and improve sales personnel’s attitudes while the customers are buying more than ever before.
Find ‘Em, Hire ‘Em, and Keep ‘Em
Without the right people we cannot survive, let alone grow. This offbeat shirtsleeves program recognizes that traditional means don’t work during a hot and highly competitive job market.
It’s More Than Just Price
Businesses today have a tendency of defaulting to price as the reason for success or failure. This program clearly defines the importance of proper pricing but shows where other factors are truly more important.
Streetsmart Negotiations…Win/Win and Beyond
Learn how to become a better negotiator and master the skills of getting and giving concessions effectively. This program will highlight the importance of power in negotiations and the best questions to ask or avoid during the negotiation process.
The Likeability Factor
People have a tendency of doing business with people that they like. Yet, we tend to trivialize the importance of learning the skills to become more likeable. This program will pay lifetime dividends on your path of mastering likeability.
Service Is Selling and Selling is Service
Service and selling are interchangeable, yet many of us tend to separate these two functions. When we are servicing well, we are selling well. And when the customer is being sold the proper merchandise, they are being serviced well. Learn how these skills come together to create the ultimate customer experience.
The Art of Pinpoint Marketing
This program will teach you how to sell what you have to people who want it, appreciate it, are willing to pay for it, and know when they want to buy it. The technology needed to maintain a pinpoint marketing initiative is cheaper, faster, and easier to use than ever before. Learn why now is the time to jump on the one-on-one marketing bandwagon.
How to Evaluate A Retail Store
This program is designed to help you evaluate your retail business so that you will have a better understanding of your strengths, areas to improve, and how you compare to other retailers. The research for this program was sponsored by Microsoft. Create an objective analysis of the viability of your business.
The 7 Essentials of Successful Retailing
Retail is detail. However, if you master these 7 essentials, you will master the retail world. This program explores from defining your business to pricing to promoting to buying and more!
Visual Merchandising for the Artistically Challenged and Financially Deprived
Visual merchandising is an art form unto itself that can make or break any business. But what do you do when you have no talent and less money? This program will help those retailers improve their visual merchandising capabilities with easy to use and understand tricks and tactics that just don’t cost a lot of money.
The Art of Merchandising
Merchandising is having the right merchandise for the right customer at the right time. All aspects of the merchandising process will be covered from planning, to buying, to receiving, to displaying, to positioning, to markdowns, to finally having the merchandise go out the door, and even contingencies if the merchandise is returned.
Laugh & Get Rich
The important “fun factor”, or why boring doesn't sell anything. Emotional versus analytical decision-making. Learn how to “up” your attitude & sales energy.

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