The objective of this project is to facilitate greater visibility into the independent retail market. You will find the sales templates here as well as a button to add a document. This is where you will provide your communication and sales reporting quarterly.
This portal will be used to easily keep track of progress as we move forward with the introduction of the product and company to the network.
Hi Michelle,
I wanted to send a test message once our internet came back up. It was great speaking with you today and I look forward to working with you! I will keep you updated with the status of our “About Us” page and new images for the boy’s blanket.
Carrie
Hello Carrie,
Message recieved and I look forward to working together.
Have a great rest of your day.
Hello Michelle,
I wanted to update you and let you know I have the new About Us write up and am waiting on the boy’s space blanket images. I should have everything in the next couple days, which will be in time for your email blast to go out.
Hello Carrie,
Thank you for the update and I look forward to seeing this new content.
I appreciate you reaching out and have a great rest of your day.
Hello Michelle,
I have sent all the updates to Paula, but when she sent me everything to look at, it was not correct yet. I want to make sure everything is right before we send out a mass email and as of right now it is not. I will let you know when it is good to go.
Hello Carrie,
Thank you for the update. I will tentatively move our introduction date to this Thursday to ensure all will be ready when we do start our introductions.
Thank you for reaching out and I hope you have a great rest of your day.
Sounds good! I checked it a few minutes ago and I still did not see all the images. I will keep you updated.
carrie
Hello Michelle,
Our sell sheet and web page is good to go! We are good for the mass email communication.
Hello Carrie,
Thank you for the update. We will now move forward with our introductions and I’ve set the email to send this Thursday 1/27/22. Please be sure to check this page for the results of that outreach as well as your email for the sample requests that may come from this e-blast.
Please let me know if you have any questions and thank you again for keeping me updated.
I will start checking on Friday! Hopefully we procur lots of interest
Hello Michelle,
When I receive an inquiry about our products, should I reach out via phone first?
Also, are all the sellers verified on the boutique? I am assuming there is a process to verify them as a legitimate seller, but wanted to confirm that is the case.
Hello,
Our outreach has begun and I will be posting the results from our outreach here for you by the end of day tomorrow. I do suggest reaching out by phone as well as email to get connected with our retailers. We’ve found email follow up to be underwhelming for sales, however we do realize this may be the preferred method of contact for some. In regards to the retailers within this association, we have approved them to join, however we do always suggest connecting with them via phone or email prior to sending samples or orders.
Thank you! I have already begun getting inquiries. I will start by calling the owners, and following up with an email.
Hi Michelle,
I thought of another question. How do the buyers pay for the merchandise? How do they submit a buyers submsission?
Hello Carrie,
Our retailers will follow whatever system you have in place for payments and submissions. I suggest using square or stripe for processing credit cards.
Hello Michelle,
Talking with these store owners was an awakening experience. I see that this path to retail could take forever. I have a question, since we already have a deal with Meijer, can’t we fast track and go right to other retailers? We only received a few inquiries and none of them sound super interested.
Hello Carrie,
I hope you’re doing well today. As Joel mentioned on your call with him, we’re looking for the first 15-25 stores to be onboarded before reaching out to distributors or wholesalers. This 15-25 number is the data that our contacts are looking for in order to consider the product line.
This is not a fast paced process and our goal is also to gain as much feedback as possible to use for further outreach. I see you are doing the right thing with this intial group of retailers and I look forward to seeing the results after the samples have been recieved. Please continue to keep me updated and have a wonderful rest of your week.
Hello,
These are some of the people that have shown interest by clicking to learn more about the line through the eblast, however they did not enter their information in the lead form once they landed on the sell sheet. I am able to pull the emails associated with the accounts from my end. Please keep detailed communication notes while you are reaching out as they may not all be a good fit for your product line. As we discussed on our Product Education Call, we are going to need reporting from your end, which you can upload directly to your dashboard. Please note that the contacts were contacted through the retail association and are not familiar with our company Mr. Checkout.
Enesco, LLC-Eric Mcgee- emcgee@enesco.com– 630-875-5300- 225 Windsor Dr Itasca Illinois 60143
Scarborough & Tweed Inc.-David Cullagh -david@scarboroughtweed.com– 914-741-2706- 40 Clinton St Pleasantville New York 10570
Temple Fairmount Gift Shop- Pam Deutsch- p.deutsch@fairmounttemple.org– 216-464-1330- 23737 Fairmount Blvd Cleveland Ohio 44122
Franciscan Media LLC-Dan Kroger- dan.kroger@franciscanmedia.org– 513-241-5615- 28 W Liberty St Cincinnati Ohio 45202
Keillor’S A Teddy Bear Shoppe Llc- Linda Keilor- keillorsteddybears@yahoo.com– 330-854-0481- 117 Canal St N Canal Fulton Ohio 44614
Simply Baby And More, L.L.C.- simplybabyandmore@yahoo.com– 785-404-6410- 2259 9Th St Salina Kansas 67401
Accent- Pinky Cardenas- pinky@accent-inc.com– 717-359-5015 -39 Park Ave Littlestown Pennsylvania 17340
G A Dolly’S Gift Shop- Gary Dolly- gadollysgifts@yahoo.com– 386-427-0954- 405 Flagler Ave New Smyrna Beach Florida 32169
Weaving Stitches, Llc- Eloise Drenner- weavingstitches@frontier.com– 740-992-1702- 106 E Main St Pomeroy Ohio 45769
Ave Maria Catholic Gifts And Books- Maria Cavallero- avemaria1200@sbcglobal.net– 432-362-8201 -1200 E 10Th St Odessa Texas 79761
Humming Rock Gifts- Chris Brown- hummingrock@icloud.com– 781-834-4969- 11 Marshfield Ave Humarock Massachusetts 2050
We try to make this as easy as possible with templates you can find here: https://mrcheckout.net/sales-report-templates/
Please let me know if you have any trouble reaching them, Keep us updated on your progress.
I have copied the above list and already emailed all of them. Yes, I can see how this can be a very, very long process, which is difficult for me because I am ready to go. However, once we supply blankets for Meijer, isn’t that enough to move forward with other bigger retailers? They are a large chain and should be a good reference for how we can supply according to demand.
Once I reach out to the initial interested parties, I am assuming next steps is to start cold-calling everyone else from the boutique website?
Hello,
Once we see the feedback from this initial group of leads our team will then move forward with additional phone outreach to the retailers of the association to generate more interest for your products.
Please continue to keep us updated and I look forward to seeing the feedback you recieve.
Thank you for the information! I have contacted everyone on the list either via phone or email. I will follow-up the emails with another email in the next couple days.
Hello,
Thank you for the updated report. I see you’ve reached out to the additional contacts as well and I look forward to the feedback you receive.
Have a great rest of your week.
Yes, I did, Michelle. I will be reaching out to the individuals that I sent a sample out to for feedback.
Hi Michelle,
I have a question for you. Is there a way to get a refund on the 2500? I am just seeing that this is going to take years and frankly, I dont want to wait years to go retail. I have reached out to everyone on the list at least twice and sent out a couple of samples, and nothing. I think with Meijer buying our product that should be enough to get another retail deal and should skip all of this as they are a fairly large retail chain. I just see that this is not going to work out and will take years, which I don’t want to wait for. Of course, if we can’t get a refund, we will continue on since we paid for it, but this process is painful and I don’t see it going anywhere. I was excited at first, but now I see how this goes and am no longer hopeful about this working.
Hello Carrie,
Thank you for reaching out. I understand the frustration however our agreement has a two year term and is not a fast paced process. In regards to the $2500 on boarding and set up fee, this is a non refundable fee to cover the costs of our team’s time and efforts.
I’m sorry that this is not the business model that you envisioned and we do our best to make our deliverables clear in our agreement, through the dashboard and conversations early on.
If you would like to terminate our agreement prematurely, please send a termination email to Mr. Goldstein at joelgoldstein@mrcheckoutdistributors.com.
If you’d like to continue forward, please continue to keep me updated as you follow up on your samples and emails sent. Remember do recommend 3-5 attempts to these contacts before considering them to be dead leads. Once we see the feedback, if possible from this initial list, we will discuss next steps.
Hello Michelle,
I will continue on with the program since we already paid and is non-refundable. However, isn’t there a fast track once we go live with Meijer? Don’t they equate for 15-20 small stores since they will be ordering thousands of units? It seems like they would be enough to go to retailers with especially since we will be EDI established, have the necessary insurance policies, and be GS1 128 barcode capable. Is this something you can check into? Into my mind, Meijer should be all we need to move forward with other retailers. I will continue following up with the leads.
Hello,
I will discuss this matter with Mr. Goldstein to determine if we can accelerate the program and reach out to distributors after we see what feedback we receive from this initial group of retailers.
Hello Michelle,
Thank you for checking into this for me. I appreciate it. I will follow-up with the new leads and update soon.
Hello,
We’ve received additional interest from our e-blast and I’ve added the contact information for these leads below. Please add these to your current outreach efforts and I look forward to seeing how your conversations progress.
Flower Gallery- Julie Miller- flowergallerymeno@att.net– 906-863-6522- 426 10Th Ave Menominee Michigan 49858
Tomahawk Indian Store- Theresa Vehil- tomahawkindianstore@yahoo.com– 928-688-2596 -I-40 Grant Road Exit 359 Lupton Arizona 86508
Canyon House- Joaquin Lowe- canyonhouse@yahoo.com– 208-839-2777- 128 White Bird Rd White Bird Idaho 83554
Linda’s Place-Carla Lowrance- lowrance@netscape.com– 580-326-7589- 115 N Broadway St Hugo Oklahoma 74743
Dovecote Home & Garden Shop- Katherine Fitch- kfitch@fearrington.com– 919-542-1145- 2000 Fearrington Village Pittsboro North Carolina 27312
Monogram Shoppe Inc- Sara Keltsch- monoshoppe@aol.com– 260-436-3138- 6410 W Jefferson Blvd # 6 Fort Wayne Indiana 46804
Travel Traders Llc-Eva Dossu- eva.dossu@traveltradersllc.com– 410-244-8947- 300 Light St Baltimore Maryland 21202
The L and L Co- Mike Geisler- mgeisler@llco.biz– 626-794-3990- 326 W Altadena Dr Altadena California 91001
Bill Naito Company- Mark Fazio- mfazio@billnaito.com– 503-228-7275- 2701 Nw Vaughn Street Suite 390 Portland Oregon 97210
Arribas Brothers Company Inc- Andrew Duke- andrew.duke@arribas.com– 407-828-4840- 1500 Live Oak Ln Orlando Florida 32830
Things Remembered, Inc.- Nelson Tejada- ntejada@thingsremembered.com– 440-473-2000- 5500 Avion Park Dr HighlandHeights Ohio 44143
Citti’S Company- Gary Citti-garycitti@cittisflorist.com– 408-984-8901- 3100 Stevens Creek Boulevard San Jose California 95117
Aaron Read & Associates-Aaron Read- aread@aaronread.com– 916-448-3444- 1415 L St #1100 Sacramento California 95814
So, we have solidified our deal with Meijer and they are ordering over 2000 blankets. We are EDi AS2 ready, insured according to the compliance mandate for most retailers and ready to go full retail and by pass the small time shops where we are not getting anywhere. We are retail ready. Can we move forward with reaching out to retailers? If not, then should I reach back out after Meijer products have shipped? Reaching out to these small time shops is a waste of my time as it is not going to go anywhere.
Hello,
Thank you for the update. I wanted to review the details of our program again in regards to what we are looking for in order to move forward as well as how we operate with big box stores.
Our goal for this program is to grow a strong retail base so we can generate the data that we need to bring on a wholesaler or distributor. We’re looking for between 15-25 stores to be onboarded from within our association before we begin to present your product line to a distributor. They look for this data to determine if the line will be a good fit for them.
We also work with the big box buyers in a unique way; they come to us periodically to see if we have product lines that (have been performing well within our network) we can help graduate to the big retailers. But again, we use the data generated from within our program to determine that information.
Please continue to keep me updated on the leads provided and once we see the feedback from them, we can discuss moving forward with more outreach.
Hi Michelle,
Thanks for the response. I probably won’t be doing anything with this then as I feel like I can skip reaching out to all the small business owners because Meijer is equivalent to more than 20 of those stores and should suffice in showing the trend other retailes are looking for. However, I see we disagree on this and your company does not see Meijer who has 255 stores and is buying over 2000 blankets as being sufficient, which I don’t get. Thank you so much and best of luck. I will continue reaching out to retailers on my own once we get our new products in as I feel we will get picked up soon.
Hello Carrie,
Thank you for your swift reply. I’d like to confirm that you would like to end our agreement prematurely. If this is correct, please send Mr. Goldstein an official termination email to joelgoldstein@mrcheckoutdistributors.com.
I’m sorry that this is not the outcome that you envisioned, we try to make our deliverables clear in our agreement, through the dashboard and conversations early on. We wish you the best of luck in your future endeavors.
We hope you’re doing well. Would you mind sending me the reports on the leads we sent over. As we discussed on our product education call, we require communication reporting every quarter at minimum. This helps us get a better understanding of how the conversations are going and if they are or are not a good fit for your product. Once we receive this information, we can then follow up on our end as to why it wasn’t a good fit and then regroup and find the retailers that may be a better market fit. This is also one of your roles and responsibilities listed your contract with us.
We try to make this as easy as possible with templates you can find here: https://mrcheckout.net/sales-report-templates/
Please make sure to include if the retailer decided it was not the right fit so that we will be able to regroup and try to find the right retailers to make a better market fit.
After meeting with my team this morning we have come up with the following conclusion that without reporting and communication as stipulated in the agreement, the contract is considered terminated by your company. This is not the outcome that we wanted at the onset of this agreement and we do our best to convey this in our agreement, through this dashboard and conversations early on. We wish you the best of luck in your future endeavors.
