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.
We have submitted our press release. I haven’t seen any sample requests come through yet.
Are you waiting on anything else from us right now?
Hello,
Thank you for reaching out and I hope you had a good weekend. Our introduction for your product is scheduled to go out tomorrow. After that launch, you should see the interest coming directly to your email and I’ll be posting the warm leads for you here as previously discussed.
Please let me know if you have any other questions and I hope you have a great week.
We hope you are having a good day so far. 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 that to your dashboard. Please note that the contacts were contacted through the retail association and are not familiar with our company Mr. Checkout.
maryellen@atkinsfarms.com
dsfleds@yahoo.com
flenz@youngsmarket.com
starbrazilinc@yahoo.com
plannon@atkinsfarms.com
chuck.donohoo@roundys.com
kschuster@dillon.com
darron.aldridge@dillonstores.com
rdavis@dillon.com
vmpurchasing@southern.edu
greers33@greers.com
john.chung@bogopausa.com
pharmacist.t00246@topsmarkets.com
mujib.r@bogopausa.com
mary.adams@roundys.com
nikole.taczala@roundys.com
jason.harding@superamart.com
rfreeman@roundys.com
kenny.kimball@sfdc.com
mike.singh@food4less.com
t00452a0@topsmarkets.com
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.
All of these contacts have been touched via email. Has anything else come through?
Hello,
Thank you for reaching out and submitting the report. Please be sure to follow up with these leads by phone as well. We’ve found email follow up to be underwhelming for sales.
You can find more contact information on each of these leads using the directory we provided. Here is the link to the directory for your convenience: https://independentgrocerassociation.com/directory/
Please continue to reach out to these warm leads and any sample request emails that have come through directly to you. Once we see the feedback from these leads, we’ll start working on a plan for moving forward.
Thank you and have a great rest of your week.
No sample requests have come through either.
Having trouble accessing the directory…
Hello,
I’d be happy to assist you with that. What exactly is the problem? If you are unable to log in, I will log you out from the back end of things, and that may help you log in. Or you’ll have to clear your computer’s cookies to access the site.
Please let me know if that works for you and if not, we’ll see what other actions need to be taken.
Figured it out. Thank you.
Hello,
I’m glad it has been sorted out. Thank you for letting me know. If you have any other questions, please feel free to reach out.
Have a great rest of your week.
When will we be placed into the 25 stores? Joel explained to us that after we got onboarded and completed tasks on our end that Mr. Checkout would get us placed into 25 stores.
What are the next steps?
The majority of people in your provided lists are not in the database.
There are no follow-up phone numbers.
Please advise…
Hello,
Thank you for reaching out. As we discussed on our product education call, we wait to reach out to distributors or wholesalers until you’ve onboarded 15-25 retail stores. Mr. Checkout does not place you in retail stores, we introduce your product to our association for you so that you can create relationships, sell your product and onboard these retailers. Once we have the data needed, we move forward with the distributors.
In regards to the missing phone numbers, if you could send me the contacts that you’re referring to, I can have our team work on investigating those missing numbers.
Thank you and please let me know if you have any other questions.
This is not what we were told. Joel, the owner of Mr. Checkout, explained that the Fast Track program would get us into 25 stores. There was never any discussion of us having to cold call people from your database.
If we knew that $2,500 got us an email blast and access to a database, we wouldn’t have spent the money. Please run this up to your chain of command or let me know to contact Joel directly.
Contacts we need follow-up numbers to reach…
maryellen@atkinsfarms.com
dsfleds@yahoo.com
flenz@youngsmarket.com
starbrazilinc@yahoo.com
plannon@atkinsfarms.com
chuck.donohoo@roundys.com
kschuster@dillon.com
darron.aldridge@dillonstores.com
rdavis@dillon.com
vmpurchasing@southern.edu
greers33@greers.com
john.chung@bogopausa.com
pharmacist.t00246@topsmarkets.com
mujib.r@bogopausa.com
mary.adams@roundys.com
nikole.taczala@roundys.com
jason.harding@superamart.com
rfreeman@roundys.com
kenny.kimball@sfdc.com
mike.singh@food4less.com
t00452a0@topsmarkets.com
Thanks!
Hello,
I’m sorry for the disconnect, but we do our best to convey this in our onboarding process through our conversations as well as in the agreement. If you review our agreement, it clearly explains our process and what will be provided with the program. I can also resend you the fast track program overview that Paula would have sent you during onboarding if you’d like to review it.
I am having our team look into the missing phone numbers, but it may be that the retailer did not provide us with the number as they prefer email contact. If I am able to source new numbers, I will send them to you.
After we see the feedback from this initial list of interested leads, we can discuss more options for our next outreach. Thank you again for reaching out and I hope this cleared up your questions. Please let me know if there is anything else I can assist with and have a great rest of your week.
There has been no feedback from the initial list as there were no interested leads.
Please advise next steps.
Hello Sammy,
I have reviewed the most recent report and it shows that you were able to reach out by email to this initial list of leads. When you say there was no feedback is that because they have not answered or were you able to connect with them and they did not specify why they were not interested?
Could you please updated your report to show the communication details you’ve had with these leads? I’ll review it with the team and we can discuss next steps.
Thank you and have a great rest of your day.
No responses.
Body of email to “leads”
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Dear Sir or Madam:
Let me start by thanking you for taking the time to express interest in our product OneTab! We are excited about the opportunity to work with you and bring OneTab to your customers.
I am reaching out today to let you know we have inventory in stock at our fulfillment center and can begin fulfilling orders immediately.
It is our desire to continue the conversation and answer any further questions you may have about our product. Please use the link below to schedule a convenient time for you to hop on a call to discuss OneTab and how we can work together to bring a great eco-friendly product to your stores!
https://calendly.com/onetab-usa/product-information
I appreciate your time and consideration.
All my best,
Sammy Panice
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Please advise….
Hello Sammy,
Please be sure you’re also utilizing our member directory to connect with these leads. You can find their phone numbers, contact names, addresses and store names. I suggest you reach out by phone to make a personal connection along with emails.
When conducting outreach to these retailers sometimes it takes 3-5 calls before we can get them on the phone. That’s not because they are intentionally ignoring the calls, but rather because they are busy in and out of their offices all day. Email can be hit or miss with them, so we always recommend picking up the phone if you’re looking to build a relationship with a new retailer.
Thank you and have a great weekend.
Yes, we established that fact.
I need their phone numbers as previously requested.
They are not in your database.
I take it back. There are 8 contacts with phone numbers after searching the database, which is a nightmare to search and then not copy any information into our lead tracking sheets due to content protection protocols.
Perhaps your team wants to identify ways to make this process quicker, considering the program’s name includes the word “Fast.”
I will follow up with these 8 contacts on Monday and then upload my sales tracking document so you and the Mr. Checkout team can check my work.
I am stoked to have paid $2500 for a babysitter as I follow up with less than 40% of the “leads” due to a lack of contact information in the National Grocers Database.
Have a fantastic weekend!
(508) 332-4770
(413) 252-9528
(423) 236-2301
(718) 860-1408
(585) 768-8549
(414) 476-6061
(936) 336-3315
(419) 254-1200
Hello,
I hope you’re doing well today. I understand the frustration in having to copy and paste each contact, thank you for that feedback and I’ll discuss this matter with the team.
I look forward to seeing the updated report and once we see that outreach and feedback, we’ll discuss a plan for moving forward.
Thank you and have a great rest of your day.
You can’t even copy and paste.
Hello,
I’ve reviewed your uploaded report and it looks like you’re off to a good start. I see you’ve got some follow up phone calls with a few leads and I look forward to seeing how those conversations go.
Thank you again for the update and have a great rest of your week.
When is Mr. Checkout going to pull their weight and get us placed into the 25 promised retailers?
Joel, the owner, explained that this would be the case. This is a “Fast Track” program and we have been a part of it for over a month now.
No one I have spoken to even recalls seeing our product OR the number is to individual grocery stores where I am being redirected to store managers that are telling me to contact corporate.
Please advise…
Hello,
Thank you for reaching out, again I’m sorry for the disconnect but as we discussed, we are introducing your product to these retailers. We send you the leads generated from those introductions and it’s up to you to connect with these retailers and sell your product. Then after we see the 15-25 retail stores onboarded, we’ll move forward with reaching out to distributors.
Our E-blasts go out to all the retailers who are in the association and those who have requested samples would come to your email directly where as the leads I’ve posted for you here are the warmer leads. These are retailers who’ve reviewed your sell sheet but did not fill out the sample request form for one reason or another. If they are saying they did not remember seeing your product, I suggest you confirm they’d like you to send them an introductory email to keep the conversations moving forward.
Once see the feedback you receive from this list of leads, wether that be a yes or a no, we’ll discuss what steps we need to take to move forward.
If you have followed up with all leads and have gotten updated feedback, please send me an updated report and I’ll review it with the team to discuss our plan for moving forward.
Thank you again for reaching out and I look forward to your response.
Please see the updated lead sheet.
Please note, the three confirmed OPENs don’t have a phone number to reach them to follow up directly.
Hello,
Thank you for the updated report. I have reviewed it and it looks like you’re doing great. I do suggest you reach to to those who have provided their phone numbers once more to see if you can get connected.
I will also have our team start doing some phone outreach within the association and will post those leads here as we’ve done before. You should see these leads posted by the end of next week.
Thank you again for reaching out with this update and have a great rest of your day.
We hope you are having a good week. We’ve been able to reach out with a few retailers who’ve expressed early interest in learning more about your product.
Please feel free to reach out to them by sending an email to introduce yourself and answer any questions they may have.
Brook’s Groceries-Brooks- bdavis@gmail.com– (662) 423-9595- 600 Battleground Dr Iuka MS
Emailed sell sheet to manager for further review and consideration.
Bradley’s Big Buy Inc-David- bradleysbigbuy@bellsouth.net & bradleys506@gmail.com– (770) 463-4647 -504 Center St Palmetto GA
Emailed sell sheet for David to review after requesting more information.
For the Health of it Inc- Wendy- wendy@shopforthehealthofit.com– (850) 267-0558- 2217 W County Hwy 30A Santa Rosa Beach FL
Emailed sell sheet to GM Wendy for further review and consideration
Green Grocer Chicago- Liz- liz@greengrocerchicago.com– (312) 624-9508- 1402 W Grand Ave Chicago IL
Emailed sell sheet to Liz for further review and consideration
Green Grocer Natural Foods- Bjorn- info@thegreengrocer.com– (518) 383-1613- 1505 Route 9 # 8 Halfmoon NY
Emailed sell sheet to Bjorn for further review and consideration
Please keep us updated on how your outreach is going. We try to make this as easy as possible with templates you can find here: https://mrcheckout.net/sales-report-templates/. You can upload this reporting directly to the dashboard for review.
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.
Just checking in to see how your outreach is going with the list of interested leads we sent. Can you please send me the details notes from your outreach? We require quarterly reporting at a minimum to keep our agreement active.
These conversations are crucial for our operation and allow us to get a better understanding of how the conversations are going.
The details required are dates of outreach, method of outreach (call,text,email) and details of the final outcome.
If you did send or plan to send samples, please be sure to include the dates the samples are sent and are delivered. Please also include the follow up details on how the retailers felt about the samples.
Having this information will help us determine who the best retailers are for your product and company.
Please let me know if you have any questions and I look forward to hearing from you.
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.
Hoping you get this and we can discuss steps moving forward.
Hello,
Thank you for reaching out. It looks like it’s been quite some time since we’ve heard from you. At this time our agreement has been considered terminated due to lack of reporting from your team. Could you please send me an updated report showing the details of your outreach from the leads posted on 8/5/21? I can review the report with the team and determine if there is a path forward.
Thank you and please let me know if you have any questions.
Test test test…I can’t see my replies…Are you getting them?
I am a team of ONE. Joel “sold” us on the Fast Track program as a way to get into 25 stores for market testing.
I haven’t been receiving any sort of notifications that your team has been reaching out to me and due to that, I haven’t checked the portal especially since my full-time job has demanded more of my attention. Also, I have a 7-month-old daughter.
With no notifications of messages from the Fast Track portal, I have missed and frankly forgotten that we were using the service until recently when I logged in and found a message that our contract was being terminated.
Please advise how we can salvage the relationship and work together to get product placement.
All the best!
Sammy
Hello,
I would be happy to review the details of your outreach from the contacts we’ve sent on 8/5/21. You can upload the report showing that data using the add document button located near the top of this page. I can review the details with the team and see how we can assist.
If you’ve not yet reached out to the above mentioned leads, I suggest following up with them. As it has now been some time since we’ve spoken with them, you may need to send out an email to reintroduce your products and offer to answer any questions they may have and possibly send out a small sample. This is why we do ask that all leads are reached out to within the first five days of delivery as it states in our agreement.
Thank you and have a wonderful rest of your day.
