GE Money Hosting Free Webinar on Big Ticket Sales

Kettering, OH, Dec. 5, 2008—GE Money will host a free year-end training webinar focused on leveraging best practices in a tough economy.

The training sessions are designed to help sales staff feel more comfortable using financing to their advantage, and make them better equipped to sell bigger ticket items to more consumers.

The training sessions will take place on Tuesday, Dec. 9 from 11 a.m. to noon, EST, and Thursday, Dec. 11 from 1 p.m. until 2 p.m. EST.

To register for one of the free training sessions, flooring retailers should have their GE Money merchant numbers handy and contact Nia Evans at 937-534-2393 or nia.evans@ge.com.

Both webinars will feature interactive sessions with private label credit experts from GE Money as well as internationally recognized retail business consultant and author, Sam Allman. Retailers will utilize the new Training Resource Center at www.gemoney.com/training to participate in the session.

“As consumers continue to become more and more prudent about their purchasing decisions for big-ticket items like flooring, it is critical that retailers and their sales associates take every opportunity to maximize the benefits of financing,” said Sam Allman of Allman Consulting.


The webinar includes:

•    Selling with Financing – an overview of financing and promotional credit, plus techniques to educate consumers about financing as a payment option.
•    Application Processing – an overview of how to help customers accurately complete a credit application, steps to submit them and how to process sales. 
•    Marketing and Business Integration – ideas to help build customer relationships, motivate teams and expand business by generating leads, driving traffic and using marketing tools.