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Sleeping with The Enemy with Paul R Roy

by | In the Magazine, Paul Roy

Last week while parking to go into the local fabric store with my wife I noticed a piacular scene that stopped me dead in my tracks.

Parked in front of a large drug store were three delivery trucks.  One a Corn Chip Truck.  A Soft Drink Truck and a Potato Chip Truck. No need to share the brands.  We all know who they are.  What’s the issue with that you might ask?

Many of these large drug store chains are selling or advertising themselves on “we put your health first.”  We have your best interests at heart. Let’s think about what the delivery truck brands have to do with putting your health first.   Nothing.  From my perspective selling their customers, these types of snacks would ensure there would always be a steady stream of customers at the prescription counter.  It’s like giving candy to a baby as they say.  Hop on the sugar train, and we have you hooked for life.

In today’s retail world everyone is wanting a piece of everyone else’s pie

Who would have imagined 15 years ago Walmart selling groceries or Supermarkets selling drugs? You can find a gas bar in front of most supermarkets too. It begs the question how do we stand out from the crowd and sell enough goods to make a profit.  I can assure you are adding more low-profit inventory items is not a place I would start. 

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When I was growing up convenience stores that sold light groceries and confectionery stood on their own.  Gas stations sold gas and repaired your car. Drug stores sold medications and health products and perhaps a place to have your camera films dropped off to be processed.   Let’s call then silos.  Each part of the business was connected.  These businesses were experts in their fields.

Now we have Convenience Stores that sell gas and coffee. For my American friend’s beer too. Drug stores now look more like General Stores that sell groceries, confectionary, greeting cards and in the back of the store they fill your prescriptions.  It’s a dog’s breakfast.  How do we compete?

Nothing is sacred any more

Everyone is competing for the low margin dollar.  The race to the bottom I call it. A race if you’re a business owner you don’t want to win. It’s a fool’s errand.  However, it continues and businesses struggle to compete in this environment and even more challenging is to remain profitable.

Since I’m in the store I may as well get this will always exist. It’s like going to McDonald’s and they ask would you like fries with that.  What business owners need to understand is why the customer came in the door in the first place.  We can’t stand out if we walk, talk and smell like the rest.  That leaves us in a competitive place that ends up price point selling.  You will always struggle for profit when you price point sell.

Wither you are buying goods in a drugstore that will eventually add to your diabetes or walking down the aisle of a convenience store that is selling fast lunches that compete against your restaurant we are all sleeping with the enemy.  Yes, the very business (corporations) who want it all.  The main line of the market share is their ultimate objective, and they will do anything to protect and grow that.

News Flash

Where the profit lies is in value. Good customers want to be a somebody and have a relationship with the owner, manager or staff. There is no value in potato chips or soda pop.  Zero. There is no profit in selling what everyone else sells.   There is no loyalty in price. Why do so many business owners line up to head down that road? 

The one book that changed my view on pricing is a 107-year-old gem called “The Science of Getting Rich.”  The author a Minister by the name of Wallace Wattles who was kicked out of the church for his belief that God wants all to prosper. I believe Wattles had it right.  Tony Robbin’s, Rhonda Byrne of “The Secret,” Jack Canfield and many others took a page out of this man’s book and acknowledged that.  All the fore mentioned understood the power of our thoughts to get us where we want to be.

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I too buy into that practice as well, but the one sentence in Wattles book that changed my view on pricing once and for all was this.  “If we provide more in value than the customer paid for a product or service the price becomes irrelevant. “A Methodist minister wrote this 107 year ago back in the days before Shop and Save and Walmart.  I want to call him the Archbishop of profit.

Understanding your clients why

No matter if our clients are service providers, restaurant owners or retailers it behooves us as Business Coaches to helps our clients understand their why.  Get them to understand their Market Dominating Position.  Help them get it in their head that in most cases more customers will not solve their inherent problem. We must help them fix the ship before we put out let’s get more leads. Attracting more leads to a company who does not understand their value is a disservice. 

Social Media is jammed full of people and organizations promoting we will get you more leads. More leads are just 1 step of the 5 Step Profit Formula. The real profit is in the other 4. It is our job as business coaches to help our clients be profitable and take away the stress of breathing with a snorkel. Many business owners are swimming on the surface or underwater. It’s no damn fun. 

It’s our job and duty as Business Coaches to help our clients fly. 

 About Paul Roy

Paul Roy is a Business Coach located in Halifax Canada.  He brings with him vast experience as a business owner for 25 years and has a coaching Certification. In the companies, Paul owned or managed he was always the sales and marketing arm insuring growth. His underlying passion is to help his clients grow quickly and more importantly create the profitable company of their dreams. 

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