Do you have a product perfect to sell to Guitar Center Stores?
If your product is ideally suited for this retailer, check out our new training video on some quick tips and strategies on becoming a Guitar Center vendor.
How to Sell to Guitar Center
This is a massive retail chain that can scale your business exponentially and become a Guitar Center Vendor.
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Learn everything you need to know to become a Guitar Center vendor
Guitar Center Has Over 250 Stores
And so they’re an important retailer for you. As of now, they have around 250 or so stores that they’re responsible for that does vary, but ultimately they are there selling products and it makes a lot of sense for you to go after them if you have a musical instrument. Here’s the tricky part and the part that I want to explain to you about the retail industry. So every person who has created some sort of musical instrument is thinking about becoming a Guitar Center vendor.
It can be a little tricky to become a Guitar Center vendor
You think that that’s the perfect first place to start, because it makes sense. Best Buy, you have a consumer electronics product, you’re going to go to Best Buy. Everyone does this. It’s really, really common. And the problem with that thinking is that all of your competitors are reaching out to Guitar Center if they have a similar product to yours and so forth. And what that does is really limits your ability to actually generate revenue with your product.
Guitar Center is going to scrutinize your product because everyone is contacting them in your category.
They’re a little bit more tough to reach out to initially.
So really what that means is if I were you, and I’ve done this for close to 20 years, selling for the biggest retailers in the world, some version of that teaching, educating and so forth through our time tested systems. What I would do is I would of course, reach out to guitar center but if they say no to me, I don’t take that personal at all, because it means that all my competitors are already on them and maybe there’s a town with a budget.
What If Guitar Center Says No To Your Product?
There’s something going on. Whereas most people who reach out to them feel really horrible about themselves. They think that the product’s not good. If guitar center says no, they can’t go anywhere. And this is a silly thing. It’s just really that all your competition is going after them.
How to get your products into Guitar Center and other local retail stores
What we do, what I would do is I would reach out to all the other retailers that sell musical instruments and try and get them to purchase your product. Target, Walmart, anyone else who actually sells similar products and I’m going to try them first cause a lot of my competitors are not necessarily thinking about reaching out to them and maybe they don’t even know how
Go back to Guitar Center, showing proof of sales
And so my assumption is always going to be to go to the masses anywhere else. They all have websites and locations and so forth that you can dig around and find the people that are selling this product. That’s not the most well known in that space, if that makes sense. So I hope that provides value for you. Don’t take it personal. Don’t feel bad. Try going after guitar center but really what I would do is I would go after all the other retailers that could conceivably buy that your competitors are not thinking about. And then I would go back to guitar center, showing proof of sales, they’ll love you a lot more.
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It’s got nothing to do with you. It just has to do with the fact that this is world, that they’re living in and everybody’s contacting them.
Learn how to approach, pitch & sell to Guitar Center stores
Anyways, if you’d like to learn more exactly how to approach, pitch and sell to chain stores like Guitar Center, we actually have a webinar coming up. There’s a link to that webinar listed below. It’s free. It’s a 90 minute webinar and all you have to do is click on the link below, sign up. We talk about how to sell your products to major retail chains with no experience necessary and so forth, no buyer relationships.
And really, we also have a replay option available in case you want to watch it right away versus going on to our next event but anyways, if you want it to learn more, please sign up, join us, love to support you further. It’s a lot easier and a longer period of time. Otherwise, like this information comment below. If you like subscribe, keep in touch with us because we’re always adding new content to support people.
This is Karen Waksman retail MBA. I really, really appreciate your time and I hope to continue the conversation. Thanks so much.
Wishing you so much happiness and success becoming a vendor for Guitar Center.
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In this training, I will discuss some of the things to think about when approaching a retailer to sell your products and become a vendor. Hope it helps! 🙂
Karen Waksman,
Retail MBA
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