Over my lifetime, my family has become friends with a local business owner, who owns and runs The 700 Shop in Kittanning, PA.\u00a0 The shop specializes in men\u2019s clothing and shoes, however, over the years, Turney has diversified his inventory to meet the market needs and diversified his income streams.\u00a0 Turney and his wife Lori own the business and work in the store, and Turney\u2019s two sisters work in the store.\u00a0 One of the sisters is a seamstress who does alterations on the men\u2019s suits and clothing repairs as needed, the other sister is a sales person.\u00a0 It is truly a family run business.<\/p>\n
Turney is an exceptional business owner, and salesperson. I have witnessed him selling many things to both of my parents and he has sold shoes, coats and clothing to myself and my sister.\u00a0 In order to be successful long term, in a small town like Kittanning, Turney has had to be in tune with the needs and wants of his market and has had to be creative in figuring out ways to generate revenue all year.\u00a0 The store is chock full of inventory, from men\u2019s suits, blazers, jeans, shoes, shirts, hats, coats and also women\u2019s clothing and shoes.\u00a0 In addition, he rents Tuxedos and shoes for proms and weddings and other special occasions.\u00a0 On top of that, Turney has created lasting relationships with the local schools, businesses and organizations and has a very successful income stream from getting shirts and jackets custom printed and embroidered for all of those customers.\u00a0 He\u2019s also very generous and sponsors fundraisers and donates shirts for promotional purposes.\u00a0 I think by being seen as very much a part of the community, Turney has been able to grow and expand his customer base across the board.\u00a0\u00a0 By being involved with the local school and sports teams, the 700 Shop is put in front of all of the students and their parents.\u00a0 This means he not only gets the school shirt and jacket business, but also gains the individual\u2019s business for prom tuxedos, weddings, clothing, shoes,\u00a0 businessmen suits and on and on.<\/p>\n
When selling products to customers, Turney always listens to the customer\u2019s needs.\u00a0 He wants to know what the customer is looking for, what they are using the item for, is it a gift or for himself.\u00a0 He always makes us feel like he is glad to see us, and is always attentive and always has suggestions, and definitely ups his sales by suggesting more, and different products.\u00a0 He uses sincere flattery as well, especially when selling to my mother.\u00a0\u00a0 As my mother does most of the shopping, she actually relies on Turney\u2019s expertise and judgement regarding shirts and ties and jackets for my father.\u00a0 Turney not only is in tune with my father\u2019s tastes, likes and dislikes, but he remembers them and is able to give suggestions for shirts and ties, and sizes.\u00a0 I have also witnessed Turney demonstrate that he is knowledgeable about current clothing trends and styles, such as plain front pants, or the length of men\u2019s suit jacket sleeves.\u00a0 Again, Turney has knowledge and expertise regarding the merchandise he sells and he makes the customer feel like they are getting good advice, quality product and that they are being cared for sincerely.\u00a0 I would say that Turney practices attunement very well.\u00a0 He seeks to understand and relate to the customer and he does it in a sincere, caring way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Over my lifetime, my family has become friends with a local business owner, who owns and runs The 700 Shop in Kittanning, PA.\u00a0 The shop specializes in men\u2019s clothing and shoes, however, over the years, Turney has diversified his inventory to meet the market needs and diversified his income streams.\u00a0 Turney and his wife Lori […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":833,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[383,102,254,256,257,153,51,22,23,27,197,351],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-attention-to-detail","category-attunement","category-businessadvertising","category-businesssales","category-businesssmallbusiness","category-customer-service","category-perspectives-on-sales","category-retail-sales","category-sales-process","category-sales-struggles","category-salesmen","category-small-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/833"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8591"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8592,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8591\/revisions\/8592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}