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Forty years an agent in furniture - the art of selling
- 2024/10/02
- 再生時間： 34 分
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John McCabe started in the furniture industry when he was just 16 years old on the YTS scheme - Remember that!?
Fast forward 40 years and John is still going strong, working as a self employed sales agent.
John tells Ben about:
- How he got into the trade
- His mum was a model for Furniture Factors
- But the firm he was doing the YTS with went bust
- What the trade was like in the 80s - his first sale was a wall clock for £59!
- Why the mid-90s was a boom time
- Why he came to supply furniture to Coronation Street!
- How trade is coming back
- Working with Sweet Dreams
- Working at shows
- The power of advertising and its effect on stores
- Ozzy the dog!!
- Art work and how it can pay its own way
- Why the furniture trade is one not many leave
- Dining and how it's not changed
- Why vans are better than an electric Porsche
- Harnessing the potential of garden centres
- Staying positive as the world changes around you
- Drop shipping and how retailers use it
- Trade shows and are they on the decline?
- How advanced China has become
LINKS
Trade Only Furniture Group
B Womack Furniture Ltd
John McCabe on LinkedIn
Podcast Production by Ginger Wizard Productions