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Furniture Training Co. Redesigns Web Site
January 12,
2010 by in UnCategorized 
By Home Furnishings Business in on January 13, 2010
The Furniture Training Co. has enhanced its Web site, FurnitureTrainingCompany.com, which is designed to train retail furniture salespeople to sell more furniture.
The Web site upgrades make it easier and faster to use our Internet-delivered sales training," said Mike Petersen, senior vice president marketing. "The changes are focused on keeping sales people in the training loop so theyll sell more furniture every single day. We also incorporated major features of social media networking which now allow furniture salespeople to learn and share sales training techniques with each other from across the country and around the world.
The revamped Web sites new social media tools include an interactive discussion forum that allows subscribers to receive answers to their furniture sales questions. Subscribers can post any question about selling furniture. They receive answers from other furniture salespeople, sales and training managers, and industry experts. Non-subscribed site visitors can view forum questions and answers, but cannot post questions or answers. Web site subscribers and visitors can also receive sales tips via Twitter sent from The Furniture Training Co. directly to their mobile phones.
Other upgrades to the Web site include:
- Individualized training dashboards for each subscriber;
- Specialized dashboards specifically for store owners and managers;
- Audio podcasts of audio furniture sales training lessons (worksheets are included);
- Training review game focused on product knowledge benefits;
- Easier to use reports for tracking furniture sales associates training progress;
- Specialized furniture discussion forum for use by website subscribers; and
- Social networking features via twitter subscription for regularly motivating salespeople.
Access to the Web site costs $20 a month per person. Discounts are available to retailers who belong to furniture associations and buying groups. Check out the new Web site here.