Hiring a Sales Team for Your Flea Market Business
Getting Enough Merchandise
The first thing to consider when hiring a sales team for your flea market business is how much merchandise you can afford, store, and sell. Working with wholesalers and liquidation houses, you can buy bulk merchandise that can be stored in warehouse space or at home in a spare room or closets.
In preperation for selling at the flea market each week, your merchandise should be split up in different boxes for each member of the sales team. That way, they can grab the items meant for them and deal with them individually.
Where to Find a Sales Team
Trust is necessary when handing over merchandise to a sales team. Unless you are going to be at the next table at the flea market, you must be able to trust the people you hire. One good method of hiring a sales team for your business is to use family and friends. You can also hire people through classified ads or local organizations. Whoever you hire, make sure to explain in detail what they should do, how to sell your merchandise, and payment terms.
Deploying the Sales Team
Most flea markets take place on the weekend. If your sales team will be going to the same flea market as you, have them meet at your house in the early morning and take them in your own vehicle. You can also meet at the flea market in a pre-designated spot.
If your flea market sales team will be going to other flea markets, or you are not going at all, they may pick up the merchadise the night before or in the morning of the market. Be sure to have a precise inventory of all the merchandise you are giving to the sales team members. Instruct them to write down every transaction in a notebook. This will help you keep track of inventory and income.
Hiring a sales team for your flea market business can grow a part time income into a lucrative career. Staying organized and hiring trustworthy people are the keys to success.
Published by Melanie L. Marten
Melanie Marten is self-taught and self-employed. Besides freelance writing, she dabbles in website design and owns dozens of websites and blogs. Work is squeezed in between parenting two boys, homeschoolin... View profile
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- Trust is necessary when handing over merchandise to a sales team.
- Hiring a sales team for your flea market business can grow a part time income into a real career.
8 Comments
Post a CommentThis sounds like so much work! Great article.
awesome job! Thanks for the tips.
I sell 10 to 12 pound lots of costume jewelry to flea market vendors on Ebay. They pay pretty well for my lots so they must make good money on them.
Good ideas. Lots of people can use this information
Tons of people make flea market sales their sole income. I used to do it one day per week and made well over $300 each time. And that was selling 'junk,' not real merchandise.
Interesting!!
Hard to believe you can routinely make enough at flea markets to justify hiring a sales team.
happy friday :-)