Building Your Retail Sales Pitch Deck

Buyers are the gatekeepers of retail, the people who’ll decide whether your product will make it into stores. So you need to connect with them, and clearly, succinctly and compellingly tell them why they should list your product. Watch the webinar to find out what to include in a retail sales pitch deck.

  • What will make a buyer want to list your product?
  • What questions must you answer in your deck?
  • Why you shouldn’t sell your product
  • What to include in your pitch deck (and download a template)
  • What you SHOULDN’T include
  • How to leave the buyer with no choice but to list your product
Building Your Retail Sales Pitch Deck

Complete the form to find out what to put in your retail sales pitch.

Webinar Overview:

In this insightful webinar, Jo Densley guides you through the process of constructing a successful retail pitch deck. She shows how to build a presentation that captures the attention of buyers and increases the chances of getting your products listed. Tailor your pitch to meet the specific needs of each retailer – whether supermarkets, delis, farm shops, independents, wholesaler or foodservice – and focus on solving their problems and helping to make them successful. Jo recommends addressing their typical concerns head-on and the webinar is an essential guide for anyone looking to get their products onto retail shelves.

Working step-by-step through the structure of a retail pitch deck, learn the components of an effective pitch. Jo emphasizes the significance of understanding the buyer’s concerns, such as product differentiation, market trends and alignment, and potential sales growth. There’s room for your brand story and creating an emotional connection with both consumers and buyers. However, it’s more important to show how market trends, aligning with the retailer’s shopper profile, and differentiating against competing products will deliver incremental sales.

If you understand your commercials and production capacity and can demonstrate that your promotional strategy will help deliver sales, you’ll make a strong case for getting listed. The webinar also includes practical advice on creating visually compelling presentation slides that answer all of a buyer’s pressing questions.

Key Takeaways:

  • Understand and address the core concerns of retail buyers, focusing on product sales potential, market alignment, and logistical capacities.
  • Craft a visually compelling presentation that effectively communicates how a product fits into existing retail categories and consumer trends.
  • Develop a strong brand story to create emotional connections, but stay concise and relevant in presentations to maintain buyer focus.
  • Highlight your marketing and promotional strategies to reassure retailers of a strong consumer demand and effective in-store support.
  • Demonstrate future growth plans and scalability to give buyers confidence in their long-term partnership with your brand.

Notable Quotes:

  • “Putting yourself in the shoes of the person to whom you’re selling is absolutely critical.”
  • “The biggest question in a buyer’s mind is: is your product going to sell in their store and is it going to sell quickly enough?”
  • “Pull out one or two or three key messages that reaffirm that one different thing, why this retailer should list [your product].”
  • “It’s really important to get into stores as much as possible because that helps you show where they’re merchandised in store as well.”

Related Resources:

  • As mentioned in the webinar, a retail pitch deck template is available to download.

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