Selling Luxury: Connect with Affluent Customers, Create Unique Experiences Through Impeccable Service, and Close the Sale

by Robin Lent, Genevieve Tour, Alain-Dominique Perrin (Foreword by)

Praise for Selling Luxury "Genevi�ve and Robin have brought together their talents to create a book that gives all Sales Ambassadors the fundamentals in selling and building customer loyalty."
--Hamida Belkadi, CEO, De Beers Diamond Jewellers, USA

"Selling Luxury is filled with ways of exceeding each client's expectations through offering a service that surprises and delights."
--Aaron Simpson, Group Executive Chairman, Quintessentiall

What does it take to sell high-end luxury creations to the richest clients in the world? In Selling Luxury, Robin Lent and Genevieve Tour, with thirty years of combined experience, share their savoir-faire. You'll also pick up tips from multi-million dollar luxury sales professionals who will help you understand the complexities of the universe of luxury. Selling Luxury will show you how a salesperson can acquire Sales Ambassador status by offering the impeccable service associated with the world's most prestigious brands.

Genres: Business, Fashion, Nonfiction, Audiobook

176 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 27, 2009

Reviews

[Daniel · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a great training handbook for Sale Ambassadors of luxury brands. Many pearls of service such as look beyond the appearance, be attentive, go beyond the extra mile, be genuinely interested in the customers, remembering them, give helpful suggestions in their choice, follow up, up-sell to them, letting them try. All these creates the magic of luxury to give customers the best experience of shopping.

All of us who are in the ‘Service’ sector would understand that the principles of this book are very applicable to all service jobs. For who can resist a helpful, polite and attentive staff?

[Rolando · Rating 4 out of 5]

A Concise way to remind you that luxury is another world in terms of attention, details and relationship with customers.A summary of 88 recommendations with direct action for any selling professional in the luxury world.

[DeLaney · Rating 3 out of 5]

My business is online and this book is curated for luxury boutiques (brick and mortar). Still, I was able to adapt many thoughtful concepts this book offered for an online, luxury, shopping experience.

[Colin Jaros · Rating 4 out of 5]

Quick read, but lots to digest. Will be using this as a training resource for my sales reps, going through each of the 88 points on our weekly team meetings, discussing how we currently do the points mentioned and how we can implement them if we don’t.

[Luis Alatorre · Rating 3 out of 5]

Escrito en un lenguaje muy sencillo y con una temática minimizada, da buenos y practico consejos acerca del trato con los clientes en diversos ámbitos.

[Erika · Rating 3 out of 5]

Easy read with a lot of great tips. There wasn’t anything earth shattering or revolutionary in my opinion. But good reminders and practices!

[Eileen · Rating 3 out of 5]

2.75 stars

[Mike Sanders · Rating 2 out of 5]

Airy and insubstantial.

[Prudence · Rating 3 out of 5]

More than just about selling luxury, also informative for personal branding

[Utkarsh Kaushik · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great principles for in person selling. A great reminder to me who is digitally native as to what good service should look like. One to revisit with the customer experience team.

[charlotte · Rating 3 out of 5]

Sales bible for retail , but any good job will teach you how to do this. Also i dont work in retail so….

[Flavia Raccanelli · Rating 1 out of 5]

Not my favorite. Read because it was suggested from a university professor, but it says to simple concepts from my point of view.

[Andrea Nicholson · Rating 2 out of 5]

A fairly basic set of rules that sales associates should know. Wish the case studies were more in depth using better examples.

[JG · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good insights but basic at the same time.
It would have been nice to get more detail nuance in every concept

[Madi Taylor · Rating 5 out of 5]

Quick read with actionable tips you can apply to any business.

[Betsy · Rating 3 out of 5]

There were some good tips in here, things I didn't have on my radar already. That being said, it seemed like the content got a little lackluster partway through the book. Meaning...the authors focused too much on having 88 tips. Some of those could have been condensed.

If you are willing to skim through those, you will probably find some takeaways that could be useful for your business. I made several notes myself.

To conclude, let me say I am glad I checked this book out from the library. While I gleaned knowledge from it, I don't foresee wanting it as a reference book.

[Juank · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good tips at a high level

[Jana Elston · Rating 5 out of 5]

Although focusing in selling luxury items, this is a great read by anyone working in the retail industry and looking for ways to improve their retail skills.

[Gredgrd · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good book