American Made Matters

One of our dealers in Colorado took this image off our boxes and had a local sign company make this. Love it!

Merry Christmas from Palm Springs

Thanks to our California rep for passing this along. Great window display.

What do you give with the purchase of a vacuum

A lot of dealers give away or include items in the package price. I think it is great when it is written down and promoted in the store, like the two dealers did here.

Christmas Canisters

I thought is was a very festive display of the Riccar Canister line....

Window decals

Window displays are one of the challenges of store display. I get asked my opinion often as to how I would do a dealers windows... Well, This is by far one of my favorite window decals I have seen.

Using the Entire lineup

This is a great example of a dealer effectively using all of our Household models....I couldn't capture all of it one picture but it wraps around and shows almost all of our current upright household vacuums 

Riccar Attachment Kit

This may be the most effective display I have seen of our attachment kit. The hose is not pictured, but all of the accessories are. Nicely done!

Christmas Cleaning Package

I went into a dealers store yesterday in North Dakota and he was working on this. Though not done, I thought it was a great idea.

Nice Clean display in Kansas City this week!

I thought the dealer that did this display made good use of some displays they bought at IKEA.  The store is very well lit and no clutter.

Dealers working the Line at the Factory October 2012

This is always one of the best things that happen at the factory as dealers get to work the assembly line with the factory employees. 

Factory Tour October 2012

 Recent group of Riccar dealers that we took to the factory.  From North Carolina, Kentucky, Missouri, Idaho, and Utah.











Showing off our New Injection Molding Equipment!











 

 This is one of the guys that came over from Mac Molding explaining the molding process to the dealers. 

ABS Plastic Pellets

Creative in Store ideas this week in Colorado

 I have seen this store transform over the years, he has now installed a nice sitting area that believe it or not really opened up the place.



The other thing I saw that was interesting was the use of the RSL Patriotic machine.  This used to be a bag wall that has now trasformed into an attractive display wall with add-on and consumable items that were not as visually accessable before.

What does your store look like on the outside?

Do you display vacuums outside the front of your store?  I see it quite often.  I also really like the signs this dealer made for the windows of their store.

Dry Cleaning Idea Photo's

 I saw some great demo ideas with our Dry Carpet Cleaning products this week.  This dealer has a few stores and in a couple of the stores they had taken some dirty rugs and taped off an X on the rugs.  They then proceeded to use the Riccar Dry Carpet Cleaning Poweder to clean the Rug.  I was impressed!

Silk Carpet

Check out this blog one of our dealers posted on Silk Carpet:

http://okvac.com/blog/2012/09/03/vacuums-for-mohawk-smart-strand-silk-carpet/

Belt Protection

This came from a dealer in Kentucky.  Are you promoting Belt Protection in your store? Hall Sensor Technology is an exclusive feature that you should be promoting!

Home Show Ideas, making the Shoe demo Practical

 Recently I attended a Home Show in Faribault, MN and the dealer had taken the Shoe demo and made it more practical.  He picked up an old area rug and started using that in place of or in addition to the shoe to demonstrate the Hall Sensor.

Make it in America Recognition

I just found out that in May 2012 we were recognized by the MAKE IT IN AMERICA organization. 

Nice Dry Cleaning Idea

This is an interesting idea by one of our dealers! This is for those of you who sell our Riccar Dry Cleaning Product.

Great Carpet Idea from dealer in Jackson Wyoming

A dealer I saw last week had a sampe of carpet peieces that he got from a carpet store in his market.  The carpet store gave it to him at no charge.  He is able to ask the customer what there carpet is like and go to this box and pull out some samples real quick. 
I liked the box because it was tidy and the samples were small enough that it didn't take up too much space. 
Anyway, the challenge if you want to do this is to go out and find your own.  Just keep in mind if you do this you will be ahead of most places that sell vacuums...

Effective Use of the Courtesy Vacuum Program

This was a classic expample of how effective the Supralite is in our Courtesy Vacuum Program.  A customer brought their Dyson in for Warranty work, RSL went home and the bag on display was after 1 Vacuuming.  Needless to say the Dyson was traded in. The Dealer Displayed this well, check out what the paper says in the middle of the display!

This one Speaks for Itself

I Really like this!  I find myself buying local more and more every day. 

Chanhassen Vacuum

 Mike has been wanting me to come see his new store.  He Blew away my expectations.  Nice Job Mike (and Staff)!  Nice Clean tidy store and probably one of the most comfortable stores I have been in.


Comfortable Chairs and a DVD player on a nice big flat Screen TV



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Video Highligts from the Factory

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uz4rZbiEp1E

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsOlGeCxtrA&feature=relmfu

Thanks to Ben from Al's Vacuum for sharing the Video he took from the Facory. 

We do serious testing of product, a component that all dealers that tour the factory are impressed by.  From motor life, to wear of carpet and brushes over years and years worth of use.

Highlights from the Vacuum Museum April 2012





The Entrance to the Museum, it used to be, and still acts as a Tornado Shelter!  If you remember a Tornado took out one side of the Factory several years ago.

This Vacuum Served our Country on Air Force One!

Another Camo Cover on a RSL3

More Camo Covers!

USA Brilliance and Contest Winner for Local Elementray School in St. James, MO

More from the Tandem Air that Served on Air Force One!

Recent Visit to the Fenton Office & Factory

This is outside the Tacony Office Building in Fenton, MO.  We took a great group of dealers to see the office, discuss prodcucts, programs, ideas, etc...  Then we went to the Factory.

Where we make the Molds.

Molding and Making of the Product

The Assembly Line from Above!

From the Paint Room, this item was really popular work.  The Camo Door Cover.











Immaculate Covers Painted and Ready



Clever Use of Dyson Trade-ins.

I really like the use of these Trade-ins! Kind of speaks for itself.