Today, I want to demonstrate how to free your kitchen showroom salespeople.

Freeing them to do what comes naturally: sell kitchens.

And watching as they double their kitchen project quotes in 2024.

Limited kitchen design resources = Limited kitchen design output

Kitchen salespeople fantasize about getting potential customers unlimited quantities of quotes – without having to make a kitchen design first!

But they know it’s necessary to design kitchens first to determine what they’ll cost.

Your sales team is dependent on the showroom designers’ output.

That output isn’t likely to increase, limiting the amount of price quotes needed to fuel your showroom’s sales growth.

Why can’t I get faster kitchen designs?

Is it me? Or are they done slower the more I try to speed up the process?

The action stage of showrooms looking to boost their design output often looks like this:

• Search for inefficiencies in the current design process.
• Ask salespeople to get designers clearer design requests.
• Ask salespeople to design more of their own projects.
• Insist everyone only design projects they know will get sold.
• Hire freelance kitchen designers to clear out the kitchen design backlog.
• Nothing really changes, and the cycle repeats.

Sorry, but good salespeople don’t like designing kitchens

Your well-intentioned plan might not work. Buy why?

Trying to smooth expectations between designers and salespeople requires UN-level diplomatic skills.

Attempts to change kitchen showroom culture often fizzle out.

It’s tough to balance day-to-day pressures with new initiatives.

Good salespeople want to sell. Don’t ask them to design kitchens.

Freelance designers are one-person shops. They won’t get you up to speed fast.

How do you help your salespeople quote and sell more?

Something’s gotta give. Your current design process limits sales growth.

The challenge (and solution) is clear: getting your salespeople a design team that supports your existing designers.

As a Trusted Design Partner, OKD provides:

• a dedicated, outsourced design team providing designs any time in any quantity.
• a simple, no-fuss, design requisition process.
• designs completed in a guaranteed two-day turnaround.

How to get started designing and selling more kitchen projects

First, tell your current designers we are there to support them, not replace them.

We’ll begin designing for just one of your top salespeople. It’s best we begin slowly to give everyone time to get to know each other’s needs.

We take time to understand their challenges and provide a simple method to submit and receive designs in two days.

After three months, we review sales results together and adjust as needed.

We then expand the program to more salespeople and designers.

OKD removes your current design output limits. Take that 2024!