getting a business up
trudy:
At the risk of sounding stupid... how do you go about getting a sales business up? What do the customers want? Leaving them alone they get frustrated after a while. Dazzle makes them happy sometimes unhappy und other ocasions. Why? How does it work? Something to do with beeing able to afford it?
What is the maximum busines rank? What are the best perks?
I feel ashamed first time i donīt get the trick of an expantion pack.
Arina:
This is just what I've noticed, not anything official or researched:
To get a sales business up, make sales. Don't just wait for people to buy things, either - make sure you're doing the sales socials on them. Obviously this gets you money, but interactions with staff seems to be what gets the stars, too.
The customers tend to only want what you're selling. I've never had a customer demand an item I don't sell from my staff. Cheap things like plants sell well, as do expensive entertainment things like tvs, stereos, hot tubs, etc., but I'm pretty sure if you sell even just one type of item, sims will buy it - they go to the business to buy things if there's not much in the way of distraction. (Also, you can force them to buy things with a good salesperson :P)
If the customer stands waving their arms a bit, scratching their head, you need to get a salesperson to do the May/Can I Help You? interaction, in Sales (I can't remember the exact name)
Dazzle won't work if the customer's in a foul mood. It may also not work if they hate the salesperson, but I'm not sure. Either wait for them to do something fun, go to the toilet, eat something before you try it or fill the place with snapdragons (or cheat, obviously)
The maximum business rank is 10. The perks I go for are the wholesale ones and/or the money ones in a shop. Whichever has Manipulate as a top level perk is probably useful, too, though I've never used it.
It's fairly complicated for the Sims, isn't it? XD I had trouble getting to grips with it at first but now I can keep anything but salons and restaurants in the green (seriously, I just don't get how you're meant to even break even with them!) I rarely run straight shops, though - normally they're half entertainment venue. Oh, and always, always have a ticket machine! :D
J. M. Pescado:
Quote from: trudy on 2007 March 04, 11:10:50
At the risk of sounding stupid... how do you go about getting a sales business up? What do the customers want? Leaving them alone they get frustrated after a while. Dazzle makes them happy sometimes unhappy und other ocasions.
Dazzle makes them unhappy because they reject it due to combinations of crappy mood, crappy chemistry, and crappy rel. The best way to farm stars in a business is the same as any other business: Jack up the price of some item way too high so that it WON'T sell, then show it to someone compatible with your salesperson and hammer them with hardsell ad infinitum. When they lose interest, show it to them again, rinse, repeat, until you've farmed that one to 5.
eevilcat:
I found that sales increased once I started working on the sims relationships with the customers. Boost your relationship with them and it increases customer loyalty which makes them more likely to accept sales socials and come back. I normally go for the connections perks that give you an increase in starting relationship, that way you'll be successful with sales socials from the start.
I like to have at least one snapdragon specialist home business in the neighbourhood, that way the shoppers stay longer as their needs are replenished as well as stocking other sim houses with snapdragons. Even if you don't sell them, I'd recommend placing a couple in the sales area.
trudy:
ah.. chemistry, that sounds logical. So what do I do with the ones that hate my salesperson and think he is ugly as hell. Just leave them alone an hope they donīt get to mad about it?
I have not even startet with restaurants or clubs, i play way to slow and take to long to get bored of the old stuf ;-)
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