Increase your hand should you’ve left sufficient sneaker tread in your IMC Market showrooms and hallways over time to shoe your highschool observe workforce for a season…at the least.
You’re in good firm. Our favourite firm, truly.
Whereas we’re all busy having fun with the frantic tempo of feeding the intrinsic human (and purchaser) must hunt, collect, and uncover, Juniper by IMC is quietly evolutionizing the Market enviornment into the subsequent period – a neo-Jurassic period if you’ll – the place the one dinosaurs are these within the reward and toy collections of IMC distributors. This evolution is painless, prescient, and transformative – however by no means unique. Or scary! Either side of this wholesale coin can start to Regain Calm and Market On, in particular person and on the about-to-launch JuniperMarket.
Meet a few of our IMC Market distributors sharing the Juniper love and pleasure as JuniperMarket will get able to launch.
We not too long ago checked in at Market with the among the business’s vanguards – these already main the way in which to related, clickable shopping for whereas actively gussying up their on-line showroom for countless Market. From Atlanta to JuniperMarket to Las Vegas to JuniperMarket to Excessive Level to JuniperMarket, it’s going to quickly be Market Day day by day…and right here’s what our distributors should say about that.
“It’s Sort of a Revolutionary Thought.”
Dena Kay French, Designer and Key Account Gross sales Government for A&B House, cuts on to the chase, saying, “We would like to have the ability to present our clients, as typically as potential, any new launches, any new product, any alternatives…JuniperMarket signifies that 12 months out of the 12 months, we have now Market” to try this.
A&B House, famend for his or her elegant Market showrooms and merchandise, can be launching their on-line showroom with JuniperMarket. “Each day we have now new product and also you’ll see it firsthand on JuniperMarket!”
Many distributors, like French, are eagerly anticipating the limitless alternatives a unending Market will current. Herren Hickingbotham, Proprietor of Park Hill Assortment, admits, “It’s type of a revolutionary concept and we’re excited to be a pioneer, working with IMC on JuniperMarket.”
Whereas JuniperMarket is admittedly (r)evolutionary, partnering with IMC on the reducing fringe of Markets-as-B2B-Mastery is absolutely nothing new for these distributors and businesses now taking the subsequent step in direction of the way forward for wholesale shopping for and promoting within the Present, House Décor, Furnishings and Attire industries.
Hickingbotham’s colleague and Director of Gross sales and Buyer Care, Danah Hurst, likens the opening of this new frontier of a 24/7/365 market to the inroads already made in facilitating gross sales with Park Hill’s use of the Juniper Gross sales device, RepZio. It’s pioneering made easy, Hurst says, with an ease that even applies to these lower than tech-savvy, like her. “I inform everybody that if I can use it, you should utilize it,” she confirms.
Disruption, Workarounds, and the Juniper Resolution to It All.
Ease of use is paramount for these busy distributors who’re looking for to steadiness customer support with stock administration within the face of ongoing provide chain disruption. (All Hail 2020-21 workarounds!) Hurst extols the advantages of RepZio, which permits Park Hill gross sales reps to “successfully write orders each on the highway and within the showroom. All these orders stream straight into our system…and can make the transition into JuniperMarket a seamless one.” It’s that Market-to-Market-to-Market connection once more, and it’s what everybody is considering because the launch of JuniperMarket attracts close to.
Ivystone is trying ahead to incorporating in-person Market occasions with the brand new JuniperMarket expertise. 12 months-round influence…fewer blisters.
Doug Cofiell, CEO of Ivystone, interprets that very same pleasure from his company perspective. “We predict the benefit of use and the truth that it integrates with all our present methods will permit us to carry JuniperMarket to the subsequent degree. It’s going to be an thrilling expertise – we’ll incorporate all of the issues we do after we come see you with all of the issues we do in our Markets in particular person after which join all of it throughout our methods, all year long.”
Market Pleasure Goes Digital
It’s undeniably Pink Bull-can-in-your-hand thrilling when the spotlight occasion of your promoting seasons (Market!) transforms into your favourite each day exercise – assembly any of your consumers wherever and every time they could select, curating your on-line showroom out of your lumbar-supportive chair as an alternative of a ladder, and introducing your new stock as quickly as you’ve got it.
Diving into his description of Sullivan’s trend-right mid-year launch themes, Nathan Skrove, Vice President of Product Growth, emphasised the advantages of having the ability to present “a lot totally different stuff…all 12 months lengthy, on Juniper Market. It’s a fantastic place to see new merchandise, and actually store by yourself time…wherever you’d like to buy from.” He sees answering the wants of all his consumers as answering them “whether or not it’s in particular person in our showroom, or buying on-line, or with our reps, and JuniperMarket may help us obtain that…[buyers] having the ability to see all our merchandise all 12 months lengthy.”
One. Big. Plus.
It’s that rep connection – truly, the very side of COMPLETE connectivity – that units Juniper by IMC and its new JuniperMarket other than any stand-alone possibility. In its expansive connectivity, JuniperMarket won’t solely show you how to construct a totally built-in ecosystem to deal with each side of your wholesale enterprise, however it could possibly additionally accommodate and be complementary to some other device you may at the moment have. No painful rip-and-replace with JuniperMarket – simply wide-open alternative!
Right here’s how Ron Knutson, VP of Gross sales and Advertising for SPI, describes the significance of that connectivity: “The one big plus – and it actually is large – is that by utilizing the JuniperWeb platform for our web site, it ports mechanically onto JuniperMarket. And to our reps and every little thing else. It’s all absolutely automated. We use Sage as our again workplace; it’s all built-in, actual time. We actually don’t do a factor to arrange the JuniperMarket web site – it’s all accomplished.”
A Tremont Floral show of merchandise promoting now of their Market showrooms and shortly on JuniperMarket. “We need to be in entrance of as many purchasers as we are able to.”
Barry Todd, Vice President of Tremont Floral, messaged by the use of the identical drumbeat. “Being built-in with the Market was one of many large promoting factors. RepZio, JuniperWeb, and JuniperMarket: all these issues tied collectively – after which the assist employees right here at Market – was a giant think about our resolution” to combine Tremont Floral’s IMC Market relationship with Juniper.
No Stumbling, Simply Easy Promoting
As Barry mentions, the Juniper assist employees that helps you keep related isn’t any mere cherry on the highest of your Sonic limeade. Buyer success is your success, and Juniper prescience as soon as once more wins that day. The Juniper workforce is with you all alongside: for onboarding and coaching, earlier than you assume to name them for in-field steering, and even through YouTube tutorial.
Dianna Duffy Thompson, Director of Gross sales for Skyros Design, summarized her expertise with Juniper’s Buyer Success Staff by saying “From the very starting, every little thing has been very clean…they’ve been extraordinarily out there to reply any of our easy OR troublesome questions. Then [for us] to come back to Market and be assured that somebody could be right here to assist us stumble by means of that first day – it wasn’t stumbling in any respect.”
Nope, no stumbling in any respect. Nevertheless it IS all of the enjoyable, all of the hype and all of the espresso (in case you have a espresso bar 5 steps out of your desk like we do) that’s Market – day in and day trip, in a single day and over cocktails – and no additional sneaker tread required! It’s as easy, as thrilling, and as revolutionary as that. As a result of, as put so succinctly by a grinning Hector Hernandez, VP of Gross sales for Zuo, “JuniperMarket is such as you coming to Market each single day!”
Fairly irresistible, sure?
About Juniper and IMC
Juniper is a totally built-in, omni-channel B2B commerce resolution, serving to consumers & sellers develop their enterprise. Juniper’s gross sales automation and commerce platform (JuniperCommerce) mixed with its B2B e-commerce market (JuniperMarket) empower gross sales groups to promote extra and consumers to purchase smarter. For extra details about Juniper, go to www.JuniperCommerce.com.
Juniper is powered by Worldwide Market Facilities (IMC), the world’s largest proprietor and operator of premier wholesale furnishings, reward, house decor and attire showrooms with greater than 20 million sq. ft of area in Excessive Level, N.C., Las Vegas, and Atlanta. With the launch of Juniper, IMC now gives the one omnichannel platform that seamlessly connects bodily and digital wholesale commerce for the industries we serve. For extra info, go to www.imcenters.com.