6. A Day Trip to NASA: The Kennedy Space Center

Want a little inspiration and motivation for building effective teams? By visiting Kennedy Space Center, your team can witness how history and future, nature and technology, young and old meet for an unforgettable and highly creative journey through space and time. The Kennedy Space Center tells a compelling story of how United States built a space program that launched men to moon and have orbited satellites that have improved our life on earth.

7. A Day Trip to The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, New York, has brought together thousands of works of art that display a full and extraordinary range of creativity which can enhance your team building efforts. See and hear a story of human deceit from “The Kitano Tnjin Engi Emaki,” a thirteenth century picture scroll. Open a discussion around historic moment when General George Washington led American revolutionary troops across Delaware in “George Washington Crossing Deleware.” Explore Korea’s distinctive cultural identity and ways in which arts of Korea have been affected by trade and diplomacy, by war and peace, and by religion and philosophy. This day trip is one that is filled with curiosity, creativity, and of seeing perspective of people and cultures from around world.

8. A Day Trip to NORDSTROM

Outstanding customer service and Nordstrom go hand in hand. Their innovative approach has allowed them to find out exactly what customer wants and then gives this with grace and style. A family-owned business, Nordstrom considers their customers a part of their extended family, and corporate culture supports and encourages salespeople to engage in intimate business dialogue and relationships with key vendors in each department. A visit to Nordstrom will teach you how to better respond to customer’s needs so that they will come back to you again and again and will teach you lessons of : valuing outstanding customer service, bonding with each and every customer, and giving people on frontline freedom to make decisions.

9. A Four-Day Hike on Appalachian Trail

From Katahdin in Maine to Springer Mountain in Georgia, Appalachian National Scenic Trail wanders ridges and valleys of Appalachian range for more than 2,168 miles. Those who have traveled this trek return feeling much more light- hearted, saying that they no longer sweat small stuff in life. One of biggest benefits of walking Appalachian trail is that you and your team will learn adaptability, and you will begin to appreciate people and things in life that you often take for granted. Many people report that even one week of hiking is a life changing experience. They realize that a fast pace of living and that money, prestige, and power are only surface deep…that true beauty of life lies in secrets of nature.

10. A Day of Brainstorming

A Super S.W.O.T. Session with a communications company is a great way to offer your company a highly creative day of brainstorming. This session should be a fast-paced, deeply probing session highly designed for your organization’s best thinkers. Using easels, drawing pads, and other audio visuals, a great facilitator will keep ideas flowing by asking you first to boil down your mission statement to ten words or less. From here, they focus on your Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats. These critical factors are listed, considered, and ranked to show you three most significant factors in each S.W.O.T. category. The results are always revealing and often quite surprising. A session can require as little as three hours—on up to a full day.

Once people go through your site, read your copy, and check out your products or services, they make a decision to buy. By offering them more for less (more products/services for less money) you take advantage of their “buying mode.” You strike while iron is hot (so-to-speak). It’s a win-win situation. The buyer gets a discount, and you get more sales.

So how would you implement this strategy for off-line businesses? Just follow any fast food restaurant’s lead.

Have you ever been to a McDonald’s restaurant? What normally happens is a conversation like this:

‘May I take your order?”

“Yes. I’d like a Big Mac combo with a Coke.”

“Would you like to super size that, ma’am?”

“Sure, why not.”

“And how about adding one of our hot pies or an ice cream sundae for just $1.00?”

“OK”

Without so much as a fuss, McDonald’s just added two sales to your order. One was super sizing of your combo meal… other was a sundae. You got a discount - you got more food for less money - and McDonald’s got more profits.

Off-line retailers can simply instruct their salespeople to ask for more sales. Once customer gets to cash register, they are officially in “buy mode.” While they’re standing there, quickly (and I mean quickly… don’t bombard them) ask if they need shoe polish to keep those news shoes looking new, or if they remembered to pick up labels for that box of CDs. It’s really that simple. No hard sale, no pushing, no shoving. Just a simple question to which answer is almost always “yes.”

So there you have it… quick and easy way to get more sales from your order page. Think it’s too easy? Try it and see for yourself.