{"id":188,"date":"2009-06-04T15:38:32","date_gmt":"2009-06-04T15:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wensmedia.com\/\/salesarchive\/permalink\/2009\/6\/4\/113832.html"},"modified":"2009-06-04T15:38:32","modified_gmt":"2009-06-04T15:38:32","slug":"whats-cookin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/uncategorized\/whats-cookin\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s Cookin&#8217;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><span style=\"font-size: 22pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma\">What&rsquo;s Cooking in this Economy?<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; There is a lot cooking in the new economy. &nbsp;Sales of everything related to cooking are booming! Everything from cooking lessons to cookbooks, and from pots and pans to fresh grocery items are booming.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; According to NPD Group, restaurant sales are taking a hit; down 3% for parties with kids and down 8% in the 18-24 age group. Meanwhile major grocery stores report sales increases because people are cooking more and eating out less.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Those who grew accustomed to dining out regularly, still want to eat in style at home according to Marketing Daily. They are enrolling in cooking courses that can cost hundreds of dollars in record numbers, and buying small appliances at an ever-increasing rate.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: black\"><font size=\"5\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/font><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma\">Borders Group Inc. reports sales of cookbooks have risen 9% over last year&rsquo;s sales, and Wal-Mart Stores Inc. reports that sales of house wares were very strong in February.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-indent: 0.5in\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma\">Have you considered making a specialty grocery store or local restaurant famous by offering cooking tips on air, or promoting cooking classes on location during slow nights?<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; For every market that goes down, there is a corresponding market which goes up! Our Selling in the New Media Economy one-day sales workshop, explores the &lsquo;See-Saw Market&rsquo; opportunities available to your sales people.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; We also explore other opportunities like the Bullet-Proof Market, the Alternative Message Market, and the Cash Is King Market. &nbsp;<\/span><u><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: blue; font-family: Tahoma\"><a href=\"mailto:wayne@wensmedia.com;%20angela@wensmedia.com?subject=Please%20contact%20me%20about%20the%20revenue-reviving%20workshop%20-%2004\/15\">Contact<\/a> Wayne<\/span><\/u><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: Tahoma\"> to learn how you can experience this revenue-reviving workshop in your market. <\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&rsquo;s Cooking in this Economy? &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; There is a lot cooking in the new economy. &nbsp;Sales of everything related to cooking are booming! Everything from cooking lessons to cookbooks, and from pots and pans to fresh grocery items are booming. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; According to NPD Group, restaurant sales are taking a hit; down 3% for parties [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}