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Meet Joe Logo

Joe_Logo_jennifercox_V2Joe Logo to the Rescue

If you’re turned off by the prospect of high-pressure sales, NNEP's President Jennifer Cox would like to introduce you to someone that can help.

Meet “Joe Logo”

“Joe Logo is the hardest-working employee that any business owner can have,” says Jennifer Cox of the National Network of Embroidery Professionals in Kent, Ohio. “He never misses a day of work. He never calls in sick. His kids never get sick. He is completely there 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.”

Joe Logo is a character Cox created to help potential customers visualize what embroidery could do for their businesses.

“People don’t realize that they have an incredible resource in their company name and logo,” Cox explains. “If they have not yet purchased embroidery, they’re missing a way to put Joe Logo to work for them.”

Joe was born at 6:30 AM many years ago as Cox was driving to a weekly business meeting for her professional leads networking group. The networking organization was designed to help professionals in different fields create sales leads for each other from among their own customers. Explaining to the group why their customers needed to become her embroidery customers proved difficult.

“Every week, the group would feature several different businesses for a five to 10-minute presentation,” Cox says. “I came up with Joe Logo.”

To explain the benefits of embroidery, she personified Joe Logo into a valuable employee that everyone in the group could relate to.

“I turned it into an educational sales pitch on how to sell embroidery,” she says.

Her referral group laughed at her characterization of Joe Logo. At the same time, the members finally understood what she was selling, and generated a lot more business for her.

“When you say ‘corporate embroidery,’ they don’t know if their customers would buy that,” Cox says. “But when you talk about Joe Logo being punched in on the time clock with his feet up on the desk twiddling his thumbs ready for you to put him to work, then you’ve got them. They could understand. They could see him, and begin to understand his function for every business owner, from themselves to their customers.

“The group members told all their customers that they needed to meet Joe. It left the customers intrigued and created this really great entry for me. ‘I’m the lady that wants to introduce you to Joe.’ It builds a neat presentation.”

Cox thinks that any embroiderer could sell using this Joe Logo concept.

“Embroiderers should be teaching their customers about Joe,” she says. “Whether speaking to a referral group or at a Rotary luncheon, it works in almost any setting. I can use it one-on-one in a sales call. I can talk to a business owner about how I can make his Joe work harder for him, or how I can help create his Joe. I’m selling not just embroidery, but company recognition, brand recognition, customer confirmation and identity and brand stature within the community. I’m offering all of that by way of Joe Logo.”

In her presentations, Cox uses several illustrations of how Joe Logo will help a business.

“I discuss how, as a woman business owner and a homeowner when somebody comes to service my plumbing or cable TV and shows up in an branded van, wearing a logo’d shirt, carrying a badge or I.D., I’m confident because he’s clearly from the company I hired,” she says. “When he walks up wearing embroidery, it gives him the credibility for me to open the door and allow him into my home or business.”

Every company that calls on businesses or homeowners should be using Joe Logo on every wearable surface – bags, hats, jackets, shirts and sweatshirts, she says. “If you have 18 plumbers servicing your community and they all look cleaned up and spiffy, they’re going to generate a community feeling about their services that is much different than the guy that shows up in old ratty jeans and a dirty T-shirt.”

Cox stresses that Joe Logo can also help build camaraderie among employees at company gatherings.

“Nice tone-on-tone embroidery for a golf outing is a classy way to have company brand reinforcement,” she says. “Joe can be as subtle or as brash as they want. If they’re in a bowling contest with other plumbers in the city, they’re going to want Joe to be pretty prominent, so they’ll put him on the back of the shirt.”

“Joe can work for everybody. Everybody knows Joe. Everybody has Joe, but they’re probably not using him very well. He’s their least utilized, most valuable and cheapest employee because he’s never not working.”

Even customers who don’t have an official logo can still have Joe.

“Your font, your colors, your type style, all of that can be your Joe,” Cox says.

Once an embroiderer gets the customers thinking about Joe Logo as a tangible member of their staff, it’s easy to generate repeat sales.

“I’ve had customers that two and three years later are still calling me up and saying, ‘Hey, I need to put Joe to work, or Joe’s asleep on the job here and I need to wake him up,” Cox says. “Joe made it easy for them to be thinking about how I could help them use their logo better.”

“They thought it was cool that they were putting Joe to work again. I thought it was really cool that they were spending more money. Once they were putting Joe to work, they didn’t see it as an expense, they saw it as a necessity.”

Joe Logo works because he’s fun.

“People like fun,” Cox says. “People remember fun. It totally changes the sales chemistry, at least it did for me.”

No longer is the sale a high-pressure situation. It’s one that both seller and consumer can laugh about and enjoy, yet embroiderers can be comfortable knowing that they are meeting their customers’ needs.

“Everybody likes to be needed, and psychologically it helps embroiderers perceive their role differently in relation to customers,” Cox says. “That’s critical in the sales process. Believe in your product and the fact that you’re meeting customers’ needs they may not know they have. Through the use of Joe, you can illustrate exactly what those needs are and that you’re the embroiderer to service them.”

Cox encourages embroiderers who want to use Joe Logo in their sales programs to contact her at the NNEP, Jennifer@nnep.com, 800-866-7396.

“They then need to introduce their customers to Joe or Bob or whatever they want to call him,” she says. “They need to develop their own version of this sales pitch, their own story with which they can be comfortable.”

“Once you introduce your customers to Joe, they won’t be able to run their business without him. And as the embroiderer, you’re where Joe comes from.”

 

 

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17 Responses

  1. Leanne Becker says:
    April 5, 2017 at 10:35 am

    Thanks for this great concept! I'm doing more and more logo work and can't wait to incorporate Joe! I love all the information you share!

    Reply
  2. Peggy Paape says:
    March 17, 2017 at 12:10 am

    Looking forward to reading more articles!
    Great concept and want to know more about Joe. I plan on taking your concept and running with in.

    Thanks, I look forward to your next article.

    Reply
    • Jennifer Cox says:
      March 21, 2017 at 9:12 am

      Hi Peggy - If you have any more questions, please let us know. I think the Joe Logo Marketing System could really work well for your business!

      Reply
  3. Peggy Paape says:
    March 17, 2017 at 12:05 am

    Would love to hear more about Joe Logo and will be using in talking to customers.
    Your articles have been great and have given me a lot to think about regarding my business.
    Thank You

    Reply
    • Jennifer Cox says:
      March 21, 2017 at 9:12 am

      I'm glad that we are hitting points that strike a cord with you!

      Reply
  4. Jeff Johnson says:
    February 2, 2016 at 10:36 am

    Jennifer Joe Logo sounds like an interesting concept. Please tell me more.

    Reply
  5. Michelle Bach says:
    May 24, 2015 at 9:18 am

    I would love to use the joe logo concept! What a great idea!!

    Reply
    • Jennifer Cox says:
      June 3, 2015 at 4:19 pm

      Hey there Michelle, Take Joe and go wild with it! I would love to see what you do with it. 🙂

      Reply
  6. Jack Williams says:
    March 23, 2015 at 3:52 pm

    I would like more information about personalizing Joe. Also about presenting my business.

    Reply
    • Jennifer Cox says:
      March 25, 2015 at 11:30 am

      Great Jack - I will give you a call today and we can bounce ideas around!

      Reply
  7. Darlene PIno says:
    March 4, 2015 at 3:21 pm

    I am so glad I chose to join NNEP about a year ago. I am amazed at how much knowledge I have obtained from my membership. I have never been in another professional organization that helped so much.

    Reply
  8. Darlene Pino says:
    March 4, 2015 at 2:17 pm

    That is a great article. May I have more information about using Joe Logo in my presentations?

    Reply
    • Jennifer Cox says:
      March 4, 2015 at 2:20 pm

      Darlene - I just left you a message to chat about Joe Logo:)

      Reply
  9. Jerri Dyke says:
    March 4, 2015 at 11:57 am

    great idea & thought! It makes their logo a living entity, part of their business. The first thing I thought of when I was reading this is "What a PERFECT job for Hooper!" He could be the face of Joe Logo at presentations, if that's ok with all of you, of course.
    Thank you again for wonderful information. I'll be calling to get more information on the Joe Logo program.

    Reply
    • Jennifer Cox says:
      March 4, 2015 at 2:22 pm

      Looking forward to connecting with you Jerri! If you do not want to use Hooper (the NNEP mascot), we will be adding a digitized file of Joe Logo soon, provided by NNEP preferred vendor Wicked Stitch of the East. 🙂

      Reply
  10. Rebekah Gibson says:
    March 3, 2015 at 10:55 am

    I cannot tell you how much money I have wasted on sales training - online courses, webinars, books. You've blown my mind with this idea! This is so much better than all the sales training info I've purchased! NNEP membership is a steal - you keep dropping "knowledge bombs" on me every time I call. I can't thank you enough!!!

    Reply
  11. Ace Foster says:
    March 2, 2015 at 4:41 pm

    Nice job, it fits nicely with our tag line of “What’s your project?”
    Everyone has a project, from a quilt block to a 5000 piece corp. order of thing-a-majigz.
    It does not discriminate, it’s not size-prejudice, everyone can use joe logo.

    And I’m going to steal him now.
    Thanks!

    Ace Foster & Your Embroid This Team

    Reply

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