Understanding Millennial Shoppers: How Digital Messaging Gets Gen Y Into Your Dealership
If you want them to buy from your dealership, winning the hearts and minds of Millennial car buyers starts with understanding what makes them tick.
Without A Fundamental Approach to Follow Up, Your Dealership’s Investment In Staff Training Is Wasted
The dealership’s day began with a quick sales meeting — 12 salespeople and their GSM huddled around a large TV screen to watch the daily installment from a sales trainer’s learning platform. When the trainer began to pose questions, the GSM repeated the choices to answer the questions.
Getting Off The Ground. Fenton Nissan of Rockwall Sales up 189% YTD!
There’s a freedom that comes from opening a new dealership from scratch. It’s a clean slate, free of any baggage that comes from taking over an existing store. There are no dings on your reputation from past mistakes. Your facility will be new and state-of-the-art. It can be designed to take advantage of new technology.
Six Ways to Motivate Your Sales Team Without Changing Your Comp Plan
Your goal as a leader is to create a motivated team that provides you with the highest profitability possible.
The Value of Video Learning
Video learning has exploded over the past few years. OEMs use it extensively with everyone from sales professionals to technicians for new model learning, continuing education certifications and more.
Pulling Together: Leadership and Employee Performance, Part 3
The potential for a new employee is practically limitless. Each new hire could be your dealership’s next superstar. Reality, however, soon kicks in and reveals the truth. Some new hires do indeed rock the lot and exceed expectations. Some, however, might not immediately live up to their potential or the hopes we had for them.
How to Use the GROW Model and Coach Your Team
Just like your favorite football team’s coach, as a leader you are the coach of your dealership, helping to drive them down the field to make the score. As head coach, your mission is to help each team member make good decisions, solve problems and learn new skills so that your dealership makes its goal on the lot and beyond.
Change Management: The “Upward Climb” With New Dealership Tech
Adopting new technology in a dealership is an important business decision that requires a process to ensure success. A comprehensive, user-friendly technology platform can be extremely advantageous and profitable to your dealership. It makes collecting data easier, provides the ability to mine existing customer information, and even helps integrate sales, service, inventory acquisition and other