It might sound counterintuitive, but one of your best ongoing opportunities for boosting dealership sales lies in the Service department. Consider the typical sales prospect walking through your showroom front doors. They wait for an average of six years between vehicle purchases.1 Their life circumstances are wildly different from the last time they bought, and yet they … [Read more...] about Sales Opportunities Start… In Service?
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4 Types of Power Questions that Boost Your Influence
What you have to offer has a deeper more personal impact on your customers’ lives than you learn, lead, and leverage right now! Whether you are selling an appointment, a service, or a product, it’s not what you know about your offering that matters most, it’s what you know about your customers. No doubt, you have a great message, but if you never get your message through to … [Read more...] about 4 Types of Power Questions that Boost Your Influence
Kissing Babies & Shaking Hands: Reality of Social Sales
Ali Reda sells more cars each year than any other human being on the face of the earth, and whenever he gets ready to leave a local restaurant, his wife and kids know it's going to take them a good twenty minutes to make it to the exit while Ali is shaking hands, working the room and making friends all the way to the door. Getting to know people. Letting them get to know … [Read more...] about Kissing Babies & Shaking Hands: Reality of Social Sales
The Power of a Live Turnover in the BDC
In the not too distant past, I used to pat myself on the back if I took a turnover on a phone call at a dealership from a Business Development Representative (BDR) and closed the appointment after a fifteen-minute conversation. Now, I realize that I could have set THREE appointments in that same fifteen minutes. It is said that there are 3 main reasons why an … [Read more...] about The Power of a Live Turnover in the BDC
3 Keys to Influencing Indecisive Customers
Regardless of your professional title, we are all in sales, and we all have heard the dreaded words: no, not right now, I’ll think about it, maybe another time; and the like. Sales, as Norman Hall had put it, is an “ocean of rejection.” Face it, every sale is a potential risk to the buyer, and every sale requires the buyer to sacrifice something. It is not hard to imagine … [Read more...] about 3 Keys to Influencing Indecisive Customers