More Effort vs. More Skills
I’ve seen 8-car guys have a 20 or 30-car month because they put in a ton of extra effort. But it can’t be maintained, because it’s based on a ton of extra effort instead of a ton of extra skills. The better option is to develop more skills to improve even some. It’s math; selling …
Setting Goals Means Doing ‘Better’ & That Means ‘Different’
More Success Requires A Trade… Everybody says they want more. With clear goals, they could easily have it. The problem is almost always about the ‘trades’ they’ll have to make that stop them. Two examples… Your Goal: Get more appointments and more people asking for you every month, so you can sell more and earn …
Ask your way to the sale!
As the 8 car guy my first 5 years, the only questions I asked were; how much down, what payments did you want, do you have a trade, what do you owe, how’s your credit, are you ready to buy today? Before I sold cars again, I learned more about selling and I learned why …
To Grow – Build Your Repeat & Referral Business
How do you maintain relationships with friends you don’t see but every few years? You stay in touch by phone, text or email. How do you make future sales to the customer who just bought from you? You stay in touch by phone, text or email. You can’t control the # of leads you get …
Sean Gardner Talks Closing On CBT News
Joe Verde trainer, Sean Gardner, was featured on the morning broadcast for CBT News to explain how to give customers a world-class experience when they buy a vehicle, virtually or in person. The extensive interview talks about the top three ways to simplify closing, and selling how customers want to buy, including: Avoid pre-qualifying the …
Developing Skills
My biggest challenges with developing my skills started with taking everything I learned about selling pots and pans, real estate, insurance, etc., and reworking that into the specific words & phrases I’d need to use selling cars. Then came processes. Selling pots and pans or insurance going door to door, isn’t the same process you’d …
Joe Verde Supports CCI at Virtual Auction
Joe Verde Sales and Management Training, Inc., today announced that company president, Joe Verde, himself a veteran, donated $10,000 to kick off the virtual auction that raised $40,000 for Canine Companions for Independence, (CCI) a national nonprofit organization which provides highly trained assistance dogs to people with disabilities, including veterans. At the 2021 National Automobile …
Be A Pro – Look, Act, Sound & Think Like One
You have 11 more months this year and if you want to improve and break records, just do what other 20-30 car salesperson do: • Ditch ‘average’, and Look, Act, Sound and Think like a pro in sales this year! • Leave your problems and everything else that’s going on in life at the curb …
Turn Lost $ales Into $$$
8 out of 10 people you don’t sell are still going to buy – from you or someone else. You’ve done 80% of the work and when be-backs show, most buy so do your job and improve your sales 30-50% this month. #1. You can’t stay in touch with anyone if you don’t get their …
Good vs. Getting Better
80% of salespeople are average – and I know a lot of you who read this every month aren’t just average – you’re good, so congratulations. My question is, “Do you want to get even better?” In the last 3 months on my blog we’ve covered • Goal Setting • Asking Better Questions • Things …
Success in 5 Critical Steps
Did You Know…Your success depends on 5 critical steps. 1. Believing that you can improve. “Whether you think you can, or can’t, you’re right.” Henry Ford 2. Your desire to improve. If you aren’t motivated, it won’t happen. 3. Your commitment to DO IT! “I’ll try”, “I’ll give it a shot”, “I’ll do my best” …
My average is 23 & doubled my gross!
“Hello Joe, it’s been a little over a year and a half since my first improvements when I first started selling cars, and I just keep improving my units and gross profit. I would like to thank you and the entire Joe Verde team for creating an amazing training program on JVTN®. Because I developed …
Set Goals For Success in 2021…
Joe’s book…“Get Everything YOU WANT Goal Setting For Salespeople” “I used to take the Joe Verde training that was provided to me for granted. I looked at it as a daily task I had to do, that may prevent me from potentially getting a customer on the lot. I was given Joe’s book Get Everything …
Help Your Customers Buy
If you were selling commercial vehicles, the buyer knows why they need the vehicle, that’s a given. But wouldn’t you need to know what their needs were so you could show them why your product is the perfect solution? If you sell cars, aren’t you also selling solutions to people’s wants and needs? Yes. To …
Challenges To Developing Skills
What keeps salespeople from developing the critical selling skills to earn $100,000+ per year, usually in less time at work than it takes them to earn $40,000 now? • Practice … If I covered batting lessons, next you’d hit the cage and keep swinging until you’re better, and you’d continue with daily practice to keep …
Find Your Stats!
To improve at sales, gross or working leads, you have to find out what you’re really doing and be totally honest in your ‘counts’, below. A. Find your results when you’re only communicating by web / email & texts. 1. Count ALL of these leads this month.2. Count all of your back and forth contacts …
Topping $170,000
“$125K, $140K, and $170K with JVTN®!” “Joe – When we first got JVTN® and went through your How To Sell Cars online course, I followed your new Basics, because that’s what I was told to do. Then I began to see it work consistently, then I began to understand why it works consistently. Now it …
Questions To Find “Hot Button” Motives
Investigating to learn more than “I want a 2500 HD” is critical. When you find and sell to each driver’s “Hot Buttons”, people object less, and pay more for their dream truck (or car, RV, motorcycle or boat). Here are some bad vs. good examples… Dead End Questions Do you want a long bed? “No” …
