Category Archive For "ask joe"
Final Frontier In Sales…
How To Close The Sale More Often Wouldn’t it be great if there was a ‘secret close’ that worked almost every time? That would sure save a lot of time and effort, huh? Actually, we teach about a dozen of those perfect closes that work almost every time. If they don’t, then we teach a …
Telling Isn’t Selling!
Ask The Right Questions… Questions always lead to answers. The problem is, most of us learn to ask the wrong questions, which gets us the wrong answers, which leads to low value and tough objections, especially on price. Learning the right questions to get the right answers is your key to success in sales. Good …
Experience vs. Skills & Attitude
About experience in sales… 1. If all it took was experience to get better at selling and closing, and if I look back at my time in sales, other than the COVID bonanza on income the last few years, if I haven’t been continually improving my skills, it’s on me…not our inventory, market, etc. ❑ …
Selling Skills & Processes
It’s time to up your game and start selling cars this year! There’s been nothing normal about the car business these last few years, has there? Whether you were new to the car business during COVID or not, I’ve been pushing hard on you to get back to ‘selling’. The money was BIG these last …
Crazy Question…
Seems like a crazy question, but do you actually want to make $100,000+ every year selling cars? With inventory shortages in the last 3 years, a lot of salespeople made $100K. It was easy when a vehicle finally came in and was guaranteed full price or higher. Most were bought – not sold. Yes, things …
Goals Require Plans
Everyone takes a different path, but the steps to the top are the same, and in my book I explain why & how to set goals correctly to grow. Too many people give up after they say they want to hit $$$ income, because they didn’t create a plan (map) to get them there. 1st …
Do you sell everything or just the ones you like?
It’s one thing to sell your favorite vehicle that your dealership offers. It’s another thing to care enough, learn enough, and try just as hard to sell those you don’t like. In one of the first classes I held for Toyota, we were talking about investigating who it’s for, etc., so we can select the …
Choices…
I read “Choices” by Shad Helmstetter. After just a few pages, I knew I wasn’t going to like it. The more I read, the more I really didn’t like it. I couldn’t stop, because as I read more, I was forced to realize that almost everything that happens is just the result of our choices. …
It’s time for the main event, so…
UFC: “Let’s Get Ready To Rumble!”YOU: “Let’s Get Ready To Sell!” = Whether you started during the COVID years or have been selling cars forever, things are changing. Your favorite sports teams prepare before every game for a win, and it’s time for you to prepare for your 2023 win now, too. Our Training Support …
You know you can sell more…
Whether it’s 1, 2 or 20 units, you know you can sell more. What’s the only thing average salespeople can teach you? If you maintain your membership in the huddle, you’ll spend a career stuck in average or below, especially in tough times like we’ve been having. I read a quote that really described how …
The Sales Process
Your goal is to sell, and the buyers goal is satisfaction. Buyers have a consistent process they follow, and the 8 steps in my selling process will guide them to an easy and satisfactory purchase. Do you have to follow the steps? Have you ever sold a car without giving people a demo? Of course. …
Your Questioning Skills
Questions control your success in sales – not your product, your product knowledge, your location, inventory or your prices. It took me a year to buy 3 vehicles in 2022, in part because of inventory. When I was shopping, most salespeople were new, and didn’t know me or what I do, and 80% of the …
Skills + Processes
There are a couple dozen different skills & processes to master in sales. And each of the 20+ courses on JVTN® is on developing a specific skill + the process for that topic. Example: “How To Sell A Car” includes closing for 75% of the objections you’ll get in most sales. “Advanced Closing” covers more. …
2023 Changes: What do you see? What have you done?
2023 is here…I’m pretty sure everyone reading this has seen change in the last few months, and more is coming. ————— • You Have More Inventory• Competitors Have More Inventory• BIG Mark Ups Are Going, Going, Going…• You Have More Price Competition• Your “Sellers” Market Ended ————— It’s safe to say even more changes are …
Turn Lost ‘New’ Sales Into ‘Used’ Deliveries
At my last dealership, we averaged about 20 salespeople and sold 250-300 new and used. Four of us though, sold 100+ between us, and of my 30ish a month, at least a third were used. I moved a lot of new vehicle buyers to used and a lot of used to new. But you can’t …
Ready?
How you’ve been selling cars will need an update, as ‘back to normal’ is kicking in again. Why start now? Because the ‘back to normal’ changes started months ago. So if you haven’t put on your realistic glasses instead of the rose colored ‘I’m not concerned, everything will work out’ glasses, then fasten your seatbelt. …
Certified & Used
If you start your sale on a used car with, “What were you looking for?”, they’ll say, “An XYZ for around $X0,000.” If you don’t have it or they don’t like it, it’s “Ok, I’ll check back.” To sell more, instead of focusing on price first, find who it’s for, how they’ll use it and …
Put On Your Very Best Happy Face
It’s the holidays, so greet them with a smile – be positive. And remember it’s just as important every day the rest of the year, too. Smile – Or Get A Different Job! When people have to spend $30,000 to $50,000 for a car, their fear is making a bad decision. No customer wants to …
