Category Archive For "ask joe"
Everything Is A Choice
A friend of ours wanted a new Toyota and went to the closest dealership to buy it. Who could ask for anything more – a qualified buyer is coming to buy a new car! But she didn’t buy the Toyota. She wanted it, she said the salesperson was nice and everything was fine except that …
Tip: Stay At Your Dealership
My wife and I were out looking for a new vehicle and talked to a salesperson who didn’t know me. He gave us a pretty good presentation and did a good job telling us about the product and the equipment levels and other options, and he offered us a demonstration. He went to all this …
2 Tips To Sell More Cars
1. Well Informed Customers When customers walk on the lot with a printout from the internet in one hand and a How to Buy Cars book in the other hand, to have a chance at making a sale, should you… A. Escape. Turn them to one of the new salespeople. B. Escape professionally – introduce …
Tip: Get In One Dealership, And Stay There
My wife and I were out looking for a new vehicle and talked to a salesperson who didn’t know me. He gave us a pretty good presentation and did a good job telling us about the product and the equipment levels and other options, and he offered us a demonstration. He went to all this …
What’s A Good Hourly Wage For Selling Cars?
I was making $20 an hour before I got into sales – what’s a good hourly wage to shoot for selling cars? When I sold cars the first time, my fifth year I was curious, too, and did the math to find my own hourly income. When I found out how much I was making, …
CRIC Beats “ITIO” Again & Again
“I’ll think it over and get back to you” – is one of the easiest objections to close on. Instead of dropping the price or carding them, first, you need to Clarify what they mean … “Bob, help me out here for a second before you leave … what is it you want to think …
The Demonstration
The ‘make it or break it’ step in selling. Want to turn more of your driving presentations (demos) into more sales with higher commissions, and happier customers? If so, here are a few tips… • Before you drive any vehicle, make sure you heat up or cool down the inside, so they’ll be comfortable. • …
Body Language
When you’re trying to get an agreement from your customer, slowly start nodding your head up and down as you’re talking to them about a feature or benefit. It’s easy, practice this now… Smile, nod your head and say out loud, “Won’t this be fun on those trips to the mountains?” Practice it again as …
Telling Isn’t Selling
When you overhear a presentation, all you’ll usually hear is a lot of talking, mostly by the salesperson. Usually he or she is going on and on, telling the customer about the vehicle. In fact, most presentations start way before the salesperson even knows who it’s for, how the customer will use it, or why …
Develop Another Good Habit
For most salespeople, staying positive and being confident takes work, especially in sales where you hear “no” way more often than you hear the “yes” that equals a paycheck. I was going through my files and found some very old 3×5 cards that were so worn they were barely legible. For months I’d carry one …
My Favorite Reminder On Why To Keep Training
Spring was in the air and the annual wood chopping contest was the final event of the County Fair. The crowds gathered, the excitement grew as the two finalists were about to begin. One was the reigning champion who had won year after year. The other was a new guy in his first wood chopping …
Follow Up For 6-10 More Sales This Month
Before we talk about how to follow up your working prospects, let’s review what’s happened so far… • 86% buy something other than what they said they wanted – and you did have a vehicle in stock they liked. • You spent from 20 minutes to a couple of hours and went through some or …
Do You Know Who Is Your Hottest Prospect?
Average salespeople only deliver 10%. If they log just 2 people per day (50 total) it’s 20%. Regardless of how many you log, divide your deliveries by that number and your closing ratio will probably be 20% or less. Ex: 12 deliveries ÷ 60 ups = 20%. You can easily sell more by developing better …
2 Tips From Joe
Secret to Success. If you’re looking for the secret to success, part of it is pretty simple… Do everything you know you need to do, and then some. Everybody wants to achieve their version of success. The problem is most people hope they can reach their success by doing as little as they can get …
Thought From Joe…
“Have you confused what you’re earning with how long you’re working? Before I learned how to sell, after my first 5 years of double shifts, I realized I wasn’t even an 8-car guy — I was a 4-car guy working two shifts…” -Joe Verde ### Get Joe’s latest book for free now and see how he …
Will You Just Wait & See Or…Plan & Succeed In 2014?
I talked to a salesperson the other day about his goals for 2014 and he said, “The car business is great, so what’s the point?” The point is, you set goals to improve. That means if you delivered 192 units and made $57,600 last year, it’s time to get better. How much is better? That’s …
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‘Close’ On Christmas
Learn to use the spirit of Christmas and gift giving as a closing tool to help you deliver more units this month. Put a new car, truck or whatever you sell on the showroom floor with a big red bow on it, and start talking about “Christmas presents”… NOW! People love giving presents, especially to …
