Stop Wasting Your Day Waiting For An ‘Up’

A lot of salespeople spend most of their day just waiting and hoping. They hope for traffic, hope they’ll get an ‘up’, hope that person is serious, hope there’s a unit in stock they’ll want to buy, and hope they can and will take it home today. WOW! That’s just way too much ‘hope’ to …

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How To Work Fewer Hours And Sell More…

Who Could Pass This Up? So many people say, “Joe, if I did everything you talk about, I’d never have any time off with my family.” I’ve never said work longer. In fact, when you do what we teach, you’ll spend less time at work, earn more money, and have more quality time with your …

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50 ways you can improve!

Are you ready to make the big bucks? Here are 50 ways you can improve If you’re serious about selling more, have fun and rate yourself in each area from 0% to 100%. Then start improving YOU. (Careful on the 100%, nobody’s perfect.) The BasicsFirst Impressions (% Great) ____%Your Greeting (% Great) ____%Bypassing Price On …

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What’s Your Most Critical Selling Tool?

The telephone is the single most important tool you have in sales to help you sell more today and in the future. Sell Today … Use it correctly on incoming sales calls and unsold follow up to put more people on the lot today – asking for you. Sell Tomorrow … Use the phone today …

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Blurred Lines Between Selling & Closing

See what I mean about the blurred lines between selling and closing? Everything you do to bring a customer into the dealership; turning incoming calls into appointments, prospecting in service, and retaining your sold customers – moves the sale forward. Everything you do in Steps 1-4 of our 8-Step Basics, from your attitude, to your …

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They Came To Buy – Make Sure It’s With You…

Ask Joe … How tough should it be to sell someone a vehicle they came to buy? I agree, sometimes it’s way tougher than it should be. Some people don’t want buying to be easy, some people have been burned so bad in the past that you can’t change it, and sometimes there’s nothing you …

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New Business Development Workshop From Joe Verde

Joe Verde Sales & Management Training, Inc., today announced the release of a brand new Business Development Workshop for auto dealer salespeople and sales managers. The focus of the workshop is turning prospects into buyers by better handling incoming sales calls, incoming leads from all sources and follow up of ‘unsold’ prospects. It also includes five …

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Making Appointments That Show

“Out of 32 appointments, I delivered 17 cars!” “I started as a new Salesperson for Reed Lallier Chevrolet on June 1st, working in the BDC department.  In August, I was struggling with my calls and appointments when JVTN® was brought on board, and my account representative at Joe Verde steered me to the course, ‘Turning Incoming Calls Into Appointments …

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Turn Your Incoming Sales Calls Into Appointments That Show

A new course offered on Joe Verde’s Training Network® (JVTN®) provides salespeople and managers in the automotive industry access to training on using the telephone more effectively to sell and build business in a dealership. This new online course, “Turning Incoming Sales Calls Into Appointments That Show” is the seventh course release this year by …

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Five Reasons To Attend Joe’s NADA Workshop

Grow you dealership when you partner with Joe Verde…Here are five critical ‘take-aways’ from attending Joe’s 2011 workshop: 1 – Achieve Continuous Sales Growth.To grow, instead of just having a good month now and then, dealers have to understand the difference between delivering more units through advertising (an event) and continuous growth in sales (a …

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