157 Vehicles The First Year Selling Cars

“157 vehicles and $80,000 my first year” “Joe, I just wanted to thank you for helping me sell 157 vehicles and earn $80,000 my first year in the car business. I’ve been training on JVTN® since my first day, both group training 3x per week and training on my own. Your training has given me the skills …

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Common Question

Ask Joe: “Joe, why doesn’t our dealership send us to your  classes or get JVTN®?” You didn’t say whether you’d asked and they wouldn’t let you attend class or use Joe Verde Training Network®, so do this… 1. Stop here and go tell your dealer you want to go to class or use JVTN® to …

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It’s All About ‘Choice’

Fact: You either choose to develop the habit of continually getting better (in sales & in life) or you choose to develop the habit of making excuses to justify everything you don’t do (in sales & in life). There are certainly things ‘out of your control’ that cause you to lose a sale, like their …

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Who Is Teaching You How To Succeed In Sales?

You learn something every day from the other salespeople you work with that will determine a large part of your success in sales. Unfortunately, most of it is bad information that will hurt your career instead of helping you become more successful. Why? Just check the correct box below about who’s sharing all their great …

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Units & Gross Are Up!

Units And Gross Up By Training on JVTN® “When I got in the car business 6 years ago, my manager had me watch Joe Verde over and over for the first week. I came out of the gates hungry and ready to apply what I learned. By my second month I was top salesperson, that …

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How To Handle Digital Leads – Joe Verde Interviewed On CBT

Joe Verde Sales & Management Training Inc., announced that Joe Verde was interviewed at NADA 2015 by CBT News at the 2015 NADA Convention. An excerpt from his interview, discussing what to do once a digital lead come into your showroom, can now be viewed on CBT News: http://cbtnews.com/interview-with-joe-verde/ Auto dealers are doing everything they …

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Using The Best Greeting

When I started selling cars again (the right way), one of the toughest things for me to do was to stop saying, “Can I help you?” The other was getting ‘welcome’ into my greeting. It was hard for me, because I thought customers would think that ‘welcome’ was kinda corny. In real life, it turned …

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Getting ‘Lucky’ With Sales

Want to get lucky and earn more this month? Just do what a lot of 20-30-40 car pros do: • Look, Act, Sound and Think like a pro this month! • Leave problems, stinky little attitudes and everything but selling at the curb and just go to work to sell a car. • Work your …

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Enthusiasm Sells!

Have you ever noticed how successful you are on those days you feel great? You know, those days when everything is going just right and everybody who walks on the lot that day is there to buy from you! The product doesn’t sell itself. A presentation alone doesn’t sell the product and neither does advertising …

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Biggest Paycheck Ever After JVTN

“My biggest paycheck ever after JVTN®!” “I have been in the car business 16.5 years and I’ve been training on JVTN® for 5 months. When I say training on JVTN®, I mean watching the training chapters, taking great notes, taking the tests and practicing getting the words just right by saying the scripts out loud …

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Keep The Kids Happy & Sell More Cars

All kids get tired, bored and hungry; yours, mine and theirs. It’s normal and it isn’t likely to change. It’s also no big deal, if you plan for it. However – if you don’t learn to control your customers’ kids when you’re trying to sell, you’ll have a tough time making the sale. Kids can …

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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 …

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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 …

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Best Month With 23.5 Units

“My best month…23.5 units.” “I am on my 4th time through Joe’s ‘The Goal Setting for Salespeople‘ book so I don’t miss anything. I set a goal to sell 20 cars per month and figured I’d have to talk to 3 people per day and close 1 of the 3…I’ve had (2) Hat tricks already …

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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 …

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Joe Verde To Keynote At AutoCon 2014

Joe Verde Sales & Management Training Inc., today announced that Joe Verde will present a session, “The 5 Biggest Changes You Need To Make In 2014 To Have a Record Year,” at AutoCon 2014, September 3-5, at the Aria, Las Vegas. His talk will be held Thursday, Sept. 4, at 11 a.m., and will help …

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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, …

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