A Few Things To Understand About Today’s Market

About Today’s Market… A lot of buyers and salespeople have retreated to a bunker and are trying to hide from the storm. We’re all faced with higher prices, and yesterday here in South Orange County, I paid $6.99 for gas. Buyers are cautious about everything they buy now, and that means cars, too. So if …

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Attitude Is Everything

Attitudes are your most important tool to sell more, especially now, while everything is going on. When you walk out with a spring in your step & a smile on your face to greet every customer, you just buried the last 3 salespeople they met down the street, and that’s before you even say anything. …

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Customer Satisfaction

What does it take to make a customer happy with their purchase? The answer lies in what makes any of us feel good after we’ve spent a lot of money on something.We all want to feel like we got… A “Fair Price” is always determined by what customers pay in relation to the value you’ve …

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Why settle for ‘just average’ when you have no limits?

There are people selling 40, 50, 60 and 80 units per month, and earning $100,000, $200,000, $300,000 and $500,000+ per year. So please toss those chains you’re wearing, and stop allowing yourself to get stuck in that 8 to 10 units, or less, and $40,000 to $60,000 a year rut. Those are just average units …

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Closing Sales & Handling Objections

Closing sales is so easy and so much fun – the only catch is that you have to learn and practice everything you’ll use, until you can use it all perfectly. As I was learning more, I studied all the time when I wasn’t with a customer, then I tried to apply it when I …

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Skipping the Demo…

About those good & bad habits! The more you do something, the stronger the habit will become. If you skip a demo today, it will be easier to skip one tomorrow. And most already have the habit and skip the demo 2 or 3 times every day. Problem: No Demo = No Sale People don’t …

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Create Mental Ownership

One of the most important things you can do in sales is to plant those positive seeds of them using the vehicle and them behind the wheel. The catch: You can’t talk about them using the new car or truck or being behind the wheel unless you dig in (investigate) to learn more about who …

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The Worst Day Of The Week

What’s your worst day of the week? You know those days when… Traffic is slow, the phone doesn’t ring, people don’t show up for appointments, they say they want to buy and we write ‘em up, but they don’t. It’s just terrible. Let’s say you said Wednesday is the toughest day of the week. On …

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Selling at the Pro Level

Selling at a professional level is… An 8 Step Process,Not A Casual ConversationWith A Closing Question. You won’t earn $100,000+ with a casual, “Hey – need any help?”, asking a few pre-qualifying questions and skipping steps along the way. Ask yourself these questions for a great example of the difference between the casual approach, versus …

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Luck…

“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.” Want to get lucky more often? Then learn something new more often, so that you’re ready to seize the opportunity! ##### Sell more cars and develop your skills with  Joe Verde’s online training – JVTN®. Get more info or call us at (800) 445-6217.

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It’s about the Journey, not the Destination

A lot of people feel that when they make $50K or even $100K or get a new car or house, they’ve arrived. They should feel great, but there’s no such thing as standing still in anything. You have to continually improve your skills, your sales & income, your health and everything else that’s important to …

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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 …

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Delivered 21.5 in 3rd month of selling!

With JVTN®, I delivered 21.5 my 3rd month and earned over $10,000. “Joe, I can’t say enough about how your training on JVTN® and your team have helped me in my new career.   Before selling cars, I was working at a fast food job. Using JVTN® to learn how to sell, I delivered 21.5 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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. …

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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 …

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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 …

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