I don't think we ever talked about Joe Girard here on Car Sales Professional. Maybe it's because I assumed everyone knew he was the best car salesman. Anyway, Joe Girard has held the Guinness World Record for selling the most cars by a car salesman. In 1973 Joe Girard sold Read more…
Shooting from the hip and taking an up when you spot what looks like a likely candidate is a thing of the past. It wasn’t too many years ago that this style could still earn you a six-figure car salesman income, but not today. If you want to be a Read more…
If you thought you could become a better car salesman by simply talking to customers and selling cars when people want to buy you are in for a rude awakening. Being a professional car salesperson requires more than experience and you can see the proof of that by taking a Read more…
What do you think is possible as a car salesperson? Is selling 12 cars a month your idea of success or is it 20 cars a month? Is your idea of being a successful car sales professional influenced by your co-workers and your environment? Are you limiting your potential without Read more…
Practically every car dealer that I know of has some kind of in house car sales training. This sales training could be any number of different systems, but they are all designed to do the same thing, start your car sales career, sell cars and make money. I have heard Read more…
Are you telling your customers or are you selling them? Telling is not selling and being a car salesman requires you to sell your customer rather than tell them. Most people are very skeptical when it comes to believing what other people say unless they are a trusted and respected Read more…
When we talk about selling cars it really is all about the numbers. Everything that we use to determine our success when selling cars for a living is a number, right? How many cars sold this month, how many ups, how much gross, average front end gross, closing percentage, commissions Read more…
Only a person that has never been in the car business can use the words average car salesman. As long as I have been in the car business I have never met the average car salesman or car saleswoman, because there is no such thing as an average car salesman. Read more…
The combination of a Car Salesman and the phone is an awesome way to help your car salesman income. The average closing ratio for floor traffic is somewhere around 20%. When you get some one in the door by using the phone the closing ratio can get into the upper Read more…