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…
Every now and then for no apparent reason I see a good car salesman go from being a top producer to becoming an average car salesperson. They are no longer at the top of their game, their commissions are slipping, their bonuses are few and their overall attitude is rotten. Read more…
Can you do a better job as a car salesman? Of course you can. You know that you can be a better car salesman. You know that you could take a few more ups, close a few more deals, get a few more bumps in payment which translates to a Read more…
When you are a car sales professional one of the best car salesman tips you will ever hear is that you need to think of yourself as a business inside a business. When you think about it you really are operating as a business because in most cases your car Read more…
Get a “Fresh Up” on the lot and what do they say “Just Looking” or “We are not buying today, we are just looking”. Of course they are just looking, at least until you give them a reason why they should buy a car from you and your dealership. They 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…
Closing Ratio Selling Cars By The Numbers When we talk about selling cars, it concerns the closing ratio numbers. Everything we use to determine our success when selling cars for a living is a number. How many cars were sold this month, how many ups, gross, average front and back 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…
You know the old saying; “When you work on commission and you’re not in front of a customer, you are unemployed”. That is one of the points of this car salesman tip, what is the best uses of your time when you have a professional car sales career? When you Read more…
We are always looking for ways to get a car customer to feel more committed and obligated, one way to do that is to take them on a service walk. Walking through your service department is a one of the great car salesman tips to get your customer more involved Read more…
Have your heard of this Old School saying; Two people Meet and one gets sold? If you think about this for a minute, it is so true. People will tell the car salesman almost anything. When you get a Fresh Up, either you succeed in getting them to buy a Read more…
Over the years one thing that I have learned to do is stop judging or pre-qualifying potential car buyers. When customers come into your dealership they are really saying; Sell me a car, Mr. Salesman. Unless they are coming in for parts or service, they are interested in a car. Read more…