Archive for September 2010
Hate The Hard Sell? Here Is A Better And Easier Way To Get Rich In The Car Business – Part 1 A usual trait we’ve observed amongst many dealers lately is burnout.
Dealers are burnt out with the auto business, they’re burnt out with chasing prospects and they’re sick to death of forcing outcomes just to stay alive. There’s just no light at the end of the tunnel. Success feels light years away.
So what’s the cause of all this burnout?
It is simply because the conventional method of doing business in the car industry is broken. Many of the conventional ways of getting clientele and marketing your product or service will no longer work.
So in reality, success IS light years for the dealer even now utilizing traditional lead generation and consumer attraction means. How could you run a business whilst chasing down leads, making countless calls, pushing for meetings, clinging to the hard sell and forcing outcomes all at the same time?
You cannot… and that is the reason most dealers are going under right now.
So what works? What can you do to refresh your efforts and begin attracting customers to your store?
It all begins by understanding things from your prospects’ point of view.
You see, when traditional customer attraction means are utilized in the car business, the experience is as equally uncomfortable and unnatural for your prospects and clientele as it is for you.
The client is on the receiving end of your manual brute force efforts and normally feels like an animal being chased by a newbie hunter that would not give up the fight. They feel pressured, hounded and beaten… and ultimately a weak few might give in and move ahead. But the greater part will run, and stay away for life.
This does not merely relate to your personal sales effort either. Your external marketing is doing an similarly brutal hack-job on your personal brand and on your prospects’ or clients’ belief of you. Interrupting them, bombarding them and puzzling them, not to mention wasting their precious time is no way to build an authentic relationship.
You do not need a degree in marketing psychology to see how you’re sabotaging your efforts by doing the kinds of promotion and hard selling habits as I touched on above. You’re simply working against yourself-alienating more individuals than you attract… which obviously makes for a horrible base line every month.
But here is the scary part.
The expense of this forced, unfocused and barbaric approach is enormous. Prepare yourself. It is ugly, it is frightening and it’s familiar. A lot more work, more waste (both time and money), more frustration and lower gross. All of which means you put less money in your pocket, children’s academy fund and retirement account.
When you utilize the traditional approach and it is not working the symptoms you experience are more time spent working each week, more marketing that doesn’t create results, a lot less cash to operate and grow and more disappointment and frustration.
Eventually you lose, either by getting so burnt out that you can’t go on anymore or your dealership is forced to close because it cannot sustain its operating budget.
Jimmy Vee & Travis Miller are the authors of Gravitational Marketing: The Science of Attracting Customers and founders of the Rich Dealers Institute. They help dealers double their profits in as little as 118 days. Receive a free copy of their special report & video presentation, The New Rules of Automotive Marketing by visiting http://www.RichDealers.com/special
Hate The Hard Sell? Here Is A Better And Easier Way To Get Rich In The Car Business – Part 1 A common trait we have observed amongst many dealers lately is burnout.
Dealers are burnt out with the auto business, they’re burnt out with chasing leads and they are sick to death of forcing outcomes merely to stay alive. There’s simply no light at the end of the tunnel. Success feels light years away.
So what is the reason of all this burnout?
The main reason for this is that the traditional technique of doing business in the car industry is broken. Several of the traditional techniques of getting customers and marketing your product or service would no longer work.
So in reality, success IS light years for the dealer even now making use of traditional lead generation and client attraction techniques. How could you run a business whilst chasing down prospects, making numerous calls, pushing for meetings, clinging to the hard sell and forcing outcomes all at the same time?
You cannot… and that’s the reason many dealers are going under right now.
So what works? What can you do to refresh your efforts and begin getting clients to your store?
It all starts by understanding things from your prospects’ perspective.
You see, when conventional customer attraction means are used in the car business, the experience is as equally uncomfortable and unnatural for your leads and customers as it is for you.
The customer is on the receiving end of your manual brute force attempts and often feels like an animal being chased by an amateur hunter who won’t give up the fight. They feel pressured, hounded and beaten… and ultimately a weak few might give in and move forward. But the majority would run, and stay away for life.
This not just applies to your personal sales effort but even to external marketing. Your external marketing is doing an similarly brutal hack job on your personal brand and on your prospects’ or clients’ perception of you. Interrupting them, bombarding them and confusing them, not to mention wasting their precious time is no way to build an authentic relationship.
You don’t require a degree in marketing psychology to see how you’re sabotaging your efforts by doing the kinds of marketing and hard selling practices as I touched on above. You are just working against yourself-alienating more people than you attract… which of course makes for a horrible base line each and every month.
Well here comes the scary part.
The cost of this forced, unfocused and barbaric approach is vast. Prepare yourself. It is hideous, it’s scary and it is familiar. A lot more work, more waste (both time and money), more frustration and lower gross. All of which means you put less cash in your pocket, kids’ college fund and retirement account.
When you utilize the conventional approach and it isn’t working the symptoms you experience are more hours spent working every week, more marketing that does not create results, less cash to operate and grow and a lot more disappointment and frustration.
Eventually you lose, either by getting so burnt out that you cannot go on any longer or your dealership is forced to close because it can’t sustain it’s operating budget.
Jimmy Vee & Travis Miller are the authors of Gravitational Marketing: The Science of Attracting Customers and founders of the Rich Dealers Institute. They help dealers double their profits in as little as 118 days. Receive a free copy of their special report & video presentation, The New Rules of Automotive Marketing by visiting http://www.RichDealers.com/special
Web Search Engine Positioning Impact On The Consumer Base
There are several steps that you can take so as to make your online business accomplish its goals. While having a quality product or service is always a mandatory step to finding sales success for an online business, there exists a greater need to embrace online marketing.
The Internet is a vast network of web sites and businesses and it can prove difficult at times to find your target customers in the global environment. Several would like to believe that the cost efficient market of the internet can even be transferred to marketing, but, several successful businesses would tell you that the cash you save running a business on-line ought to partly if not fully be transferred to marketing efforts.
One prime example of this need can be found when a person discovers a proper understanding of web search engine positioning. This idea refers to the lists that are generated by clients when they use the online tool of the search engine.
The huge size of the internet is often simplified by clients when they have the chance to find exactly what they’re searching for from the search engine tool. Rather than scroll through thousands of web pages, a consumer can just type in a keyword related to what they are searching for and produce a list of thousands of results. Where your business comes up in that list is referred to as your web search engine positioning.
So what does this mean for a business? Any person with a basic understanding of marketing will be capable of telling you that the higher you are on the list, the more likely your business would be accessed. When you have lots of key words that are related to your business, web search engine positioning becomes important.
It might be surprising to discover that 80 percent of online patrons just utilize the first seven results on any search engine list. This means that if your business is not keyword proficient and you hardly ever appear in the top seven of web search engine positioning, you’re reducing your customer base to only 20 percent of the potential market.
For the business which isn’t satisfied with this meager number of clients, the solution is simple; develop your website and advertising to include keyword proficiency. The process of obtaining high web search engine positioning is even simpler when you look to taking advantage of the help of an expert.
The on-line marketplace is extremely competitive and other businesses are trying to advantage from keyword proficiency, so to make sure you are found in the top 7, its essential to utilize an online marketing professional. To find the best business to support you in your web search engine positioning goals visit http://www.virket.com