How To Sell Cars Online or Offline (PART 27)

How To Sell Cars Online or Offline (PART 27)

TRANSCRIPT: “But Steve, how do we start this?” We already had that question, didn’t we but Rick Ricart said, “You know what? There are three things.” He said, “There are three things you need to do to start this.” One, you have to approach this with no fear. It’s going to happen with our without you. It is a done deal. Okay, there’s going to be online sales. It’s happening right now.

Obviously, you must have genuine dealer principal buy in on this. This is not a box check. If you’re a general manager watching this and your dealer principal is not buying on this, it will go away as soon as your F & I managers corner him or her and start to complain about it.

You’ve got to have genuine buy-in. Then, simply limit the number of people who do this at first. Rick Ricart’s got a limited roll-out. Just a couple of people in the used car building started it. Then, they moved over to new cars. Now, there’s some people doing the hybrid and there’s a cat person who’s available. It wasn’t the whole team. They didn’t come out and just vomit all this all over the whole team. These are really a three implementation tips. It’s all you need.