Appointment-Driven Communications – Part 8 TRANSCRIPT: As you may recall, earlier in the training, I talked about how today I’m going to tell you what to say; how to say it ; but, more importantly, why we want to say the things we’re going to say to try to drive appointments. Why it’s important that we […]
Appointment-Driven Communications – Part 7 TRANSCRIPT: So, let’s do a quick roll play. I don’t mean a real roll play but you should be roll playing all the time. In fact, the only way to get these ‘talk tracks’ down, and the only way to keep the discipline you need to drive an appointment culture for […]
Appointment-Driven Communications – Part 6 TRANSCRIPT: Okay, when we tell someone that we have two test drives open today, one at 5:15 and one at 5:45, and we ask them which one works better for them, it may shock you that people will actually say ,”Oh, 5:15 works great”. They don’t always do that, though. A […]
Appointment-Driven Communications – Part 5 TRANSCRIPT: Okay, so, remember, we’re talking about ‘the goal’. Every time we are on the phone with someone, we have one goal and that’s what? An appointment that shows. Now, let’s talk about the out-bound call. Let’s say you’re an internet salesperson or a BDC agent, and you’re calling Barbara Jones […]
Appointment-Driven Communications – Part 4 TRANSCRIPT: In this part we’re going to teach you how to handle the in-bound call in an appointment culture. Remember, when you pick up the phone and you’re talking to someone about a vehicle, you have one goal. What is that goal again? That’s right. Your only goal is an appointment […]
Appointment-Driven Communications – Part 3 TRANSCRIPT: Appointments must be the goal. Appointments have to be the goal with every call you make, every email you send out, and every time you leave a voicemail. In your mind you have to remember the goal and, so, I want you to always start with the goal in mind. […]
Appointment-Driven Communications – Part 2 TRANSCRIPT: Welcome back to ‘Appointment-Driven Communications’. This is part 2. We left part 1 with the question, “how do you get appointments”, right? “Steve, I’m bought in, I need to get appointments, I’ve watched ‘Creating an Appointment Culture’, and I want to know how to get appointments”. If that describes you, […]
Appointment-Driven Communications – Part 1 TRANSCRIPT: Today’s lesson is on ‘Appointment-Driven Communications.’ The talk tracks, the word, the discipline. The How, the Why and the What that you need to say in order to truly drive an appointment culture in your dealership. Now, if you haven’t attended my ‘creating an appointment culture’ class, or you […]
Leading an Appointment Culture – Part 10 TRANSCRIPT: The second step to the perfect appointment is, of course, appropriate appointment confirmation and your managers need to manage the appointment confirmations that are happening in the dealership. So, even though they are the ones who are supposed to be making the confirmation calls, if you have a […]
Leading an Appointment Culture – Part 9 TRANSCRIPT: So, we’re going to change gears just a little. Now, this is still ‘leading an appointment culture’, but these next couple of sessions are all about how your managers can manage the perfect appointment. In the last session we talked about you coming into the dealership on an […]
Leading an Appointment Culture – Part 8 TRANSCRIPT: In the last part of this series we talked about how you can, in just a few minutes, tell if your team is really trying to live in an appointment culture. Now, what if you’re the general manager and you are in the dealership all the time, or […]
Leading an Appointment Culture – Part 7 TRANSCRIPT: Let’s say you’re a dealership owner or maybe you work for a large dealership corporation, a group that owns a few dealerships, 20, 30 or 90, whatever, across the country and you can’t be in the dealerships all the time but you want to know if they’re truly […]
Leading an Appointment Culture – Part 6 TRANSCRIPT: Okay, so, you’ve got your management team. They’re ready. They’re working hard in the CRM throughout the day. They are doing all the things they need to do at the beginning of the day. They are doing all the things they should be doing in the CRM throughout […]
Leading an Appointment Culture – Part 5 TRANSCRIPT: Every CRM (Customer Relationship Management) tool is a little bit different. That said, there are some commonalities and there are some things that you can make sure your managers are doing throughout the day, by living in the CRM, that will help drive an appointment culture. The first […]
Leading an Appointment Culture – Part 4 TRANSCRIPT: Okay, so once I have statuses on all the appointments from yesterday that were still open, I get those closed. I don’t want to have those happen again. Now, I’m going to look at the remaining appointments for today, right? I’ve already looked at the ones for the […]
Leading an Appointment Culture – Part 3 TRANSCRIPT: Now, we’ve talked about an appointment culture being a top-down proposition and it absolutely is. If the owner doesn’t believe in it and force it through to the general manager, and the general manager doesn’t believe in it and force it through to the middle managers, they’re not […]
Leading an Appointment Culture – Part 2 TRANSCRIPT: If I’m an owner of a business and I’m trying to lead an appointment culture, I’ve already introduced my team into creating an appointment culture, now it’s time to lead it. There are four things that I want out of my managers. There are four things that I […]
Leading an Appointment Culture – Part 1 TRANSCRIPT: Today’s lesson: Leading an Appointment Culture. This is a follow-up to our earlier session called “Creating an Appointment Culture”. So, if you’re an owner or a general manager and you watched Creating an Appointment Culture, and you’ve tried to implement an appointment culture in your dealership or small […]
Creating an Appointment Culture – Part 19 TRANSCRIPT: What are the top takeaways about an appointment driven culture for owners, general managers, new car managers, used car managers, internet managers, and F&I managers? The number one takeaway is really that if you have an internet team, for example, they can’t do it alone. Every manager […]
Creating an Appointment Culture – Part 18 TRANSCRIPT: We have talked about the ‘be-back’ process and the owner-marketing process. We will do more training on those later. We have talked about internet sales. There really are eight ‘must have’ processes for any dealership that is in an appointment driven culture. One is your internet sales […]
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