Keeping Your Sales Funnel Full

Know how many customers you need to engage with to meet your sales goals.

By Bob Clements posted on August 6, 2016 | Posted in Dealership Marketing

The nice thing about working in a dealership is that just about everything that happens has a number associated with it. This allows you to measure and determine how each department or employee is performing. For example, in the service department, we look at recovery and service technician efficiency. In the parts department, we look at profit margins, fill rates, transaction times and transaction values. And in the sales department, we focus on profit margins, transaction values, closing ratios and sales funnels.

Achieving Peak Performance: Checking the Health of Each Department

Three simple numbers can help you quickly gauge performance.

By Bob Clements posted on April 23, 2016 | Posted in Dealership Marketing

Long before technology was available to detect lethal gases in coal mines, miners carried canaries into the mines with them to act as an early warning system. If the canary died, it meant the gas levels had risen to where the miners’ lives were in danger and it was time to evacuate. While we don’t actually use canaries in our dealerships to alert us of potential issues, we do have three simple numbers that warn us of impending doom.

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