As the seasons change and temperatures drop, dealerships who service rural lifestylers, large property owners and landscape contractors often find themselves educating their customers on best practices for safety of both their person and their equipment.
Bob Clements of Bob Clements International and President of Business Development, Sara Hey, have valuable information on improving dealership performance.
There is an old saying: "You can't be everything to everybody." I've worked in the agricultural/outdoor power equipment industry all my life. I was a Toro, Wheel Horse, and Lawn-Boy dealer.
In a recent Inc. article, Howard Tullman points out that most car dealers aren’t much interested in selling electric vehicles (EVs.) And the same is likely true for many farm equipment dealers.
When WCTractor Owner Chris Wackman first bought the dealership in 2014, he had zero experience in selling equipment. In fact, he came from a family of oil barrel manufacturers and had been the fourth generation to run that family business.
Lessiter Media recently released its new Employment Recruitment Service to offer comprehensive multi-media resources to streamline the ag equipment community’s recruitment process, offering a direct link between dealers and manufacturers and a targeted, engaged, and qualified audience.
Technology can help your dealership declutter the customer experience, and the latest tool to do it is through text messaging, says Tim Berman, innovator manager at Constellation Software.
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