Yes, most sales managers were (and still are) good at selling... that's how they became managers. But why were they good at selling? More often than not, they were more aggressive, hard working, and had more natural talent to sell cars than everyone else. Few if any salespeople are promoted to management for their ability to develop comprehensive training programs from scratch.
68% of today's sales managers use "basics" that are old-school approaches to merely getting names and numbers. To learn why yesterday's techniques simply don't work in today's marketplace, listen to our FREE 17-minute audio CD:
"The GOOD, the BAD, and the UGLY of Incoming Dealership Calls"
These services only provide monitoring via computers which are not accessible to salespeople. Few salespeople ever hear their own calls, and fewer yet actually learn from them without professional training. However, many of our clients ask us to download these actual customer calls, burn them onto audio CD, and then play them back in our actual seminars.
Without a doubt, training is the most profitable investment in any dealership. Better yet, telephone skills training has the highest, most immediate return of any all.
(in most dealerships, it's 50%; in luxury stores, it's 70+%)
(in most dealerships, it's a dismal 18%)
(a properly trained salesperson can bring in 40%+ of their incoming calls)
(you can almost predict the next question before you read it)