Drive More Revenue For Your Dealership
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Three Areas to Focus on in 2024
In today’s rapidly evolving automotive landscape, exploring innovative tactics is paramount to staying ahead of the competition. Below are three areas to focus on and improve in 2024 that will help to drive more revenue for your dealership. Explore why embracing innovation is crucial and uncover expert advice designed to propel your business forward. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to unlock the full potential of your dealership and achieve unparalleled success in the year ahead.
Efficiency
Your dealership should work like a well-oiled machine. Every employee should be connected and know their role, how it affects others, and that their time and effort is meaningful. If all employees are on the same page, especially the salespeople, times between a customer walking in and out of the door could be cut drastically, which opens up more time, and thus more sales opportunities. But remember, efficiency improvements are not for sales alone! Your fixed operations team should also try some of these tactics to improve efficiency and drive more revenue for your dealership.
- Managers should hold a daily check-in meeting to touch base with every team member at once, set priorities for the day, and encourage everyone to work as a cohesive unit.
- Utilize a Business Development Center, like Customer Traac, to handle customer contact, appointment scheduling, and inquiries. It’s faster and more cost-effective than doing it in house, and your team can focus on the customers in front of them instead of trying to do two things at once.
- Always be improving on sales tactics. Try role-playing scenarios to help team members learn how to handle any and every situation. Also, consider encouraging people in other dealership roles to learn sales techniques. You never know when that knowledge will be helpful or who your next salesperson of the month will be!
- Make sure everyone knows and understands the the systems and software applications utilized by the dealership. When everyone is knowledgeable about the same things, it can help keep things from stalling out and putting pressure on others during the sales process.
Good Communication
Make certain your salespeople develop a great relationship with your customers right off the bat. People making a purchase decision as big as buying a car want to feel heard, appreciated, and respected. It’s very important to make that initial relationship from seller to buyer a friendly encounter. Listen to the customer first. Find out what they are looking for, what their lifestyle is, what their budget is, and how they want this vehicle to fit into their lives.
Buying a car can be a nerve-wracking experience and people are easily impressionable. It’s important to make customers feel comfortable. Introducing a Business Development Center (BDC) within that communication can help alleviate that time commitment for salespeople and management, and can pave the way for more effective communication between all parties.
Keep Customers
Retaining your customers is the best thing you can do to drive revenue for your dealership. To have a customer stay with you and keep coming back for more is a big win for any business. It also costs the dealership more time and money to obtain a new customer, than it is to keep a previous buyer. Kind of like the incentives, there are ways to make sure your customers maintain their relationship with you.
- Offer support, knowledge, and fantastic customer service. People want to feel cared for and supported with a big financial decision.
- Encourage future repairs through the dealership and pre-schedule services on their vehicle for the coming months. This can be made easier through an outsourced partner like Customer Traac that can manage appointment scheduling.
- Implement a Business Development Center to help streamline incentives and programs that drive loyalty and revenue in the long run.
- Improve client response times. Customers will likely go to another dealer if their calls and emails are not responded to in a timely manner. This includes hold times, too! So pay attention to your team’s availability throughout the day and busy times in particular, and consider whether or not a back up call center could improve customer satisfaction without impacting your employees’ priorities.
- Maintain positive reviews! Be sure to kindly ask your customers to leave a review if they were happy with their experience at your dealership at the end of any transaction—from the service bay to the showroom floor.
For over 30 years, Customer Traac has helped our clients go above and beyond the competition and achieve ultimate success. We believe in great customer service and creating efficiency for dealership leaders and teams are the best ways to skyrocket your business and set you apart from the rest.
Contact us today for learn more. And, in the meantime, check out this article on how Customer Traac can help your service department.