According to Pied Piper’s national retail benchmarking study, salespeople in the powersports industry ask a customer to set a future appointment and encourage them to return only 44 percent of ...
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Aug. 11, 2008: Steps to increase a rural store’s profitability
These articles recap some of the opportunities uncovered by Gart Sutton & Associates’ powersports specialists during consulting visits. These are followed by recommended actions that address the issues. Our goal ...
Read More »Jul. 21, 2008 – Tackling a rural store with low profit margins
These articles recap some of the opportunities uncovered by Gart Sutton & Associates’ powersports specialists during consulting visits. These are followed by recommended actions that address the issues. Our goal ...
Read More »Jul. 21, 2008: Special marching orders for your store’s special orders
OK you guys, knock off stocking those thousand dollar parts. And while I have your attention, can’t we please keep that nickel and dime stuff in stock? It costs two ...
Read More »July 21, 2008: Tackling a rural store with low profit margins
These articles recap some of the opportunities uncovered by Gart Sutton & Associates’ powersports specialists during consulting visits. These are followed by recommended actions that address the issues. Our goal ...
Read More »Jun. 30, 2008: Where, and where not to, keep the F&I logs
These articles recap some of the opportunities uncovered by Gart Sutton & Associates’ powersports specialists during consulting visits. These are followed by recommended actions that address the issues. Our goal ...
Read More »Jun. 2, 2008: A $240,000 money pit that’s sitting on your shelves
They were four small tubs of grease used for packing wheel bearings. All four of those tubs had been sitting on that shelf for five years. They were clean. The ...
Read More »Jun. 2, 2008: Tackling new additions in the F&I department
These articles recap some of the opportunities uncovered by Gart Sutton & Associates’ powersports specialists during consulting visits. These are followed by recommended actions that address the issues. Our goal ...
Read More »May 12, 2008: Daily, weekly and monthly sales manager agendas
These articles recap some of the opportunities uncovered by Gart Sutton & Associates’ powersports specialists during consulting visits. These are followed by recommended actions that address the issues. Our goal ...
Read More »Apr. 21, 2008: A searchable dealer network … consider the possibilities
Sea-change. A profound change in thinking, in the way we live, in the way we perceive our universe and in the way we regard our world. Change beyond our imagining. ...
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