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Comfort Zone vs Accountability

As a Dealer, did last year bring you the return on investment that you expected?



As a General Manager did you meet or exceed your net profit projections for the year?



If you are a Fixed Operations Director did you increase your customer pay retail sales for parts and labor over last year?



For all three of you, is your Service Absorption rising year over year? If any of your answers were “NO”, then you must ask yourself...why?



To begin with, your financial… Continue

Added by Robin Heywood on September 27, 2011 at 7:43pm — No Comments

Was Last Month Defined By Two Simple Words?

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Was your last month defined by these two words…”If only”?





“If only…”



The Dealer Principal



“If only” I had asked my Managers “What is your plan for increasing Profit this month?” and held them accountable for their replies.



“If only” I had…

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Added by Robin Heywood on September 24, 2011 at 11:30am — No Comments

Exceeding the Expectations

http://fixedopsnews.blogspot.com/2011/08/exceeding-expectations.html

 

What would a Service Professional do?



A Professional understands their Customers Expectations.



Now this has got to be the easiest “no brainer” post you have read in years! You would think that every person who works in the Dealership has heard of Customer Service (here’s a little hint: WE ALL…

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Added by Robin Heywood on September 17, 2011 at 7:03pm — 1 Comment

Not Taking Action Has Consequences

Previously, we had the privilege of addressing a room of Service Managers and Factory Personnel. And I have to believe that everyone in that room was there to find or gather some new information that would help them take action on something that might be causing them some problems at their Dealerships. Why would you attend if you had no hope of getting something, right? I…
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Added by Robin Heywood on September 13, 2011 at 4:36pm — No Comments

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