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2014 Dealership of the Year: PrairieLand Partners

Encouraging Professional Growth for Young Managers

July 18, 2014 | Posted in Best Practices
Doug Neufeld, CEO of PrairieLand Partners, a 9-store John Deere dealership in Kansas, talks about the importance of including younger people in management positions at the dealership. The younger generation is more likely to be able to adapt to change and that ability can typically make up for their limited amount of experience.
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Overview of PrairieLand Partners' New Integrated Solutions Department

July 18, 2014 | Posted in Best Practices, Precision Ag Sales & Service
Steve Kaufman, Integrated Solutions manager with PrairieLand Partners, a 9-store John Deere dealership in Kansas, shares the process of how the Integrated Solutions department grew from the earliest years. What began as AMS support on cellphones eventually evolved into a call center. Today, the department produces customized reports based the data each customer collects in their own fields and helps the customer understand and use that data to make management decisions.
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Dealership Develops Own Parts In-House

July 18, 2014 | Posted in Best Practices
Loren Balzer, director of aftermarket for PrairieLand Partners, a 9-store John Deere dealership group in Kansas, shares how the dealership has come codeveloping their own parts and working with John Deere on others to increase the productivity of forage harvesting equipment.
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Standard Job Pricing: Getting There

July 18, 2014 | Posted in Best Practices
Developing a standardized job pricing model is an important step in getting dealership employees and customers on the same page. Loren Balzer, director of aftermarket for PrairieLand Partners, a 9-store John Deere dealership group in Kansas, talks about the progress the dealership has made in simplifying this process.
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What's in a Name: PrairieLand Partners

July 18, 2014 | Posted in Best Practices
According to Loren Balzer, director of aftermarket for PrairieLand Partners, the "Partners" is an most important part of the dealership's name because it signifies the mutual benefits seen across the dealership's locations and the importance of shared successes.
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