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Dealership Minds 2024 Overview: Vanderloop Equipment

For the sixth installment of Farm Equipment’s Dealership Minds series, 8 staff members traveled throughout central Wisconsin to experience first hand how a successful dealership — Vanderloop Equipment (VE) — operates in the midst of planting and hay cutting season in May.
For the sixth installment of Farm Equipment’s Dealership Minds series, 8 staff members traveled throughout central Wisconsin to experience first hand how a successful dealership — Vanderloop Equipment (VE) — operates in the midst of planting and hay cutting season in May.
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2023 Dealership Minds Summit

[Video] Dealer-to-Dealer Panel: Succeeding in a Changing Used Equipment Market

With inventories still low and growers’ cash reserves drying up — not to mention rising interest rates — there’s no better time to get a solid grip on the used equipment market. The rising cost of new equipment and a lacking used equipment supply mean equipment values will stay elevated above historic norms. In this session, 3 leading minds in the used equipment market share tips on how to thrive in this dynamic sales environment.
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Dealership Minds

Power EQ Extras

H&R Agri-Power, a 17-store Case IH dealership headquartered in Hopkinsville, Ky., developed its own quoting and appraisal tool, Power EQ. The tool has streamlined the appraisal process for used equipment and provides the sales team the information they need right at their fingertips.
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Dealership Minds

H&R Agri-Power Amps Up Sales with Power EQ

Easy-to-use web-based program simplifies appraisal process, streamlines communication.
We needed a consistent way to quote equipment to our customers,” says the CFO of H&R Agri-Power, a 17-store Case IH dealer headquartered in Hopkinsville, Ky. “We also needed a consistent way to collect data on trade-ins, and we needed to be able to document the bill of approval.
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Dealership Minds

Financing Solutions to Keep Sales Selling

With 75% of customers financing their wholegoods purchases, H&R Agri-Power’s Finance & Insurance Manager Josh Arnall focuses on structuring plans that work for the farmer and the dealership.
Josh Arnall is a numbers guy who likes planning and solving problems. As the finance and insurance manager for H&R Agri-Power, his day-to-day is full of managing the numbers and solving problems, but his planning usually is sacrificed to what he calls “the tyranny of the urgent.”
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Dealership Minds

Creating a Reputation that Sells Equipment

As the Wholesale Division Manager of H&R Agri-Power, Dave Gibson is the resident expert on used equipment. He divides his time between appraising trade-ins from the sales team, shopping for wholesale buyers and keeping a general eye on the used equipment market, searching for any trends or spikes in interest that could give the dealership an edge.
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From the Desk of Mike Lessiter

Day in the Life: What Does a Dealer Development Manager Do?

One of the fun things about our coverage of the farm equipment business is discovering and sharing how each of the various cogs perform together in the larger “machine.” On each of the Dealership Minds special issues, we’ve had subscribers laugh about how they learned something they didn’t know about the role of a person they’d worked 10 yards away from for a decade, sometimes more.
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