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6 Ways to Guarantee Customer Loyalty [Webinar]

March 23, 2017 | Posted in Best Practices, Department Management
What kind of power does your dealership have over your customers? Is your dealership building loyalty that makes your business indispensable to customers, creates life-long relationships and makes price irrelevant? Presented by Jim Facente, a trainer for WEDA’s Dealer Institute, this webinar highlights 6 key factors that will make your dealership indispensable to your customers. [To view any of our webinar replays, you must be logged in with a free user account.]
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5 Questions to Ask Yourself to Encourage Employees to Speak Up

By Kim Schmidt posted on March 17, 2017 | Posted in Best Practices, Department Management
Source: Harvard Business Review
If you are in an influential position, you have probably said words to the effect of “My door is always open.” You likely meant this declaration very genuinely. You might well feel that you are a pretty approachable sort of person and that others feel comfortable coming to you with their issues and their ideas.
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7 Considerations for Succession Planning for a Precision Farming Business

2017 Precision Farming Dealer Summit — Roundtable #12
March 11, 2017 | Posted in Best Practices, Dealer Succession
The 2017 Precision Farming Dealer Summit succession planning roundtable in St. Louis “played” to a packed room. Moderated by Tim Norris, CEO, Ag Info Tech (2016 Most Valuable Dealership), Mount Vernon, Ohio, the participants included family-owned precision dealerships with a handful to employees all the way to businesses with hundreds of employees.
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Trial, Error and Growth: Cervus’ Lessons in Diversification

From agriculture to transportation, Cervus has diversified while remaining true to its core values and expertise.
By Diana Dombrowski posted on March 11, 2017 | Posted in Best Practices, Dealer Succession
With 64 locations, Cervus Equipment Corp. is the largest dealer group for John Deere and Peterbilt Motors across Canada. The company is a diversified equipment dealership group, with 35 of its dealerships in agriculture, 11 construction and industrial, and 18 in transportation. Of the 64 total dealerships, 6 are located in Australia, 9 in New Zealand and the rest in Canada.
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Precision Farming Dealer Summit

Precision Service Challenge: Making Money & the Pieces Fit

Dealers need to figure out how to improve their bottom lines while resolving compatibility issues for their farm customers.
By Dave Kanicki posted on March 11, 2017 | Posted in Best Practices, Manufacturer & Dealer Issues, Operations & Finance, Department Management, Precision Ag Sales & Service
Mixing and matching precision farming equipment and components can, in many cases, produce a superior system for some operations. On the other hand, compatibility issues with such systems have been known to create major headaches for precision farming technicians whose job it is to make them operate properly.
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Precision Farming Dealer Summit

Smith Implement ‘Blows Up’ the Precision Ag Department

The precision manager of this 5-store dealership fired himself, reassigned the specialists to other departments and took away the safety net.
By Mike Lessiter posted on March 11, 2017 | Posted in Best Practices, Department Management, Precision Ag Sales & Service
In an engaging session of the Summit, Matt Eldridge, director of aftermarket sales, Smith Implements, Greenfield, Ind., shared how their 5-store dealer group turned course and loaded up all its “precision chips” into traditional departments.
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Precision Farming Dealer Summit

Maximizing Performance & Accountability at H&R, Van Wall

Two managers from large-store complexes share their advice for getting the most out of precision specialists, including the need to ‘go to bat’ for them.
By Mike Lessiter posted on March 11, 2017 | Posted in Best Practices, Department Management, Precision Ag Sales & Service
Dealers who’ve been doing precision for any period of time have seen how expectation problems, miscommunication and burnout can erode morale of what needs to be a highly performing team.
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Precision Farming Dealer Summit

Leveraging the Power of People & Planning to Grow Your Business

Leadership, communication and accountability are pillars of establishing a sustainable, valuable precision farming company.
By Jack Zemlicka posted on March 11, 2017 | Posted in Best Practices, Precision Ag Sales & Service
U.S. General George Patton’s famous quote, “A good plan implemented today is better than a perfect plan implemented tomorrow,” is sound advice for any farm equipment dealer.
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