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Developing Leaders Takes Time but Yields Big Results

Management consultant Zach Hetterick encourages dealerships to cultivate leaders within the organization to improve company culture.

Zach Hetterick wants more people to focus on leadership development within their organization.


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Why Executives Should Train the Next Generation of Leaders

Stotz Equipment’s Tom Rosztoczy shares insights from his dealership’s leadership-development program and explains why building your own program can be the right choice.
Creating your dealership’s next generation of leaders can be a daunting task, regardless of your resources. Coupled with the ongoing labor shortage, it’s more important than ever to keep and grow your key staff into capable and confident leaders.
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Facing Reality: Dealers Must Develop Their Own Home-Grown Talent

Whether your dealership has 1 store or 21 stores, developing your next generation of leaders at all levels is critical for the future success of the business. 


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Achieving Peak Performance: What Should I Be Marketing If I Don’t Have Inventory?

Find creative ways to market your other departments when new wholegoods inventory is hard to come by.

You can’t get units to sell, but you have customers calling, emailing and waltzing into your dealership, asking you to take their cash. What’s a dealership owner or manager to do? Should you stop marketing if you can’t get wholegoods inventory to sell?


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How Ruston Tractor Terminated a Mainline & Opened a Second Location in 2020

Owner Jeremy Gantt breaks down Ruston Tractor’s unique experience with gaining a second location, dropping New Holland and learning to be a multi-store dealer.

Ruston Tractor, a 2-store Kubota and former-New Holland dealer in Louisiana, is looking to move its second location in Monroe, La., to a more stable store off nearby Interstate 20. 


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Leadership Lessons

How Will Your People Take Care of Your Customer? It’s T.E.A.M. (Work)

Here is the inescapable reality: your front-line employees are the direct link between your company and your customers. To achieve your goal to go from good to great, your employees will need the following skills and knowledge, led by you, to establish a company culture centered on your clients. 


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Equipment Inventory Finance Considerations For Dealers [Webinar]

When looking for inventory financing dealers need to consider several things when applying and selecting a reputable financing company. In this webinar, you will hear about lender considerations, the C’s of credit, risk analysis, interest rate outlook for 2021 and beyond, available inventory financing programs, and more. [To view any of our webinar replays, you must be logged in with a free user account.]


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Fennig Equipment Finds its Niche as Shortline Only Dealer

Gary Fennig, co-owner of the 2-store shortline-only dealership in Ohio, started Fennig Equipment in 2011 after a meeting with Yetter Farm Equipment during a farm show in Fort Wayne, Ind.
After 21 years working as a parts manager for an AGCO dealership, Gary Fennig left the dealership to go help with the family’s crop insurance business. But he didn’t stay away from selling equipment long, starting Fennig Equipment along with brothers Mike, Todd and Ryan, just a year later in 2011.
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