1. Best Practices for Screening, Selecting
and Hiring Dealership Employees
How important is it to hire and train the right people while building a
sales team that can convert opportunities created by marketing into
actual sales results?
Organizational development is more important than ever before…with many dealers
losing staff while cutting costs during the depths of the recession, those that are
growing their business need effective strategies, tools and tactics for attracting,
screening and hiring the best Internet sales professionals with the greatest chance of
achieving their own personal success, as well as sales productivity for the dealership.
This session will explore organizational development strategies, recruiting, screening,
hiring and training tools as well as the materials and processes that the most
successful dealers in America have been using for years, and are being used today as
a means of increasing success in the hiring process. Ralph Paglia will share the tools
and processes he has used to build some of the most successful Internet sales
departments in America while teaching attendees what the essential "must haves" are,
and how to get them when seeking to grow your sales departments into high
performance digital marketing to sales conversion engines.
3. Courtesy Chevrolet in Phoenix, AZ became
the USA’s leading Internet retailer of new
and certified used Chevrolet vehicles…
Human Resource Development was the key
4. “This is a people business…”
Organizational Development is
the essential stumbling block that
many dealers and ISM’s report as
the primary reason for Internet
Sales Operations failure or lack of
growth into a strategically
significant level of sales.
5.
6. Create a Video that showcases why
People want to Work for Your Dealership
• Training
• Compensation
• Benefits
• Supportive Team
• People Matter
• Career Growth
7. Use Video Role Play Assessment
• Pre-Screen Applicants
• Identify Training Opportunities
• Invest Time with the Most Qualified Candidates
• Use as a Recruiting Tool
• Ideal for Social Media based Recruiting
• Don’t waste valuable ($$$) management
interview time on applicants destined to fail!
14. Growing Your Internet Sales Team works best when it
occurs “Organically” and is Specialized
Organic Growth
Courtesy Chevrolet is a single point Chevy dealer with
(at one time) 3 fully staffed BDC Team’s, an eFinance
Sales Team and 4 Internet Sales Teams. These 8 teams
of automotive sales professionals are identified as
follows:Chevrolet BDC
1. New 5. New Chevrolet Internet Sales
2. Used Car BDC 6. Used Car Internet Sales
3. Wholesale Parts BDC 7. Bell Road Internet Sales
4. eFinance Sales Team 8. Commercial Internet Sales
Let’s Take a Look at How It Happened…
15. Courtesy Chevrolet eBusiness Teams – Phase 1
Ralph Paglia
Ralph Paglia
Mike Gordon
IT Director Begins at Courtesy
Begins at Courtesy
as eBusiness Director
as eBusiness Director
BDC Manager
BDC Manager Internet Sales Manager
Internet Sales Manager
New & Used
New & Used New & Used
New & Used
Vehicle Sales Dept.
Vehicle Sales Dept. Vehicle Sales Dept.
Vehicle Sales Dept.
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Phase 1 Sales Results:
Internet sales averaged 88 units per month (new & used)
BDC generated sales averaged 92 units per month (new & used)
16. Courtesy Chevrolet eBusiness Teams – Phase 2
Ralph Paglia
Ralph Paglia
CRM/eBusiness
CRM/eBusiness
Mike Gordon
IT Director
Director
Director
Joel Matteson
Joel Matteson
George Salman
George Salman
BDC Manager
BDC Manager
Internet Sales Manager
Internet Sales Manager
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New Vehicle Sales
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Francisco Abalos 40 sales
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BDC Manager Bryan Long
Bryan Long
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Kelly Slaughter & Lisa Sarata
Kelly Slaughter & Lisa Sarata
CRM Administrators
CRM Administrators •Phase 2 Team Expansion:
Phase 2 Team Expansion:
Internet split into new and used managed teams
Internet split into new and used managed teams
New
New BDC split into new and used managed teams
BDC split into new and used managed teams
Position
Position CRM administrative position added (showroom)
CRM administrative position added (showroom)
17. Courtesy Chevrolet eBusiness Teams – Phase 3
Ralph Paglia
Ralph Paglia
Mike Gordon
IT Director
CRM/eBusiness Director
CRM/eBusiness Director
Joel Matteson
Joel Matteson George Salman
George Salman
BDC Manager
BDC Manager Internet Sales Manager
Internet Sales Manager
New Vehicle Sales
New Vehicle Sales 100 sales 90 sales New Vehicle Sales
New Vehicle Sales
CSR CSR CSR CSR CSR CSR CSR CSR CSR CSR ISS ISS ISS ISS ISS ISS ISS ISS ISS ISS
ISS ISS ISS ISS ISS ISS ISS ISS ISS ISS
CSR CSR CSR CSR CSR CSR CSR CSR CSR CSR
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Francisco Abalos Bryan Long
Bryan Long
Francisco Abalos
BDC Manager Internet Sales Manager
Internet Sales Manager
BDC Manager
Used Vehicle Sales
Used Vehicle Sales 60 sales 50 sales Used Vehicle Sales
Used Vehicle Sales
CSR CSR CSR CSR CSR CSR ISS ISS ISS ISS ISS ISS
ISS ISS ISS ISS ISS ISS
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Patrick Miller
Patrick Miller New
Courtney Daly
Courtney Daly Ron Daly & Scott Daly
Ron Daly & Scott Daly Internet Sales Manager
New
Internet Sales Manager Position
eFinance Admin.
eFinance Admin. Special eFinance Team
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Lisa Esquivez
Lisa Esquivez Omara Spriggs
Omara Spriggs Designated Sales Consultants
eFinance BDC
eFinance BDC efinance Sales
efinance Sales Certified to Handle
Internet Lead Appointments
•Phase 3 Team Expansion:
Phase 3 Team Expansion:
Kelly Slaughter & Cecy Girod
Kelly Slaughter & Cecy Girod Special eFinance team
Special eFinance team
CRM Administrators
CRM Administrators Courtesy-on-Bell ISM
Courtesy-on-Bell ISM
21. Document Pay Plan & Bonus Structure that
reflects taller Internet sales funnel
* July 2006 Interactive Marketing Budget
22.
23. Top 10 Reasons To Use “Hire The Winners”
1.Find out why your lowest producers aren't producing.
2.Learn what the potential is of every sales consultant on your team.
3.Discover opportunities for improvement for each sales consultant and how you can
focus your training for immediate improvement.
4.HTW can show you how to find and recruit excellent talent to grow and improve your
sales team.
5.HTW has tools to help make informed hiring decisions and get best talent available.
6.HTW provides you with tools that allow your sales team to practice on the simulator
not the public (Lost sales from poorly trained sales consultants are killing us).
7.HTW provides you with a hiring process and support to strengthen your management
teams interviewing skills and, if used correctly, will provide you with information you
need to bring on the best talent available.
8.HTW provides you with tools that show you what the sales applicant can and can't do
when put into the automotive sales situation. You will know in 20-30 minutes the
potential of every candidate.
9.Tools that will assist you in creating customers in a challenging market (What you can
do to cause more customers to visit your store without raising your advertising budget).
10.(see link below)
Free DMSC Trial: www.hirethewinners.com/adm
24. AutoMax Recruiting & Training
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Recruiting 2.0
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week)
The Car Sales Simulator Uses interactive video to present potential salespeople with a set of
decisions that will either lead to the sale or the GSM’s office for a “talking to.”
◦ For those that make it through the interview & screening process either we’ll conduct the training
or you can. (We have multiple packages)
◦ From porters to presidents, we will interview, screen and train internet sales managers, BDC reps,
social media managers, sales people, sales managers, service advisors, general managers and more!
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Video From Craig
25. Questions and Answers…
Ralph Paglia
Cell: 505-301-6369
RPaglia@gmail.com
www.RalphPaglia.com
Reference Links:
http://www.ADMPC.com
http://slideshare.net/RalphPaglia
http://www.hirethewinners.com/adm
http://www.Automax.com
Notes de l'éditeur
Courtesy Chevrolet sold over 11,000 new and used vehicles in 2006, of which over 4,000 originated from Internet generated leads (electronic and phone).
Average monthly sales total for the combined Internet Sales and BDC teams was 180 vehicles per month…
Split both the BDC and Internet Sales Teams from 2 to 4 managed profit centers, and increased BDC rep’s from 8 to 12, increased ISS’s from 8 to 12… Average monthly sales total for the combined Internet Sales and BDC teams rose to 220 vehicles per month… Added CRM Administration Staff of 2, and moved telephone switchboard receptionists to 2 nd floor and off of the showroom floor. CRM admin staff funded with money previously used for outside vendor’s unsold showroom follow-up USPS direct mail program and newly structured Lead Quality Program that tracks invalid leads and credits for those invalid leads from 3 rd Party Lead Providers.
Added Special eFinance Team to handle online credit applications (720 received in July 2006 with 44 sales generated at $116,000 in gross profits), Added a Courtesy on Bell Road satellite store Internet Sales Manager to handle eLeads and set up appointments for sales staff… The Courtesy Chevrolet CRM/eBusiness Teams combined sales objectives & monthly capacity rose to 360+ CRM/eBusiness Facilitated Vehicle Sales per Month…
Clearly defined job descriptions serve strategic objectives before and after hiring people for each eBusiness position… Providing itemized lists of tasks in detail, along with clearly and objective performance evaluation criteria ensure that all members of the team are focused on the same goals and day to day task completion efforts. For recruiting, a clear job description makes it easier for good people to leave their current situation and know what they are getting into, how they will be both evaluated and paid… Demystify the Internet Sales Specialist job!
Pay plans should be progressive in a manner that creates extra rewards for deals sold at the beginning of the month, based on selling incremental units during the second half of the month. Performance bonuses based on process evaluation metrics should have minimum lead volume qualifiers to ensure that those who take on more leads than others are not penalized for handling extra work load.
Amongst all the attributes of a dealer’s response to an Internet Lead, the time from when a customer submits a lead to when they have received a personalized email message that directly addresses their inquiry consistently shows up as correlating with sales closing ratios… All response content equal, faster dealers will outsell slower dealers. However, Content is still King in that a poor response sent quickly will reduce sales closing rates. It is important to realize that lead response time is a qualifier, an index that determines maximum closing rate upper limits. Once again, it is what the customer experiences, not how or who does it that determines the results.
Lead Management Process is no longer as much an art as it has become a science… Numerous studies that utilize an OEM database matching process which tracks leads and the eventual Retail Delivery Report, then correlates sales for the brand, sales by the original lead receiving dealer, with significantly large volumes of customer submitted survey responses provide a clear and objective analysis of what the customer experiences, the differences in those experiences and their correlation with likelihood of purchasing from the dealer that received the lead. This ability to actually measure what each dealer does with their leads, through the eyes of the customer, and how these activities correspond with a sale, or a lost sale, allow a scientific management approach to Lead Management Process in a manner that absolutely WILL impact sales results from a given volume of leads.
Here is a simplified illustration of what happens at Courtesy Chevrolet in Phoenix when a new lead is received from a customer requesting a price quote on either a vehicle in stock or one that the customer has configured. Although Courtesy is fairly unique in that a BDC supports each Internet Sales Specialist with telephone follow-up, it is important to understand that this is actually a compromise in the store’s original LMP so as to enable the scalability to handling monthly lead volumes that frequently exceed 6,000 leads in a month, and over 60,000 leads a year… It is important to understand that achieving the customer experiences that impact sales closing ratios in a positive manner is a more important objective than who actually completes the tasks associated with those experiences… The customers are less concerned with who provides them with good service, than they are in actually receiving it!