Dealer Success Groups
You get put in a room with dealers you can actually compare yourself to.
That is the whole trick. A number only means something next to the same number from a store your size, carrying your lines, running your software.
01 / The room
Seven to twelve owners, matched on five things.
Jeff builds each group by hand. These are the questions on the application, and they are the only things that decide which room you end up in.
Seat 01
Lines carried
Kubota, Stihl, Toro, Bad Boy, Exmark, Massey. A tractor store and a mower shop do not have the same conversation.
Seat 02
Locations
One store or six. A second location changes every process you have, and the room should already know that.
Seat 03
Years in business
Second generation sitting next to a first year owner helps both of them, but only if the rest lines up.
Seat 04
Business system
Ideal, Charter, c-Systems, DIS. Half of what gets shared in the room is where to click.
Seat 05
Where it hurts
Service, parts, wholegoods or hiring. You come in with a department, not a vague plan to grow.
Open
Yours
Tell us those five things and Jeff will tell you which room you would be in.
Groups meet online for an hour a month, so nobody shuts the store for two days or buys a plane ticket. Owners can pull a service or parts manager into the workshops.
02 / What a month holds
Four things, every month, for as long as you are in.
The group hour
Everyone reads their numbers out loud, one member brings a real problem, and everybody leaves having named one thing they will have done by the next meeting.
Thirty minutes with Jeff
One on one, your store only. The number you would not read out in front of the group gets dealt with here.
A workshop
One department, one topic, live, and your managers attend it rather than getting a summary from you afterwards.
The Toolbox and hiring
Over two hundred templates a dealership actually uses, seventy-five on-demand modules, and the hiring program that placed 157 parts people and technicians for member dealers last year.
Watch
Dealer Success Groups, explained.
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03 / Dealers who did it
What moved, in their words.
“Bob and his team have really helped us through some of the most unstable times there's ever been for a farm dealership. He has the experience with his team to give us feedback on decisions that could make it or break it for our family owned shop.”
65% to 123% “Your system works as promised. We went from a 65% recovery rate to 123%.”
“Bob helped us reorganize our service department and take it from losing money to making money. He didn't just tell us what to do, but helped us do it with practical tools and one-on-one coaching.”
04 / Before you decide anything
How much money are you walking over?
Work out your recovery rate first. It takes about ten minutes and a month of work orders, and it is the number the whole program moves.
Download the calculator05 / What it costs
$839 a month, per location.
Month to month. Two locations is two seats, and so on up to six. Every line below is included at that price, which is worth doing the arithmetic on.
One technician billing one more hour a day at a $135 shop rate returns about $2,800 a month. At that rate the seat is paid for in six working days, and the other numbers have not moved yet.
- Dealer Toolbox, sold on its own $99 / mo
- Hiring program, sold on its own $498 / mo
- The group, the workshop, and Jeff's half hour $242 / mo
- Dealer Success Groups $839 / mo
Hiring is billed at $1,495 a quarter on its own. Shown monthly here so the columns add up.
06 / Apply
Groups are matched, not filled.
Tell us what you carry and how big you are. Jeff reads every one of these and calls you himself.
Would you rather ask questions first? Book thirty minutes
That is with Jeff
He calls applicants himself, usually inside two business days, and always from a Kansas City number. If you would rather pick the time, book thirty minutes at pages.bobclements.com. Nothing is charged until you have talked to him and seen which group you would be in.