The Dealership Fixit Podcast

James Myers of Valley Cycle Center in Winchester, Virginia has been involved with the family powersports business that his father started 50 years ago. James has been involved for over 20 years. I was curious how they make that work when I see so many multi-generation business struggle. He also gives me some insights on how dealers can and should get involved with state dealer groups so they can help secure their own business future thru the legislative processes, if needed. Please share this podcast with everyone you know that works at a dealership. Any questions, please contact me at dealershipfixit@gmail.com #dealership #fixit #powersports #retail #dealergroup #familybusiness #valleycyclecenter #winchestervirginia

If you’ve been around the powersports business for any length of time you have most likely perused, used or hired “MIJ” for your job or employee acquisition needs. Alex talks with me some the recent struggles the motorcycle biz is having with finding qualified mechanics and other positions. Please check out MIJ at www.motorcycleindustryjobs.com if you are an employer looking for top talent or you’re a hopeful candidate looking for a one stop shop for top employers. Please email me at: dealershipfixit@gmail.com for questions, suggestions on topics or to get on a podcast session with me and share your dealership fiXit stories! I really appreciate your shares of this podcast with your friends as it can help me grow the audience and add depth to those I can get on the show. Thanks for listening!

Michael Jones Sr, a 30 year service department veteran and master technician joins me tonight to look for ways you can take your dealership to another level - if you are willing to make some changes that he says are crucial to help us keep the new-with-old service customer engaged with us and you need passion to to do it. Listen to see what he is talking about. Thank you for checking out Dealership fiXit. Please consider giving us a top rating on your podcast platform so we can keep growing and doing the work of sharing ways to help dealers be their own fiXit. You can find us on Facebook and Instagram and we’d love for you to share with your dealership friends. As always, feel free to email dealershipfixit@gmail.com with your comments or questions or to be featured on a future podcast session about your topic.

Special guest Craig Martin joined me to discuss ... nearly all of the things! Thankfully he was willing to spend so much time with me sharing insights from so many years as a distributor rep, shop owner, race team manager and so on. I’d be willing to gamble and say that whatever area is your part of the dealership, tonight’s podcast has some gold nuggets for you. As always, please share this episode and podcast with everyone you know at a dealership. Thank you!

Ryan McPherson aka @skippy168 on Instagram and #salesbyskippy & #askforskippy everywhere joins us from Denton, Texas where he works at Cycle Center of Denton in parts and accessory sales. He shares some insights on how he does things differently than his competitors to better engage with eager consumers. He also sheds some light on how a dealership owner can find and hire guys like him. He’s my #dealershipfixit of the week!

What is your personal expectation on merchandising at your retail dealership? Specifically, online... If you haven't thought about exactly where you set the bar for yourself and your staff on merchandising each and every area of your operation, you're losing. Consumers expect you to be the tip of the spear. Heck, they're supposed to hand you money for the product, right? As always, feel free to give me your feedback or better yet email me and come on a future podcast (virtually) and let's talk it out. I love talking about this stuff and I promise I love opposing views. Email me at: dealershipfixit@gmail.com

Quick monologue about co-op. Want to get a decent podcast conversation lined up with someone at/from a dealership about your role being in charge of co-op ... good/bad etc. Co-op should be a tool you utilize to minimize your out of pocket spend on advertising to get your dealership more exposure. Are you doing it? Are you using all of it?? Let's chat soon on a longer version of this episode. dealershipfixit@gmail.com

Brian Fullerton is our guest and we discuss his path from socal lot kid at Alba Yamaha to point guy at Acerbis in the US. He also found time to be a fireman for 9 years at the same time.

Who knows how to get rabid grassroots support and can also tell a dealership what areas they need improvement in about 30 seconds? Jim Boschen is our guest - Episode 10

#1 mistake dealerships make? Derek Sanders special guest - Episode 9