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    Topic: The Phone shopper

    Topic Posted by: John Kenny (jaykay501@hotmail.com )
    Date Posted: Thu Apr 15 0:42:55 2004
    Topic Description: I am not sure what the best way to handle a phone shopper is. I work in a smaller yard, and completely handle the sale from start to finish. When i get a phone shopper who wants my best price over the phone, or wants a trade value, i normally help out and hope i'm a chance of getting the deal.But they rarely come good, and I'm thinking I've got little to lose by not giving the price at all. What do you guys and girls think??

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    Posted by: Michael Hargrove (mhargrove@bluinc.com )
    Organization:My Success Company
    Date posted: Mon May 3 20:15:49 2004
    Subject: Phone Shoppers
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    I second Chris's comments. I also personally think we have a pretty good program to help salespeople improve their telephone selling skills but I may be a bit prejudiced.

    I'll add just a few points...1) our stats indicate that phone shoppers tend to be at the end of their buying process. 2) for our clients at least, whatever the salesperson's "fresh up" close rate is, it almost always exactly doubles for phone shoppers that show for their appointment. 3) phone shoppers say they used the phone to circumvent or avoid the typical car buying experience. 4) phone shoppers use the phone to help them eliminate dealers from their list.

    Not taking phone ups, for the floor salesperson, is a very poor success strategy.

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