Dealer Success Groups
A year of the things a dealership never gets around to.
Ten topics, one a month, live, with your managers in the room. Plus a peer group of seven to twelve owners and half an hour with Jeff Blackton every month.
01 / What gets worked on
The workshop calendar.
One department, one topic, live each month. Owners bring their service and parts managers, so the person who has to do the thing hears it first hand. Topic four is baselines, and the first baseline is your recovery rate: work it out now.
Efficient processes
The processes that put hours back on the ticket, department by department.
Hiring and retention
Writing the ad, setting the pay, and keeping the tech you just spent four months finding.
Cash flow
Where the money actually is in a dealership, and why a good year can still be a tight one.
Setting baselines
The five numbers, how to pull them out of your system, and what to do the month after.
Aged inventory and pricing
The shelf, the matrix, and the parts you have been carrying since the last administration.
Strategic planning
A plan a family business can actually run, rather than one that lives in a binder.
Economic indicators
Reading the year ahead from the things dealers can see before the news does.
Technology
The business system you already pay for, and the eighty percent of it nobody uses.
Selling skills
For a counter person and a salesperson, which are not the same job.
Succession
Handing a dealership to the next generation, or to somebody else, without wrecking it.
02 / How it reaches you
Three standing appointments.
The group hour
Seven to twelve owners, online, once a month. Everyone reads their numbers, one member brings a real problem, everybody leaves with one commitment.
Thirty minutes with Jeff
One on one, your store only. Where the number you would not read out in front of the group gets dealt with.
The Toolbox
Over two hundred templates and seventy-five on-demand modules, so the workshop has something to hand your managers afterwards.
Watch
Dealer Success Groups, explained.
Published by Bob Clements International. Watch it on YouTube
03 / Dealers who did it
What moved, in their words.
65% to 123%
“Your system works as promised. We went from a 65% recovery rate to 123%.”
Spencer Coleman, Coleman Tractor
Losing money to making money
“Bob helped us reorganize our service department. He didn't just tell us what to do, but helped us do it with practical tools and one-on-one coaching.”
Becky Price, Bill's Tractor & Equipment
Through the unstable years
“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.”
Elizabeth, Lauf Equipment
05 / What it costs
$839 a month, per location.
| Included | Sold on its own |
|---|---|
| Dealer Toolbox | $99 / mo |
| Hiring program | $498 / mo |
| The group hour, the workshop, and Jeff's half hour | $242 / mo |
| Dealer Success Groups | $839 / mo |
Month to month, per location, up to six. Hiring is billed at $1,495 a quarter on its own and is shown monthly here so the columns add up. One technician billing one more hour a day at a $135 shop rate returns about $2,800 a month.
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.