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SINCE MAKING THE SWITCH TO PSX
Carns Equipment & Powersports
Jeffery Carns
Owner of Carns Equipment & Powersports explains the search for a software that suited their needs & was cohesive to their industry. Recognizing a broken system & lengthy research, Jeffery Carns goes into full detail about what was the final drive to taking on PSXDigital.
What we did was we had somewhat of a broken system. There's nothing really in this industry that is cohesive, that connects all of the dots. And we've known that for some time. So what we did was we spent about four months looking at all the various programs out there that would launch us into a driving position in the industry. And so when we looked at all of the manufacturers of websites, and PSX is not just a website, if you want to buy a website, go buy one for $99 someplace, and we threw all of those out. And that's when we jumped into looking at a complete system. And that's why we leaned into PSX and the integration that it provided us.
Change will never happen until the pain of staying the same exceeds the pain of change. And I don't know where I heard that, but it's very true when you think about it. And so this business is in a constant state of change, but you will always get pushback. Be prepared to lose some salespeople because what it does is it holds them accountable. And that happened to us. We absolutely lost some salespeople as soon as we knew, or they knew that we knew what they were doing, but that's a good thing. And if that's the case and they're not doing their job, why do you want them anyhow?
The system is completely different. Many stores and we talked to many different owners. You may have a BDC. You may have a manager that controls the leads. What PSX does is it actually works as your BDC in a very real sense. The difference is you can make a person mad at you and walk away. You cannot make the system mad at you. It will be relentless, and sometimes that's difficult to deal with, but you can't yell on the phone at the system. So what it will do is it will force you to maintain a line of communication with that customer. That's what it does. And there's no other system out there that'll do that.
The daily routine has changed, and we're still developing that. We don't have all of the answers for this yet. We know instantly that we needed to hire more people. And I think the best way, and we haven't completely developed this area, is that you pull people literally off of the floor and let them just follow up on a certain time. And then you rotate who's on the floor, who's doing follow-ups.
And the nice thing about the system, of course, that it records every call. It records all of the interactions. And that's really how we're developing the pay plan with this is for every interaction, there's a coin slot. And so whether the person is on the floor doing an interaction, or whether they're sitting at the desk doing an interaction, there's a coin slot. So every interaction has a dollar amount attached to it and every step level. And so, even if they're not the one finalizing the deal, they're getting paid along the way. And so then it takes that pushback of, "Well, hey, I should be on the floor. Now I'm sitting behind a desk." It changes that whole dynamic in a way that, listen, whether I'm sitting behind the desk or whether I'm on the floor, I'm still making money on this sale.
I've been looking at this program now for a year. So we're still unveiling every month a new layer to the program and the depth of it, and that's what's impressive. I really do think that this is the game-changer in the industry. There are still things that it needs, flat out. The program is still evolving, but I do believe that the integration that we have with our DMS, and this program will change the industry. And I don't think there's anything out there like it. Well, I know there's not because I've done that research. There is nothing else in the marketplace today like this program.
I wanted to roll it all out. But that's because I didn't know the depth of the program. And had I started that way and done the rollout. We would have been absolutely completely overwhelmed with the system and not been able to manage it or to handle it. What I will say is that it has many, many layers to the program that we're still doing right now. We're still developing out. They're still not completely out, the automated system, the interactions. Hey, there have been some things that we had to learn the hard way. Don't schedule a lead for 8:00 AM and get the customer out of bed at six o'clock in the morning. Guess what? He doesn't like that. That didn't turn out very well. That was my fault for not knowing the program well enough. It will do exactly what you tell it to do.
It doesn't wake up with a cold. It doesn't wake up with a headache. It doesn't call off work because it doesn't feel good. It will be consistent. And that's exactly what it's going to take in today's environment with the customers that we have to deal with, with the changing environment of this industry and how people buy. Sitting at home, sitting on their phone, clicking a button, delivered to the door. The business next year will not be the same as it was right now. My wife has a great saying. The only thing that's normal is a setting on the dryer. We don't even know what normal is. But this industry is changing, and I think this is the only product out there, and I looked at every single one. I looked at products that weren't even involved in our Powersports industry, clear to the other extreme. There is nothing out there that will do what this program will do.
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Fay Myers Motorcycle World
Sales
Sales Professionals at Fay Myers Motorcycle World give their perspective on the follow-up solutions the PSXDigital application has made and what it took to make the system work for them.
Follow-up was one of the biggest things that our salespeople needed to work on. PSXDigital allows you to do your follow-up & actually forces it. We were looking for a CRM that helped & encourage follow-up above & beyond and not just relying on when the salesperson decided to do it. We wanted a software that help encourage the follow-up in an easier way. That was one of the driving factors.
PSXDigital made it simpler contacting customers. How easy it was for us to pull up our customer's information & either text or email. Living in a day and age where people are always using their cell phones, customers appreciate the new technology that's going into the system. Our customers really appreciate the information we can give them at that time.
A lot of salespeople rely on a paper list that they are walking around with & that gets lost. Having all the information on your cell phone; they rarely get lost. Having this helps us figure out what we have, where we have it in real time while the customer is asking for it.
It's important to note that PSXDigital tracks everything! Everytime you make a phone call, send a text message, answer a call, logging a person and so much more. Have a CRM that works both marketing and sales, it's a positve for people who embrace technology.
PSXDigital, it's a phenomenal tool!
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Edge Performance Sports
Ryan Gentry
Ryan Gentry, the Owner at Edge Performance Sports in Ontario, OR, explains the many featured offered within the app and the consequent lead increases since development of the PSXDigital Application.
What we found with the PSXDigital website when we combined it with the CRM is that we're able to get ahold of and contact - and when I say contact, I mean we're able to talk to the customer on the phone, we're sending them a text message or we're emailing back and forth with them and having a two-way conversation - 99% of the time in less than a minute from the time that they submitted the lead. That's really increased our engagement rate and our closing rate has gone up significantly on our website leads.
It allowed our salespeople to really focus on high-value touches and the system really, in the background, is taking care of all the low-value stuff. So it really allowed us to focus on what was most important and that was being in front of a customer.
One of the really powerful things in the system is that it allows us to manage our inventory based on facts, based on what our store has done with it historically, not based on what Kelly Blue Book says it's doing in the other markets or what an ADA's doing in other markets. So when we take a trade-in now at our store, we take that trade-in based on facts, not based on the manager's emotion at the time of the trade. (It has) increased our turn, increased our gross profit, our used inventory significantly.
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Glendale Haley-Davidson®
Daniel Vartanian
Daniel Vartanian, General Manager of Glendale Harley-Davidson®, discusses the reasons behind their decision to implement the PSX Digital system, as well as the results they are already seeing.
One of the best selling points of the (PSXDigital CXMAi) platform was that it's built specifically for the Powersports industry. It wasn't something that was for automotive that we're adapting to use for motorcycle sales.
The biggest impact PSX had for the sales associates that they were able to stay on top of all the tasks they needed to do daily. It kept them organized and it allowed them to ensure that they captured customer data in a timely manner.
On the manager side of it, the system allowed our sales managers to go to one report to ensure that we were hitting what we needed.
I think one of the most interesting things about PSX and why somebody needs to really look into it to make their store better is because of its advanced technology. It's not your dad's traditional CRM; it's using today's latest technology and the benefits of Ai. Bringing it into your dealership makes you stronger and puts you ahead of your competition.
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