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  1. Internet Sales Manager Pay Plans

    Internet Sales Manager & Internet Sales Representative Pay Plans

    One of the most common mistakes when it comes to incentives is a focus only and specifically on money as a way to motivate people to perform. It takes far more than a well-thought out pay plan to motivate people to perform and keep turnover to a minimum. A good work environment and customized non-monetary benefits may be even more effective than pay in employee satisfaction and performance. For example, a flexible ...
  2. Pay & Compensation - Rewards that Motivate

    The two major motivational objects are:
    1. Reward - something of material value and
    2. Recognition - public expression of excellence and achievement
    Although most reward systems are based upon material reward, the most motivating of all gratuities is public recognition.

    The primary reason for any reward is to increase the quantity or quality of performance of employees to the benefit of the dealer. The reward is usually mutually beneficial to both employer and employee, ...
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  3. Dealer Reputation Management

    A Step-by-Step Approach to Managing Online Reviews

    1. Get Top Management Buy-in
    a. Must change entire mindset & culture of store
    2. Motivate Sales Teams, Service Writers, Parts & Body Shop personnel
    a. Salespeople work their pay plans
    b. Remove all spiffs & replace with $25/review for 3.5 / 5 rating or better.
    Facebook reviews count only if accompanied with photo of customer with car
    c. Must have 5 or more reviews per month
    d. Pay out weekly in
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    Updated 05-15-2010 at 02:54 PM by Erica

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  4. Dealers Block Social Media

    An article from a business journal highlighted a company’s reservations on the subject of new technology that many businesses were overwhelmed with. The solution was to restrict employees’ use because of the fear of marketable secrets being exposed; inside information shared, and workers simply wasting their time. Company executives resolved the dilemma by locating a single station in the middle of the workplace so that everyone could keep a watchful eye on those while they used it. That article ...
  5. Outsource Your Reputation Management?

    Google Alerts offers notification of automated searches of your dealership name and other keywords including News, Web, Blogs, and more. You're notified by email when your keywords show up in searches, but don’t think of this as reputation management on autopilot. While automated tools notify you when your dealer name shows up, bear in mind that's when the work begins.

    If you can't, or won't dedicate the time necessary to do the work to follow up you can pay someone to do the work ...
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