With an actual weekday off, this 5th of July, I took this time to chat with my buddy Joe Johnson about the motorcycle business. I love talking about ideas with folks looking to serve powersports folks and find new ways to do that. Joe and I get down a rabbit hole or two about our thoughts on serving powersports dealerships and how these dealerships can get more accomplished with less wasteful energy expended. 

Some ways that reps like us can help our dealer clients be better: 

Get nosey in their business. 

Train to NOT Judge A Book By The Cover – Joe’s “Elvis Story” 

Help in Differentiating – Reps can bring perspective in this. 

Building Advocates and Evangelists. 

Move From In A Rut – To A Place of Creativity for Growth. 

“Here you go competition!” – Alpha Guy secret (LOL)

The Strength of Looking Inside VS Outside your organization - in building Evangelists aka Influencers. 

Entrust Your Staff To Gain Their Creativity Unlock. 

The Idea Box to Grid Out/Plan New Idea Implementation (It isn’t what you’d think!)

Barista style competitive tip jars approach. 

Plug into Creativity. Embrace “Skippy level” ownership freedom from management to staff.  Dealership fiXit Episode 14 with Ryan McPherson here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/need-insight-on-sort-pg-folks-you-should-hire-ryan/id1449367603?i=1000430366176

Keep the needed SOP but add perspective to know what needs changed, example thru communication with your outside vendor reps. 

There are a couple books he recommends you pick up if you like some of the ideas he keeps as go-to for how to best serve

“Thinkertoys” by Michael Michalko - http://creativethinking.net/#sthash.pss0C7YW.mWM32h10.dpbs

“Steal Like an Artist” by Auston Kleon - https://austinkleon.com/steal/

Link up with Joe here:

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/joe-johnson-78abb010/

Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/joseph.d.johnson.56

Facebook Page - https://www.facebook.com/Powersports-People-331038881155600/?__tn__=%2Cd%2CP-R&eid=ARACFgxZuh0ZFMPJAVwD927WexgAFgdJvqC0afZk9v1k2VhtdWC47KcnOcJJvsEadRsBCZg7Q0fCgEi3

The company Joe works for (as I’m sure you are aware of if you’ve worked in powersports industry for more than 5 minutes) - Tucker Powersports: https://www.tucker.com/

If you want to discuss anything talked about in this podcast or my others, please email me at: [email protected]

Dealership fiXit is a podcast about sharing ways to make your dealership better. Basic premise is that you are the fiXit for your dealership. 

I hope to offer fresh perspective thru interviews of others who have been where you are or offer a product or service to propel your results.

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