Time Management and Segmentation (For Used Car Dealers!)

This is another issue holding down used car dealers or baffling them into not being as productive with their time as they are capable of being.

 

Even as I write this description, I realize that this is an issue that almost every small to medium-sized business owner has in 2018. Even recent high school and college graduates get caught into the trap that this concept could minimize or eliminate completely.

 

At the root of time management is the need to fully understand time segmentation. Here are the 4 buckets that every activity, project, task, etc will fall into:

Important and Urgent Important and Not Urgent Not Important but Urgent Not Important and Not Urgent

 

Everything in the urgent and important bucket gets handled immediately! No exceptions and try your hardest to make sure things don't creep into this bucket.

The important and not urgent bucket is where the majority of your activity will fall into. Now the idea is to sequence or prioritize these things accordingly.

Not important but urgent things are a solicitation call that you are not interested in. The phone is ringing and will stop if you don't answer it soon. There is urgency but it's not important.

Then there are the items that jump into crowbar their way into your daily or weekly routines that are neither important nor urgent. These are death to spend a bunch of time on, just try to move them off of your plate as quickly as possible to get back to bucket #2, important but not urgent.

No big magic trick here for all my used car dealer friends! Just identify what bucket everything falls into, prioritize within each individual bucket, and things will start falling into place.

The additional time you will create with this process will be yours to spend in any way you deem fit. Perhaps you need more time with the family, time segmentation! 

Need more time to reinvest back into the business but need to sleep? Time segmentation! This process really works if you take action and be patient as you step through the process.

 

Author: Mike Ramos (president and founder of Your Car Dealer Bond LLC)

 

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1. We offer a service that can help you migrate away from your current Gmail to an email that has been branded to your business like [email protected] for instance.

 

2. Our marketing team is also creating stunning logos, business card layouts, stationary, etc. (some samples below).

 

3. We can also develop a super affordable, high-quality website for your business. www.cardealerbondnow.com is a good example of the type of interactive website we are building these days.

 

4. We can also help you with your Dealer Insurance to make certain that your business is protected once that need presents itself.

 

5. Press Releases and Freelance Writing to maximize your brand exposure!  

 

When you get to the point where you need some of the above-mentioned products/service, I hope that you will keep us in mind. 

 

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Here are the most common questions we get that are related to used car dealer bonds so we are putting in a quick FAQ section in case it helps:

 

 

Q: I'm a Wholesale-Only Dealer and only want to buy from auction at a discount. Can I get a lower bond than $50,000?

A: You can get a $10,000 surety bond as a California Used Car Wholesaler if you don't exceed 24 sales transactions per year.

 

Q: As a Wholesale-Only Dealer, I sell less than 25 vehicles per year. Does it matter how many vehicles I buy?

A: No, the California DMV only tracks sales transactions not purchase transactions to determine this bond amount as of 2018. 

 

Q: What is the best form of marketing for a California used car dealer in 2018? 

A: It really depends on about 10 to 15 follow up questions to really get this answer correct. As a used auto dealer in a competitive environment, specific research is key because some methods of advertising are simply too saturated. 

 

I would be glad to help with the 10 - 15 follow-up questions that would dictate the best methods of marketing for your small business.

If you really want to take action then email me today at [email protected]