There is a strategic approach to sales where building relationships and trust with customers is just as important as the numbers and machinery itself — especially when navigating appraisals and trade-ins.
Sara Loritz, parts technician at Vanderloop Equipment in Brillion, Wis., estimates that she spends 75% of her time at work talking with customers, whether on the phone or in person.
Robb Vanderloop, CFO and Co-Owner of Vanderloop Equipment, talks about the current state of precision features in equipment and the challenges that a fully autonomous system must overcome before it can become a viable option.
“Things are way ahead of schedule,” says Johnson Tractor precision specialist Dave Thompson, who can now shift from service to sales mode with the extra time on his hands. “We have customers that are done already and it’s not even November yet. I’ve yet to talk to anybody that’s not happy with their yields.
Sitting in the stands at Camp Randall Stadium (the home of the Wisconsin Badgers) watching an ag machinery OEM advertise to a crowd of mostly suburban folk makes me “see red.”
The tale of the Pitcher Whisperer immediately reminded me of a recent interview I did with Vanderloop Equipment's Mark Vanderloop, who I’ll call the “Tech Whisperer” of the 3-store AGCO dealership.
High costs are apparently keeping many ag retailers from adding drone pesticide spraying, fertilizer applications, cover crop seeding and field imagery to their lineup of services offered to farmers.
Jason Boyles, store manager for Sloan Implement in Vincennes, Ind., shares how the dealership is approaching the upcoming harvest season and shares why managing their used equipment inventory could prove to be the biggest challenge ahead.
We had a front-row seat to the launch of AEF’s Agricultural Interoperability Network (AgIN) at AGRITECHNICA a few weeks ago, which promises to ease the process of data sharing for farmers and dealers.
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