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Remote Precision Support Offers Personalized Training, Increased Efficiency

GPS Ontario utilizes Trimble's TeamViewer app for Trimble GFX displays to provide remote support.

The COVID-19 pandemic gave GPS Ontario the opportunity to use Trimble's TeamViewer as a remote training solution, and it's something the dealership plans to continue post-COVID. When the Trimble GFX display is connected to the internet, the app allows a service technician to see what’s on a farmer’s screen and even push the buttons to configure or calibrate displays remotely.


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Kim Schimdt

Battling Burnout & Building Stability

Customer service and experience are important to every dealership, but what about when that experience comes at the expense of your precision staff? The topic of burnout is nothing new but continues to be something precision staffs are faced with. During a roundtable discussion at this summer’s Dealership Minds Summit, a group of dealers came to the consensus that call volume is the leading cause of burnout for their precision teams.  


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Remote Precision Support Saves Time & Money, So Why Aren’t We Doing It?

With remote support tools, I can solve problems with precision equipment over the phone in minutes and only bill for that short amount of time, rather than the phone time plus hours of travel to the grower's location. With such a huge time and cost savings, why aren’t more dealerships and their customers choosing remote support?


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Day in the Cab

Examining AutoPath and the GoHarvest App

John Crumbaugh, combine specialist with Sydenstricker Nobbe Partners, a 27-store John Deere dealership with locations in Missouri and Illinois, explains the benefits that AutoPath and the GoHarvest App bring to the farmers he works with.
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Day in the Cab

Using Automation to Optimize Combine Performance

John Crumbaugh, combine specialist with Sydenstricker Nobbe Partners, a 27-store John Deere dealership with locations in Missouri and Illinois, explains why he's excited about offering CombineAdvisor and MachineSync to Sydenstricker Nobbe's customers.
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Day in the Cab

How Product Specialists Can Help Your Sales Team

John Crumbaugh, combine specialist with Sydenstricker Nobbe Partners, a 27-store John Deere dealership with locations in Missouri and Illinois, explains why his dealership has adopted a "specialist" model and what benefits it brings to the sales side of the business.
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Industry Q&A

Reviewing this Year’s Precision Service Packages Post-Planting

Dealers share what they — and their customers — learned about the value of their precision service packages and what they’ll change for 2022.
With the rush of planting behind us, we reached out to dealers to get their thoughts on what they learned about the attractiveness and value of their 2021 precision service packages, what the take-rate was on the 2021 program compared to previous years and what they plan to do differently next year.
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John Crumbaugh Sydenstricker Nobbe Partners
Day in the Cab

Using Education, Specialization to Advance Your Precision Business

Who is Combine Specialist John Crumbaugh, and how is he helping spearhead Sydenstricker Nobbe Partners’ plans for the future of precision technology service?
I step carefully out of the passenger side of our rental car and into the humid 80-degree weather. We’re at Sydenstricker Nobbe Partners’ St. Charles, Mo., location, one of their 27 John Deere stores across Missouri and Illinois.
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