DealerJobs.co.uk

Well its late December, and Sales Managers start feeling good.  Not only are they looking forward to rare time off, they are looking forward to the next few months, traditionally busy periods within the trade.  So less pressure from above, making these souls, happy for a short time.

But as always, and after a short break, they realise they may not have the best performing team, and its time to go for the weakest members.

There is nothing more infuriating, than seeing customers walk, some may not have even been spoken to, and sales staff, delivering less than 15-20 cars, happy with their lot.  Well its not their lot, its yours, and sales staff sitting on their hands are quite literally taking the preverbial.

Not only do poor performing staff deliver low profit, they also de-motivate your good performers.  Yes there are still some sales staff out there that love working with poor team members, after all it makes them look better, and they earn more money, but the trend is growing for teams full of performers.

To manage a team of good performers, you need to be up to the job yourself, and unfortunately, the motor trade is quite short of these managers.  It still has managers that time and time again, employ below average staff, I personally think it is a confidence thing, some one to beat up in morning meetings, when the real focus should be on them for managing the poor results.  It also looks good to their superiors, when they pul out the axe and offer the poor performing employee up as a sacrafice, mainly to keep their own jobs, this so called show of strong management, is actually rather weak.

So the best performing managers need new staff as they are probably growing and taking on more responsibility, and the weak managers need more staff, as they could not manage the last lot.

Win Win for recruitment yet again

Obviously there are exceptions, but when is the Motor Trade going to wake up to the power of domain names?

Companies like Jardines are at the forefront, and is it any wonder why they seem to be bucking the trend in these quiet times.

Others are just so happy seeing the increased revenue the Internet has brought them, that they now just sit on their hands, and think creating pretty websites is enough.  Well as most of you reading this will know, it plainly is not.

Wake up, and add some domain names to your Internet portfolio, not only will you benefit from increased traffic, hence more profit, but you still own the domain, which, come on lets face it, is hardly going to depreciate, so you you own an extra piece of Internet property, which you can sell on at any time.  It’s a no brainer.

So where do you find the right domain names?  Well you could not go far wrong if you visited http://www.acorndomains.co.uk , at Acorn they have one of the largest domain buying and selling communities in the world, ask the forum for the type of name you are after, and within minutes you will have a list of domains, with the prices you need to pay.

There are also many links on www.AcornDomains.co.uk which will take you to other domain buying arenas, so get your cheque books out, and grab some of those customers who you are missing at the moment.

And remember, most of you are paying PPC fee’s, running into thousands a quarter, buying a quality domain could bring you all this traffic for free.

You know that quiet guy, that looks after you Internet, go speak to him today

This will enable us to rapidly fill our jobs board, and to give recruitment companies and employers the opportunity to see what we can do for them.

Quality will be strictly monitored, and any spam links will be reported as so.

This is a free service, lets make it a quality one where job advertiser and job seekers can benefit.

With our new affiliates in Birmingham, Kirkcaldy, Cheltenham, Manchester, Liverpool, Hastings and South West London in reach of most of the UK, and ready to drive prospective candidates to our network, all we need to do now is let the UK Motor Trade know we are here.

Some of the UK’s biggest Motor Trade recruitment agencies have been listed on our agency directory page. And Dealer Jobs intends to drive plenty of candidates through there, in their search for a new position.

Although DealerJobs.co.uk is a jobs board, we believe in old fashioned search and selection. Recruitment companies that are proud of their candidates, and not just throwing mud at the wall, as so many seem to do these days.

Don’t get me wrong though, it’s a business and they do what they have to, I personally just wish they would do it better.

As for the quality companies, hats off to them, years in the business and still as focused and as profitable as ever.

So why would we like to drive more traffic to the recruitment companies and not just more motor trade businesses to our job boards?

The answer is because it works better.

We can expertly gather organic search traffic via the internet, we can advertise impartially around the UK, and more importantly, we can target dealer personnel to visit our site without any real conflict of interest occuring.

I could go on, but hey I’m preaching to the already converted.

Dealer Jobs will continue to add agencies, but if you are not listed and would like to be, simply drop us an email and you will be listed same day. A recipricol link would be great but not needed. info@dealerjobs.co.uk

With our new site nearly ready, we thought we had better make an entry in our new blog.

So let me say a big ’Hello’ from the team at DealerJobs.co.uk

If you have dealt with us previously you know exactly how we do things, and we will continue to bring you the most cost effective way to recruit in the motor trade, bringing you results throughout the year.

If you are new to Dealer Jobs, then please have a look at out website and see if you too could benefit from using our services.

Applications direct to your inbox, or we can handle it for you at no extra cost, only sending you the applicants that meet your requirements.  You can post your job adverts for a little as two weeks or have them running for a whole month, the choice is yours.

You don’t even have to spend time entering all the job details, just send us an email and we can do it for you, one quick approval email and your job is posted, or you could choose to use a job template you have created before, getting your job online within minutes.

We take the jobs to motor trade emplyees around the uk in several different ways, from leaflets, targeted google adwords and through our search engine optimised network of motor trade websites.

We will be launching four websites shortly, each one using a different name, maximising organic search engine traffic, and bringing you a greater audience for your job adverts.

Place any job advert with us, and it appears on our whole network at no extra cost.  And as we add more sites, you benefit from their traffic also.

Thats all for now, but best of luck with the rest of September.