Among those are the KYPs.
The KYPs include, but are not limited to, the following.
Know your Prospects (KYP),
“ “ Product,
“ ” Presentation,
“ “ Processes,
“ “ Problems.
“ “ Procedures.
All success is predicated on processes and procedures that UNDERSTAND the problems to be navigated, and routinely yield the desired result, in an honest, ethical, and sustainable fashion.
If your operations KYPs aren’t honest or ethical, you can guarantee that they aren’t sustainable. In fact, we can go a step further.
If your business doesn’t have a process that is pleasant for prospects and for the sales staff, it may be honest, and it can even technically be ethical. But if it is unpleasant, it too will sooner-or-later fail.
Want proof?
Consider Mobile America, Palm Harbor Homes (pre-2008), or any number of operations that used a sales process that was uncomfortable for prospects and sales people alike. They had high turnover on sales staff, and they also had enough unhappy customers with the process that they went out of business.
Which brings us to the $64 Billion-dollar question.
What is the $64 Billion Dollar Question?
If the SAAR by the U.S. Census Bureau proves accurate, we can anticipate about $6,900,000,000 in manufactured home sales. That’s $6.9 billion at the retail level. Here’s how you get there. $75,000 x 92,000. For more details, see the report below.
To rephrase from the report linked above, manufactured housing – in a typical market, odds are, like the one you are in – could grow by 900% sustainably.
So what is the 64 billion dollar question? It’s this.
What has to happen to achieve that outcome?
In part, training. But also mindset. Without the right mindset, the best coaching in the world will fail.
Barry Noffsinger in the presentation linked below explained that not only is professional sales training lacking today in many (not all) operations, but so too is proper marketing for the upscale buyer.
Marketing and sales training ideally energizes those engaged, and motivates them to take one baby step at a time to grow their outcomes.
The market tells us day by day that manufactured homes could be the solution, and properly presented, are accepted.
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Think about what the facts tell us. With 8 million affordable housing units need today, there is one clear answer. Modern, HUD Code manufactured homes. They are the future, for those who know how to market, present, and sell them. Merry Christmas, and plan on making your new year in 2018 bright. ## (Marketing, sales, management, coaching, trade media.)
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