Instructions for starting your own
automotive service business in 4 easy steps

The program we offer will make you money and help our website grow. People are putting their kids through college by listing items on ebay. We offer an even better opportunity and the clients are car dealers with huge advertising budgets. You will be offering a service to them by taking pictures of their cars and listing them on buzztrader.com. Even at $5/car a car lot with over 100 cars is a $500 paycheck. Try asking your current boss for $500.00 for a few hours work, he will probably laugh at you. But in the end, you will be the one laughing all the way to the bank.

STEP #1: You will need to do is browse the BuzzTrader.com Website. You will probably be asked questions about the site, so be prepared to answer them. For a quick summary, read these basic facts.

• Buzztrader has 10 times as much traffic as most major metropolitan news papers
• BuzzTrader is dedicated to Used Car Sales, so 100% of the traffic is potential car buyers where most other advertising media may boast big viewer numbers but only a small percentage of the viewer/readers are looking for vehicles. Such as a local newspaper, even with 20,000 subscribers, how many are actually reading the car ads? Its is usually less than a few percent or under 400.
• The internet now accounts for 30% of used car retail sales and more than 70% of cars purchased have been view online before purchasing. You just can't avoid the internet if you are going to sell cars.
• The majority of Classic car dealers sell most of their cars online without ever meeting the buyers and without the buyers ever seeing the cars.
• BuzzTrader is growing faster than e-bay did when it initially started.
• Within 1 year, estimates see BuzzTrader surpassing volume in sales of e-bay motors.
• In the first week of opening 10% of the cars listed on BuzzTrader were sold.

Those are hard facts that no one can argue with, as well as powerful tools you can use to sell your service.

STEP #2: Make a plan for visiting local car dealers. You could just "Wing It" and drive around until you find dealers, but that is not very cost effective or efficient.

The best method for finding dealers is by using 2 mediums, the local newspaper and the yellow pages. You can group together dealers in the same area or on the same streets and write out a check list of dealers to visit.

STEP #3: Print at least one of the brochures or business cards we have prepared for you so that you can give the dealer professional looking documentation or advertising material to make you more credible. You won't need a huge stack, only 20 or 30 pages to get started. You can print 1 page and copy it at a local kinko's or Library for 5 or 10 cents each for black and white and $0.75 to $1.00 each for color. You can also order professionally printed brochures directly from us for 25 cents each. That is our cost for printed trifold brochures about BuzzTrader, and we are more than happy to mail you 10, 15, 20 or even 1000 or more any time you need them.

Now, with camera in hand, you are ready to begin building your customer base.

STEP #4: Drive onto the dealers lot, you will no doubt be approached by one or more of several anxious sales people. They are like sharks waiting to strike, but don't sweat it, because what they don't know is that so are you.

Hand the sales person one of your printed flyers or brochures, explain that you have a photo service posting vehicles on a high traffic website called BuzzTrader.com (more than likely they have already head of it). The sales person wont be able to help you and wont want to because you don't represent a commission to them, so they will quickly take you to the person in charge.

Hand that person the same flyer, explain the value and cost of your service in 3 sentences or less remembering that their attention span will be short so make your sell short and precise. Within a few seconds they will either say a whopping YES or No. If they say yes, pull out your preprinted agreement with pricing and give it to them to sign. If they say No, thank them for their time and give them your business card, tell them you are in that area each week if they decide they would like to try out your service in the future.

Of course you are not done with this dealer if they said no, you have only planted the first seed. We all know they wont take NO for an answer when you go to buy a car, and you are not accepting that either. But for the first contact you have done your job, made a good impression and did not seem pushy. They have the brochure to ponder and will be primed for your next visit maybe in the next 7 to 10 days.

If you have a dealer that wants the service the best thing to do is start taking pics of cars. The first time will be the hardest since you have all the cars on the lot. When you return next week you may only have 5-10 new cars to take pics of. You may want to take a handful of pics to start and take the remainder the following week to conserve time.

Remember, the best time to meet with dealers is Monday - Thursday 9am - 4pm. On Friday through Sunday and after 4pm daily most dealers have customers to deal with and wont be interested in seeing your product and they could see it as an invasion of their valuable sale time.

The nice part is you can take pics at any time, even if the dealer is closed on Sunday, you have the lot to yourself and can quickly snap some shots of the inventory. So remember it is not prudent to spend the workday taking pics when you still need to find more dealers to fill your route.

However taking a few pics immediately will be a show of good faith and a gesture of how quickly you intend to advertise the dealers cars. So don't jet off without at least taking a few pics.

Once you have completed your rounds return home with the pics you have taken, sit down at your computer with a beer or glass of wine (you deserve it, you have just started your own business after all) and begin placing ads for your dealers. Add each dealers cars and descriptions and prices and Pow! Another day, another $500.

You are now a self employed independent on your way to becoming one of the new era of entrepreneurs capitalizing on the internets wealth.

You can continue to add dealers to your route and build your income. You will have to manage the cost of taking the pics based on your travel distance and the number of cars added each week. So your prices may change, but you now have a solid income base that you did not have yesterday.

Yes, you are going to have to work at it. But $100,000.00 salary is worth working for. It's the low paying job that makes you depressed and unwilling to work.

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