I am always searching for ideas and best practices.  They only way to prevent wasting time on mistakes is to learn from others that have already made the journey and made and corrected the mistakes on the way to creating a best practice.  I find these ideas and best practices from meetings, webinars, videos and reading articles.  

We all go to meetings.  Most of us in the car business attend at least 1 sales meeting per week.  We attend webinars and watch videos. We have access to ideas from people that are killing it in what they do.  Don't waste that time.  

Here are 5 things to do to make sure that your ideas are put into actionL

1. Find the idea and best practice.  Watch a minimum of 15 minutes per day of good video instruction or read 15 minutes of good written material.  You are looking for ways to improve your skills in all areas  - building relationships, marketing, prospecting, product knowledge etc.
2. Always have a notepad (electronic or written) with you.  Take it to every meeting you attend, video or webinar you watch or article you read.  Take all notes - anything that is interesting, get it down for later reference.
3. Always have post-it notes in addition to the notepad.  Seperate from your notes on your notepad - put your action items on a post-it note.  As you are taking notes, there will no doubt be ideas and best practices that you want to implement - take action on.  You want to get to work on these things ASAG.  These are things from the meeting or video or article that you JUST CAN'T AFFORD TO FORGET!                      
4. Immediately after the meeting, video or reading time - file the notes - I use Evernote as my electronic filing cabinet.  
5. The most important Action Step is to take the Post-It notes and get them on your calendar - Make the Plan to take action NOW!

Expect To Win!

--Jim