Mike Townsend

Mike Townsend is the owner of Townsend Strategies, a sales and leadership training and marketing company that advises independent tire dealerships. To contact Townsend, email him at [email protected].

MTD
'My best advice is to develop a robust customer experience process and make sure your people have a pragmatic, zero-pressure process that makes it easy to gain the customer’s trust and additional business,' says Mike Townsend.
Retail

How to Up-Sell Without Pressuring Customers

Nov. 5, 2024
Now more than ever, the American consumer feels an enormous amount of pressure.
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Retail

Tire Dealer Survival Guide: How to Connect With Customers By Phone

May 28, 2024
If you know how to use great phone skills, you can ensure that every customer engagement is memorable, meaningful and measurable.
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Salespeople can accelerate trust with customers by asking the right questions at the right time.
Retail

Sales and Leadership: The Art of Persuading Others

Nov. 1, 2023
It has been said that convincing someone to buy from you and influencing an employee to produce more than required are similar in nature.
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Featured Stories

How to Deal with Difficult Customers

May 20, 2022
Today, your salespeople and technicians must be trained to educate the customer and build trust quickly. Why? Because most of the time, difficult customers are created by you ...
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Featured Stories

Undercover Report: Tips to Close the Sales Gap From a Secret Shopper

Dec. 3, 2021
Do you think your sales team is firing on all cylinders? Mike Townsend visited 70 stores as part of a secret shopper exercise and he says in those visits not a single employee...
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Management

Tire Dealer Survival Guide: How to Create a Repeatable, Superior Customer Experience

May 19, 2021
Why is delivering good, old-fashioned customer service not enough in today's hyper-competitive market? How can you "make the switch" to providing a repeatable...