"An entrepreneur with a strong network makes money even when he is asleep."

-Amit Kalantri" 

Free AMSOIL Dealer Webpage. 

We're still offering a free Dealer webpage like this one https://lubedirect.com/test/

If you are interested in one fill out this form so I can get one started for you. There is no cost to have one. https://forms.gle/KGUeNqPK5gWaWNmY9

Also all dealers on our team are eligible for a free login on our AMSOIL Buy Local Dealer Directory. This is for you and your Retailer/Installer accounts to create a listing to help you get found online. We currently have 487 active listings. The more listings, the better it helps everyone.  All you have to do is ask... https://amsoilbuylocal.lube-direct.com/

If you care to pay for a website with AMSOIL...

AMSOIL has recently partnered with a company called AimClear which can provide AMSOIL Dealer websites. There are 4 different plans based on the dealers needs. 

1. Starter for $48/yr.
2. Growth $25/mo.
3. Enhanced $50/mo.
4. Professional $200/mo.

Note that plans 2-4 require dealer input for added content and promotions. If you are not internet savvy and just need a basic dealer webpage consider the Starter or better yet grab one of our free dealer webpages for free. 

Another option is to have a personal dealer website that is made specifically for you. You can find your own web designer. If you would like suggestions we work with several web design companies and can give you a referral. 
 

New Training for getting new Installer Accounts

Installer Training is our latest investment in Dealer success in the installer market. The new program is designed to help you navigate the complexities of landing installer accounts.

Installer Training  

Installer Training is comprised of a series of short videos that provide detailed information covering each step of the installer sales process. The program features information on our targeted industries, how to handle different scenarios you may encounter when approaching installer businesses and marketing tools available to help you find success.

Why Introduce Installer Training?  

Installer accounts operate businesses with higher demands and more complex needs than a typical online/catalog customer or Preferred Customer (P.C.). This makes pursuing these types of businesses uniquely challenging. We want to help Dealers be more successful in attracting installer accounts. Installer Training was developed to help Dealers fully understand the sales process for installers so they can take what they learn out into the field.  

Who is Installer Training For?  

Installer Training is designed for all Dealers who are interested in selling to quick lubes, full-service garages, powersports service garages or specialty shops. Whether you have experience with these types of accounts or not, gaining a better understanding of how AMSOIL products can be successfully sold in installer markets is important. It’s also a good idea to promote Installer Training with your entire Dealer team to ensure everyone is on the same page when pursuing installer opportunities.

To get started with Installer Training, navigate to Programs>Installer Training in the Dealer Zone.

Must be logged in for the link below. 

https://dz.amsoil.com/task-programs/90

If you don't own it, you can lose it. 

Understanding that any social media platform that you use and post content to is not yours. Your profile, your content etc. It can go away at any moment. 

Learn to use social that helps your other content like your website or gathering emails. Two places on the internet that you can own is your website if you have a domain and your own hosting, as long as you back up your website you can move it if your host shuts you down for any reason. 

You email list. While for most people email is a nuisance, all emails that you have in your contact manager or your email marketing platform you own and control. 

Names, addresses and phone numbers. AMSOIL provides all of your clients and downline dealers contact information that you can use to help your customers. Just follow the G4000 AMSOIL policies and procedures when sending and contacting your customers. 
 

Is sponsoring that important?
 

When we first started in AMSOIL back in 2000 we were not interested in the sponsoring aspect of the business. We loved the fact that you could earn a full-time income with preferred customers, retailers and commercial accounts. Several months after we had become dealers we were introduced to several coaches that stressed the importance of sponsoring. 

Step one, complete the AMSOIL Sponsor Basic Training to get a good understanding of the program. 

Next, create a gameplan to begin introducing potential AMSOIL Dealers to the Program. Some of your current customers like PC's, Commercial Accounts and even Retail shops could become dealers in the future. 

Continue learning through education. We've read several great books and audio on sponsoring. 

-- Jim Rohn, Building Your Network Marketing Business. https://amzn.to/3LIsjnI

-- Go Pro - 7 Steps to Becoming a Network Marketing Professional: https://amzn.to/49XTC5h

-- Fearless Networking - Create Better Connections, Invite with Ease, Obliterate Objections, Follow Up and Close Like a Pro! https://amzn.to/4bXFYSk

Beach Money: Creating Your Dream Life Through Network Marketing:  https://amzn.to/4t751II

When we became AMSOIL Dealers there was a training book about sponsoring and one of the quotes in that book that stuck with me is: "Sell for today's income and sponsor for tomorrow's income" 

What this means is that building a sales team by sponsoring others can help you in the long run when you are no longer able to get out and work your business. Having a lot of buying customers is great, but it takes continually adding new customers. By sponsoring and training others you can build your business faster and have more steady income down the road that can keep growing even when you are unable to. This is the beauty of the AMSOIL Opportunity. 

I've had this page on my website for years. The information on here is solid and you can feel free to use any part of it in your own recruiting and marketing: https://amsoil.lube-direct.com/amsoil-business/

Learn and understand how to take advantage of all the AMSOIL Marketing Plan... This will help you grow your business faster: 
 

The overriding priority in our Marketing Plan is a Business Opportunity for AMSOIL Dealers. AMSOIL INC. provides programs and support mechanisms to help AMSOIL Dealers earn a residual income mainly through the sponsorship and training of other AMSOIL Dealers, as well as the utilization of the sales programs. 

Tax Season:

There is a huge tax advantage to being an AMSOIL Dealer. Here are some potential tax savings. If you have a full time job and are currently paying income taxes you can deduct your AMSOIL business expenses against that income. If you paid $10,000 to the IRS from your W2, you can deduct the items below against that. Even if your business didn't make a profit. 

1. Startup Costs 
2. Home Office Deduction (internet, website, phone for business, electric, water, etc.)
3. Business Use of Your Car (Prospecting, Visiting, Customer service, shows)
4. Equipment and Supplies (Demo products, Clothing, Marketing items)
5. Business Expenses (Any costs related to your business)
6. Education and Training Expenses (training course, books, memberships etc)
7. Tax Preparation Fees (You are paying these anyway, now you can deduct them)
8. Travel expenses for business related activities

Maps radius. 

How much business is within 25, 50, or 100 miles from you? In most cases there is more business in your local area than you realize. While it seems that AMSOIL is "Everywhere" in reality less than 1% of the lubricant market is AMSOIL. You could earn a full time plus income within 25 miles of your location. While many dealers are focusing on the internet. Maybe it's time to reevaluate your local marketing? 

Use this cool tool to create a radius around your and see what's in your area. https://www.calcmaps.com/map-radius/

Secondly you can also use this tool to see the population in any given area. https://demographicsbyradius.com/population-in-radius-map

The town nearest us (Clarksville, TN) has over 150,000 people. Nashville TN is over 500,000 people. Getting 1% of that is 1,500 and 5,000 respectively. I believe you could earn a nice commission working with 1500 people! 

Working local events! 

Gun Shows are a great low cost way to get in front of a good amount of people. Here are some sites where you can search for local gun shows: https://rkshows.com/

https://gunshowtrader.com/

Now that we have firearm cleaner and lube there should be no issue getting into the show. And you probably could sell enough product to pay for you booth at the show. The idea is to get in front of people, talk about the advantages of AMSOIL and helping them get signed up as Customers, or business owners. 

Other local events could be chamber meetings, car clubs and shows, outdoor shows, fishing and hunting shows, etc. Remember, meeting new people and building relationships is key to building a successful business. 

AMSOIL Buy Local Dealer Training Modules. 

I have create some Dealer Training Modules for you to look over before beginning with the AMSOIL Buy Local Directory. 

1. Dealer Training
2. How to write a good AMSOIL Dealer Directory Listing
3. Webinar Why AMSOIL Buy Local and How to create a listing
4. How to write a good Retailer Installer Directory Listing
5. Promoting your Retailers
6. Maintain Your AMSOIL Buy Local Listings

If you would like to take advantage of this powerful marketing tool for you and your accounts please just send me a message with your name and dealer number and we will set up a login and password for you. You can email me at 1michaelsparks@gmail.com

Educate yourself and your customers! 

Learning something new about AMSOIL and how to build your business is exciting. We are constantly reading articles, watching videos and learning new and better ways to become more successful with AMSOIL. 

There are no lack of dealer tool should you have the desire to learn. 

AMSOIL Service Line is a bi-monthly publication that goes out to Commercial and Retail/Installer accounts. https://serviceline.amsoil.com/

AMSOIL Dealer Magazine/PC Magazine comes to you each and every month. Hope you have a chance to read the great articles and more importantly apply that knowledge to help your customers. Any dealer that reads these has a leg up on the competition. I would guess most lubricant sales people don't have 1/2 the knowledge that a well educated dealer does. Take advantage of these tools. 

AMSOIL YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@AMSOILinc

You could spend days watching all the great content that AMSOIL puts out. Use this to help you make more money. Don't forget if you share it, be sure to put a link to your personal website or to a page on AMSOIL that also includes your dealer transferring number. This is important if you want to be able to get new customers from it. 

Linking Your Website
Dealer-number transferring links are URLs to corporate AMSOIL webpages with your Dealer number attached. These links allow you to direct prospective customers and Dealers to the information they need while also keeping them connected to you as a Dealer and ensuring you receive commissions on any purchase they make.

To create a Dealer-number transferring link:

Navigate to the target page on AMSOIL.com, AMSOIL.ca or blog.AMSOIL.com.

Highlight the complete URL from the navigation bar in the web browser.
Hold Ctrl-C to copy.
Hold Ctrl-V to paste URL where you are linking from on your website.
Add "?zo=1234567" to the end of the URL (use your actual Dealer number).
Example: https://www.amsoil.com/p/signature-series-5w30-synthetic-motor-oil-asl/?zo=1234567

If there is already a question mark anywhere in the URL you selected, use an "&" instead of a question mark.

Example: https://www.amsoil.com/w/InformationRequest.aspx?type=catalog&zo=1234567

AMSOIL - MyGarage: 

AMSOIL has updated the MyGarage (after me asking about it for at least 3 years) so that dealers could promote this free tool to potential customers. Now when you use a ZO transfer link and a customer signs up you will get credit for that customers and they should show up in your new customer report. Of course you won't earn any commissions until they order something, but you could reach out to them and thank them for registering and offer any assistance. 

Secondly the MyGarage could be a really great tool for Fleets that would like to track maintenance for all their vehicles and equipment. I don't believe there is any other service like this out there. They can track maintenance even if they don't use AMSOIL product. Any service can be added and track. 

Are you using your own MyGarage? 

My Garage Landing Page link

US -  https://www.amsoil.com/offers/my-garage/?zo=513524

CA -  https://www.amsoil.ca/offers/my-garage/?zo=513524

Be sure to change the zo number to yours to get credit! 

AMSOIL Dealers Who Want To Be Listed As Retailer / Installer

Did you know if you are an AMSOIL Dealer that owns a business you can have it listed on the "Find AMSOIL Near Me" locator on AMSOIL? 

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AMSOIL Preferred Customer Vs. Commercial Account for Small Business Owners

We recently ran into a situation where one of our commercial accounts was getting promotional email for the monthly PC give-a-ways. They called and complained that the promo code didn't work. Come to find out they were a PC in the past and once we determined they owned a business we encouraged them to become a Commercial Account. Then we started looking at their order history and determined for the amounts they order they probably should have stayed as a PC. They order enough throughout the year to earn a free PC membership and their orders throughout the year are about $200. Well below the requirement for free shipping as a commercial account. So they are paying $13.99 shipping. This made me realize to better qualify a commercial business to determine how much they plan on ordering. I made a page on my website explaining the differences between a commercial account vs a PC. 

Check out the page: AMSOIL Preferred Customer Vs. Commercial Account for Small Business Owners

Promoting your accounts using the AMSOIL Buy Local and the AMSOIL Locator. 

Do you follow / engage with your retail and installer accounts online like LinkedIn or Facebook? We personally use our AMSOIL Buy Local directory to help promote our active accounts. 

This does two things, it helps your accounts sell more AMSOIL and it helps build a better relationship between you and your account. We will normally post something like "Thanks to (Insert/tag your account) for the recent restock of inventory" when they make a purchase. 

When you tag your account, they see that you tagged them.

Another option that I have been thinking of recently is asking your accounts to help promote AMSOIL by taking photos and posting them on their social. This might be something to discuss with your accounts. In many cases your contact at the account might not be the same person, they may have a Social Media person so be sure to ask. 

Free Advertising for You and your Retailer/Installer accounts! 

AMSOIL is now doing sponsored ads on Facebook (and I believe Google) for the AMSOIL Locator! 

Be sure to get on the locator and stay on it by maintaining Customer Certification! 

Here is a link to the AMSOIL Dealer Certification doc. (must be logged in)  https://dz.amsoil.com/digital-library/file/2123 

Facebook Private AMSOIL Dealer Group. 

Are you in our private dealer group? Many experienced dealers on there to help you and give you ideas. Request to join if you are not yet a member: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1113058842070116

Account Direct Dealer training calls are back online! 

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Training Videos

Have you watched or re-watched all the AMSOIL Training videos put out? Did you know there was an archive for Commercial Training, Retailer Training, Dealer Tips, Products and Tech Tips? Check it out! 

https://dz.amsoil.com/digital-library/folder/220

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Do you show appreciation to your current customers? 

People buy from those the know, like and trust. Building better relationships with your customers will go a long way to help retain them as well as get referrals. Be sure to find ways to say thank you, that could be via text, email, phone calls and even real greeting cards in the mail. 

• You could use the AMSOIL Notepads to a nice letter to your customers
• You can also order personalized note/thank you cards, stationary and envelops in the dealers Print Center
• Since about 2005 we've been using a system called SendOutCards that allows you to efficiently and easily create thank you cards that are sent on your behalf. appreciatemycustomers.com/