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Upselling Parts & Service

In this sales-focused session, Dean Devore dives into the techniques you need to successfully upsell in your parts and service departments and as a result grow your bottom line and make sure customers have everything they need. The founder of Parts Academy, Devore was raised in a family dealership and has worked for 5 global OEMs with strong dealer organizations, and uses that background to teach non-sales employees how to be comfortable with selling. During this session, you’ll discover the proven approach to making customers receptive to upselling.

You'll Learn: The two forms of upselling — assumptive selling & suggestive selling — how to use them & when it makes the most sense to employ each tactic.

The 11th Annual Dealership Minds Summit, happening July 29 – 30, 2025, in Iowa City, Iowa, features collaborative, dealer-to-dealer learning over a 2-day, knowledge-packed agenda that is guaranteed to give you authoritative strategies from the most progressive minds at farm equipment dealers. Over both days, the Summit offers:

  • Focused General Session Presentations: providing a roadmap for implementing leading ideas and technologies for equipment retailing and servicing success.
  • Dealer-to-Dealer Panel Presentations: highly interactive sessions that provide practical, proven strategies in use by the industry’s most successful dealerships.
  • Informal & Interactive Roundtable Discussions: discover actionable dealer strategies — and answers to your specific questions — via an array of moderated yet informal roundtables.
  • Unrivaled Networking & Knowledge Sharing: exchange successes, dissect challenges and vet out ideas with director-level farm equipment dealership leaders in sales, marketing, finance, operations and IT.
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Taxes and Cattle Operations

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Farmers and ranchers plan and budget for the long-term, but changes in the tax code can harm their success. Mark Eisele, a rancher from Wyoming who also served as the 2024 president of the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, Kent Bacus, Executive Director of Government Affairs for NCBA, and Jeff Magee, a cattle producer from Mississippi who also served as the 2024 chair of NCBA’s Tax and Credit Committee, discuss how recent changes in tax laws have affected cattle producers, and what might be coming.