No Excuses – Supercar Driver

RPM Technik focus on how years of sustaining Porsches lends itself so effectively to promoting them, and why they provide a few of the most meticulously ready Porsches available on the market. Written by: RPM Technik

Speaking with the group at RPM Technik, it’s intriguing to know how their enterprise
has developed from a single founding member of employees to the 23-strong group they run right now. Contemplating they’ve at all times been one-marque specialists, this achievement is all of the extra spectacular. While the enterprise is roughly two-thirds technical and engineering targeted and one-third gross sales, a big proportion of latest shoppers to the enterprise find yourself coming by the gross sales division. With as much as 25 Porsches on the market at anyone level, the most important introducer of latest site visitors to RPM Technik’s web site is through the gross sales channel. Naturally, these digital enquiries ultimately result in bodily conferences the place shoppers come down to fulfill the group.

As a rule, these new shoppers are handled to a behind-the-scenes have a look at what the enterprise does, which regularly results in real shock. “I really imagine the range of labor that our group can undertake is class-leading. There aren’t any different specialists that may supply complete options for each facet of Porsche possession from each basic to fashionable”, explains Greig Daly, RPM Technik Gross sales Director. Greig joined the director group at RPM Technik alongside founding Director Ollie Preston and fellow Director Darren Anderson.

Greig’s introduction to the group a decade in the past was key to the evolution of the gross sales aspect of the enterprise. “We began again in 2012, with a really targeted workshop group and an rising gross sales division. With the workshop group setting such exceptionally excessive requirements for getting ready gross sales automobiles, it was truly actually exhausting in the beginning. I discovered consumers didn’t know sufficient about who we have been or how we got here to be promoting Porsches. Finally although, with militant consistency for each shopper service and automobile high quality, our repute grew”.

RPM Technik now sells round 130 used Porsche fashions per yr, with a robust bias in the direction of the GT mannequin ranges. With the Hertfordshire-based outfit being a market chief in constructing and organising Manthey Racing Porsche fashions, being Europe’s main provider of Floor Transforms ceramic brake upgrades and having a prolific repute for upgrading GT3, GT4 and RS fashions, it’s a synergy that makes a complete lot of sense.

With house owners at all times excited by sampling totally different flavours of Porsche, with the ability to present their shoppers with an unbiased opinion on which automobile could also be the most suitable choice to go along with subsequent completely goes towards the grain of the old- normal gross sales strategies of promoting what’s within the showroom. It’s a core precept that, while providing nearly zero short-term profit to the enterprise, provides new shoppers the idea that the gross sales group’s actions converse louder than phrases. We will provide you with the perfect recommendation and ultimately we are going to do enterprise collectively, whether or not that’s on this sale or on one in eight years’ time!

The RPM Technik gross sales group was bolstered by the hiring of Alex Cooper three years in the past, which is an attention-grabbing story in itself. Alex, a lifelong fan of something Porsche, had at all times dreamt of working with the model and approached Greig 4 years previous to becoming a member of the squad. Again then, Alex was one of many UK’s main gross sales guys within the Fiat world, studying his craft and proving very profitable, nonetheless his expertise in increased worth gross sales was nearly non-existent. Alex reminisced, “After I first met Greig, Darren and later Ollie, I knew immediately I wished to work with them, and while I used to be desperately disenchanted after I didn’t get the job the primary time round, their recommendation was actually helpful”.

The RPM Technik director group may see the expertise Alex had however wished him to achieve some extra expertise and have been impressed when, 4 years later, after a profitable stint working for Mercedes in Tub, Alex returned for a job interview. “Clearly he landed the job on advantage, however his dedication to following our recommendation was refreshing to see at the present time”, beams Darren Anderson, Industrial Director. “To have such power in depth throughout the gross sales group, simply as we have now within the workshop group, is important, particularly as we appear to be getting busier month on month”.

RPM Technik’s well-established gross sales mannequin that gives a protected and safe ‘Sale or Return’ mechanism for shoppers to promote their Porsche is just gaining popularity. When consigning your automobile with them, it not solely will get marketed and offered on the right worth, however each the proprietor and purchaser should purchase or promote with a very clear conscience that the automobile has been ready to RPM Technik’s exacting requirements, and will be pushed as Porsche meant.

Greig recounts, “Just a few years again, loads of the ultra-high-value automobiles have been purchased and tucked away
as pure investments which is honest sufficient, however we have now seen a radical change in our shoppers shopping for automobiles to make use of them. It’s improbable to see, and means the core mantra of prepping the automobiles correctly that we instilled years in the past now actually involves the forefront. I will be comfy that the Porsches we promote are so effectively ready that some shoppers have collected and brought them straight to the Nürburgring from the showroom for 3 days on monitor with full confidence. That place takes no prisoners, so we should be sure that our automobiles not solely look fairly on handover, however extra importantly, they’re mechanically prepared to bounce all day on monitor”.