“Like Watching Game Tape”: Exposing How Deals Slip on the Floor—And How to Fix It | Jake Cronin, CEO and Founder of Siro

Today I’m joined by Jake Cronin, CEO and Founder of Siro. The untapped profit potential hiding in F&I, winning strategies to secure consent to record customers, using data to diagnose dealership challenges—and more.
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3. Siro - Siro helps dealers unlock the full value of every sales conversation. By combining AI with in-person sales tech, Siro captures, analyzes, and activates showroom interactions so managers and reps can make smarter decisions, faster. Learn more at https://www.siro.ai/
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Topics:
00:22 How will Series B funding help?
01:29 What inspired Jake's sales journey?
04:14 Cero: Google Analytics for showrooms?
06:23 Implementing Cero in dealerships how?
13:35 Overcoming sales team skepticism?
18:39 Fixing fixed ops problems?
19:52 Data insights boost sales how?
21:26 Quantifying Cero's ROI?
35:18 Future of in-person recording?
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