The Future of US Retail is online for everyone even small scooter stores

I honestly think that the best performing stores sell online. They have to. If they don't they live off local and regional sales.

This is why the motorcycle industry has such a high churn rate. The average dealer is too busy to really think about it, but I always see former owners at the show working as a manager at a new store. One of them came to me this year at Dealer Expo and told me that I was right, that he should have sold online. It might have saved his business. In ten years most stores only last two to three years. Few dealers have made it to ten. If they do they deserve all the respect in the world. Every market is different but the last four years have not been kind to the US motorcycle industry.

If you own a scooter store in North America right now and don't have a website. Get one today. Blog, open a facebook account, and start selling online even if its Ebay. The future of all stores depends on Social Networks.

You can spend your entire day arguing with someone over how much it costs to change his tire that he purchased on another website and brought it in to your shop or you could be drop shipping from MRP. You could be on the beach right now remote connecting, answering the phone, and working on selling some parts.

Consumers call us all day long. We get so busy they expect us to talk to them for 40 minutes about what a variator does. I always have the same answer, tell me your location and if there's not a dealer I have a list of dealers that will talk to you on the phone that sell online. We get the sale anyways, but we are one of the few companies that send this business back to the dealership in that way.

So if you can answer the phone and help people. Call us. Get set up today.

New 2012 Drop shipping program ready for our dealers

To the US Scooter Dealer Base,

Our new updated Drop Shippers .CSV file and XML files are finally ready for daily reports.  

This allows you the dealer to sell from our warehouse to the public with access to over 17,000 different items in real time. Please email us to get signed up for the daily Drop Shippers .CSV file and XML.  As always if you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask. 

Format in CSV and XML

Item, Description, Supplier, QTY in Stock, 

Weight, Dealer Price, Retail, Picture URL

Please email us with any questions. 

MRP was the first US parts company to drop ship starting in 2007 - See below. Our original program had 3,000 part numbers. We now have over 17,000 more than any other program in the USA.

Stores need a partner and thats where MRP comes in. In this new age of sales you need a distributor that doesnt take sales from you by selling directly to the customer we need distributors that go back to the traditional distribution mode helping the small business and sending clients to the store, but it gets better we want you the small shop owner to make money online. It doesnt matter if its raining or snowing outside you can make money 24/7. No matter what your local economy is doing you can sell MRP parts all day, all night, on Amazon.com, Ebay, on your site. Work from home on rainy weekends and you can make money with MRP. What we need are dealers that offer good tech support, are willing to put in the time, and understand selling parts. Every year for the past seven years Ive watched stores open and close in the winter, dont be one of those stores that doesnt prepare for the slow season. Invest in online sales and over the phone sales. Do you have a store zine? 
A newsletter? 
Maybe an in-store customer catalog? 
Let us be your partner. MRP will send you business and drop ship to your customers if you are an active MRP dealer. Again, theres always a reason why youre busy, but this is an investment in your future. DONT LET THE LOCAL SCOOTER SHOP CLOSE. Benefit from a partner that sends business to the local dealer and doesnt sell consumer direct. 
So if its snowing outside you can still sell MRP parts all day long.
Also, if you havent activated your account or ordered from us in a long time then dont wait to be inactive to call us or visit us at www.MRP-SPEED.com. We will set up your new user name and password for the new website.

MRP is the leading wholesale only scooter parts supplier in the USA. We sell parts for scooters, gokarts, buggies, and small ATVs. Visit us athttp://www.mrp-speed.com for more information on the best scooter parts from the leading brands Polini, Malossi, Scooter Ninja, Bando, Dr. Pulley, Innova, and our in house brand MRP. Parts for Vespa, Aprilia, Malaguti, Benelli, Italjet, SYM, Honda, Yahama, Kymco, Suzuki, Eton, TGB, PGO, Genuine, Peirspeed, CF Moto, Qlink, Zongsheng, Daelim, Hyosung, JCL, Diamo, Zhennong, Flyscooters, CPI, Dinli, Apex, DDR, Jonway, Joyner, Roketa, Dazon, Tank, engines including the GY6, QMB139, Chinese 4strokes, 2 strokes, Minarelli, JOG, and much much more.