Holdcroft

A suggestive selling system that keeps on selling
- £150,000worth of sales a year
“The suggestive selling system is generating £150,000 worth of sales each year on an almost auto-pilot function.”
Practical, high-energy training for sales, F&I and aftersales teams that turns more calls, enquiries and showroom visits into deals, without giving the margin away.
Led by Nick Horton: 30+ years training sales teams, author of Sell Today.

Trusted by UK dealer groups including




Senior leaders on what Profit Box training has done for their teams.
Holdcroft

“The suggestive selling system is generating £150,000 worth of sales each year on an almost auto-pilot function.”
“Absolutely the best training you’ll receive. I can’t rate them highly enough: 6 stars.”
Sean Booth
Managing Director, Parkway Volkswagen

“We are extremely pleased to have Profit Box as our preferred training partner.”
Andrew Mallory
COO, Vantage Motor Group
Most deals aren’t lost on price. They’re lost in conversations nobody coached, from the first phone call to the service desk.
Every enquiry that ends without an appointment is a car sold somewhere else.
Turn inbound calls and online leads into booked appointments, with the questions, structure and follow-up that get customers through the door.
Customers arrive having done their research. Your team needs a process that earns the sale.
A proven step-by-step sales process from first hello to handover, with the questions and structure your sales executives need at every stage.
Discounting is the most expensive habit in the showroom.
Handle objections with confidence, protect margin in negotiation and rescue “I’ll think about it” without reaching for the price.
F&I is where margin is made, and the easiest place to leave it on the table.
Authentic, value-driven F&I conversations that win over cash buyers and lift product take-up, while treating every customer fairly.
Service advisors don’t see themselves as salespeople. They don’t need to.
Health check conversations, technician video and upselling with integrity that grow invoice value in a way customers welcome.
Your next sale is already in your database.
Renewals, lapsed customers and unsold enquiries turned into appointments, with follow-up that turns “not today” into tomorrow’s sale.
Nick Horton Founder and Managing Director
Nick Horton founded Profit Box and has trained sales teams for more than 30 years. A straight-talking sales trainer, speaker and the author of Sell Today, he builds commercially focused programmes that help teams sell more, faster, without the guesswork.
Nick leads a team of training consultants with decades of front-line experience with brands including BMW, Audi, Volkswagen Group and Mercedes-Benz. Your team learns from people who have done the job, not from generic sales theory.

Nick Horton
Managing Director

Ian Mullins
Training Consultant · Sales
30+
years training sales teams
13
courses across sales and service
Thirteen focused courses across sales and service. Run one as a targeted boost, or combine them into a full development programme.
9 courses
Winning the Sale
The complete face-to-face sales process
Insider Secrets of Gaining Agreement
Objections and negotiation
Own the Call, Win the Sale
Inbound sales calls
Master the Video Message
Personalised video selling
From Inbox to Sale
High-converting email
Hi-Impact Prospecting on a Shoestring Budget
Pipeline building and appointments
Turning “Not Today” into Tomorrow’s Sale
Follow-up that converts
F&I Buyology
Finance and insurance conversations
Power Up Your Conversations
Selling electric vehicles
4 courses
Smart, Hi-Impact VHC Strategies
Vehicle health check conversations
From Camera to Customer Approval
Technician video
Technical Confidence for Service Advisors
Explaining repairs with authority
Upselling with Integrity
Value-first service upselling
In a free 30-minute call, we’ll recommend the right mix for your team.
Every programme follows the same clear route, from the first conversation to a measurable return.
We start with your key stakeholders, agreeing clear objectives, success measures and outcomes so everything we deliver fits your goals and your culture.
We don’t do off-the-shelf. Every programme is tailored to your business and the goals agreed at scoping, so it lands with your team from the first session.
High-energy, hands-on sessions that engage and challenge your team, and give them the confidence and capability to perform at a higher level.
We track performance, monitor progress and measure impact, so you can see a clear return on your investment.
Real skills, practised in real conversations. Focused sessions, plenty of hands-on practice and an energy delegates talk about long after the day ends.
Nobody learns to sell from slides. Delegates practise, role-play and self-discover in high-energy sessions they genuinely enjoy, which is exactly why the learning sticks.
Word-for-word techniques and simple structures: what to say, when to say it and why it works. New skills show up in customer conversations straight away.
Every course targets the metrics that matter: enquiry conversion, margin, product take-up, invoice value and retention.





AI Call Intelligence scores every qualifying call against a Profit Box scorecard built from the same method your team learns in training. You see the new skills being used with real customers, and everyone on your team sees what to work on next.
Anything we haven’t covered, ask us on your free training needs call.
Book a free training needs callSales executives and sales managers, business managers, service advisors, technicians and the people who answer your phones. A programme can focus on one department or cover the whole dealership.
Yes. We work with franchised dealer groups and independent and used car retailers, from a single site to groups with many sites.
Yes. Programmes can be delivered as on-site seminars, virtual programmes or keynotes, and rolled out site by site so every team works to the same standard.
Each course runs for one to three days. Most take a single day, F&I Buyology runs over two and Winning the Sale over three.
Yes. Every programme starts with scoping, where we agree objectives and success measures with your key stakeholders, and is then tailored to your business. Nothing is off the shelf.
Yes. Power Up Your Conversations is a one-day course that helps your team have confident conversations about electric vehicles.
Expert facilitation, delegate workbooks and all course materials are included in every course.
It depends on the programme and the number of delegates. After your free training needs call, you’ll get a clear quote.
We reply within 24 hours, Monday to Friday. Prefer to talk now? Call us on 0115 933 3480.
Book a free 30-minute training needs call. We’ll pinpoint where sales are slipping away across sales, F&I and aftersales, and recommend the programmes that will make the biggest difference.
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“Absolutely the best training you’ll receive. I can’t rate them highly enough: 6 stars.”
Sean Booth
Managing Director, Parkway Volkswagen

Prefer to talk? Call us on 0115 933 3480.