Business & Entrepreneurship

Part 1: How Often Do People Change Jobs in the U.S.? Introduction Hi everyone — I’m Suzuki from Eco Drive. Today’s theme is the difficulties of starting a business here that I learned by actually doing it, and this is the third one: how hard it is to keep employees. I’ve now been running my […]

Introduction Hello everyone. This is Suzuki from EcoDrive. You may have heard that Tesla started selling its Superchargers to businesses. The natural question is whether that has anything to do with your own store or company. Actually, it may have a lot to do with you. If you have roughly four parking spaces, this could […]

Hi, this is Suzuki from Eco Drive. This is the second half of what I wanted to say about pay — about letting go of an assumption I’d carried over from my years working for someone else. In the first half, How Do Car Salespeople Get Paid? Commission vs. Salary, I went through why commission […]

How Car Salespeople Get Paid — and Why Eco Drive Chose Salary Introduction Do car salespeople really live on commission alone? And how tough is full commission in practice? If you work in this industry, or you’re thinking about getting into it, how the pay works is one of the first things you want to […]

Part 1: Why Cash Flow Can Be So Tough When Starting a Business in the U.S. — My Real Experience with the Bank-Loan Wall Introduction Hi everyone — I’m Suzuki from Eco Drive. Today I want to talk about the cash-flow challenge I ran into right after starting my business here in the U.S. I […]

Why So Many Used Car Dealers Are Going Under (Part 1): Tight Supply and a Race to the Bottom on Price Introduction Hi everyone, this is Suzuki from EcoDrive. Today’s topic is why used car dealer bankruptcies have become such a hot topic across the US. What got me thinking about this was that a […]

Introduction Hi, this is Suzuki from EcoDrive. These days I run a car-related business here in the U.S., but my career actually started right out of college at Gulliver, one of Japan’s best-known used-car buying and selling brands. Today I want to share the sales philosophy I picked up back then from the founder of […]

Why Do Wealthy Americans Actively Take on Debt? Hi, I’m Suzuki from Eco Drive. Today, let’s explore the topic of “Why do wealthy Americans actively take on debt?” Many people might wonder, “If they’re rich, they should have plenty of cash. Why would they need debt?” Actually, there’s a big misconception here. The idea that […]

Differences in Work Culture Between Japan and America Hi, I’m Suzuki from Eco Drive. Today, I’ll continue from the previous article and talk about the differences in work culture between America and Japan. Last time, we focused on working in America from the perspective of an individual worker or employee. This time, I’d like to […]