{"id":1563,"date":"2018-03-09T23:13:48","date_gmt":"2018-03-09T20:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/?p=1563"},"modified":"2018-03-22T21:02:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-22T18:02:00","slug":"bassam-aboul-hosn-smiles-his-way-to-top-salesperson-9-years-running","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/bassam-aboul-hosn-smiles-his-way-to-top-salesperson-9-years-running\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Bassam Aboul-Hosn smiles his way to top salesperson 9 years running!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bassam Aboul-Hosn smiles his way to top salesperson 9 years running!\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EoI1vuVWXBo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h6><strong>For 9 years in a row, Bassam Aboul-Hosn, a Lebanese-American car salesman at Fairlane Ford on Michigan Avenue in Dearborn Michigan has been salesperson of the year outselling all the other salespersons at the prominent dealership.<\/strong><\/h6>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>by Rasheed AlNozili &amp; Abbas Shehab<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nThe Yemeni American News<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1565\" src=\"http:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/03\/13-300x132.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"132\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/03\/13-300x132.jpg 300w, https:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/03\/13-768x338.jpg 768w, https:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/03\/13-1024x451.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/03\/13.jpg 1768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n\u201cBassam\u201d is an Arabic name which means \u201cone who smiles\u201d. He is truly living up to his name, one car sale at a time. The Yemeni American News wanted to hear more about his success and take a closer look at this amazing member of our local community.<\/p>\n<p>John Markovski, the General Sales Manager had some insights into just how Bassam is so successful, saying \u201cI have been in the business for 33 years, I\u2019ve known Bassam for 10, one thing that is special about Bassam is that he is a very positive and caring individual. He gets so much repeat business to sell somebody a car. The people like him because he is very energetic. I don\u2019t think I have seen ever not smile. He\u2019s always smiling and I think it\u2019s infectious. He works the deal properly and gives them the best possible deal that he can. People appreciate him and they send other customers. He\u2019s been a good friend of mine, I just like him, his character is fantastic, and a good person. Period.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Julie Walker, the savvy owner of the historic dealership concurred, \u201cI\u2019ve worked with Bassam going on 16 years now. Bassam is just happy all the time he brings joy to the organization. As busy as he is, he always has a smile for everyone! And we are always laughing and kidding around and I like that, he\u2019s a big part of my family here at the dealership. Bassam goes out of his way to help me, the dealership, his clients and his fellow co-workers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She added, \u201cFor instance, we have a new employee here on the showroom and he has kind of taken her under his wing and mentored her. Even though he\u2019s very busy for that, he does it because he cares about his fellow co-workers so much.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When you sit across the desk from Bassam in his cubicle the smile truly does shine through and warms the heart. His story as an immigrant who overcame challenges also warms the soul, \u201cI came to this country 25 years ago, and like any other student that comes to this country I started working at a gas station and a restaurant for a few months then I went to college. I went to Wayne State and I had a degree in Business Administration. My brother used to work at Fairlane Ford so he invited me to work with him, I\u2019ve been here for 15 years now and I\u2019m doing very good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He still recalls his first car sale from years ago, \u201cThe first car was a black Explorer, I was very scared and I didn\u2019t know what to do but there\u2019s a lot of friendly people here and they helped me to process the sale and the customer was very happy. That same customer still comes here, I think I sold him like 10 cars so far! Same repeat customer.\u201d His kind energetic persona and peaceful smile that keeps people coming back and has helped him collect many plaques on the wall behind his desk. \u201dI want to thank my customers, you know I have a lot of repeat customers, that\u2019s how I got here, so I want to thank God and thank my customers for referring people to me and for coming back and I am very happy to help them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Walker sees the value in these qualities as a person to grow the customer base, \u201cBassam continues to get salesperson of the year because the more people he sells vehicles to the more they tell their friends and family and so his organization, the clients that he speaks to and his sphere of influence just continues to grow and grow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So why does Bassam choose to work at Fairlane Ford over any other dealer? He answers \u201cI like this place, it\u2019s a friendly place, it\u2019s in Dearborn. I got a lot of nice customers, neighbors and people in this dealership are very friendly, the manager, the owner, everything, everybody here is trying to help out.\u201d<br \/>\nThe question remains, can any of the other salespersons outsell Bassam in 2018? According to him, not a chance! He says, with a smile \u201cThis year started to be a very promising year so hopefully I will do better this year. I am sure I will win this year!\u201d John Markovski agrees. He says \u201cI don\u2019t see how he cannot. I mean the longer he stays in the business I think he\u2019s going to sell more and more cars because more and more customers will send their friends and relatives of course to see him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So what is the message to Bassam\u2019s existing customers and anyone else looking for a good Ford dealership, Julie Walker said, \u201cThey already know how great Bassam is because they work with him one on one. Bassam is always here for them if they have a problem say with a car that has been in a collision or they need service work they can always call him first and he will help guide them through any process that we have here. We can detail their car and he can set those appointments up so he is here to help them with all their vehicle needs.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class='clear '><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For 9 years in a row, Bassam Aboul-Hosn, a Lebanese-American car salesman at Fairlane Ford on Michigan Avenue in Dearborn Michigan has been salesperson of the year outselling all the other salespersons at the prominent dealership. by Rasheed AlNozili &amp; Abbas Shehab The Yemeni American News \u201cBassam\u201d is an Arabic name which means \u201cone who [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1564,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community-news","category-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1563"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1587,"href":"https:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563\/revisions\/1587"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}