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NADA Selects Grant Cardone To Speak at its Headquarters
Los Angeles, CA – Cardone Training Technologies Inc., today announced that automotive sales training expert Grant Cardone has been selected by the National Automobile Dealer Association (NADA) to deliver customized workshops to member dealers at it
Sep 22, 2011
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Dealership Daycare
Sometimes people need to be babysat. It happens. Inevitably someone will prioritize something (from attending a wedding to socializing on the showroom floor) over the basic duties asked of them at work, or assigned to them in their CRM. Your CRM is t
Sep 22, 2011
What is your Manufacturer’s Credit Score? You Should Know, it Matters
Dealers are exceptional at tracking their financials. They often recite from memory their monthly new car PVRs and net income, sometimes to the penny! They know their net to gross and net to sales ratios, as well as key balance sheet figures such as
Sep 22, 2011
Auto Loan Default Rates Go Up
NEW YORK– Data through August 2011, released today by S&P Indices and Experian for the S&P/Experian Consumer Credit Default Indices, a comprehensive measure of changes in consumer credit defaults, showed the bank card default rates decr
Sep 22, 2011
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CarMax Wholesale Unit Sales Increase 23%
RICHMOND, Va. — CarMax, Inc. this week reported results for the second quarter ended August 31, 2011. Net sales and operating revenues increased 11% to $2.59 billion from $2.34 billion in the second quarter of last year. Comparable store used u
Sep 22, 2011
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Will September Auto Sales Reach Above 10 Million Units?
WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif. — New-vehicle retail sales for September continue to improve, with the selling rate expected to be much stronger than in August, according to J.D. Power and Associates, which gathers real-time transaction data from more t
Sep 22, 2011
RoadVantage Taps F&I Administration Solutions For F&I Software Administration
AUSTIN, Texas – RoadVantage, the first aftermarket company to offer dealers the advantage of 90-days free aftermarket programs, today announced a partnership with F&I Administration Solutions, LLC that was signed in August 2011. They recently
Sep 22, 2011
Which City Claimed the Title of Fastest-Growing New Car Market?
SANTA MONICA, Calif. — Atlanta is the hottest U.S. market for new car buyers, reports Edmunds.com, the premier online resource for automotive information. An Edmunds.com analysis of automotive registration data reveals that new retail car regist
Sep 22, 2011
NADAguides Announces Top Recommended Current Buys
COSTA MESA, Calif., — NADAguides, the leading vehicle pricing and information provider on the Internet, recently released its Quarterly Car Buyers Market Report, which features nine current models from nine different manufactures – Audi, B
Sep 22, 2011