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The Power of Managing the Now: Radically Improving the Vehicle Sale
By Dave Bowling, Automotive Product Specialist, Reynolds and Reynolds You have plenty of tools and processes to help you manage before the sale. Your ad budget is robust, your website merchandises your inventory well, you capture leads, and you send
Jul 15, 2019
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Optimize Your Digital Marketing and Advertising Campaigns
By Erica Danford, AVP of Managed Services, Dealer.com Great marketing is never accidental. Think back to what campaigns have stuck with you over the years. What do you remember about them? In all likelihood, it was the content, presented in a compell
Jul 12, 2019
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Shifting to a Razor and Razor Blade Business Model
In the last seven years, new vehicle gross margins have declined from four percent to two percent. If that pace continues, profit margins will be wiped out by 2025. It appears that the front-end grosses dealers enjoyed 10 or 15 years ago are never co
Jul 12, 2019
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A Simple Way to Capture Additional Service Revenue
In a quick review of dealership’s websites, I find that many are almost entirely sales focused and tend to neglect the one department that brings the most significant percentage of profit… service. Go ahead. Take a look at a few dealership websit
Jul 11, 2019
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Service Marketing: To Reach Younger Drivers, Go Beyond Recommendations
Though every vehicle today comes with a recommended maintenance schedule from the manufacturer, many consumers don’t follow them. What’s worse, some may not even know they exist! We recently surveyed 1,000 auto dealer customers and found that you
Jul 11, 2019
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KPA Services Wins Online Training Library Award for Second Year in a Row
Company recognized for its anytime, anywhere access to learning content LAFAYETTE, Colo. – July 9, 2019 – KPA, a leading provider of Environmental Health & Safety (EHS), HR Management, and Finance & Insurance compliance software and servi
Jul 10, 2019
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Warning: BlueKeep Malware Could be as Bad as WannaCry
Dealers, do your computers still run the Windows 7, Windows XP, Windows Vista or Windows 2003 operating systems? Do you have a Windows Server 2008? Be aware that your machines are vulnerable to a new type of malware called BlueKeep that’s seeking t
Jul 10, 2019
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7 KPIs to Connect with Every Caller
By Tom Harsha, Chief Product Officer, CallRevu Dealerships lose hundreds of sales opportunities every year because of missed or mishandled phone calls. On average, a dealership fails to connect with 33% of incoming calls. For every 100 calls, that me
Jul 9, 2019