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Innovate or die. In today’s highly competitive market where modern-day dealers continue to face compressing margins, innovate or die is more relevant than ever, but how can you innovate at your dealership? Here are 5 areas where your dealership can

DealerBuilt CEO Mike Trasatti shares why integration is more important than ever in an industry continuously coming up with new solutions.

In my last blog, Technicians are the Key to Dealerships’ Future, I discussed how the race to acquire technicians may just be outweighed by the difficult task of retaining the ones dealerships already employ. Of course, as consumers keep their vehic

Do you believe your dealership is safe from phishing attacks? Here are two actual incidents that occurred at dealerships as a result of successful phishing attacks. One day a salesperson at a Ford dealership received an email. The subject line read:

When I look around the industry, I see a disconnect between how shoppers and dealerships leverage technology in the car buying process.   Technology continues to disrupt everything we once knew and counted on. It’s reinventing how everything is b

Generally, in good markets, any dealership inefficiencies or complacencies may be obscured by the overall positive performance of the operation. As markets weaken, and business becomes more difficult, there is a far greater need and tendency to reexa

Late Start to the Spring Selling Season Perhaps Pulling Down the Index Early in 2019 LAWRENCEVILLE, GA (March 6, 2019) – Black Book, a division of Hearst that provides industry-leading used vehicle valuation and residual value forecast solutions, r

Lyft to be integrated into Cox Automotive’s Xtime Fixed Ops software platform ATLANTA, March 5, 2019 – Today, Cox Automotive announced plans to integrate Lyft’s ride-sharing service with Cox Automotive’s Xtime, the leading integrated software

Welcome to this week’s edition of Black Book Market Insights, with in-depth analysis of used car and truck valuation trends and insights straight from the auction lanes. Click here to download the full report. This week’s Market Insights Rep