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Are You Ready for Pole Position? Driving Digitization in the Auto Industry
Car making isn’t only about the product any longer. It’s becoming a digital service game. Most OEMs recognize digitization’s power to transform their brands. But although many are partially digitizing key
May 26, 2016
Not Enough Fire Stations
When I was a child, like his father before him, my father was a volunteer firefighter. He was part of a humble group that was in charge of protecting the surrounding communities that were not part of the city.
May 23, 2016
4 Steps to Prevent Hiring Mistakes at Your Dealership
There was a time when you might have been able to get away with saying something like this. Those days are long gone. With the amount of data available to hiring professionals with respect to job seekers,
May 23, 2016
Can Dealerships Survive the Millennial Generation?
The Millennial Generation loves itself. Its members have bad manners, contempt for authority, no respect for older people, and talk, tweet, or text nonsense when they should be working. They show no
May 23, 2016
Your DMS and Data Diets
Why spend thousands trying to get a new customer instead of retaining the ones you already have? This is the reasoning behind CRM and Equity Mining software. You could apply the same logic to
May 23, 2016
The Immense Organizational Benefit of an RFQ
The Purchasing and Spend Management profession is filled with acronyms and my own business has even added to that list. We forget sometimes when we are talking with others that they may not know
May 23, 2016
Leadership Fuel for Your Successful Growth
Successfully influencing your store's employees' view of the importance in adopting and following processes in order to develop positive growth potential is one of the most valuable investments
May 23, 2016
Dealership Employees & Compliancy
News broke recently about 5 dealership employees that were arrested and face federal charges of conspiracy, bank fraud, wire fraud, and aggravated identity-theft. This brings the total to 8 employees
May 23, 2016
New Vehicle Inventory Management Best Practices
It’s sometimes startling to see the disparity in the ways dealers manage their new and used vehicle inventories. As a dealer recently put it, “I have $1.4 million in used vehicle inventory, and we pay attention
May 23, 2016