New Auto Group to Sell Cars Online Using Breakthrough Technology, from Sys-Con Media. Two life-long friends, Katie Bowman Coleman, owner of Bowman Chevrolet in Clarkston, MI and Sam Slaughter, owner of Sellers Buick-GMC in Farmington Hills, MI have m

Leading IT With Dealers and Customers in Mind, from CIO Insight. At Asbury Automotive, CIO Barry Cohen leads the IT organization with dealers and customers in mind, and is making IT a broader driver of value to the company. Asbury Automotive is a $5.

As family dealership owner, she’s the top ‘nice guy’ at Soerens Ford, from Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel. A family Ford dealership here is owned by a “nice guy” who just gave birth to her third child. As the fourt

As a car dealership, you have goals you want to reach. Maybe you gauge your success by annual sales or by your salespeople reaching their monthly quotas. However you choose to manage (and measure) your profitability, there’s always room to grow

Top 5 Ways to Increase Your Fixed Ops, from DealerSocket. When “fixed” means unchanging, it’s time to unfix the fixed. Unfix your Fixed Ops business; then, increase your Fixed Ops business! Fixed Operations can be the backbone of your business.

I’ve been spending the past few days in budget and strategy sessions, planning for 2015. The work has brought me to a clear conclusion; Things aren’t going to get any easier for dealers next year and, in some cases, the challenging horizon may pr

The automotive retail industry has been abuzz in recent weeks after the announcement of Warren Buffett’s acquisition of the Van Tuyl Group, and the creation of Berkshire Hathaway Automotive Group. This acquisition has the industry talking about

The winter driving season is now upon us. This season brings many quality opportunities to build trust and increase visits with your customer base. There are a variety of personalized and automated messages you can send that will increase business an

It’s hard to believe that just a few years ago we had to rely on the desktop computer, and shortly before that the yellow pages and the phone book to find important business information. Today, two out of three consumers own at least one smart phon