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Keeping the service “Time Bucket” full
Experience is the best teacher. One of the greatest benefits of the automotive industry is learning successful strategies from the veterans that have perfected those strategies. Although the dealership empire is very vast around the world, it is still a tight-knit...
Chief™ Serves up Specials at NACE
Madison, Ind. – Chief™ Automotive Technologies is offering its best pricing of the year as part of a full menu of show specials that start now and extend through NACE 2011 in Orlando next week (Oct. 5-8, 2011). The company is offering special pricing and free gifts...
Body Shops Still Working on Tornado Damaged Cars
Earlier in the year, the U.S. experienced the deadliest tornado season in 50 years, and according to one news station, auto body shops are still getting business from tornado damaged vehicles. KOAM CBS 7’s website said local body shops are continuing to work on...
E-Commerce Expert Discusses the Future of Fixed Operations in the Digital World
Are you looking for the latest easy-to-use tools for e-commerce? Do you want to gain a further understanding of how mobile commerce and technology may be integrated into your Internet program? Do you have a clear picture of cloud computing? E-Commerce Veteran Ray...
e-Commerce Director Shares How to Bolster Reputation, Retention and Revenue On The Service Drive
What are some simple, easy to implement, low-cost do-it-yourself solutions that answer the woes many of have felt over the last few years about the service drive? Whether you are a general manager, dealer principal or service director looking to bolster your...
Automakers Offer Deals on SUVs and Trucks in September
SANTA MONICA, Calif. — Shoppers looking to buy a new truck or SUV ahead of the upcoming winter season have plenty of good deals available to them this month, reports Edmunds.com, the premier online resource for automotive information. The TMV® Deals of the Month page...
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 its headquarters in...
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 there for a...
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 total inventory,...
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 decreased in August to...
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 unit sales declined 2%...
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 than 8,900 retail...
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