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Is Digital Retailing Really a Good Thing for Dealers?
The buzz today among vendors in the automotive industry is all about making the car buying transaction faster and more convenient for the consumer. I get it. Consumers think it takes too long to buy a car, so technology companies are inventing ways to trim down that...
Racing to the Dealership: Baby Boomers and Millennials Show Off Their Credit Savvy in New Survey
New Equifax survey finds generational behavior differences in auto buying, prime & subprime Millennials believe they can afford vehicles at similar price points ATLANTA, March 23, 2018 – When consumers need loans for auto purchases, understanding their own credit...
Darwin Online to Power F&I Offering for CDK Connected Store 2.0
Iselin, New Jersey, — March 26, 2018 — Darwin Automotive, a leading provider of Finance and Insurance (F&I) technology for automotive dealerships, today announced its patented F&I system has been selected by CDK Global (Nasdaq: CDK), a leading enabler of...
BLACK BOOK VALUATIONS CHOSEN FOR ROUSH PERFORMANCE PRODUCTS
Accurate Valuations Help ROUSH Dealers Secure Financing Deals And Offer Fair Values for Resale LAWRENCEVILLE, GA (March 26, 2018) – Black Book, a division of Hearst Business Media that provides industry-leading used vehicle valuation and residual value forecast...
Hearst Autos Announces Two New Car and Driver Shopping Tools for Dealers and Automotive Shoppers: TRADE-IN VALUE and CREDIT SCORE
New Car and Driver Trade Appraisal and Credit Score Tools Elevate Confidence Among Consumers; Build More Flexibility Into the Transaction Price and Deliver Dealers a More Qualified Shopper ATLANTA—March 26, 2018 – Hearst Autos, parent to Car and Driver, Jumpstart...
AutoLeadStar Releases SocialAi, Hassle-Free Social Media Tool for Dealerships
New tool allows dealerships to fill their social feeds in seconds, by approving automatically generated posts for publishing. AutoLeadStar, artificial intelligence software provider for automotive, has released SocialAi, a new social marketing tool for dealers to...
New NADA Chairman Wes Lutz Outlines Goals, Focus Areas for Coming Year
LAS VEGAS (March 24, 2018) -- Personal vehicle ownership is stronger than ever and auto dealers will continue to bring exciting, inspiring, life-changing products to their customers, just like they’ve have been doing for the last 100 years, Wes Lutz said in his first...
How to Optimize Your Search Results Pages
The grass is always greener on the other side, so we’re all searching for something better. That includes your site visitors. Your search tool is one of the most popular tools on your site, and if you’re not optimizing your SRPs, you’re missing out on a huge...
NADA Senior Economist Patrick Manzi Discusses Auto Retailing Trends at the NADA Show
LAS VEGAS (March 23, 2018) – With three months of the first quarter nearly in the books, Patrick Manzi, senior economist of the National Automobile Dealers Association, highlighted the current state of auto retailing during a press briefing at the NADA Show in Las...
NADA Chairman Mark Scarpelli: Vehicle Affordability Drives NADA’s Advocacy Efforts
LAS VEGAS (March 23, 2018) – In his final remarks as 2017 chairman of the National Automobile Dealers Association, Mark Scarpelli saluted the nation’s new-car dealers for their successful advocacy efforts on Capitol Hill fighting to preserve vehicle affordability for...
Confront Problems Before They Arise
Statistically speaking, the odds of being in a plane crash are astronomically low. Every time you step on board a plane, your chances of being involved in a crash are about one in 29 million. Based on those odds, you’d have to fly once a day for 79,452 years before...
Punch Through the Sale
As a kid, I was a Bruce Lee fanatic. The way the martial artist master moved on screen was mesmerizing, and his movies were everything I wanted from an action flick. To this day, I stop channel surfing on a dime when I see a Bruce Lee film on TV. He’s a legend for a...
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