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Conference & Expo: October 14 -15, 2025
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Does your dealership need a mobile app?

Join this session to learn all about the "dos and don'ts" of mobile app development. In this webinar, you’ll hear first-hand advice from the Market Director of a Texas dealership that has successfully rolled out a custom mobile app and found it not
Oct 6, 2021

Building Market Share without Inventory

For the past several weeks, C-4 Analytics has been speaking with both dealer clients and prospects - collecting their perspectives on the “Inventory Crisis” (their phrase, not ours). The feedback we heard was alarming. Dealers are postponing impo
Oct 6, 2021

Smart cards 101 | How dealerships can control spending, while increasing individual budgets

Join us for a free webinar to learn how corporate “smart cards” allow dealerships to give all staff members their own corporate card, all while maintaining 100% control over their spending and keeping fraud at bay.
Sep 16, 2021

Why Dealers Should be Texting in 2021 (And How to Get Started)

In this webinar, we'll discuss how using messaging will significantly boost your customer service, while vastly improving your retention. We’ll also give you five tips and tricks for implementing a messaging strategy that works best for your dealer
Sep 14, 2021

How to Use Precision Targeting to Drive New Service Customers

It’s been a tough year for selling cars. Although sales are on the rise, they are nowhere near where they should be due to the semiconductor chip shortage resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. With production at a standstill, there are simply fewer
Sep 2, 2021

Focus Group for a New Auto Tech Product

AutoSigma is looking to release its new product for dealerships into beta but seeking feedback from new franchise car dealerships. Marketing directors, BDC directors, internet directors, general managers, and dealer principals of franchise automotive
Aug 26, 2021

How to Enhance the Car Buyer Experience Across Every Stage of the Customer Journey with Live Chat

It’s a known fact that not all leads are created equal, and filtering through leads to find out who is ready to buy and who is not is something that every dealer must deal with. However, what if you didn’t have to waste 10 minutes on each one fig
Aug 25, 2021

Your Secret Weapon to Winning Market Share in a Volatile Environment

Remember Scarface? Imagine Tony Montana as a car dealer (“Say Hello to My Little Friend”)! No one would move on his sales territory. Yet everyone is selling into your PMA! You want to win the market-share war? Come meet your new little friend. Ev
Aug 10, 2021

How to Increase Sales & CSI with Innovative Digital Customer Engagement

Digital engagement is nothing new to the automotive industry — but it is evolving. To keep up with today’s shoppers, dealerships need to create innovative experiences that build relationships and drive deals. Join Acquire and Level 4.0 to learn h
Aug 9, 2021

Trophy Automotive, Midway Motors, Lithia & Driveway, Hubler Automotive Group: Dealership Deals

Trophy Automotive Dealer Group Purchases Kia Dealership in California Lou Sobh Automotive Group has sold its Kia of Cerritos dealership in California to Trophy Automotive Dealer Group. Kia of Cerritos is the second highest volume Kia dealership in th
Apr 3, 2025

What’s Preventing More Auto Retailers from Additional Cyber Defense?

Sure, technology is rapidly advancing the automotive retail and lending industries, but this evolution has also brought about new challenges in the areas of cybersecurity. The ransomware event of the summer of 2024 made many headlines, and since then
Apr 2, 2025

Strategic Timing: How Forward-Thinking Buyers Are Transforming the Car Industry

Car shoppers rushed to purchase vehicles ahead of the potential tariff hikes this past weekend. The past weekend was “by far the best weekend I’ve seen in a very long time,” said Randy Parker, the chief executive officer of Hyundai and Genesis
Apr 2, 2025

DDCE2025 Speaker Proposals Deadline Extended to April 11

Call for proposals for the upcoming Digital Dealer Conference & Expo (October 14-15, 2025, Las Vegas) are now open! The deadline to submit a proposal #DDCE2025 is April 11, 2025. Accepted speakers will be notified on April 21, 2025. Please follo
Apr 2, 2025

Getting You All Set for DealerPoint Next Week

The team behind Digital Dealer’s 2025 DealerPoint recently hosted a comprehensive webinar designed to introduce attendees to the immersive experience being offered. Set for April 9-11 at the Hyatt Regency Grand Cypress Resort in Orlando, FL., Dea
Apr 1, 2025

Auto Economists: Tariffs Will Raise Prices for the U.S. Car Buyer

Analysis for the auto industry are forecasting prices at dealerships rising just as the recovery from the pandemic had begun to take after President Donald Trump announced a 25 percent tariff on cars built outside of the U.S. This is the third time t
Apr 1, 2025

The Hard Conversations: Why Your Service Department Must Tell the Whole Truth

Editor’s note: We’re moving from our digital magazine to website-first content. Enjoy more frequent updates and easier access to our articles and stories you want to see. Thanks for growing with us! Before we go any further, let me ask fo
Mar 31, 2025

Haig Report: Strong Market for Dealership Sales in 2025

Haig Partners has released its 2024 fourth quarter report that concludes that demand for dealerships remains robust as private and public buyers continuing to pursue acquisitions across all major franchises. In 2024, Haig advised on 22 transactions
Mar 31, 2025

Trump: I Don’t Care If Car Prices Go Up Because of Tariffs

In the harshest of terms, President Donald Trump said he “couldn’t care less” is car prices rise due to the 25 percent tariffs his administration is set to put into effect this week. In a phone interview with Meet the Press anchor Kristen Welke
Mar 30, 2025