It's Not Too Late to Keep Your Ad Budget Healthy And Your Dealership Profitable

Stop valuing quantity over…

Designing your sales process to focus more on your customer’s needs and wants and less on you can help you be more successful. It lowers the customer’s natural resistance and can help you sell more and make more profit. There are 10 key ingredients to making this happen.

A Positive Attitude

Much has been written about the importance of maintaining a positive attitude and I will not rehash all of that here. A positive attitude is your armor against…

Monitoring Your Tire Pressure is a Weekly Routine.

For those who may have never thought of it, maintaining the correct tire pressure plays a HUGE factor in your daily driving habits, fuel efficiency, tire wear and road hazard conditions. Did you know that tires lose air pressure…

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This article was written by Robin Cunningham and originally published on the NCM Institute Up to Speed blog.

I think it is safe to say that every business operator is planning, forecasting, or at least hoping to increase their sales and profits in whatever business he or she is involved in.

In the retail automobile business, that growth can come in many forms, such as:

• Selling more new or used…

You dedicate at least an hour of your day on your dealership’s Facebook business page. You chime in on posts about the auto industry, you change your profile and background photos, you post 8 times a day - YOU ARE COMMITTED. So why aren’t people liking your page?

The most successful businesses follow these 6 easy steps to ensure they aren’t sucking on Facebook:

1. When it comes to posting, less is more.

Facebook is not Twitter…

Welcome to this week’s edition of Beggs on the Used Car Market, with analysis from Ricky Beggs and Black Book. As the calendar is closing out the month of July the market is indicating a variety of actions. The smaller and more fuel efficient models are getting some attention again after softening for just over a month once the tax season expired. Even some of the six to eight year old…

ALBANY, N.Y. – July 28th, 2014 – Auto/Mate Dealership Systems (http://www.automate.com), a premier dealership management system (DMS) provider, has received a "Platinum" award in the 2014 Auto Dealer Monthly Dealers' Choice Awards. This year marks the first time that Auto/Mate was honored with a top ranking in the magazine's annual award program that recognizes the industry's best product and service providers as selected by hundreds of…

A Comparison Review of the 2015 Volkswagen Golf GTI and the 2014 Ford Focus ST. 

We've taken time to lay out all the facts between these two very popular models. Some say the Focus ST is still dominating while others believe the Golf GTI is a must-have. Both are extremely sporty and are…

Mid-Size Sedan Comparison Between the Honda Accord and the 2015 Ford Fusion.

For Ford, the Ford Fusion has become a popular mid-size sedan over the last few years and here's your chance to see why! The 2015 Ford Fusion for sale in New Jersey is compared in the following video to the Honda Accord. …

One of the most disturbing trends we're seeing on dealer websites is when they use chat areas as another contact form. It's true that chat is a way to generate leads, but when collecting contact information is the primary goal, the whole point of chat is missed.

Here are some things that we have found to be true with chat that dealers should keep in mind when…

I am sure many of you have heard about the recent customer service debacle involving Comcast over the past week. In case you aren’t familiar with what happened, a customer called into their service center attempting to cancel his service after almost a decade. He was transferred to a customer retention…

Manny Luna

CEO/Founder

VL Digital…

What?

It is time to talk about the F&I department in the dealership and how the BDC (GRC) department can help improve product penetration. The typical discussion with regards to business development is always about lead handling and appointments. The BDC discussion is one that can go on for hours and even days because it is interesting to hear different…

Black Book announces the addition of Anil Goyal to its executive team serving as Vice President of Analytics and Strategic Relationships. Best known for providing timely, independent and accurate vehicle valuation data, the addition of Mr. Goyal enables Black Book to broaden its reach into data and trend analysis for customers in a variety of leading industries.



Mr. Goyal comes to Black Book with a deep background in strategy and has held a number of senior positions in the…

Just what does a 10% increase (in any KPI you choose) really mean to your dealership?

Today's Women’s Wednesday we are focusing on the new top reason women are buying from their sales advisor. Trust has always trumped price when it comes to buying from a sales advisor, but now, in our latest mid-year #bigdata report directly from women's reviews, “trust” no longer has the top spot.

R-E-S-P-E-C-T! Aretha Franklin couldn’t define it better. Respect is now the #1 prerequisite to trust in the formula to selling to women.

The top 5 reasons women buy from their sales…

Hi all,

I tried Google-ling the top auto sellers in the US by brand (units sold) and wasn't having much luck.

And also here on Long Island, in NY.

Also, does anyone know the top 10 brands that have repeat service visits?  By that I mean consistently more repair/maintenance problems.

Mark

Online shopping for purchasing a car has never been more popular. But what about if you want to compare leases through an online channel? According to participants of a recent survey from Wantalease.com, many respondents wouldn’t even know where to start.



Executives at Wantalease.com and its sister marketplace, Swapalease.com, were curious about how average drivers feel about the online research and shopping process on a new lease.…

Greetings Friends,   

The price of your services is not what keeps your customers coming back to your dealership. It is the amount of care you give them. When we are directed by the discounted price alone, we are developing the wrong kind of culture.

Click the link below to find out how to develop a caring culture in your dealership.

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