Urbandale, IA – August 14, 2017 – Flick Fusion today announced that VehiclesTEST, a content creator of independent test-drive videos, has selected Flick Fusion's SMARTFLICKS as its new video hosting and marketing platform. VehiclesTEST conducts independent road tests on the new Honda and Toyota models and creates broadcast-quality test-drive videos. Dealerships subscribe to…
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ALBANY, N.Y. – August 14, 2017 – Auto/Mate Dealership Systems today unveiled its new Texting engine built right into its dealership management system (DMS), allowing auto dealership personnel to quickly communicate with customers in a more effective way than with phone calls and email. Both sales and service employees can use the Texting engine for a variety of functions designed to deliver a better customer experience, sell more products and services, and reduce wasted time playing…
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We've all heard that expression, "The tail is wagging the dog." In retail, that usually means our sales staff is dictating management rather than the other way around. Usually, the fix occurs when new management or a new training process comes in and everyone gets to start on the same page. However, the decision to change process or change personnel is at the dealer level.
Lately, a much larger tail has been dominating the countryside and predicting the end times if we continue as we…
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When you want to hire an infrastructure debt management company you might find yourself into quite the trouble. It will be a very challenging prospect to begin with which is why you have to address it the best way you can. With that in mind, we wanted to help you by offering immediate access to 5 of the best questions that you should ask when you hire an infrastructure debt management company!…
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Los Angeles-Based Downtown LA Auto Group is the Fourth Top 100 Dealership Group
sold by Kerrigan Advisors in the last 20 months
Irvine, CA, August 9, 2017 – Kerrigan Advisors, the leading sell-side advisory firm to auto dealers in the US, represented and advised Downtown LA Auto Group, #55 on Automotive News’ 2016 Top 150 Dealership Group…
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Welcome to this week's edition of Black Book Market Insights, with in-depth analysis of used car and truck valuation trends and insights straight from the auction lanes. Click here to download…
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When you keep your car in good shape, your household budget will be in good shape as well. Any car owner who’s spent a lot of money on fixing their car will tell you that they regret not having taken better care of it. Car repairs can be hefty expenses, and by tending to problems while they are still small, you will avoid costly visits to a mechanic. If you follow your car’s manual instructions and provide it with care it deserves, your car will be durable and in tip-top…
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Welcome to this week's edition of Black Book Market Insights, with in-depth analysis of used car and truck valuation trends and insights straight from the auction lanes. …
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Black Book, a division of Hearst Business Media that provides industry-leading used vehicle valuation and residual value forecast solutions, released its Used Vehicle Retention Index for July, showing the Index unchanged from June and resting at 113.0. The Index has now moved positive or unchanged in three of the last four months. …
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Black Book, a division of Hearst Business Media that provides industry-leading used vehicle valuation and residual value forecast solutions, unveiled today its latest white paper, offering insight and best practices today’s online trade appraisal process during a vehicle transaction. The paper, titled: “Trade Appraisal: How to narrow the gap to close more deals”, can be viewed by clicking…
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Things have changed considerably with the state of marketing measurement and we wanted to know how dealers are adapting to new measurement tools like Multi-Touch Attribution. So, in April 2017, we decided to ask and surveyed approximately 120 dealers for our State of Automotive…
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Columbus, OH, August 2, 2017 -- Clarivoy, the auto industry’s most trusted source of truth for optimizing the performance of marketing campaigns, today announced the results of an …
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Inequity/Negative equity of Customer trade-ins is an every day occurrence in Dealerships that I see today. I am starting to see deals stacking higher in F&I offices on rehashes particularly around the amount financed and term.
Is this a trend being seen nationwide by others where Dealers are asking for more money and longer terms and being rejected?
Are we heading for an inequity/negative equity perfect storm? If we keep pushing longer terms for a need of a…
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As our company Fixed Performance enters into its 15th year helping dealerships improve their fixed operations as its founder I have to reminisce. I recall starting out without a single client and no recognition to having a wait list and traveling around on a private plane for my visits. Nobody in the car business can…
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Albany, N.Y. – July 31, 2017 – Auto/Mate Dealership Systems (http://www.automate.com) announced today that Mike Esposito, President and CEO of Auto/Mate, will be presenting a FREE Automotive News Power Training Webinar titled "Team, Meet Technology. Technology, Meet…
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Joe: It’s a pleasure to have on once again to CBT News, Sally Whitesell. She’s the founder and CEO of sw Service Solutions, and a recent speaker at the Women in Automotive Conference. Sally, we appreciate you taking the time. We know you are busy, you’re always on the road…
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