Credit Approvals See Significant Rebound from April Rates

CINCINNATI, OHIO (June 18, 2020) – Swapalease.com, the nation’s largest car lease marketplace, reports car lease credit applicants registered a…

Beep among initial participants selected to promote the safe development and testing of autonomous vehicles across the United States

Beep, an Orlando-based autonomous shuttle service provider, is among 17 initial participants selected by the United States Department of Transportation  (USDOT) and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)  for the Automated Vehicle Transparency and…

Raleigh, June 15th, 2020 — Reunion Marketing is proud to announce the expansion of our services to include a robust strategy for your dealership’s fixed operations: PROdrive. It is our team’s ongoing commitment to our partners that we help protect and build their market penetration, and that now rings true for all of their operations. As gross profit margins in vehicle sales have seen compression over the past few years, the average dealer’s gross profits, according to the latest NADA…

Back in 2012, Apple executives attended a meeting in China where they watched a video of an experimental fully-automated assembly line for the iPads. They watched as iPad parts traveled along conveyor belts and were cut, polished and then…

Auto dealerships and consumers now have additional layer of transparency to safeguard them from making uninformed acquisitions

Laguna Hills, CA, June 10, 2020 — Recall Masters, Inc., the nation’s leading provider of automotive recall solutions, today announced a partnership with VettX, an automotive industry software provider that enables auto dealerships to…

Mark and Mike discuss the importance and value of recognition when it comes to improving team member engagement. https://youtu.be/vYDM-A1ikbA…

David Lemmon joins Host Dane Saville to discuss the importance of vendor networking, including the surprising value that dealers get from vendor-to-vendor connections. Join them for this short but informative talk and see why it's always good to have friends.

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Approximately 500,000,000 hours of video is watched on YouTube every day. It's vital that you have a strategy in place for your dealership. In this episode, Jason Harris joins Host Dane Saville to discuss the what, how, why, and where of your video content.…

Digital retail has just had an unexpected growth spurt. While stay at home mandates disrupted worldwide economies, it has also forced many business and consumers to abandon technophobia and welcome digital retail solutions with open arms. Companies like…

Anyone in sales can probably agree that leaving dozens of voicemails a day that are never returned is the most frustrating part of automotive phone sales. The average voicemail return rate is 4.8 % and sales reps spend about 15% of their…

View the latest COVID-19 data report from PureCars.

Background: We’re far from “all clear” but evidence of COVID fatigue is everywhere you look. Depending on where you live, you can either step…

This is shown by sales data for the first quarter.

The crisis caused by the spread of the coronavirus has led to serious losses in the US car market, according to data on sales of companies in the United States for the first quarter of 2020, writes Der Spiegel.

Sales of the US automotive market leader General Motors (GM) fell 7% in the first quarter of the year compared to the same period last year.

The coronavirus crisis in the United States began in March,…

Approximately 500,000,000 hours of video is watched on YouTube every day. It's vital that you have a strategy in place for your dealership. In this episode, Jason Harris joins Host Dane Saville to discuss the what, how, why, and where of your video content.…

Announcing the 16th Annual Automotive CX Summit Series 2020

Hosted by Thought Leadership Summits

Dealer Elite Readers Benefit from 20% Discount now through June 26th

Thought Leadership Summits, Inc. (TLS), is…

The worldwide COVID-19 pandemic forced many retail businesses to either shutdown or embrace automation, AI and digital retail solutions in order to continue to generate revenue. Almost immediately, artificial intelligence has gone from a niche concept to a one that many automotive dealers and businesses need to strongly consider even as many of us begin…

Partnership will enhance payment capabilities for lenders and finance companies across the Inovatec system…

Welcome back to our video series, Communication is Key!

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According to The Blue Sky Report^® by Kerrigan Advisors, the pandemic’s impact on the first and second quarter will not result in dramatic changes to blue sky values, with a buy/sell rebound projected in the second half

Irvine, CA – June 8, 2020 – The 2020 auto dealership buy/sell market declined in the first quarter, falling 9.3% off 2019’s transactions pace as the COVID-19 pandemic took its toll on auto retail,…