Fuel Dealership Success and Employee Satisfaction with Structured Workflows
This structured workflow will help your reps manage the incredible amount of data in the CRM. Today, a modern CRM can provide your sales reps with the tools they need to organize their prospects and their days.
How Outsourcing Delivery Improves Employee Productivity
Outsourcing processes, like shipping and logistics, can free up your team’s time to focus on higher-level strategy — including on how to grow the business, build customer loyalty and increase sales.
Does Your Dealership Have the Right Payroll Provider to Reach Your 2018 Goals?
When it comes to talent management, dealers have two main objectives: increase employee productivity and decrease expenditures. An integrated payroll and talent management platform can help you accomplish both by helping your business run more efficiently and cutting down on costs — including automating tax record-keeping and filing and reducing payroll fees.
10 Innovative Technology Companies Who Help Dealers Dramatically Evolve and Emerge
The automotive industry continues to evolve around the way consumers research, buy and service vehicles. One thing remains the same in the highly competitive industry: dealers continue to implement marketing strategies and technologies to help drive new sales and service business while at the same time retain their existing customers.
Time to Line is Great News for Changing Times
I’m talking to the choir here, but auto dealers are champions of making lemonade from lemons, and you’ll need as much of this optimism as you can grasp going forward.
Dealership Managers Were Set Up to Fail
Dealers have been increasing digital marketing investments for years but more recently the online marketing machine is running out of gas. Dealers are spending more on marketing and selling fewer vehicles. Net profit margins are down as healthcare, insurance and financing costs increase.
Challenging Myths: Auto Dealership Lead Performance Reports
While doing research for an upcoming book, I asked marketing managers and GMs how they evaluate the success of their marketing investments. While total sales opportunities and units sold per month are the ultimate KPIs, many dealers have flat-to-declining sales.
Why You Need Rapid Reconditioning
At its core, the process of reconditioning trade-in and auction vehicles is a ‘time-equals-profit’ business. Intuitively, used car managers understand this.
Now is the Time to Shift from Sales-Focused to Product Specialist Roles
Today’s car buyers are walking into dealerships armed with more information than ever before. The average car shopper spends more than 11 hours researching cars online. Dealership employees are no longer the gatekeepers of all the information consumers need to make a hiring decision.
Winning the Used Car Sourcing Game: Quicker Turn Time and Increased Profits
“The good news is that there are software solutions that offer a more advanced, more profitable way to approach pre-owned car sourcing. This allows dealerships to acquire cars that are in high demand, turn fast and increase margin, often while being very easy to come by.”
