Three Scenarios Live Chat Will Fix in Your Service Drive
The phone shouldn’t be the only way customers connect with the dealership. This bottleneck limits your potential to serve more customers. Live chat opens engagement avenues, freeing your staff to focus on customers at your dealership.
Dashboard Dealership Enterprises Integrates With Auto/Mate’s DMS, Providing Auto Dealers With Advanced Reporting Solution
Auto dealerships using both Auto/Mate’s DMS and Dashboard’s reporting solutions are now able to enjoy seamless data exchange and real-time updates between the two systems.
Podcast: Biggest Challenges Facing Dealership Leaders
We’ve asked past guests to share with us what they believe are some of the biggest challenges facing leaders at today’s dealerships.
The Shift in Thinking That Will Transform Your Marketing
Marketing and advertising may be classified technically as an expense, but rather than thinking of your efforts as a cost of doing business, what if you considered those efforts an asset to growing your business?
Three Ways to Win Over Millennials in the Service Department
You can’t satisfy today’s customers with yesterday’s service department. Are you equipped to give them what they want? Today’s technology-minded customers expect a more-connected experience in the service lanes. Approximately 90 million Millennials are entering adulthood — and their peak autopurchasing years. Millennials are just the first of many generations who will grow up with
Men Champions Advance Careers for Women
Many male execs, managers and trainers are uncomfortable with one-on-one mentoring in cross-gender relationships. A recent survey revealed that “half of junior women and almost two-thirds of senior men shied away from one-on-one mentoring relationships due to concerns that someone might perceive a sexual relationship where there was none.” These apprehensions build walls that deny
Recalls: Turning Problems Into Profits
THE RECALL POOL OEMs have been flooding dealers with recall opportunities and the response is typically one of two different views on this tidal wave: Some see it as a problem while others see the opportunity. For the strategic-minded dealership, it’s a perfectly profitable storm.Viewing the trailing trend and now with three record setting years
What Dealerships Can Do to Overcome the Technician Supply Gap
It needs to be apparent for any new technician that there’s a clear career path and their employer is willing to invest time and money in their development.
How to Beat the “Pushy Car Salesman” Stereotype with Digital Retail
We’ve all heard the joke: Someone would rather go to the dentist than the dealership. It’s a sentiment as old as time; consumers are apprehensive about the car buying experience. Indeed, salespeople in any industry are usually met with skepticism. “The sales process is long, exhausting and much of it takes place behind closed doors
Evolving Automotive Technology: Consumer Desires and Demands, Part 1
For the next few entries in our Dealer Panel series, we’ve asked our panel how they deal with the changing pace of automotive technology and consumer demands.
