How One Service Advisor Can Cost You $144,000
The bottom line is this: Everyone needs to be properly trained how to always put your customers first.
How ‘Sleepy’ Is Your Service Department?
After you check out your service department you will find the problem areas that need to be addressed and possibly form an action plan as to how you can make a difference in the upcoming months.
How To Compete With The Aftermarket
New car dealers generated about $52 billion in labor and parts sales. As anyone can see, the aftermarket has more than five times as many locations as new car dealers which makes them more Convenient for the customer.
Is Your Customer Retention Costing You Opportunity?
Are you losing existing customers at about the same rate as you’re adding new ones? Do the math in your store and compare last year’s RO performance to this year’s. Is your traffic going up, going down or remaining stagnant?
How To Grow a Fixed Ops Sales Team
Establish your sales goals for all departments and outline your plan for implementation. Think big and be bold! Measure everyone’s performance daily.
Is Your Customer Retention Costing You Opportunity?
It’s time for you to get committed and start holding everyone accountable for their individual performance to get on track for making this your best year ever in fixed operations.
How Incoming Calls Can Ruin You
It’s called owner retention and the best way to retain a customer is to provide them with the highest level of service possible and to always exceed their expectations. That usually begins with a phone call.
How to Maximize Your Dealership’s ROI
Some of you will take the approach of “saving your way into profitability” by vowing not to increase your expenses, but you remain willing to make investments every day of your business life. Let’s consider some examples.
Getting Rid of That Demarcation Line
The top issues that we consistently experience, year after year, are the strict accountability standards for the sales operations and the lack thereof for the service and parts operations.
How to Put the 80/20 Rule to Work for You
For most of you, a net profit at 20 percent of gross profit in your service department and 30 percent in your parts department will make this your best year ever in fixed operations.
