Rapid Recon, the leader in delivering transparency and accountability technologies for modern auto dealerships, launched today …
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The report below first appeared yesterday on LinkedIn as a market update report posted by Rapid Recon, from an interview with preowned performance improvement consultant Ed French to address midsummer market perspectives. Ed is president and principal consultant of AutoProfit, and he is also a member of the Board of Directors for used car retailers TruWorth Auto in the Indianapolis, Indiana, area.
The market's adjusting, for reasons of affordability, which…
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Listen to an informative podcast with used car dealer and consultant Ed French and the role that efficient vehicle reconditioning should play to help dealers meet demand.
Turbulent Times with Preowned…
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In a robust used car market, does it matter whether you fully recondition cars before moving them to the front line?
Doesn’t it make sense to simply bypass a thorough reconditioning when you can sell very car you get at a premium without first providing a high-level recon?
That's what a recent article in…
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Owning a website has become a common thing for most people due to technological innovation. This has greatly influenced business owners to run their activities through online platforms. This way, it will be easy to gain more traffic that is international. Nonetheless, there are some aspects you should consider for your website to perform well. This is through the services that you…
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Kenwood Dealer Group is 15 dealerships in the Cincinnati, Ohio market. Dan Kommeth joined in early 2020 to fill a newly created position, Group Sales Director, assigned to strengthen the stores’ competitive advantage.
Convinced that positive customer experiences begin well before a lead or walk-in arrives, Kommeth started his new assignment by investigating processes that flow into profitable car sales.…
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PALO ALTO, CA, November 3, 2020 — The Next Rapid Recon, the time-to-line efficiency standard in dealership reconditioning software, has announced a robust new feature upgrade: Vendor Advantage.
Vendor Advantage is a no-charge enhancement to Rapid Recon time-to-line (T2L®) reconditioning workflow software for current and new Rapid Recon…
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By Bradley Orr
I started my career in the car business selling Oldsmobiles. Since then, I have managed used cars, reconditioning and sales — and I was also a wholesale dealer. I’d like to believe I know the business’s challenges.
One challenge every dealer faces is making prudent decisions — often quickly.
A…
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PALO ALTO, CA, October 23, 2020 – The Next Rapid Recon, the efficiency standard in reconditioning time-to-line workflow software, announced today several efficiency and usability advances enhancing the user experience.
This User Interface (UI) advancement makes the Next Rapid Recon the most robust and advanced dealership software system for improving reconditioning time to line (T2L®), speed to sale and used car…
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Car dealerships today have a lot of advertising options. Starting from small ads, over to TV ads, all the way to digital display and other dynamic content, there is plenty of fish in the pond.
If you are thinking about digital signage options, but are not sure where to start your search, you are in the right…
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Mobile smartphones have become an evermore important part of our lives since their introduction a tad over ten years ago. One of the most convenient things about today’s phones is the simplicity of texting. Obvious advantages include fast and direct communication, but texting does have disadvantages. Below I will touch on some of the good, the bad and ugly…
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The advancement of technology today is accelerating every day, and its influence on our everyday lives is enormous. To stay fresh, every business needs to keep up with this advancement, and even dictate rules, for that matter.
When it comes to mobile texting within your car dealership, one question appeared recently. This issue, whether or not to use…
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What is your customer retention percentage? Are you asking for more incremental work when the vehicle is on the hoist? Are you using SMS to your advantage?
Industry data shows that dealer’s customer retention ranges from 35% to 75%. Customers are looking for trust, value, convenience and clear…
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As Director of Training, I am always paying attention to the needs of dealers to see if a simple suggestion or note would solve the problem, or if it’s a larger issue, a training program to change the current practice. As it is with most things that involve change, I’m usually met with resistance. “If it’s so important, why are you the first to tell us?”
Sometimes, it’s because a new practice has emerged, but most of the time, I’ve discovered that I wasn’t the first…
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by John Fuhrman – Director of Training, OptionSoft Technology
Recently, I was visiting with a dealer and the recent rash of articles concerning compliance came up. As I shared what I knew on the subject and the current climate concerning fines and penalties, the dealer sat back, smiled and said, “I’m good. We use a menu.”
Since I was there to train the F&I managers (there were seven), I thought I’d…
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©2016 By John Fuhrman, Director of Training OptionSoft Technologies
Everyone’s talking about the cost of health care these days. What does that have to do with an article in a magazine for successful dealers? Bear with me for a moment. Most dealers are of an age where it would benefit them to get an annual checkup. Suppose you wanted only the best and most accurate information and bypassed your regular doctor.
You visited an…
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So, our industry is hell-bent on creating autonomous cars and transforming our roads and highways into assembly lines of controlled vehicles that perform without human intervention. I’m not talking about cruise control or auto-pilot. I’m talking about autonomy. The very definition of…
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The simple answer to this question is: It depends on how much you value your Customers.
Over the last 20 years the automotive sales process has changed dramatically due to advanced technologies and the internet. In the past, maintaining contact with Customers relied primarily…
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
ALBANY, N.Y. – January 12th, 2014 – Auto/Mate Dealership Systems (http://www.automate.com) today introduced Rev/Mate, an online service scheduling and menu building solution for auto dealers. Rev/Mate will be rolled out in the Automotive Productivity Management Suite (AMPS) Fixed Ops/Mate module in 2015. Rev/Mate is designed for service departments to maximize customer pay revenue while creating a…
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They say a picture is worth a thousand words. If that’s the case, what is a video worth? 46% of people say they’d be more likely to seek out information about a product or service after seeing it in an online video. As an Auto dealer, are you leveraging the use of video to help sell more vehicles each month and engage your customers? Video marketing and YouTube in particular, can help bring your dealership…
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