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Lease Credit Approval Rates Improve Slightly to 70.9% in October
Lease Approval Ratings Rise Slightly Following -3.9% Dip in Month of September
Swapalease.com, the nation’s largest car lease marketplace, reports car lease credit applicants registered a 70.9% approval rate in October, a slight rise from the September rate of 69.8%.
The number of lease approvals is significantly higher than the same time last year, as just 55.6% of lease applicants were approved in October 2017. Another 61.5% were approved in October…
Tips When Selecting Honda Used Cars for Sale Syracuse NY
If you're in the market for used cars, a Honda vehicle is a good place to start. For years, Honda has been scoring an excellent reputation for quality assurance and reliability. To add to that, Honda's resale value and value retention are better than other brands in a similar brand category. As it will be discussed later on, resale value and value retention are crucial factors when choosing to purchase a used car. Putting a cherry on top, Honda actually has one of the best…
AutoLoop Wins 2018 Tampa Bay Tech Award for Best Workplace Culture
Besides producing industry-leading automotive software, the company has also created a unique workplace that recognizes and incorporates the value of play
CLEARWATER, FL – November 14, 2018 – AutoLoop LLC, the leading provider of auto industry marketing, sales, and service solutions, announced today that the company has received the 2018 “Workplace Culture Program of the Year” award from Tampa Bay Tech, Florida’s largest…
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Effective Tips to Keep Employees Engaged and Happy in Dealership
Employee engagement means a lot in car dealership business. Engaged employees can make your business and disengaged employees can't only decrease the sales but can also lead customers' dissatisfaction and efficiency in organizational tasks. In this forum posts, I am going to tell you some effective tips to keep your employees engaged.
- First of all, as a boss of a car dealership business, you must need to understand the significance of employee engagement. You can read quality…
How Do You Define Management Competency?
Successful dealerships strive to recruit, hire, and retain the best-available management talent. Once that talent is on board, effective performance management processes must be in place to provide these yet-unproven (to us) managers with feedback on their work results and to ensure that they are receiving the tools and support to become high achievers. So I always ask my potential client-dealers to describe their method of evaluating the overall competence of the…
Are You Looking at This the Right Way?
When I was teaching the Sonic Dealer Academy from 2001 through 2008, my co-instructor, Steve Hallock, became famous for asking each class, “Why do you think we spend so much time talking about the Service Department? It’s because, at a 75% gross profit margin on labor sales, this department offers, by far, the greatest incentive to increase sales. That was then, and many dealership owners and managers looked at service gross potential that way.
These days, however, I’m coaching my…
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Lease Credit Approval Rates Improve Slightly to 70.9% in October
Posted by John Sternal on November 15, 2018 at 11:43am 0 Comments 0 Likes
Lease Approval Ratings Rise Slightly Following -3.9% Dip in Month of September
Swapalease.com, the nation’s largest car lease marketplace, reports car lease credit applicants registered a 70.9% approval rate in October, a…
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Tips When Selecting Honda Used Cars for Sale Syracuse NY
Posted by Simon Hopes on November 15, 2018 at 2:40am 0 Comments 0 Likes
If you're in the market for used cars, a Honda vehicle is a good place to start. For years, Honda has been scoring an excellent reputation for quality assurance and reliability. To add to that, Honda's resale value and value retention are better…
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AutoLoop Wins 2018 Tampa Bay Tech Award for Best Workplace Culture
Posted by Graham Annett on November 14, 2018 at 10:13am 0 Comments 0 Likes
Besides producing industry-leading automotive software, the company has also created a unique workplace that recognizes and incorporates the value of play
CLEARWATER, FL – November 14,…
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Do you have “Only Person in the World” Disease?
Posted by Bill Wittenmyer on November 14, 2018 at 9:04am 0 Comments 1 Like
Recently I was waiting in line at an airport, along with hundreds of other travelers. A couple appeared out of nowhere, shoving their way to the front of the line and complaining loudly, as if they were the only…
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Affinitiv Participating in the General Motors Dealer Digital Solution Digital Advertising Program
Posted by Scot Eisenfelder on November 14, 2018 at 8:37am 0 Comments 0 Likes
Chicago, IL- November 14, 2018- Affinitiv announced today it has completed all requirements to participate in the Digital Advertising Program under the GM Dealer Digital Solution.
This allows dealers the…
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Change the Experience; Change the Results
Posted by Steve Stauning on November 14, 2018 at 8:09am 0 Comments 4 Likes
Use your intellect to scale your lot size
Posted by Simon Hopes on November 13, 2018 at 1:13pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
If you have had the chance of seeing any kind of documentary over a big project, today’s concept of this article will be clear to you. Because we are talking about planning out the whole thing from the beginning to the end. It can make the whole…
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Values Remained Stable Last Week
Posted by Black Book on November 13, 2018 at 11:56am 0 Comments 0 Likes
Welcome to this week's edition of Black Book Market Insights, with in-depth analysis of used car and truck valuation trends and insights straight from the auction lanes. …
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Facebook Marketplace: A Dealership Primer – Part 2: Effective Communication is Key
Posted by Todd Smith on November 13, 2018 at 11:47am 0 Comments 2 Likes
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Google Launches Auto Insurance Comparison Tool
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With the growing popularity of care share programs, self-driving technology could be a game changer for urban traffic systems. A new study looks at how the Swedish capital's transport grid could be transformed. A fleet of shared self-driving cars in…Continue
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What about the other 90%
Started by Lizelle Landino in OTHER - Does Not Fit Any Predefined Category. Last reply by Les Gusky Aug 6. 1 Reply 0 Likes
How do you maximize your website and website traffic to the fullest? Spending so many ad dollars and funds to acquire website traffic is such a investment for dealers. Let's say you are awesome and your website traffic converts "at best" at 10%,…Continue
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You know you work for a bad dealership when . . . .
Started by Mark Dubis in Ask an AUTOMOTIVE PROFESSIONAL. Last reply by Tim Pendergast Jul 19. 89 Replies 8 Likes
We all know many dealers still make money the old fashioned way, in spite of themselves. If we want to attract top notch professionals to our industry we need to be able to quickly identify attributes of the poorly managed and not employee focused…Continue
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Traditional Advertising, is it truly over as many might say?
Started by Bobby Compton in Ask an AUTOMOTIVE PROFESSIONAL. Last reply by Willis Williams Oct 18, 2013. 87 Replies 7 Likes
Traditional Advertising, is it truly over as many might say?I've found that there are different environments, climates and demographics that call for traditional advertising! Although Social Media is on the move and in my opinion will be sooner than…Continue
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Do women make better Car salespeople?
Started by aaron kominsky in Women in the Auto Industry. Last reply by Ben Misra May 6, 2014. 77 Replies 6 Likes
What characteristics differentiate the differences between a woman vs a man in selling autombiles in today's marketplace?Continue
CRM advice needed, Small VW Dealership in Northwestern Pa
Started by Andrew Kappler in Dear Abby (dealerELITE) - Advice Needed. Last reply by Michael Robinson Ragsdale Mar 21, 2012. 72 Replies 2 Likes
I am currently needing advice with regards to CRM software for our dealership, we have something sort of close but very antiquated, that said, I thought that I understood the functionality of said software however I may have been sort of blind to…Continue
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PR: The Automotive Super Conference Announces World-Class Dealership Solutions for the Entire Dealership
Started by David Johnson in General Forum for dealerELITE Members. Last reply by NANCY SIMMONS Apr 2, 2012. 63 Replies 14 Likes
March 22nd, 2012 – Charlotte, NC - The…Continue
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Autotrader, Cars.com, what is your favorite 3rd party lead provider?
Started by Robert Hildreth in Ask an AUTOMOTIVE PROFESSIONAL. Last reply by MANNY LUNA Sep 27, 2011. 58 Replies 4 Likes
We have agreements with about everyone....had a terrible experience with Carsdirect 72 leads 0 sales...and customers seem to use it as a wish lists...for new or used...not to mention I hate that they have a site to tell me how much I should be…Continue
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Started by NANCY SIMMONS in General Forum for dealerELITE Members. Last reply by Justin Wade Bagwell Aug 13, 2011. 58 Replies 3 Likes
If I was a new dealer opening up a new car dealership today, I would...............Continue
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