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Use your intellect to scale your lot size
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 project of yours really easy to handle. In the case of a small profession of an individual, this strategy is also helpful. As you will be planning out the whole process, your work will always stay in observations and the maintenance will be good too.…
Values Remained Stable Last Week
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. Click here to download the full…
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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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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
Networking Events and How to Make the Most of Your Next One
Posted by Cynthia Madison on November 13, 2018 at 9:09am 0 Comments 0 Likes
Networking is essential and goes beyond the limits of the internet. Yes, you will need more than to sit behind a computer and make online connections if you really want your networking strategy to work and deliver the expected results. This is…
Continue Always try to keep things simple in Forex trading
Posted by Simon Hopes on November 13, 2018 at 8:40am 0 Comments 0 Likes
In the case of choosing a professional life, you have to think about how will be for your mind. Whether the process is likable or not should be considered before joining an academic course. Then you study for the profession and get a…
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Tips For Selecting The Best Auto Mechanic For Repairing Your Car
Posted by Kate Westall on November 13, 2018 at 4:01am 0 Comments 0 Likes
Like any other automotive machine, a car can also start showing problems any time and would require instant repair to get started. In such a case, you can’t really trust any random person to help you with car…
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Why One Should Choose Authorized Audi service center Over Local Workshop?
Posted by Anna Wrench on November 13, 2018 at 3:51am 0 Comments 1 Like
Being an Audi owner is certainly a demanding thing because all the intricate and delicate parts of the car requires careful handling at the time of service. One of the dilemmas that most of the owners go through is…
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5 Things You Need to Do to Get Your Car into Shape
Posted by Tyler Newport on November 13, 2018 at 3:43am 0 Comments 0 Likes
Let’s start off by saying that a used car isn’t necessarily a used-up car and, seeing as how that money is probably pretty tight…
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Renting luxury car For Your Trip Wisely
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Google Launches Auto Insurance Comparison Tool
Started by Mike Elliott in Automotive Industry Future - Predictions. Last reply by Reynalda Lor Sep 3. 1 Reply 0 Likes
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
Tags: Conversion, In-Market-Shoppers, Retention
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
Tags: Service, Social Media, branding, Off-Site, Seminar
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
Tags: Dealix, Carsdirect, Cars.com, KBB, Zag
Finish this Sentence.....
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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