September 2013 Blog Posts (89)

Recruiting: Shaping your future

Is your dealership fully staffed with the right people?

If not you could be losing a significant amount of revenue and market share! Dealerships across the country lose hundreds of thousands of dollars a year because they are not operating at their full potential. If you can't honestly answer the above question with a resounding yes, then take…

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Added by Larry Sherwood on September 3, 2013 at 9:56pm — No Comments

Financial Statement Success Steps

Increase Gross Profit, Increase Net Profit, Control Expenses, Increase Sales.

Chances are you have been living those four financial principles since you became the owner or GM. And if you are a service manager reading this, you have been the willing champion of the preceding 4 financial cornerstones to dealership success.

Can I ask you a question?Looking for answers?

How does it make you…

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Added by Leonard Buchholz on September 3, 2013 at 4:14pm — No Comments

Positive People Simply Make More Money

Learn how you can double your income digitally by choosing a positive attitude. Find out how you can market yourself with out any cash. Stop waiting for outside forces to change your future use your positive energy and develop your own personal marketing strategy. Watch this week's Think Tank Tuesday and learn how to focus that positivity into productive leads.

Added by Paul Potratz on September 3, 2013 at 2:27pm — No Comments

Auto/Mate Integrates with Volkswagen’s ElsaPro, Enhancing Dealers’ Access to Electronic Workshop Manual

ALBANY, N.Y. – September 3rd, 2013 – Auto/Mate Dealership Systems (http://www.automate.com) announced today that its AMPS Dealership Management System (DMS) is fully integrated with Volkswagen Group of America’s ElsaPro, an electronic workshop manual that dealership service departments use to diagnose and repair vehicles. Volkswagen and Audi dealerships using Auto/Mate’s DMS will greatly increase efficiencies in the service department…

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Added by Mike Esposito on September 3, 2013 at 1:03pm — No Comments

DMEInsights Launches: First-ever Customer Loyalty Analytics System that Enables Dealerships to Accelerate the Value of their Customers

Designed by DMEautomotive Strategy and Analytics team, DMEInsights revolutionizes customer loyalty with a fresh new perspective for managing customer lifetime value

 

Daytona Beach, FL– September 3, 2013 – DMEautomotive (DMEa), the science-inspired, results-based automotive marketing leader, today launched DMEinsights, an innovative customer loyalty analytics system designed to…

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Added by Crystal Hartwell on September 3, 2013 at 9:33am — No Comments

How Rewards Become Chores

There are many benefits to having an automotive loyalty program at your dealership to increase business and customer retention. You must be mindful, however, of some dangers that exist if the program is not implemented and administered properly.

 

Loyalty programs seek to reward behaviors. For dealerships,…

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Added by Mike Gorun on September 3, 2013 at 8:15am — No Comments

Are You Committing Sales Malpractice?

There is a saying in the medical field, “Prescription before examination is malpractice”. If you were a doctor examining a new patient who complained that pains in their abdomen had become intolerable, you would not simply prescribe a painkiller and send the patient home. You would perform a careful diagnosis that included bloodwork and tests, as well as a thorough physical examination.

 

A doctor must find out if the patient has an upset stomach, appendicitis or colon cancer…

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Added by Al Mosher on September 1, 2013 at 12:00pm — No Comments

Sales Peformance Training: Leaping Over Ordinary

Recently, I competed for the National Title of Ms. US Forestry Queen and heard several times over the weekend, “You are an extraordinary woman!”  I am humbled and appreciative of any complement, but this one makes me giggle a little on the inside.  Why do I giggle?  Thank about…

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Added by Stephanie Young on September 1, 2013 at 12:00pm — 2 Comments

Sneaky Car Dealer Sales Tricks - Putting Positive Spin on Not So Positive Press

I recently read a posting someone made referring to an article at MSN Money reprinted from US NEWS entitled “5 sneaky car dealer sales tricks” they did not like saying that these types of articles confuse the public and asked why do they have to say that we are always on the…

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Added by Bill Cosgrove on September 1, 2013 at 9:47am — No Comments

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