Auto Dealership Trends: The State of the Economy (So Far)
If the auto dealership trends of the past few years taught the industry anything, it’s that strong sales numbers don’t always translate into customer confidence. Recent industry reporting and economic analysis paint a complex picture for dealerships heading into...
The Role Of The Service Department In Dealership Profit Leadership
The service department at most dealerships is facing more volatile conditions than in the past when it comes to price and performance pressure. However, most of these cost and performance pressures have little to do with how the dealership operates the service...
Dealership Management Guidance For Ultimate Success And Improving Profit
Dealership operations managers are working in a market with greater price variance than ever before. Much of it, understandably, is due to market forces and vendor actions rather than internal processes at the dealership’s store level. It makes measuring profit...
Key Dealer Principal Resources for Top Efficiency
If you follow one dealership rule this year, make it this: standardize what you can, measure what you must and simplify everything else. For dealer principals, efficiency is not optional. It’s the difference between a store that runs smoothly and one that is...
