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Your Dealership Is Being Judged by AI Search
Car shoppers are asking the tools where to buy, service and trade. The question is whether your dealership is showing up as the answer.
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SEARCHMENUSEARCHCar shoppers are asking the tools where to buy, service and trade. The question is whether your dealership is showing up as the answer.
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Why spend money to drive traffic to a site that doesn’t convert? Greg Wells, business development expert, offers tips to help boost a dealership website’s conversion.
Read More →Recent fraudulent emails to dealerships purporting to be from the FTC prompt attorney Tom Hudson to issue a word of caution to dealers: Make sure any "authorities" who approach the dealership are the real thing before taking any action.
Read More →David A. Anderson and Wilfredo Fernandez of the firm Citrin Cooperman outline a few of the most common frauds perpetrated in various dealership departments and offer some ways to help prevent them from occurring.
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Over the course of about seven years, Grappone Automotive’s business development center has evolved into a centralized operation that is responsible for 50 percent of the dealership’s monthly sales.
Read More →The Durbin Bill, which was a part of the Dodd-Frank Act, regulates the merchant processing costs associated with taking certain types of debit-card payments. Technology Expert Allen Dobbins explains how the bill is lowering costs for dealers who accept credit and credit card payments.
Read More →The best first line of defense against class action suits is the practice of requiring consumers to sign mandatory arbitration agreements as part of the car purchase and finance transactions they enter into. Attorney Thomas Hudson provides an example of how the use of arbitration agreements saved the day when the class action lawyers came calling.
Read More →Accountant David Keller, CPA and CFE, details how buy here pay here sales and collections and having a related finance company (RFC) can complicate accounting.
Read More →Business development expert Greg Wells outlines the building blocks of a profitable BDC, including determining the basic functions your BDC will perform, which employees are in the BDC, pay plans and how the BDC can evolve to take on more tasks in the dealership.
Read More →At Bergeron Auto, compliance is taken seriously. Dealer Denis Bergeron discusses why his dealership in Metairie, La., takes a proactive approach to maintaining compliance.
Read More →Dealers who ignore rules and regulations they’re required by law to comply with and instead hope to fly under the radar unnoticed by the Federal Trade Commission and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau might want to ask themselves the following questions posed by Attorney Tom Hudson in this article.
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