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California Dealer Group Foundation Partners With ASE
CNCDA Foundation and ASE Connects collaboration is intended to build California's automotive technician workforce.
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At Key Auto Mall – one such example – overall business is good, and the 20-bay service department is booming. The auto mall, which spans two city blocks, is located in Moline, Ill., and has three separate sales showrooms encompassing Buick, Pontiac, GMC, Dodge and Mazda. However, all service is completed in a centralized ...
Read More →Harlene Doane - Often, it’s the service department that keeps the dealership doors open during down sales cycles, but this is only achieved when the dealership drives ...
Read More →Economically speaking, Newton’s third Law of Motion – for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction – is certainly applicable today. Applied to the automotive industry, the action is decreased vehicle sales and the reaction is increased sales in service and maintenance. The question is: Are customers bringing their vehicles to you or your competitors for service? Now is the prime time to rev up fixed operations to gain more service and maintenance ...
Read More →Hal Scott - A few wrong decisions today and even those dealers fortunate enough to have old family money could easily be gone. This is not a revelation for many of you, as fear for financial survival has savagely ripped through every...
Read More →Hal Scott - Success today requires strong fixed coverage. Your service, quick service, parts, body and detail departments have to be “dialed-in.” Adding 0.5 hours to each repair order in service, quick service and body shop is not just...
Read More →Joe Benson - Automotive dealerships are on the lookout for innovative technology that requires a minimum investment, while creating excitement, building customer retention, increasing profits. ... is easily understood, inexpensive to incorporate...
Read More →Gary Simmons - Consider the usual dealership scenario: the sales person sells the vehicle and assumes their job is done. Instead of introducing the customer to the service team, showing them the bay, and explaining that their services are...
Read More →Jennifer Rincon - The service directors, who are interacting with customers, constantly collect ideas for improvement. The seeds of these ideas, though frequently shared at the monthly meetings, can get choked by a busy schedule.
Read More →David Boyle - Why is it with all the advances in technology and processes, the way we sell service and interact with our customers hasn't changed in decades?...
Read More →Don Reed - One very effective way to correct this is to send all incoming service calls to a business development center (BDC). Properly trained BDC personnel can provide a multitude of services that will increase owner retention...
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