
Dealer Debrief: Technician Apprenticeships
In this week's debrief, host Lauren Lawrence discusses a new grant for service tech apprenticeships and more industry workforce news.
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In this week's debrief, host Lauren Lawrence discusses a new grant for service tech apprenticeships and more industry workforce news.
Read More →Don Reed - Common sense tells us that increasing your profit margins is the easiest of the three ways listed above. This is the result of nothing more than an attitude on the part of the dealer and his management team to follow NADA guides...
Read More →Jennifer Rincon - During a time when American cars introduced front seat shoulder belts, Swedish engineers were already launching rear-facing child seats and testing their cars in aircraft wind tunnels...
Read More →Don Reed - Once you have your service advisors working with 12 to 15 customers a day, you must then measure your shop productivity, which needs to be around 120 percent...
Read More →Don Reed - For all three positions, is your Service Absorption rising year after year? If any of your answers were “NO” then you must ask yourself why?...
Read More →Don Reed - Can your service department increase its customer pay labor and parts sales by 40 percent? YES! Can your service department increase its customer pay labor and parts gross profit by 40 percent?...
Read More →Karen Steckler - Prestige Imports is one of seven dealerships, with seventeen franchises which is owned by Hansel Auto Group. Over the years Hansel has developed a robust business with excellent service centers...
Read More →Don Reed - If the number of active customers in your database is going up each month, congratulations; you are doing a lot of things right toward building strong owner retention...
Read More →Mark O'Neil - Increasingly important to dealerships are the back end profits from the sale of aftermarket products...
Read More →Don Reed - Let’s take a look at your most recent financial statement. Determine your average new and used vehicle unit sales per month...
Read More →“It’s an ever changing industry, and the easiest way to describe it is that it’s a fashion business,” said Churchill.
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