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AMT Joins with Repairify
Since being founded in 2006, AMT has built innovative applications, bringing its substantial talent and expertise to help solve problems …
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Valuable, Versatile, Vehicle Condition Reports
Knowledge is power, and you can’t know what you don’t know. These are two undisputed truths, and they are all …
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Record Wholesale Prices = Recon Even More Important
Wholesale prices continue to increase to record levels. This puts vehicle reconditioning in a king-maker role for organizations that get …
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Repair360 – Under the Hood
The measure of any tool is its utility: How does this tool improve my results? Here are common challenges that …
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7 Qualities Dealership Employees Want To See In Their Manager
A great manager is much more than someone who has a great attitude and encourages your growth in the company …
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The Used Car Roller Coaster – Hold On!
It’s been a roller coaster ride for the past many months, and although it looks like we’re at the top …
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Best Practices for Used Car Appraisals and Reconditioning
Dealerships have seen record profits over the last quarter, and one of the focus areas at the most successful dealerships, …
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Recon Operations – Doing it Right
Reconditioning is the step in the supply chain where value is added to every vehicle, and resale profit is made …
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How Many Systems Support Your Recon Operation?
If you’re tired of lurching from one system to another to another just to get your vehicles through recon, those …
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Your Recon Skills Don’t Get You Paid
You have a passion for your craft. You process a lot of cars, all day long, every day. You like …
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Does Your Dealership Workflow Need Improvement?
Making dealership workflows faster and more efficient lets you take advantage of more business opportunities. Here’s how to do that …
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How To Market Your PDR Business Online
Online marketing includes any methods and promotional strategies a business will execute on the internet to reach its target audience …
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Faster Repair-craft
Whatever your particular craft – your specialty when it comes to automotive reconditioning work – your skill in that craft …
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ReconPro Integration with Enterprise Systems
If you do work for Enterprise Rent-a-Car, did you know your ReconPro™ integrates with Enterprise? This means your estimates don’t …
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AMT Launches Repair360
Repair360 – A Complete Automotive Reconditioning Management System A single system for managing all components and contributors to automotive reconditioning …
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Lot Walk Enhancements
You get paid for the actual work, and anything that eats into that time eats into your profit. ReconPro’s enhanced …
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5 Tips For Operating A Successful Used Car Business
Running a business can be both an exciting and challenging time, and used cars are an increasingly popular choice among …
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Do Used Car Customers Buy Old Cars? We Have The Answer.
Are you a dealership that automatically wholesales out all trade-ins more than three or four years old? You may want …
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OEMs Prioritize Service Parts, and So Should You
With new vehicle sales well below last year’s numbers, and in anticipation of continued soft new car sales this year, …
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Empathy, Cooperation are Key to Industry Restart
How to restart an industry? Work together as an industry! Empathy, Cooperation are Key to Industry Restart …
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Dealers Calling for Inventory
Early signs of a resurgence in used car buying are waking up the industry from its pandemic-induced doldrums. We’ve heard …
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The Hertz Effect on Vehicle Sales
With the bankruptcy of Hertz Global Holdings, Inc., there will soon be an extraordinary volume of vehicles on offer, creating …
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S.M.A.R.T. Repair in the USA
The term “SMART Repair” has become a popular way of representing the mobile repair industry in the UK and is …
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7 Things No One Tells You About Starting A Car Detailing Business
From Detail King CEO Nick Vacco For anyone looking to start a car detailing business, it has the possibility of …
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5 Tips From Shark Tank’s Robert Herjavec To Improve Sales At Your Dealership
Robert Herjavec When a person comes to your dealership, they’re in the market for a car. Whether they make a …
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What is Your Strongest Credential?
The dictionary defines a credential as, “anything that provides the basis for confidence, belief, credit, etc.” In business, we use …
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Re-creating Your “New” Business
No matter how many years or how many generations your business has been in existence, you are starting a new …
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Credit First: Missing Link in Dealership Digital Sales
Craig Sims, Vice President of Equifax Automotive Services, once said, “In the ideal world of the future, customers will be …
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Maximizing Hourly Revenue
5 Overlooked Ways To Improve Touch Time For Your SMART Business …
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7 Effective Ways To Embrace Change In Your Dealership Process
Much the same as the way car repairs have evolved over the years, so has the entire dealership process. Recent …
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Reconditioning Your Way to Profit if Used Car Values Tank
When your cars have no buyers, how do you prepare for the future? The transfer of new-to-used, used-to-auction, and rental-to-auction …
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Vehicle Demand in a Time of Disruption
Revisiting the statistics to project second-quarter sales targets. Economy woes are on the minds of every business right now, and …
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How To Sell Cars In A Post Covid “New Normal”
Depending on when you read this, we are not there yet, but it feels like we may be getting closer …
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Marketing Your New And Used Car Dealership To Military Veterans
In our article titled How To Market Your New or Used Car Dealership To Active Duty Military, we discussed how …
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The Remote Work Dealership – Is It Even Possible?
For obvious reasons now, the concept of essential and non-essential employees and remote workers has been thrust upon nearly every …
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Changes to the PDR Landscape
What Does The AutoWorks and Catastrophe Solutions Merger Mean For Your PDR Business? …
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Banking On An Electric Vehicle Future? You May Need To Pump The Brakes
So much uncertainty has been thrown at the world this past month. This sudden left turn naturally leads each industry …
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How to Help Your Laid-Off Automotive Employees Manage Unemployment
Social distancing is the end of in-person auto auctions, at least for a while. If you are like most auction …
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How Will Covid-19 Impact The Automotive Market? The Industry Weighs In
Anybody who can factually answer this question is a time traveler who has come back to fill us in. As …
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Will Parts Shortages Increase Your Time To Frontline Ready Following COVID-19 Shutdowns?
OEMs respond to replacement auto parts supply chain questions following the virus peak. Each day we wake up to a …
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How To Let Customers Know Your Dealership Is Open For Business During The Coronavirus
Even if your state has a shelter in place order, dealerships are allowed to and will continue to stay open …
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7 Tips For Taking Your Dealership’s Facebook Page To The Next Level
We live in a digital age where consumers decide who to give their business to long before they ever step …
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How To Market Your New or Used Car Dealership To Active Duty Military
Is your dealership located near a military base? With multiple bases and US military institutions in every single US state, …
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Are You Preparing Your Used Car Dealership For Its Electric Vehicle Future?
Today, tomorrow, five years from now, twenty years from now. That’s about as accurate as any projection for when we …
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Surprises Found Inside the February 2020 Black Book Trends Report
If your used car dealership uses Black Book trends, then you know that they reported a modest rise month-over-month in …
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Is Your Auto Auction Operation Prepared For Disaster?
Tornadoes hit Manheim Nashville, and the Coronavirus hits the US. That sums up this week’s gloomy headlines, and both events, …
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5 Email Tactics Other Dealerships Are Doing Better Than You In 2020 (and How To Fix It)
InteractiveUser-generatedEntertainingSelf-learning AISubscriber control What could possibly be new in the world of email marketing? You probably are already using email …
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Coaching Benefits For Your Dealership You Never Knew About…Until Now
If you knew there was a way to increase the self-confidence of your employees by 80% and improve their performance …
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Is It Time To Kill The “Internet Special Price” From Your Dealership Website?
There is no denying the fact that the internet and internet marketing have changed the way people shop for and …
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News from NADA Is Good News For Used Car Dealers
The National Automobile Dealers Association (NADA) at the 2020 NADA conference in Las Vegas issued an analysis of U.S. auto …
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5 Key Tips For Conquering More Market Share At Your Dealership
Being a successful car dealership is much more than attracting customers, efficiency among your departments, and selling cars. Those are …
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5 ways To Grow A Mobile Detailing Business From Scratch
If you have the entrepreneurial spirit and are good at detailing cars, becoming your own boss may be easier than …
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6 Crucial Metrics Every Used Car Dealer Should Track
As you’re gathering everything you need to evaluate your dealership’s performance, what are the metrics that matter most? …
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Why Cultivating A Great Dealership Culture Benefits Your Dealership
Performance Teamwork Communication Hiring As soon as a customer walks inside your dealership doors, they’ll be able to instantly tell …
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5 Things You Didn’t Know You Could Deduct For Running A Detailing Business In 2020
Running an auto detailing business can be an extremely profitable venture. What if you found out there were different things …
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5 Tweaks To Your Used Car Sales Pitch To Try Today
As a used car salesperson, you have an even greater responsibility than dealers who are selling factory-new vehicles with full …
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3 Areas In Your Dealership That Could Use Immediate Improvement
No matter how well your dealership is doing in sales and against the competition, there is always room for growth …
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Common Problems and Solutions Facing Amazon DSP Fleet Managers
Fuel Costs Vehicle Condition Driver Breaks Driver Location Every day, fleet management handles all sorts of responsibilities to improve overall …
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4 Big Management Mistakes For Used Car Sales Managers To Avoid
Being a sales manager at a used car dealership is no easy task. It can be even more of a …
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4 Hiring Practices That Can Hurt Your Dealership’s Success
Job Descriptions One-sided Interviews Desperation Fact-Checking Your dealership employees are a reflection of your brand. They are who your customer …
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4 Essential Rules To Nail Reconditioning Every Time
Your dealership’s recon operation is a profit center, but the amount of that profit depends on the choices you make …
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5 Tips To Improve Your Reconditioning Process
Running a used car dealership can be incredibly rewarding for both you, your team and customers. But one of the …
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4 Benefits Of Giving Back To Your Community
Giving is its own reward, but your business benefits from community involvement are manyfold …
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5 Ways To Give Your Dealership Website A Virtual Facelift
Your website is your first impression for folks looking at dealerships online. Not only is it a representation of your …
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Establishing Customer Contact
Communication is one of the most important aspects of running a thriving dealership. Customer service is improved, financial operations are …
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How PDR Software Makes Life Easier For You And Your Customers
While you may see the front-end of your PDR business as the primary force behind profit, you also have to …
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Overtime Rule For Dealerships
The Supreme Court ruled last year that Service Advisors are exempt from overtime pay requirements. How this impacts your employee …
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Positive Online Reviews – The Secret to Protecting Your Dealership’s Reputation
Customers already have a difficult time trusting car dealers, yet they need to feel trust in where they are making …
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Detailing the Batmobile
The most important car you work on is the one ahead of you. Treat it like it’s special. It is! …
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5 Ways To Create Employee Engagement
Recognition Purpose Leadership Collaboration Make it Special Employees who are fully engaged in their workspace and what they do can …
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Benefits And Ideas For Video Marketing Your Dealership
People prefer to learn visuallyVisual learners mentally project themselves into the experience they are watchingCreating videos is easier than you …
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Fleet Managers Face Big Challenges
Operating CostsRepair CostsVehicle AvailabilityMisuseDriver SafetyMore… Being a manager of a fleet operation is no easy task. You’re responsible for heavy-duty …
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5 Ways To Conquer Your Fear In Decision-Making
As the person responsible for the success of your business, making decisions for your dealership can be a daunting task …
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5 Ways To Manage Conflict At Your Dealership
Find the CauseStay HumanDocumentEyes on GoalLead by Example Conflict happens everywhere, whether we like it or not. It can be …
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How Do You Avoid Being Defrauded At Your Dealership?
Whether you work in the service and parts department or new and used car sales, there are fraud risks that …
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SUVs Are Packing Dealer Lots With More Coming
Nearly half of new vehicles sold are SUVsGrowth continues but seems to be slowingDealers are running out of space as …
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4 Key Tips For Business Longevity
TeamCommunityCompetitionVision Whether you’re own a dealership or an auto body repair shop, you want your business to be successful. Whether …
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How To Avoid A Data Breach At Your Dealership
Keep What’s NeededBe AwareBe PreparedDestroy Before TrashingButton It Up & Lock It Down Last July, almost 47,000 files of factory …
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How Vehicle Color Affects Depreciation
According to a recent study from https://www.iseecars.com/ on 1.6 million vehicles that are three-years-old, the car’s paint color has a …
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5 Marketing Tips for Dealerships
Website Improvements Online Chat Video Content Ratings and Reviews Social Media Versatility We live in a digital age where consumers …
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Make Your Inventory Pop With These Photography Tips For Dealerships
In the automobile industry, your dealership’s website is just as much a first impression as when a potential customer walks …
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Recon Vendor Management – Multiple Moving Parts and People
For those who manage multiple vehicles through a reconditioning process, like dealerships, fleet managers, auto auctions, and rental companies, employing …
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Advantages Of Management Software For Your Used Car Dealership
Faster Turn Times Improved Vehicle Volume Better Coordination For used car dealerships, management software is an excellent way to increase …
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Is Reconditioning Software Still Relevant in 2019?
If you’re staring at a desk surrounded by sticky notes and stacks of papers, wake up! It’s 2019! It’s no …
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Customer Service For Dealerships: Why Your Efficient Dealership Process Is Inefficient
Setting Expectations Reducing Customer Upset Service Advisor is Key If there’s one thing that dealerships have in common, it’s that …
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The Best Hail-Tracking Software For Your PDR Business
We’re a couple of months in hail season with several more to go. But how can you track the hail …
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7 Advantages Of Adding PDR To Your In-house Reconditioning Operation
In the reconditioning business, you’re always looking for a way to add another profit center. Luckily for you, adding Paintless …
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Online Marketing for Your PDR Business
Website Social Media Search Content Email Online marketing includes any methods and promotional strategies a business will execute on the …
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5 Simple and Effective Ways To Earn Customer Loyalty for your PDR Business
Customer Service Communication Incentives Honesty Innovation New customers are exciting for any business. Sales are the lifeblood of the company …
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Why Choosing ReconPro Helps You Claim Your Life Back
Reduce the hours spent on paperwork Coordinate jobs and teams Complete visibility of every job and customer When you manage …
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Watch For These Used Vehicle Trends Through 2019
> Sales mostly flat > New vehicle prices spur more Used vehicle shoppers > Increased Used inventory means larger depreciation …
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8 Common Challenges in Small/Mobile Wheel Repair Operations
Wheel Repair shops can range in size from 1 or 2-person garage-based or mobile services to large multi-site franchise and …
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How Reconditioning Software Reduces Your Time To Market
With each year, more and more dealerships are adapting to the latest and greatest technology. They’re doing this to increase …
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Tariffs Are Still The Biggest Threat To New Car Dealerships In 2019
With the agreement between the United States, Mexico, and Canada (USMCA), some of the previous tariffs’ impact has been erased …
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3 Best Perks of PDR Software in Your Back-Office Operations
Even in 2019, there are still quite a few PDR businesses out there that rely on out-of-date processes in their …
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Auto Dealerships Will Be Just Fine In 2019
According to NADA News, Senior Economist for NADA, Patrick Manzi, said trends are looking good for both new and used …
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Best Software For PDR Commissions
Running PDR business, you understand how much time it can take to track and calculate commissions. Your back-office has to …
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