Today on CBTNews.com – Tuesday, February 5th, 2019:
Charlie Gilchrist, 2019 NADA Chairman on Vehicle Affordability, Threats to the Industry, and His Plan for the Year Ahead
Thousands of franchise dealers descended on San Francisco for the 2019 NADA Convention. One of the high points of the event is the installation of the Association’s new Chairman; Texas dealer Charlie Gilchrist. We had the chance to sit down with Charlie just before taking the reigns as the new Chairman of the NADA for 2019. We asked Charlie about the future of the industry, the year ahead for NADA and what he wants to get accomplished. Watch Now
Make Day-to-Day Operations More Efficient at Your Dealership with the Help of a Virtual Assistant – David Marod, Conversica
CBT News spoke with David Marod, senior vice president of sales at Conversica on the stage at NADA this year and discussed artificial intelligence in the dealership, and employing a virtual assistant in the day-to-day operations that can alleviate the tedious tasks. Watch Now
Digital Deals: Coming to a Dealership Near You
Most dealerships use scanning solutions to create digital documents, but there are several reasons why scanning is not the ideal solution for digitizing documents. No matter how fast your scanner is, it still takes time. Scanned documents are created and managed by humans, which means there is always room for human error that makes retrieval of documents difficult. Read More
Driving Into the Future
In the six years since the multimedia platform CBT (Car Biz Today) was launched by Jim and Bridget Fitzpatrick, the American car industry has undergone far reaching change and faced an array of new challenges. During this time, CBT has championed the automobile dealer community by providing important and timely news coupled with a host of tools to enable them to not only understand the forces and trends in their business, but also profit from them. Read More
