Recruiting and training service personnel has been a hot topic of conversation in recent years. Attracting and retaining good talent in your service department is getting harder to do in...
Can you imagine the day when your customers can ask their Google Assistant to schedule their car for service? Or if their car is ready to be picked up from...
It is no secret that dealership personnel work long hours. The car business is demanding of employees’ time, but it can be equally demanding on relationships and personal life. Because...
The body shop or collision repair industry has slightly diminished, however there are still new shops entering the fray to get their share of the revenue that is out there....
If you think back 20-30 years ago, almost every dealership had a body shop. Customers brought their cars to the dealer’s body shop because of the perceived quality of service,...
A dealership must pursue a course to help their customers sustain their vehicles to the utmost degree of maintenance. This is a service that is expected to benefit the customers...
Today’s hiring market is rough. Attracting and retaining good employees is more difficult than ever. We live in a world of entitlement and fluid change. Employees who aren’t getting exactly...
When a customer comes to your service department with a problem, they expect you to fix it. It is your job. Unfortunately, fixing it right the first time does not...
This is the age of information. Business is smarter and agiler than ever before thanks to insights and analytics that were not available in the not so distant past. When...
If your fixed-ops doesn’t have its own marketing budget, then shame on you! Far too many dealers treat fixed-ops as an afterthought, content to spend unconscionable amounts of money on...