Driving Solutions on CBT News explores the latest innovations in retail automotive, featuring expert insights on evolving dealership values, ownership trends, digital retail, and customer engagement strategies.
For years, dealers have dealt with inefficiencies in their sales process, including bottlenecks in the sales department, consumer expectations, and information overload. Our guest today knows these problems all too well and he has some solutions and strategies to bridge the technology gap between the in-store CRM and DMS systems. Today on Driving Solutions, we’re pleased to welcome Joe St. John, Vice President of Training at AutoFi.
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1. St. John...
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