On a recent edition of Dealer Forward, CBT News hosted a conversation between Josh Bickerton, Director of Product Consulting at Dealertrack, and Mark Watson, Vice President of Finance and Insurance Operations at Van Horn…
Top 8 Profit Drivers for Today’s Digital Dealer
At a time when more of the shopping, buying, and relationship building is taking place online, dealers are taking stock of their digital technology portfolio. Cox Automotive forecasts that half of all car buyers…
Drive Efficiency with Simple Dealership Best Practices
In the quest to stay compliant, competitive, and profitable, dealerships are investing heavily in technology to increase efficiency. But technology alone won’t build a more efficient business. Your managers, frontline employees, sales staff, and…
Improve Your Dealership’s Digital DNA
This might be a familiar scene in your dealership: your customers have just test-driven their dream car, checked all the cool features, and are living on cloud 9. Then, out come the piles of…
Do you Have What it Takes to be a Forward-Thinking Dealer?
Forward-Thinkers Know How to Increase Dealership Efficiency Modern dealerships work hard to stay competitive. Driving efficiency in your auto dealership is a long game, however, and many business owners struggle to embrace the right…
An Easier Lease Process with eContracting
Leasing can be an attractive option for car buyers who enjoy the bells-and-whistles of a late model car but seek to keep their payments in check. Cox Automotive forecasts an overall lease penetration rate…
14 Reasons to Start eContracting Now
As more and more dealerships adopt eContracting, you might be wondering if now is the time for your dealership to look into getting or using an eContracting solution. The fact is, there’s no good…
Why eContracting and Digital Retailing Go Hand-in-Hand
More and more dealerships are seeing the value of digital retailing for bringing in customers from a variety of online sources to help counter declining retail profit margins. Consumers are definitely shopping for vehicles…
eContracting and Data Security
Dealerships collect a significant amount of personally identifiable information (PII) about their customers in the process of selling them a vehicle and arranging financing. Information including the customer’s name, date of birth, place of…
How econtracting can improve your dealership’s bottom line
When a dealership is considering a switch to electronic contracting from traditional paper contracts, it’s important for them to figure the value they’ll receive from modernizing their processes. Some paper contract expenses are easy…
Improving On Your Paper Contracting Workflow
When it comes to switching from paper contracts to eContracting or digital contracting, some dealerships have a hard time letting go of the workflows that they are used to. Even when they realize that…
4 Reasons Your Dealership Should Be Digital Contracting
We all know that digital contracting is the wave of the future and that its big-picture benefits include speeding up funding, increasing accuracy and compliance, and virtually eliminating re-contracting. But how about the everyday…
