The One KPI That Actually Predicts Whether Your Trade Network Will Succeed
The One KPI That Actually Predicts Whether Your Trade Network Will Succeed It's Friday afternoon in your used car department. Three trade-ins came in this morn...
The One KPI That Predicts Lease-End Protection Product Success
Most F&I managers are measuring the wrong thing when it comes to lease-end protection products, and it's costing them thousands in back-end gross every month. ...
The One KPI That Predicts F&I Menu Disclosure Success Across States
The Mistake Most Dealerships Make With F&I Compliance Your finance manager sits down with a customer for the menu presentation. Everything looks good on paper....
The One KPI That Predicts Second-Chance Finance Success
It's 2 p.m. on a Tuesday, and your finance manager is running behind. Again. There's a stack of credit applications on the desk, three of them marked "Second Ch...
The One KPI That Predicts F&I Lender Kickbacks Before They Happen
Your F&I menu isn't failing because your finance manager lacks product knowledge. It's failing because nobody's tracking the one metric that actually predicts w...
The One KPI That Actually Predicts Your F&I Menu Strategy Success
Seventy percent of dealerships that track product attach rates never actually increase them. They watch the numbers month after month, adjust a variable here or...
The One KPI That Predicts Tire and Wheel Coverage Sales Success
Most dealerships are chasing the wrong metric when it comes to tire and wheel coverage sales. They're tracking attachment rate, or dollars per vehicle, or maybe...
The One KPI That Predicts Prepaid Maintenance Program Design Success
Most dealerships are designing their prepaid maintenance programs based on what competitors are doing, not on what actually drives profitability. You can spot t...
The One KPI That Predicts F&I Soft-Pull to Hard-Pull Success
Most dealerships treat the soft-pull-to-hard-pull conversion as a coin flip. Customer fills out the credit application, you run a soft inquiry to see what tier ...
The One KPI That Predicts F&I Participation Rates Across Lenders
The One KPI That Actually Predicts F&I Participation Rates (and Why Your Finance Manager Should Be Obsessed With It) Here's a number that should make you sit u...
Why Specialty Inventory Auctions Are a Trap (And What Works Instead)
Back in 1927, when the first-ever automobile auction fired up in Pasadena, California, dealers showed up expecting chaos. Instead, they found order. A gavel. Cl...
Why Your Powersports Service Department Is Actually a Separate Business (And Why You're Treating It Wrong)
Back in 1975, the Honda Gold Wing changed the motorcycle world by bringing car-like comfort to the highway. Dealers who sold them didn't just pump gas and sell ...