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How Top-Performing Dealers Handle Property and Casualty Insurance Audits

Sixty-two percent of dealerships fail their first property and casualty insurance audit, and most never find out why until they're hit with premium adjustments ...

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How Top-Performing Dealers Handle the Dealer Composite Report Deep Dive

In 1987, the NADA (National Automobile Dealers Association) first published formal guidelines for dealership financial reporting. Before that, dealer reporting ...

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How Top-Performing Dealers Handle Pack and Holdback Transparency

How many of your office staff could explain what happened to that $2,400 pack charge on last month's Honda Civic deal? Better question: do you actually know? P...

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How Top-Performing Dealers Handle Dealership Chart of Accounts Cleanup

How often does your controller come to you with a financial statement that doesn't match what you feel in your gut is happening on the lot? You ask for clarific...

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How Top-Performing Dealers Handle the 13-Month Rolling Forecast

Imagine it's mid-October, and your dealership controller is scrambling to reconcile next year's budget against the realities staring back from September's numbe...

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How Top-Performing Dealers Manage Floor Plan Interest Expense

How much money is sitting on your lot right now that you're literally bleeding interest on every single day? If you can't answer that question in the next 30 s...

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Most Dealer Principals Are Flying Blind on Their Own Numbers

Most Dealer Principals Are Flying Blind on Their Own Numbers You run a dealership. You know your sales targets, your gross targets, maybe even your CSI score. ...

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How Top-Performing Dealers Handle Home-Charging Installer Partnerships: A Benchmarking Guide

The first commercial electric vehicle charging network in America launched in 1997, long before most dealers knew what a kilowatt-hour was. Fast forward to toda...

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How Top-Performing Dealers Handle DC Fast Charging at the Dealership

How many dealers in your market are sitting on EV inventory they can't move fast enough because they haven't cracked the DC fast charging puzzle at their lot? ...

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How Top-Performing Dealers Are Actually Profiting From EV Subscription Programs

If your EV subscription program is bleeding money while competitors are quietly turning it into a profit center, have you stopped to ask why? Electric vehicle ...

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How Top-Performing Dealers Handle EV Lease Loyalty Programs

You're sitting in your office on a Tuesday morning, looking at your lease portfolio. Three years ago, you had a waiting list for EVs. Now you're wondering if th...

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How Top-Performing Dealers Benchmark Third-Party Marketplace ROI

Seventy-three percent of dealers lose money on third-party marketplace listings within the first six months. Not through fraud or bad luck, but through sheer op...

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