Why Upfitter Partnerships for Commercial Vans Is Quietly Costing You Fleet Deals
How many fleet deals slip away each month because your upfitter partner can't hit the customer's timeline? Most dealership leaders don't think of upfitting par...
Why You're Losing Fleet Deals to Dealerships That Know What They're Doing
Why You're Losing Fleet Deals to Dealerships That Know What They're Doing Imagine this: A contractor walks into your showroom on a Tuesday morning with a simpl...
Why Fleet Pricing Versus Retail Margin Is Quietly Costing You Deals
Sixty-three percent of dealers say fleet sales underperform their projections, yet most of them haven't changed their pricing strategy in three years. That's no...
Why a Fleet Account Acquisition Strategy Is Quietly Costing You Deals
It's Saturday morning. Your sales manager is on the phone with a fleet buyer who needs 12 work trucks delivered in 60 days, fully upfitted with racks and toolin...
Why Accounts Receivable Aging at the Parts Counter Is Quietly Costing You Deals
What if the biggest leak in your dealership's cash flow isn't on the lot—it's sitting in your parts office right now? Most dealers treat accounts receivable ag...
Why P&C Insurance Audits Are Quietly Costing You Deals and Gross Profit
Your accounting team just got an email from your P&C insurance carrier. They want to audit your dealership's books for the next policy period. You forward it to...
The Blind Spot That Looks Like a Dashboard
Most dealers will tell you they pull their composite report every month, scan it for red flags, and move on. That's the problem. The composite report isn't jus...
Why Pack and Holdback Transparency Is Quietly Costing You Deals
Most dealership controllers will never connect pack and holdback opacity to lost sales. They'll see a shortfall in gross profit, blame market conditions, and mo...
Why Reconciling Parts and Service Accounts Is Quietly Costing You Deals
Imagine it's Wednesday afternoon. Your controller walks into your office with the monthly reconciliation report, and the parts and service accounts don't line u...
Why Dealership Chart of Accounts Cleanup Is Quietly Costing You Deals
Most Dealerships Have a Chart of Accounts That Nobody Actually Uses Your chart of accounts is a mess. Not the kind you notice until tax time, either—the kind t...
Why the 13-Month Rolling Forecast Is Quietly Costing You Deals
In 1925, General Motors revolutionized corporate planning by introducing the annual budget. Before that, manufacturers just kind of winged it month to month. Al...
Why Floor Plan Interest Expense Management Is Quietly Costing You Deals
Most dealership controllers will tell you that floor plan interest is just a cost of doing business. A line item on the P&L. Something you manage down by turnin...