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US Equity Advantage Kicks Off Marketing Campaign

The biweekly and early loan payoff service kicks off a new campaign that touts its 10-year history in the automotive industry.

by Staff
March 6, 2014
2 min to read


ORLANDO, Fla. — US Equity Advantage (USEA) kicked off a new marketing campaign this week that centers on its AutoPayPlus biweekly and early loan payoff service.

For more than 10 years, USEA has offered bi-weekly and early loan payoff services for the automotive industry. The new initiative will showcase key service differentiators, including the company’s deep automotive experience, powerful resources, in-field training, technology innovation, and customer service, according to officials. The company also plans to leverage messaging about its approach to compliance and operations.

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“It takes an established company with comprehensive processing, support and a full-time compliance staff to assure we are answering the needs of our customers.  We don't believe in outsourcing our member services abroad, or short-cutting compliance measures,” said Robert Steenbergh, CEO and president of US Equity Advantage. “With this new marketing campaign, we have a platform to tell this story and the very important differences between USEA and our competitors.”

USEA works with some of the largest dealerships and their agents, along with industry-heavyweight partners to create more profitable F&I departments, Steenbergh noted. He said dealership using the company’s AutoPayPlus report a 57% increase in the number of F&I products sold to customers, as well as a 63% increase in income per vehicle financed.

USEA was the first company to be fully integrated with the menu and DMS in 2003 through a partnership with MenuVantage. In early February 2014, it announced a new agreement with Ristken Software Services to provide biweekly loan services through Ristken’s Menu-Pro platform, which will make it available to thousands more U.S. automotive dealerships.

The company will be exhibiting at the upcoming Agent Summit, scheduled for March 10-12 at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.

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