A manager for a New York-based dealer group explains why the right lender mix is becoming an increasingly blurred variable for dealerships and their F&I offices.
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ChannelNet’s Paula Tompkins once toyed around with kiosks designed to take customers through a dealership’s entire sales process. Now she’s using personalized URLs to help captive finance companies realize the bigger role they play in helping dealers move the metal.
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The auto finance marketplace is heating up, but executives from six top finance sources said there’s more at play than simply a race for market share.
Read More →Last month, it was the dreaded ‘Line 5’ call. Now, our in-the-trenches columnist ponders the dynamics of rehashing deals and enhancing back-end approvals.
Read More →F&I’s new columnist questions those one-size-fits-all strategies and says it’s time for dealers to take back their markets.
Read More →United Development Systems Inc. has launched the “UDS Webinar Series,” which brings the company’s award-winning F&I training direct to dealers.
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It’s still the one department where profits are made, but the F&I office can’t do it alone. Veteran trainer breaks through F&I’s five biggest roadblocks.
Read More →One thing is for certain, tax season won’t be like years past. Getting an early start is still key, but strategies will need to be reexamined. Find out what dealers are doing differently this year to prepare for this huge selling opportunity.
Read More →So I stirred up a little controversy on the forum recently. I posted a solicitation for strategies to entice lenders to buy a deal. My inquiry was spurred by a recent conversation with a veteran F&I director.
Read More →The market dynamics might be in constant flux, but the goals of an F&I manager aren’t. F&I trainer reveals his secrets to becoming brilliant at the basics.
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