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SPONSORED EPISODE: Five questions to ask before choosing a transportation partner
Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2025, 09:15 PM
This sponsored episode of the Auto Remarketing Podcast features two experts from Central Dispatch who offer valuable guidance for choosing a transportation partner. Shanna Wise, who oversees business strategy execution, and Blake Bentley, who leads enterprise client account success, take ... Listen Here
Inside Auto Auction M&A with Mach10 CEO George Pero
Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025, 02:01 PM
The auto auction industry has seen a spike in M&A over the last three years, similar to the consolidation in auto retail that has been going on much longer. And our guest today has experience with both. George Pero is ... Listen Here
Insight into Q3 Wolters Kluwer Auto Finance Digital Transformation Index
Monday, Oct. 27, 2025, 04:17 PM
While the year-over-year figure reflects broader market volatility, Matthew Babcock, who oversees digital lending product strategy for Wolters Kluwer, explained the strong quarter-over-quarter increase of the Q3 Wolters Kluwer Auto Finance Digital Transformation Index signals market re-engagement. Babcock elaborated about ... Listen Here

Dealer & Expert Ideas About 2015 Tax Season And Beyond

Kevin Pendergrass for BHPH
Thursday, Jan. 29, 2015, 03:09 PM
Nick Zulovich, Editor
The income tax refund. For typical buy-here, pay-here dealership customers, that’s an injection of cash averaging about $5,000, according to an estimation from Tax Refund Services and TaxMax founder Bill Neylan. For years, those refunds meant the possibility of healthy ... [Read More]

Lessons From DriveTime’s Run-In With The CFPB

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Thursday, Jan. 29, 2015, 02:57 PM
Catherine Brennan, Hudson Cook
Congress empowered the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to supervise buy-here, pay-here dealers when it passed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. Since its inception, the CFPB has not specifically targeted a BHPH dealer — until now, that ... [Read More]

A Comparison: Newsletters Versus Social Media

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Thursday, Jan. 29, 2015, 02:46 PM
Kenny Atcheson, Dealer Profit Pros
If you have struggled to earn a positive return on investment or even calculate an ROI using social media, you are not alone. You can’t deposit likes, shares and followers into the bank. We have crafted and sent tens of ... [Read More]

AutoSoft NET Integrates DRN Data to Enhance BHPH Collections

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Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2015, 02:17 PM
BHPH Report Staff
Buy-here, pay-here operators interested in utilizing the capabilities of license plate recognition technology to mitigate losses now have another opportunity if they use the solution offered by AutoSoft NET. On Wednesday morning, Digital Recognition Network (DRN) and AutoSoft NET announced ... [Read More]

AutoStar Solutions Highlights 12 Days of Dealership Compliance

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Thursday, Dec. 18, 2014, 02:44 PM
BHPH Report Staff
AutoStar Solutions isn’t trying to dampen the Christmas spirit buy-here, pay-here operators might have, but chief legal officer Steve Levine warned dealers of what he described as a potential “Grinch" — regulators such as the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the ... [Read More]

3 Takeaways from Capitol Hill Visit Help NABD Structure Upcoming Conference

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Monday, Dec. 15, 2014, 07:52 PM
BHPH Report Staff
Ken Shilson, founder of the National Alliance of Buy-Here, Pay-Here Dealers, joined the leadership of the National Independent Automobile Dealers Association for its annual leadership meetings in Washington, D.C., to help champion positions important to BHPH operators. Shilson left Capitol ... [Read More]

DriveTime Forms Exclusive Inventory Partnership with Manheim

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Thursday, Dec. 11, 2014, 03:26 PM
BHPH Report Staff
DriveTime Automotive Group solidified its pipeline of potential inventory to boost its buy-here, pay-here business prospects. A new partnership finalized on Thursday installed Manheim and Go Auto Exchange as DriveTime’s primary source for remarketing wholesale inventory through its physical locations, ... [Read More]

Ask the Hall of Famer: Underwriting and Poor Employees

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Thursday, Dec. 4, 2014, 04:08 PM
BHPH Report Staff
Q: What are three things you should accomplish before the end of the year? Julian says… I am going to give you a different approach: What’s one of the things that you need to do every three years? Think about ... [Read More]

Benefits of Structuring Loans with Irregular Payments

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Thursday, Dec. 4, 2014, 04:02 PM
Mike Downey and Chip Wiley
A common problem for many dealers is consumers not having enough money to put down on a vehicle.  This situation usually results in one of three ways: you accept less, you defer the down payment, or you don’t sell the ... [Read More]

Daughtry: 5 Thoughts as 2014 Quickly Winds Down

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Thursday, Dec. 4, 2014, 03:59 PM
Gene Daughtry, PLS Financial
Here we are — the holidays are upon us.  As usual, the IRS is warning of a delay in tax refunds. Everyone is stocking up on inventory, hoping for a grand tax season. Customers are not making preparations to deal ... [Read More]
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