Perhaps you cannot go to your local public library, but Protective Asset Protection recently made its library of professional development training courses available to all dealership personnel and agents. The provider of F&I programs as well as services and dealer owned warranty company programs designed its educational curriculum to help industry professionals sharpen their skills […] [Read More]

For a moment, remember back to high school, where you may have had a science fair project to complete. It probably took some experimentation to find out a solution and learn what worked, and what didn’t. That’s not too different than the task that has faced auto auctions in recent weeks, says National Auto Auction […] [Read More]

Allied Solutions and Recovery Database Network (RDN) not only operate in the same Indianapolis suburb, but the companies now are partners since they both seek to help auto-finance companies in the same area of their operations. Allied Solutions, one of the largest providers of insurance, lending, and marketing products to financial institutions in the U.S. for […] [Read More]

Automotive CRM company Momentum CRM has partnered with automotiveMastermind, an automotive industry provider of predictive analytics and marketing automation services. Momentum CRM recently changed its user interface to include a dedicated section within its dashboard for Mastermind’s predictive analytics data through the company’s sales and marketing platform, Market EyeQ. The companies said they partnered “to […] [Read More]

Earlier this year, Beep, an autonomous vehicle mobility solutions company, made an executive with a history in journalism their chief marketing officer. Raquel Asa was appointed to the position for the Florida-based company on March 2. Beep’s autonomous mobility platform is designed to provide safe, efficient movement of passengers between defined locations. According to the […] [Read More]

Matt Murray says online customer engagement through reviews and social media has a strong impact on search rankings today. Murray is founder and chief executive officer of Widewail, an automotive industry reputation management and social media engagement service. Murray says that engagement can have an immediate influence on a customer’s decision to buy, recommend, or make […] [Read More]

Used-car sales this month are likely to be about two-thirds of what they were a year ago, but more than double the total from April. That’s according to a forecast released Tuesday by the ALG division of TrueCar, which is projecting 2,342,597 used sales for May. That marks a 34% year-over-year dip but a 116% […] [Read More]

With a new feature from dealership management system software provider Auto/Mate, customers can pay service repair orders and parts invoices without having to step inside the dealership. Auto/Mate is a business unit of DealerSocket, and the company says that with the new feature, called Remote Payments, dealership personnel can now send customers emails containing a […] [Read More]

Foundation Automotive has acquired the Freestone Auto Group in Fairfield, Texas, stating that Freestone’s local roots will help Foundation expand its Central Texas footprint. Foundation, an international group with Canadian and U.S. locations, said Freestone has a long-standing history of selling Ford, Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep, RAM, Chevrolet and custom commercial trucks. Freestone, through the Service […] [Read More]

As industry experts predicted might happen, late on Friday afternoon Hertz Global Holdings announced it and certain of its U.S. and Canadian subsidiaries have filed voluntary petitions for reorganization under Chapter 11 in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware. According to a news release, Hertz said the company still has $1 billion […] [Read More]