With texting and driving becoming a big issue, promoting in-vehicle mobile technologies that can help prevent distracted driving has never been more important for dealers. According to a recent U.S. study by Kelley Blue Book, a whopping 97 percent of …
As millennials enter the workforce, the Canadian auto industry is looking to attract top talent. Sym-Tech Automotive Dealer Services Inc. helps to support this by offering a scholarship program with the Automotive Business School of Canada at Georgian College …
MEET DYNAMIC MUSICAL DUO DOUG AND JENNIFER LEAHY AND THEIR TALENTED CHILDREN Doug Leahy gained fame with his siblings in the award-winning Canadian folk group, Leahy, back in the 1980s. Nowadays, he’s passing on the family tradition and his Celtic …
AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES ARE COMING BUT MOST CONSUMERS ARE NOT YET READY TO EMBRACE THE TECHNOLOGY. SO WHAT DOES THAT MEAN FOR THE INDUSTRY? Like it or not, we’re well down the road to autonomous cars — although just what “autonomous” …
EMBRACE CUSTOMER COMPLAINTS. THEY COULD BE GOOD FOR YOUR BUSINESS. Virtually every dealership encounters customer complaints from time to time. Sometimes it’s easy to get caught up in the complaints and lose track of how many satisfied customers say nothing …
AS WE HEAD INTO THE FOURTH QUARTER OF 2015, IT’S TIME TO TAKE A CLOSE LOOK AT YOUR DIGITAL STRATEGY The fourth quarter is just around the corner and the push to meet our lofty 2015 sales targets is upon …
THE RETAIL EXPERIENCE IS GOING THROUGH MANY CHANGES. HOW DO YOU WANT TO TREAT YOUR CUSTOMERS? Perhaps it’s because I live and work in Toronto that I’ve become jaded. We think that what happens here is happening everywhere else. So, …
WITH ALL OF THE ECONOMIC TURMOIL IN GREECE, CANADIANS MIGHT BE WORRIED ABOUT A SIMILAR SITUATION HAPPENING HERE. BUT WE ARE FAR FROM BEING THE NEXT GREECE As of this writing, it was far from clear what kind of solution …
A TECH BENCH KEEPS THE SERVICE AREA CLEAN AND ORGANIZED. JUST BE SURE TO KEEP YOUR BENCH CLEAN. It was in the 1990s when I first noticed a handful of dealers building windows between the service write-up area and the …
THERE’S A LESSON F&I MANAGERS CAN LEARN FROM J.D. POWER’S 2015 CANADIAN DEALER FINANCING SATISFACTION STUDY It’s been drilled into dealers’ heads that customer service, not price, can help differentiate between competitors. The same holds true for lender partners who …
IN LIGHT OF FALLING OIL PRICES AND GOVERNMENT MOVES TO VEHICLE ELECTRIFICATION, DAVID ADAMS EXPLORES WHAT THIS MEANS FOR GASOLINE-POWERED VEHICLES I had the good fortune of attending the Toronto Global Forum of the International Economic Forum of the Americas …
DEALERS SHOULD START THINKING NOW ABOUT ANY SUCCESSION PLANNING AND START PREPARING FOR IT Although January 1 marks a new year, the planning for that year should start now — assuming you have not already started. I talk to many …
