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Louisiana Dealers Do Business Face-to-Face

Will Green grew up in a dealership family and earned a law degree before taking the helm of the Louisiana Automobile Dealers Association in 2016. - Photo courtesy Louisiana Automobile Dealers...

Louisiana Automobile Dealers Association President Will Green believes the dealers in his state succeed by putting their customers and communities first and maximizing production — and emphasizing compliance — in the F&I department.

3 Digital Retailing Myths Debunked

Apprehensions about the cost and effectiveness of digital retail have kept many dealers on the sidelines. - Photo by Gerd Altmann via Pixabay

Concerns over costs, the customer experience, and intangible benefits have prevented many dealers from competing in the digital sales and F&I arena. Separate fact from fiction with this three-minute read.

Data Can Help Dealers Sell More OE Parts

Independent shop owners oversee about 70% of all post-warranty repairs and are in the market for the OE parts new-car dealers have in stock — and often in surplus. - Photo by Ryan Doka via Pixabay

Once treated as classified information, factory parts data is now shared freely. Opportunistic franchised dealers are seizing the opportunity by selling unneeded inventory to independent repair shops.