AIADA Presentation November 11, 2021

The truth is that companies today are in an employee retention crisis! With high turn-over and siloed departments, employees are feeling less engaged more than ever. We’ve made each user the center of their WerkandMe experience. Our suite of app features allows the user to have transparency and more importantly, control over their own werk engagement. And, by empowering managers with powerful gamification, training, and reward features, employees will be motivated more than ever to be engaged with werk.

Offer best-in-class customer experiences and improve operational efficiency! Learn how true cloud technology, access to real-time data, Advanced Analytics and much more can deliver the best experiences to your customers and enable your team to operate more efficiently.

Buy-sell activity is booming for auto retailers. In addition, dealers are seeing historic times where they are seeing record profits despite inventory shortages and a global pandemic. All of this is driving demand for stores and creating a get-big or get-out anxiety for dealers looking to compete. In this session, Haig Partners will share how the future of auto retail continues to look bright but different than what we are experiencing today.

Interested in buying a dealership or possibly selling your automotive dealership in this hot market? Wondering where to start with a succession plan? Or already have one? The Buy Sell Market and Transactions are top of mind for everyone in the Automotive industry right now. During this webinar we will discuss the current state of the Automotive Mergers and Acquisition’s business including trends, best practices whether you are buying or selling, and the fundamentals of the M&A market.

ERTC is the biggest give away in US history, second maybe only to PPP. It is not uncommon for dealers to qualify for hundreds of thousands of dollars. Be that as it may, many eligible dealers haven’t filed for potential funds simply because they’re operating on bad information. ERTC eligibility was expanded to include more businesses than originally planned and most dealers likely qualify. The current administration is now looking to shut the door on this lucrative incentive program forever. Learn who is eligible and how to apply before it’s too late!

Not a day passes by without hearing of yet another cyberattack. In automotive, Audi, Kia, and others topped this year’s news. Still, the vast majority of cyberattacks, particularly in small and midsize business space, go untold. The volume is staggering!

The pandemic has fundamentally changed who and how we hire. Today, it's more important than ever to be extra diligent during the candidate selection process to ensure that you're only bringing on the best of the best. Once that new hire signs the offer, you then need to get to work on a structured onboarding process and building out career paths that promote long-term retention.

Cost Segregation is an engineering-based analysis used to accelerate depreciation of dealership real estate, decreasing tax liability and increasing cash flow. This course will present an overview of cost segregation, exploring dealership assets eligible for accelerated depreciation. We’ll discuss general factors that make a dealership a good candidate for study, and review what the study process entails. We will also consider study timing, discussing the utility of cost segregation at all points in the dealership life cycle.

Using Numa’s artificial intelligence and voice or text communication, your dealership can handle multiple functions, like appointment setting or status updates automatically! Numa’s use of machine learning means every customer interaction is training Numa on how to respond.

Do you know the historical legislative changes that now allow your customers to choose their price based on how they pay? Join Amberly Allen Joseph, Managing Partner, and Laura Mellencamp, VP, at Dealer Merchant Services as they discuss how to be compliant while saving thousands of dollars per month, per rooftop.

Join Todd Sudeck, Founder and President of The Ding King as he discusses how to create non-new car sales revenue by internalizing auto conditioning.
Todd will show you how to reduce your auto reconditioning costs, create new revenue streams for both the service and finance departments, and drive additional profits to your bottom line.

Join Nick Brunotte and Tyler Rausch of DHG Dealerships as they discuss the importance of conducting a digital marketing assessment and how to increase efficiency in your dealership.

They'll run through the current landscape of automotive digital marketing, the key components of a digital marketing assessment, how it benefits dealerships, and where to start.

During this webinar, Mike Mazzeo, VP of Business Development at ICON, will help you understand more about Corporate Barter as an industry, ICON's origin story, ICON case studies, interesting stories, and what it means as an audience.

Join Tanner Beckstrand, VP of Sales at BayWatch Technologies, helping you understand how to eliminate damage claim payouts when running the service side of a dealership. Register to learn more!

Presenting a live online demonstration of Pencilwrench.

Attend our brief webinar to learn strategies to mitigate the growing price hikes that will cut into already challenged profit levels.

Learn the knowledge of how to select the best employment screening solutions for your company, while limiting your liability and securing the best prospect for the job.

Join us as VP of Automotive Sales, Pam Cichoke, shares how payment automation can help AP teams increase efficiency, bring in revenue, and cut costs by freeing up staff for more strategic priorities.

This webinar will identify and highlight 10 expense categories – opportunities that have been successful this year in reducing costs, improving dealer profitability.

Join the Miller Ad Agency as they show you how to maximize advertising ROI with a data-driven marketing plan in this upcoming webinar.

This webinar will focus on the importance of establishing Purchasing policies and approval limits, centralizing and tracking contracts, and regular auditing of high cost suppliers to reduce risk, reduce costs and improve compliance.

This webinar will cover the history of automotive logistics and how emerging technologies are addressing transportation challenges to better service shippers and carriers, advances in the industry, and much more

Learn how to save more with ERC tax refunds, how much you can qualify for, and how to mitigate the tax liability related not only to the current refund but to reduce your tax liability every year going forward.

When you look at your supply budget, what is the largest bucket? Shop supplies. Bringing the cost of shop supplies down for your company is hard because they are very specific to your needs and your purchasing of these supplies usually falls under the column discount pricing thresholds. So how do companies do it?

Valuations of dealerships have risen 189% since 2019 and buy/sell activity remains at record high levels in 2022. The question on many dealers’ minds is: “When will we reach peak value and what kind of correction are we in store for?”

The webinar will present what is a fractional CIO, who will benefit from engaging with a fractional CIO and what to expect.

Insurance is so much more than pricing and coverage. The purpose of the webinar is to open the eyes of the Strategic Source clients to the unique insurance process NFP has implemented and perfected after years of evolution.

Most people hear the words “Class Action” and their skin crawls. They picture greedy lawyers looking to make a kill on some hardworking Business Owner.

You have an opportunity to create a new revenue stream by participating in a dealer participation program. A dealer participation program offers underwriting profits and earns investment income on reserves that are held to pay claims.

In these current market conditions, the way people pay for EVERYTHING is changing. For 50 years, Visa & Mastercard wouldn't allow you to charge a customer differently when they paid by credit card. But starting in 2010, debit card costs were regulated.

One of the most exciting trends in the automotive industry today is Electric Vehicles or EVs. This new trend creates new opportunities for today’s dealerships to fill a need that their customers WANT them to help fill.

Manual invoice and statement processing is slow, burdened, and painful. The average price of processing a single invoice or statement ranges from $6-15, while the time it takes to finish processing a single document is anywhere from 5 to 15 days on average.

Property Taxes are no joke! They are generally one of the largest expenses that a dealership has to account for each year.
Join us for an informative webinar on how to reduce your property tax expenses as an auto dealership owner.

This webinar will explore whether the use of private aircraft makes sense for a dealership or a dealership group. The webinar will briefly describe those options and the fact that it takes a team to decide the best way to structure the use of private aircraft.

In these current market conditions, the way people pay for EVERYTHING is changing. For 50 years, Visa & Mastercard wouldn't allow you to charge a customer differently when they paid by credit card. But starting in 2010, debit card costs were regulated.

How to protect your car lot and manage your keys with KEYper Systems solutions. Our automotive industry-leading key cabinet, the KEYper MX, can manage your day-to-day keys.

Interested in buying a dealership or possibly selling your automotive dealership in this hot market? Wondering where to start with a succession plan?

Auto retail M&A activity remains robust and with plenty of buyers and sellers in the market right now, we expect the remainder of 2023 to be another busy year for transactions.

Are you up to date on all things Employee Retention Credit?

In this webinar, learn how to properly qualify for the Employee Retention Credit (ERC) and the ERC’s latest challenges and opportunities.

As a leading provider of parts and supplies for over 1000 dealerships, Imperial Supplies has how a unique technology-driven approach that eliminates routes sales reps and delivers average cost savings of 27%.

Can offshore employees work for your in-person dealership?

Too many organizations overspend on staffing and spend too many resources on staffing. They’re facing staffing challenges, low productivity, and high-cost structures.