Past Webinars
Top Ten Cost Reduction Opportunities in Supplies and Services
This webinar will identify and highlight 10 expense categories – opportunities that have been successful this year in reducing costs, improving dealer profitability.
Corpay Webinar: Turn Your AP Department into a Revenue Contributor
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.
CastleBranch: Employment Screening Risk Factors
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.
Low Inventory? Attack Expenses Now by Locking Down Supplier Prices
Attend our brief webinar to learn strategies to mitigate the growing price hikes that will cut into already challenged profit levels.
Pencilwrench: An Innovation in Fixed Ops Profitability and Customer Satisfaction
Presenting a live online demonstration of Pencilwrench.
BayWatch Technologies: Eliminate Damage Claim Payouts
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!
Corporate Barter: Proven Financial Solutions
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.
Conducting a Digital Marketing Assessment: 3 Ways to Increase Efficiency in Your Dealership
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.
How to Create Non-New Car Sales Revenue by Internalizing Auto Reconditioning
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.
Laws Have Changed: Stay in Compliance While Saving Thousands
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.
Numa: Turning Missed Calls Into Appointments
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.
Get Your Savings in Gear: Using Cost Segregation to Maximize Tax Savings on Your Auto Dealership
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.
Build Your Best Team: Attracting and Hiring Talent in a Post Pandemic Labor Market
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.
Forward Collision Warning (FCW): Prepare Your Organization for a Cyberattack Impact
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!
Employee Retention Tax Credit – The PPP Nobody is Talking About
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!
Understanding Automotive Buy Sell Best Practices and Fundamentals
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.
Driving Forward: What the Future of Auto Retail Buy-Sell Looks Like
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.
Unlock the Power of Your Data
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.
Are You Experiencing Turnover?
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.
How to Significantly Reduce Shop Supply Spend
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?
Every Service Department is Sitting on a Hidden Opportunity!
Join Strategic Source and Dynatron Director of Sales, Rob Melaris, for a webinar to learn how this software can help your dealership drive additional service department revenue and achieve significantly higher fixed absorption.
The New Era of Work: Your Employees Have Spoken
In today’s digital world, employee engagement and communication matters more than ever. The future of work is focused on positive employee experience and the key is giving them the right data and tools.
Ground Breaking Innovations within the DMS Space
Strategic Source and Heather Hansen, Regional Manager at leading DMS provider PBS Systems, will give you information on core delivery values offered by today’s DMS Platform and how digital tools and your data value can increase sales.
Deferring Capital Gains with Deferred Sales Trusts
Michael McIntyre, National Training Director at The Estate Planning Team, presents a webinar on: Deferring Capital Gains from highly appreciated assets, how to invest in future businesses and property pretax and how to earn investment income on what could otherwise be paid in taxes.
