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Quarterbacking Your Deals: The Strategic Advantage of eContracting

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As the college football season approaches, dealerships can gain valuable insights from the strategic capabilities of college football teams. Just as quarterbacks must think on

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Track Your Contracts in Transit With the Heat Sheet

One of the most important metrics you monitor in F&I is your contracts in transit. With ERA-IGNITE F&I Heat Sheet, tracking your funding is simplified.

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Breaking Down a Bad Customer Experience and How to Overcome It

How to Overcome Customer Experience Road Bumps in Your Service Drive

Could your parts department use a spring cleaning?

Now that the winter chill has melted away, and the flowers have started to bloom, it’s the perfect time to wipe the slate clean for

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A Fixed Ops Focus on an EV-Forward Future

Learn more on the role that EVs play in the industry, and how to better prepare your dealership for these changes in the service drive.

New Year, New Fixed Operations: Prioritizing Customer Experience

That “new year, new me” mantra is difficult enough to achieve on a personal level, let alone an organizational one. As the holiday season comes

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Service Marketing Scenarios: Why Automated Follow-Ups Work

A problem that seems to plague almost every service drive is what to do when customers decline the services recommended to them.

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Tips for Making the Most of Rising Gas Prices

While you may not be able to lower gas prices, your service drive has all the tools to make sure that your customers’ vehicles are

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Tips to Increase Traffic to your Service Drive

Car maintenance is a regular occurrence, and if your dealership is looking for a place to increase customer loyalty (as well as profit), your service

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Your Fixed Operations Department’s Right-Hand Man

Every fixed operations department needs a right-hand man to help assist in completing tasks.

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How to Maintain a Fixed Ops Marketing Strategy Pt. 3

Let’s talk about market strategy: beating your competition and maintaining service advertising.

The Grinch Who Stole Service Revenue

It’s that time of year when Dr. Seuss’ iconic character makes his annual re-emergence in the classic 1966 cartoon How the Grinch Stole Christmas. As

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QR Codes: The Mobile Movement Happening Now

QR (short for Quick Response) codes have been around since 1994; however, it wasn’t until almost three decades later they became more of a solution