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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

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5 Steps to Successfully Implement Technology in Service

Upgrading to new technology in service can feel like a huge undertaking for everyone involved – the users, service management, and even the dealer. A

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Upgrade Your Service Drive with Fixed Ops Videos

Today, the most successful service drives are utilizing video across all their customer interactions, and it could be the marketing upgrade your service drive needs

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

Best of Connected

Year in Review: The Connected Podcast – Best of 2022

Back in March 2020, we started The Connected Podcast to stay in touch with and educate the automotive industry during the COVID-19 pandemic. After almost

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4 Simple Steps to Bring in More Kiosk Traffic

Technology is present everywhere in your dealership. When implementing new, valued-adding technology customers get to interact with, one of the most important aspects is making

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Recon Roles Part 2: Managing Information as a Service Advisor

Walk through three ways you, as the service advisor, can manage information and drive an efficient reconditioning cycle.

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3 Ways to Use Kiosks Outside Your Four Walls

When was the last time you bought movie tickets at the ticket booth? Or checked in for a flight at the counter? These are two

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The 3 Biggest Challenges of Being a Technician

Technicians are hard to find, and once you do, most aren’t satisfied with their jobs. In fact, 79% of technicians have considered leaving the industry.

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System Tips: Reservation Manager

Reservation Manager helps service departments have an efficient and effective service scheduling tool.

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Customers Are Calling for a Mobile-Friendly Service Experience

As a customer of other businesses, would you rather: Wait in the restaurant or get a text on your phone when your table is ready?