While low inventory isn’t a new issue and the residual effects are going to be around for a few more years, it’s always good to share tips that have real results! Our consultants have been working through the chip shortage, in the trenches, with dealerships for the last year. Whether your dealership had lots of volume and didn’t start to see a shortage until August 2021 or your dealership felt the shortage almost immediately, we’ve been working with everyone to find the right strategies to keep revenue up where possible.
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Topics: Sales Best Practices, low inventory
The Pandemic's Effect on Auto Accessory Sales in 2021 Infographic
Read the full report here.
If COVID-19 hasn’t convinced car dealers of the necessity of a vibrant online retail presence, maybe Cyber Monday 2020 will. Even before the pandemic, Cyber Monday was growing as the virtual twin (literally!) of Black Friday. Cyber Monday emerged as shoppers logged online the Monday after Thanksgiving to check store websites for any missed deals from Black Friday.
Adobe Analytics, a marketing data software company, is predicting—in spite of or due to the pandemic—that Cyber Monday 2020 (Nov. 30) will garner $12.7 billion in online sales, up from the $9.4 billion in e-commerce in 2019.
Topics: Dealership, Vehicle Personalization, accessories, customers, success, tips, creative, profit, COVID-19, Social Distancing, cyber monday
5 Ways to increase revenues without selling one more car
Margin Compression? Missing gross profit? Want to pocket more cash?
Can you do it without selling any additional cars?
Regardless of the year-to-year ebb and flow of vehicle sales, Vehicle Personalization is a great way to increase revenue and deepen your profits...or pockets!
Topics: Increase Profits, Accessories sales, we-owe, preload, Gross profit, customer experience
Insignia Group Announces Million Dollar Challenge Coin Dealerships
February 8th, 2018 ROCK HILL, SC -- Insignia Group LC, the industry leader for accessory sales process consulting and configurator software, announced the winners of its annual Million Dollar Challenge Coin. Each year Insignia honors dealerships selling more than one million dollars in Vehicle Personalization (accessory sales) in their dealerships over the previous year (2017).
To qualify for Insignia Group’s distinction, the dealership must sell more than one million dollars in accessory parts through the dealership's showroom sales process. These sales exclude e-commerce sales made through the dealership's online efforts.
Topics: Toyota of Braintree, Challenge Coin, Jeff Belzer, Mountain State, Sonic Dealership, Mark Miller Toyota, Educate, Rudy Luther, Luther Brookdale, Ken Garff, Larry Miller Toyota, Smart Motors, Beaverton Toyota, Michaels Toyota Bellevue
There’s A Colossal Market For Small-Car Accessories
Even the small cars need a touch of pizzazz.
Compacts cut a metropolitan profile these days. In this market, it’s not enough to be fuel-efficient. Popular small cars such as the Chevrolet Cruze, Honda Civic, and Ford Focus sport sleek body lines. Those lines feature popping colors and racks to support all sorts of outdoor habits.
Which customization and accessories, dealer or aftermarket, will let you ride like a boss? Here’s a guide to a few.
Topics: Increase Profits, Vehicle Personalization, accessories
How the human touch supplements tech in dealerships
Automotive innovation often charges ahead into advanced technology. The car sales game seems stuck in first gear in comparison.
Topics: Customer Retention
Toyota, I invite you to go ahead with your bad self
Topics: Accessory News
How Accessories Help Develop Emotional Attachment
Rena hates her new car.
Topics: Presentation Tools
Sema 2015-King of the accessory and performance parts event
In some respects it’s a shame that the SEMA (Specialty Equipment Marketing Association) annual Show is a “trade only” event each year. There are literally thousands of car geeks and gear heads that would die to attend the largest car/accessory/performance parts/hotrod/truck/off-road /auto racing/motorcycle/ education /media /party event/how the heck did you every build that/happening in the world. It is truly an Automobilia-Techno-Maxima event that every auto lover should be able to experience.
Topics: SEMA