Tips and best practices for profiting from your dealer run auction.

What’s Up With The Crazy Fees At Auto Auctions?

2017-03-14T17:20:53+00:00By |Categories: Auction Blotter, Bid Sale Marketing, Increase Wholesale Car Auction Profit|

Feeling the pinch of consolidation. For 17 years I had the pleasure of being part of an expanding dealer group from Buffalo, NY. During my tenor there it grew from six locations to 22 with over 1500 employees. As we grew in size we became a challenge to our vendors. More than just difficult in [...]

The Dealer’s Dilemma: Insource with staff or Outsource with 3rd parties?​

2017-10-23T14:58:17+00:00By |Categories: Bid Sale Marketing, Featured, Increase Wholesale Car Auction Profit|

Insourcing vs. outsourcing is one of the primary questions talented owner operators face. On the one hand, you know that doing things in-house could lead to innovation and uniqueness in your marketplace, on the other hand, outsourcing could free up your staff and help you find techniques that are best practices in other dealers on [...]

Profitable Digital Marketing for Wholesale Cars

2017-01-12T19:28:19+00:00By |Categories: Featured, Increase Wholesale Car Auction Profit|Tags: , , |

By Kevin Leigh, www.digitaldealer.com View Original As modern dealers, we have become digital marketing professionals. We have beautiful retail websites, focused on the buyer’s experience. Most have a digital marketing department or at the very least a person devoted to making their cars “pop” off the page online. But for some reason, we rely on third parties to handle [...]

Disrupting Big Box Auto Auctions: 8 Reasons why Wholesale App’s are Gaining Momentum

2017-01-12T20:08:45+00:00By |Categories: Featured, Increase Wholesale Car Auction Profit|Tags: , , , , , |

I grew up attending auctions like Manheim and Adesa with my immigrant father and my two older sisters. Driving down to Pennsylvania to pickup cars for our used car lot was a weekly tradition in our household. I never imagined that I would see the decline of such great institutions in my lifetime. So even [...]

How Dealers Can Reduce Auction Sellers Fees

2017-01-12T20:10:20+00:00By |Categories: Featured, Increase Wholesale Car Auction Profit|

By popular demand, we've added an explanation of the cost of auction sellers fees for franchise dealers. For some, it is quite a surprise to find out that our dealerships could be spending as much as a quarter million dollars per year for this third party service. The question on the tip of everyone's tongue is; [...]

An Inspection Day is Needed for Dealer Auction Success?

2017-10-23T15:14:10+00:00By |Categories: Featured, Increase Wholesale Car Auction Profit|Tags: , , , , |

Not Every Wholesaler Will Bid Exclusively Online "78% say they want to see and drive the car, BEFORE they bid." 96% say they would bid at the car from a smart phone app if they had the opportunity We are confident that an inspection period for wholesale buyers to review and even drive the cars [...]

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