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Online-booking tips
Summer 2008
Newsletter: Auto Focus
Price: $225.00, Subscriber Price: $157.50
Word count: 341
Abstract: Is your online-booking service all it can be? With service departments producing a hefty percentage of dealerships’ average profit, you want to make sure that this critical component of your Web site is convenient to access, easy to use and reassuring to customers.
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Identity theft prevention – Deadline for FTC-required program rapidly approaching
Summer 2008
Newsletter: Auto Focus
Price: $225.00, Subscriber Price: $157.50
Word count: 661
Abstract: Attending online seminars, installing special software and consulting with professional advisors are among the efforts being made by dealerships as they gear up to meet federal requirements for having an in-house identity theft prevention program. If you haven’t started working on your own program, you need to get going.
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What’s your optimal sales staff level?
Summer 2008
Newsletter: Auto Focus
Price: $225.00, Subscriber Price: $157.50
Word count: 779
Abstract: It’s easy to keep adding employees when sales are high. After all, there’s plenty of work to do and profits to go around. But things change in a down market. There’s no time like the present to review your staffing levels — monitoring this variable is critical to holding your expenses in check.
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Revving up sales in a down market
Summer 2008
Newsletter: Auto Focus
Price: $225.00, Subscriber Price: $157.50
Word count: 785
Abstract: From giving time-hungry Internet shoppers the fastest service possible to asking your manufacturer for advertising help, there are tactics a dealership can use in a slow market to pick up the pace. With most buyers now using the Internet as part of the process, you can benefit from paying attention to what’s important to customers as they surf their way to a new set of keys.
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Accounting rule will affect some financial statements
Spring 2008
Newsletter: Auto Focus
Price: $225.00, Subscriber Price: $157.50
Word count: 613
Abstract: Auto dealerships generally have the rest of this year to figure out how a new accounting rule could affect their financial statements. It’s worth looking into, as the rule applies not only to tax-related decisions you may make in the future, but also to those you’ve made in the past. Read about the possible impact of Accounting for Uncertainty in Income Taxes (FIN 48) on your dealership.
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VoIP marries computers with telephones
Winter 2008
Newsletter: Auto Focus
Price: $225.00, Subscriber Price: $157.50
Word count: 424
Abstract: Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), which provides phone service via the Internet, is hot and getting hotter. Some dealerships find it saves them money while creating efficiencies in the showroom that traditional telephone service never could. But before you ring wedding bells for Ma Bell and Papa PC, you need to consider this technology’s costs, functionality and risks.
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Think like an IRS agent – Beware of 9 red flags that invite an audit
Winter 2008
Newsletter: Auto Focus
Price: $225.00, Subscriber Price: $157.50
Word count: 867
Abstract: With the IRS auditing about 1.3 million returns each year, dealers must stay on their toes. Obviously, the agency can’t audit every return, so it relies on key indicators — red flags — to narrow the scope. The best way to avoid trouble is to think like an IRS agent while examining your business and tax-filing practices. This article includes nine red flags that invite an IRS audit.