VinSolutions Gimme Five Assessment

Let us give you five ways to improve — this quick assessment makes it easy to find out how well you’re using your CRM and what you can do to improve.

You know your dealership’s CRM is a key part of winning sales — but how well are you using it? This quick assessment makes it easy to find out. All we ask is that you take just five minutes to answer five important questions, and we’ll get right back to you with a letter grade on your CRM utilization. We’ll email your results immediately, along with five concrete steps you can take today to build better customer connections and sell more cars. You’ll find out how you stack up in the following areas:

  • Lead time response
  • Overdue CRM tasks
  • Unanswered emails
  • Internet Lead-to-appointment ratio
  • CRM campaign management

Complete the form to start the assessment!

How Duplicate Processes are Costing You

It’s time to eliminate double entry — to save time, money and employee morale.

Data entry is a time-consuming process, but it is a critical part of the engine that keeps effective, profitable dealerships running.

Most dealers know a double entry problem exists, but many don’t realize the profound effects entering and reentering the same customer data has across their business. During this webinar, you’ll learn:

  • The impact of double entry on workplace culture
  • The hidden marketing costs of inaccurate data
  • How to identify data entry process gaps & streamline your processes

Fill out the form to watch the webinar & learn how duplicate processes are costing you

How the CRM Improves Customer Experience

Maximize Your CRM learn how to use your CRM to improve the car buying experience.

Mark Vickery, Senior Director of Performance Management, outlines how to target new and repeat business, personalize the customer experience and close deals more efficiently. By watching this webinar, you’ll learn:

  • How customers really feel about car shopping today
  • How the CRM can improve customer experience and the quality of communication
  • 4 Questions dealers need to ask to personalize and add efficiency to the customer experience
  • 5 Common CRM mistakes and how to fix them

Fill out the form to watch the webinar & maximize your CRM

Better Together: Cox Automotive Integrations

At Cox Automotive, we’re committed to our dealers’ success. 

A big part of that is helping you work smarter, not harder. VinSolutions CRM stands out by offering integrations with other industry-leading solutions from Cox Automotive. 

Today’s dealers are tired of dealing with duplicate data entry, delivering undesirable customer experiences and hitting inefficient road blocks in accessing their own data. As part of Cox Automotive, we work with our sister companies to create software solutions so you can work faster and more efficiently. 

  • Autotrader: Create more customer-focused campaigns
  • Dealer.com: Add website activities to CRM records
  • Dealertrack: Get a win-win when you desk a deal
  • vAuto: Match cars to customers
  • Xtime: Stay connected through the ownership cycle

See the the power of integrations in action

 

Revisiting Your CRM Processes to Increase Profitability

CRM Processes play an enormous role in how cars are sold at a dealership.

Yet many dealers are failing to examine the effectiveness of their workflows.

During this webinar you’ll hear presenter Mark Vickery explain how to recognize when your CRM processes aren’t working, and how to identify key first steps in making CRM process improvements. Topics include:

  • Spotting CRM process and utilization red flags
  • Uncovering process issues with secret shopping and team surveys
  • Identifying the root causes of CRM process issues
  • Key first steps to improving CRM utilization

Fill out the form to learn the first steps in making CRM process improvements.

How the Best Dealers Stay Top-of Mind

Are you taking the right steps to stay in front of your current customers?

It’s critical to keep customers thinking about you between purchases. If you’re looking for ways to boost profitability between the sale and be the first choice for your customers when it’s time to buy again, this white paper’s for you! You’ll learn:

  • Why customer retention is so challenging
  • How loyalty programs help dealerships stay top-of-mind
  • What types of programs are most effective for dealerships
  • How to execute the right program for your dealership

Get your copy and start building retention today!

Go Pro: Harness the Power of Proactivity

It’s time to Go Pro — Learn how to harness the power of proactivity and transform your dealership.

Today’s most successful dealers are proactively confronting the current sales environment. They’re not waiting for opportunities to come to them. During this webinar, you’ll learn how to use the right technology and techniques to take control of your dealership’s success:

  • Pro Management: Creating a proactive dealership culture
  • Pro Sales: Disrupting the sales cycle with relevant, segmented campaigns
  • Pro Service: Boosting your fixed ops revenue with integration

Dealers can no longer afford to be reactive; it’s time to be proactive.

Fill out the form to watch the webinar & learn how to Go Pro

VinSolutions CRM University

VinSolutions’ CRM University guides you through the exclusive training opportunities available to VinSolutions CRM users. 

Transform your dealership’s performance by attending training customized for every type of user on your team. When you start using your software to it’s full potential, it maximizes revenue, efficiency and customer retention. As a VinSolutions customer, you’ll have opportunities to continually build, accelerate and refine your performance.

  • eAcademy: Our online resource features easy-to-absorb videos on demand
  • Onsite Training: Spend a week with a Certified Trainer to learn real-world applications
  • VinWorx User Summit: Join other dealers at this exclusive training and networking event

Fill out the form to download your free training guide!

 

Xtime Integrates Vantiv Payments to Accelerate Service Checkout

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. (November 8, 2017) –Dealers can enhance the ownership experience by offering consumers quick online and in-lane payment options that implement high security standards for service thanks to integrated payment processing capabilities from Xtime and Vantiv Integrated Payments, a Vantiv, Inc. company (NYSE:VNTV).

The Vantiv payment solution integrates into Xtime Engage, which delivers tablet-friendly access to menus, pricing and service history to enhance the service lane check-in and checkout experience. Online payment allows the dealer to send an email or text to the customer to prompt them to pay online and arrange for convenient vehicle pick-up. For in-lane payments, service advisors run credit card transactions via tablet and Bluetooth-connected card swipe in the service lane.

“It’s one less step the customer has to go through when they come here to pick up their car,” said Jerry Antoine, service manager at John Hine Mazda. “In our case, the customers are in a hurry. The quicker the process of picking up their vehicle, the happier they are.”

The powerful duo of Xtime Engage and Vantiv Integrated Payments enables dealers to accept a wide range of payment types at point of sale and online – including chip cards, credit and debit cards, gift and stored value cards, all the “Pays” – Android Pay, Apple Pay, Samsung Pay, dealer financing options and PayPal or mobile wallets, are available.

Engage is part of Xtime Spectrum, an integrated, cloud-based auto repair software system that helps dealers provide a quality experience from the first touchpoint to checkout and beyond to support consumers throughout their ownership experience. Dealers using Xtime’s automotive customer retention tool saw an 8.2 percent increase in service retention on average and $13,000 in additional monthly revenue1.

“By meeting customers on their terms and valuing their time, dealers can instill satisfaction and loyalty and drive their revenue,” said Jim Roche, division vice president, Marketing & Managed Services, Xtime. “The checkout experience should leave a positive impression and not diminish, or ruin, an otherwise excellent service experience.”

Vantiv’s Integrated Payments solution is PCI-compliant and utilizes encryption and tokenization to maintain the highest security standards while processing card transactions. Further, retailers using Xtime Engage software can still take advantage of Vantiv’s integrated solution even if they currently use another company to process payments.

“We are very pleased to partner with Xtime to offer a flexible payment option that employs the highest standards in security and safety to the U.S. automotive industry,” said Matt Downs, head of channel and business development at Vantiv. “This solution provides automotive dealerships with a new level of security by offering point-to-point encryption, as well as improving the consumer’s experience by offering a full suite of payment methods.”

To learn more about how Spectrum can optimize customers’ ownership experience and drive profitable growth, visit xtime.com. To learn more about Vantiv’s products and services, please visit https://www.vantiv.com/get-quote.

1Data based on average increase for Xtime dealers using Engage between 2015Q2 and 2016Q3

About Xtime
Xtime delivers retention solutions for the automotive retail industry. Xtime, headquartered in Silicon Valley, is the exclusive or preferred provider for 29 major global automotive manufacturers in the United States, Canada, Europe and Australia, as well as leading dealership groups, and services 8,000+ dealerships. Xtime is a Cox Automotive brand. For more information, visit Xtime.com

About Vantiv
Vantiv, Inc. (NYSE: VNTV) is a leading payment processor differentiated by an integrated technology platform. Vantiv offers a comprehensive suite of traditional and innovative payment processing and technology solutions to merchants and financial institutions of all sizes, enabling them to address their payment processing needs through a single provider. We build strong relationships with our customers, helping them become more efficient, more secure and more successful. Vantiv is now the largest merchant acquirer and PIN debit acquirer based on number of transactions in the U.S. The company’s growth strategy includes expanding further into high-growth channels and verticals, including integrated payments, B2B payments, eCommerce, and merchant bank. Visit us at www.vantiv.com, or follow us on TwitterFacebookLinkedInGoogle+ and YouTube.

Media Contact:

Lisa Aloisio
Public Relations, Cox Automotive
404-725-0561
Lisa.Aloisio@coxautoinc.com

Ian Wissman
Corporate Communication, Vantiv
513-900-5897
Ian.Wissman@vantiv.com