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3 Ways to Increase Pre-Owned Sales Profitability

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800.801.0018 | info@automotiveMastermind.com ©2020 automotiveMastermind®. All rights reserved. | A business unit of IHS Markit™ WE'RE HERE FOR YOU! automotiveMastermind.com Simplify Your Used Car Sales Process Pre-owned customers tend to be more price sensitive, credit challenged and less brand loyal, complicating the sales cycle. Utilize behavior prediction tools to quickly and efficiently make sense of complex buyer journeys and match pre-owned prospects with relevant marketing offers to maximize their engagement. Equip your sales staff with those same tools and customer insights to allow your team to create a sales experience that is centered around each customer's individual needs and builds off that very first touch point. By managing your pre- owned and new customers from the same platform, you're able to more efficiently match them to the vehicle they're most likely to purchase – new or used. Focus on Net Profit The $2,332 average per-sale profit figure from NADA is a gross number. NADA's average for net dealer profit on used cars last year was a miniscule $14. Reducing overhead costs is critical to used car sales profitability, which means ensuring pre- owned vehicles don't spend too much time on the lot. Knowing pre-owned customers are more likely to buy a pre-owned vehicle again in the future, utilize customer purchase data and behavior prediction tools to take greater control of your pre-owned inventory. By matching prospects to the vehicles you have on hand, you're able to reduce lead time for turnaround and maximize your profit per deal. With supply constraints limiting your options on vehicle acquisition and online shopping making it easier than ever for consumers to comparison shop, often times the best place to look for net profitability is in the cost of acquiring consumers. One powerful way to reduce customer acquisition costs are through improving loyalty retention. It's a widely accepted rule of thumb that acquiring a new customer costs 5x that of retaining an existing one. Are you ready to apply the power of Mastermind to your pre-owned sales outreach? Contact us to schedule a demo today. 32 78% SAID IT WAS IMPORTANT FOR THE PURCHASE OF A VEHICLE TO BE AS EASY AND CONVENIENT FOR THEM AS POSSIBLE Facebook, Global Auto Consumer Journey Study, 2018 OF AUTO CONSUMERS OF AMERICAN CAR BUYERS WOULD CHANGE DEALERS AFTER EXPERIENCING POOR CUSTOMER SERVICE AS EARLY AS THE INTEREST PHASE OF A CAR PURCHASE 50% MORE THAN Capgemini, "Cars Online 2017 – Beyond the Car"

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