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Lifeline Dealership Consulting

A program tailored to the needs of your dealership 

NADA is pleased to offer a member service to help you increase your dealership’s profitability — Lifeline Dealership Consulting. This service is tailored to meet your needs, using a variety of different approaches and techniques to analyzing your dealership’s operations and give you specific recommendations for improvement.

Contact NADA’s Lifeline Dealership Consulting, if your dealership needs a lifeline to help with the following challenges:

  • Shop empty by 4:00 p.m.
  • Excess parts inventory
  • Excess vehicle inventory
  • Reduced cash flow
  • High amounts of frozen capital
  • Low employee productivity
  • Too many support people
  • Excess receivables
  • Excess contracts in transit
  • Effective training for productive personnel
  • Not following up on appraisals
  • Not conducting daily "Save-A-Deal" meetings
  • Not offering 100% of F&I products to 100% of your customers 100% of the time
  • Each service customer not getting a walk-a-round, a menu and a vehicle inspection
  • Not checking for factory recalls for every service customer? 
  • Any other challenge in your dealership 

The NADA's Lifeline Dealership Consulting program has two options:
     • Lifeline #1 — In-dealership consultation
     • Lifeline #2 — Telephone-based consultation

NADA's Lifeline Dealership Consulting is conducted by one of our experienced 20 Group Consultants or Dealer Academy Instructors. That’s right, one of our 30 industry–leading professionals who are exposed to successful dealership operations ideas and techniques every day!

If you are serious about improving your operation, call on your Association’s resources and expertise to help you put more money on your bottom line, perhaps A LOT MORE!

From telephone financial statement analysis, to an on-site, in-depth look at any or all of your departments, we have a program that fits your needs and your budget.

Interested?

To learn more or to sign up, call NADA Dealership Consulting at: 1-800-248-6232, ext. 4745

We have a plan, tailored to fit your dealership’s specific needs and budget.

Lifeline 1:  In-Dealership Consultation

Tailored to your needs, NADA in-dealership consulting is an excellent format for in-depth analysis, review, and improvement of your dealership’s operations. Based on an initial phone consultation, NADA will select one of our industry-leading consultants to visit your dealership and meet with you and your staff!

In-Dealership Consultation:

  1. NADA contacts dealership for an initial phone interview to establish goals for the consultation.
  2. NADA conducts a 1- to 3-day on-site visit. Duration will be tailored, based on your needs.
  3. NADA conducts a dealership management meeting to set objectives.
  4. NADA meets individually with appropriate personnel to discuss departmental performance. Specific remedial suggestions and forms to help managers track performance are provided.
  5. NADA meets with you to report findings.
  6. Written report is sent to you with recommendations for improvement.

Fee for option 1: $2,500 per day, plus airfare

To sign up, call NADA Dealership Consulting at:  1-800-248-6232, ext. 4745

Lifeline 2:  Telephone-based consultation

NADA telephone-based consulting, professional analysis of your dealership’s financial performance, from the convenience of your telephone, is an excellent format for identifying your dealership’s financial strengths and weaknesses.  

Financial Statement Analysis:

  1. Dealer submits financial statement to NADA.
  2. NADA runs a financial composite, comparing your financial statement to other dealerships of your size and franchise and to NADA’s exclusive Best-in-Class™ comparisons.
  3. NADA performs an analysis of the statement.
  4. NADA conducts a telephone conference with you and appropriate managers to discuss findings and make recommendations.
  5. Other specific issues are researched and discussed, at the request of the dealership.
  6. NADA sends the dealership a written report, detailing specific areas of concern and recommends remedial actions.
  7. Telephone follow-up in 90 days.

Fee for option 2: $495

To sign up, call NADA Dealership Consulting at:  1-800-248-6232, ext. 4745

“Very Helpful! Shed light on opportunities we overlooked. Will do it again!”
-Mike Mansour, General Manager

From variable operations to fixed operations to a review of your entire dealership, NADA Lifeline Dealership Consulting is available to help with any aspect of your operation.  We will tailor the consulting, to fit your dealership’s needs.

Frequently requested Lifeline Dealership Consulting topics include:
—Service Advisor training
—Personnel productivity review
—Inventory analysis
—Accounting procedure review 
—and anything else you need!

To sign-up, call 1-800-248-6232, ext. 4745
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NADA Lifeline Dealership Consulting is provided by NADA 20 Groups and the NADA Dealer Academy.