ADS News
Press Release - Traverse City, Michigan USA - January 18, 2011
This week Automotive Dealer Solutions a privately held management consulting and service provider to Automotive Dealerships based in Traverse City, Michigan announced they have made a substantial reduction in the overall cost of their exclusive product “Sky Profit”. The special offer is only available to dealers using the ADP DMS (Dealer Management System). According to Keith Conroy owner of ADS this reduction could benefit many dealers who want to move their operation forward in 2011 as almost 50 percent of dealers currently use the ADP DMS. Keith also said over the past two years ADS has supported their dealer partners with over $250,000 in savings and discounts, although clearly the industry is on the road to recovery, without our dealers we are simply out of business.
Sky Profit has a great impact on the profitability of the dealership as most experts still agree a large percent of the dealers net profits come from the service and parts operation. The best way we can help dealers is to give them a product that will allow them to be more competitive in their market place and generate additional profit from their important retail parts sales.
Keith explained that parts sold by the dealer have a published retail list price established by each manufacture however dealers often sell parts retail at other than the published list price and this process can be difficult to accomplish with their DMS software. Sky Profit makes retail pricing simple, their parts can be sold at any price they wish and most importantly each part price can be changed independently and quickly as their market changes. Another important new feature is Sky Profit has the ability to adjust pricing on a pre-programmed curve driven by the individual part market demand saving the manager time and giving their dealership a true competitive edge in their respective market.
It’s important to understand that many of parts need to be sold by the dealer for more than the published manufacture price as this allows the dealer the ability to recover the lost revenue from the sale of highly visible competitive parts that in many markets are heavily discounted by dealers. The dealership needs to blend pricing to maintain sales volume, price image and at the same time maximize profitability, and Sky Profit just makes this very simple to do.
Keith outlined the savings per dealer in a range from $5,000 to $8,000, the implementation and training fee is waved, ADS does all the work for free, the dealers monthly retail part sales volume and inventory size determines the dealer’s savings. This is the most aggressive pricing for Sky Profit in its almost 11 year history; the dealer pays only the cost of the one-time license fee and any necessary travel expense during the training and implementation. To put the discounted cost of Sky Profit into perspective consider only a 2 percent improvement in retail parts sales gross in a dealer selling 100,000 monthly will net the dealership $24,000.00 in just 12 months making Sky Profits return on investment a super star, or just 3 months ROI. We also include three months of the part price up-date service for free saving the dealership additional dollars, this is by far the best savings offer to our dealers since ADS was founded in 1998, we have no plans at this time to offer any other savings or discounts on any of our products or services in 2011. To get the legal stuff out of the way I might add this is a limited time offer, ADS reserves the right to cancel this offer at any time without notice. We hope dealers will take advantage of this great opportunity, thanks for your time, and have a great 2011!
Automotive Dealer Solutions
21st Century Solutions for the 21st Century Automobile Dealer!
News - Traverse City, Michigan USA - May 8, 2010
As released today on the Automotive Dealer Solutions Facebook Fan Page: ADS will roll out a great new product we call “ADS Dealer Care” later this month. Dealer Care is in the final beta testing phase at one of our Dealers and is on schedule to be available to dealer’s in the Midwest Region later this month. A special thanks to Steve Voice and the entire team at Voice Motors Sales for their help in the final development phase of this important project.
News - Traverse City, Michigan USA - May 27, 2009
This week Automotive Dealer Solutions a management consulting and service provider since 1998 to automobile dealers in the Midwest based in Traverse City, Michigan announced they have entered into a National General Agent Agreement with MediaTrac. MediaTrac is a privately held company headquartered in San Ramon, California and one of the leading providers of customized customer loyalty and media tracking programs in North America.
Founded in 2002 MediaTrac services hundreds of retail clients and has over 5 million members throughout the US and Canada. Keith Conroy owner of Automobile Dealer Solutions said today Frank Abajian of MediaTrac contacted him in January of this year, it been a long process but Keith is very pleased with the agreement that was reached last week with Michael Gorun, founder and managing partner of MediaTrac.
ADS is committed to helping our dealer partners in the current market survive and prosper, MediaTrac is by far the best in the industry with many products custom fit to Automobile Dealers, LoyaltyTrac, Be-Back Marketing, Media Manager and UltraCare. Every MediaTrac product is web-based and fully intergraded to the dealers DMS and most importantly MediaTrac provides the service that is missing with most every other provider, when is the last time Reynolds or ADP called their dealer to ask if they could help. Dealers and their employee's are not in the IT business, dealers pay a lot of money getting no service with products that are a poor fit at best for most dealer operations. Pricing is also important during these times and MediaTrac gets an A+ on price, their products are highly effective and they care if the dealer gets results, I am very proud to have the privilege to offer MediaTrac products to our dealer partners, in fact Keith is so convinced of the potential for the dealers that ADS will put on a full court press to get their dealers engaged. When asked if this agreement with MediaTrac would add additional jobs in Traverse City for ADS, Keith had no comment but to say, "this is a National Sales Agreement and there are a lot of dealers who need help during this current market shift, I am very optimistic about the future."
MediaTrac confirmed the agreement with Automotive Dealer Solutions but had no comment or additional information.
News - Traverse City, Michigan USA - April 29, 2009
Keith Conroy owner of Automotive Dealer Solutions issued this announcement today from Traverse City, Michigan. The announcement was sent to Automobile Dealers and ADS clients via e-mail outlining good news about ADS and savings for dealers in the current tough retail automobile market. Keith declined to provide a list of dealers or clients the announcement was sent to however Keith did provide the complete announcement and said that it was sent April 28, 2009.
Automotive Dealer Solutions is a management consulting and service provider to automobile dealers located in the Midwest based in Traverse City, Michigan and now providing data services to dealers from their new Grand Rapids, Michigan Data Center location. This is a complete copy of the e-mail as provided by ADS.
Dear Friends and Clients;
Please let me share with you some good news at Automotive Dealer Solutions and for our SKY PROFIT dealer partners. SKY PROFIT is without a doubt the best offering to our dealer partners for the now 11 years of our company history. To better serve the fast growing SKY PROFIT dealer base ADS has added a Data Center located in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The data center provides dealer partners with SKY PROFIT support, monthly updates, yearly price reviews, data conversions, implementation scheduling, warranty processing, MAST level one support and Dealermade web service support along with all our ever growing company data needs.
Some of you may be wondering what the heck is SKY PROFIT, simply SKY PROFIT is a tool allowing dealers the flexibility to price parts based on value, improving price image and increase traffic on highly competitive repairs while generating additional gross profit on the many captive parts available only at your franchised retail location, parts sold counter retail and most importantly to your best parts retail sales engine, your SERVICE DEPARTMENT. Many dealers in the current market are thinking out of the box offering lower cost aftermarket parts as an option for some customers to stay competitive, for these dealers SKY PROFIT makes pricing this group of parts correctly quite simple and very profitable, click this link to our website for more information about SKY PROFIT; http://adsdealerservice.com/skyprofit.aspx
Consider just a 1 or 2 percent gross improvement with improved price image in your market would mean to the bottom line at your location. Dealers typically experience a 2 to 5 percent retail gross profit improvement during the first year making the return on the relatively small investment a “no brainier”, as quite simply stated years ago by one of our dealers. The group average of the 28 reporting SKY PROFIT dealers was over 45% retail gross profit in 2008, with the highline imports leading the group, the group represents most all size dealers and manufactures, all located in the hard hit Midwest.
Now let me give you some good news, as offered on our website until June 30, 2009 save $1,000.00 on the one time SKY PROFIT license, to see our entire current web saving offers click this link to our website discount page http://adsdealerservice.com/discounts.aspx .
Additionally for your dealership I would like to offer an additional $1,000.00 discount on the implementation cost if purchased before the June 30, 2009 license offer deadline. Further to help support our new data center, current and new SKY PROFIT members; receive FREE price updates for the one year with a two year price update service agreement including the important yearly price review, typically a $1,500.00 savings for most locations. The yearly review focus is on the bread and butter parts that sell, maximizing the dealership profit potential for the individual dealers market, the example (Adobe pdf “ADSexample”) is attached for your review, this example is a mix of different locations and manufactures and not intended for any purpose other than illustration.
To recap the total savings of $3,500.00 for new dealer locations or $1,500.00 savings to add or renew our price update service for current SKY PROFIT dealers, this offer expires June 30, 2009 and it’s just our way to help expand our dealer partner base with a great product and at the same time help our dealer partners improve sales, gross profit while saving you money.
It’s clear that the sales cycle recovery is far from around the corner, without a doubt the fixed operations are front and center in the 2009 survival strategy for successful dealers, SKY PROFIT is well worth a look see, I am confident to prosper in the 21st Century our industry must be flexible and willing to change as the market changes. ADS is committed to helping our dealer partners survive and prosper the current market conditions with - Exclusive Products * Training * Support * Results!
Thanks for your valuable time,
Keith Conroy
Automotive Dealer Solutions
News - Traverse City, Michigan USA - March 2009
Dealermade Corporation headquartered in Huston, Texas, one of the leading web service providers in North America has reached an agent agreement with Automotive Dealer Solutions of Traverse City, Michigan to provide Automobile Dealers with Dealermade web services. Keith Conroy owner of ADS is very excited about this agreement; Keith said today, "ADS mission has always been to provide our dealers with the best services and products in the industry, Dealermade is by far the best web service provider that without question will help our dealers sell more cars and trucks. Our focus has never directly influenced the sale of vehicles; however information technology is the core focus of ADS. Current market conditions in the industry make the Dealermade solution a very important synergy for our dealers, the sale of vehicles is the life blood of the retail dealer. Without strong vehicle sales dealers provide fewer and fewer customers to their fixed operation compounding the dealer's ability to bridge the current market downturn".
Dealermade has many dealers currently, however compared to the large number of dealers in the country is one of the industry's best kept secrets. With few Dealermade dealers in the Midwest ADS plans to aggressively market the Dealermade web solution and all the great products and services offered by ADS, helping their dealers improve their performance in this expected tough 2009 auto market.
News - Traverse City, Michigan USA - February 2009
Automotive Dealer Solutions, a management consulting and service provider to automobile dealers in the Midwest based in Traverse City, Michigan announced today they have entered into talks with Dealermade Corporation headquartered in Huston, Texas, one of the leading web service providers in North America. ADS seeks to establish an agreement allowing ADS to provide Dealermade web services to dealers. Keith Conroy, owner of ADS, said today that "Dealermade web services are top quality and pricing is very competitive making this an important product to offer struggling dealers in this tough 2009 market". Keith also stated that his rercent trip to NADA this past January found many new ideas and products however Dealermade was by far the his best find for 2oo9. Dealermade is located in Texas and has had limited penetration in the Midwest with their web services to date, making this a very good opportunity for both companies. Keith met with Brad King President of Dealermade at NADA in New Orleans and is very interested in representing Dealermade web services to the ADS dealer base and others across the Midwest.
News - Traverse City, Michigan USA - January 2009
Automotive Dealer Solutions, a management consulting and service provider to automobile dealers in the Midwest based in Traverse City, Michigan announced today they have entered into talks with MediaTrac Corporation headquartered in San Ramon, California, one of the leading providers of loyaly and media management systems in North America.
MediaTrac seeks to establish an agreement allowing ADS to provide MediaTrac products and services to dealers. Keith Conroy owner of Automotive Dealer Solutions had no further comment other than to say ADS is interested and would continue talks with Frank Abajian of MediaTrac until some agreement can be reached.
News - Traverse City, Michigan USA - July 2007
Automotive Dealer Solutions, a management consulting service provider to automobile dealers based in Traverse City, Michigan, and dti Publishing Corporation headquartered in Park City, Utah, one of the leading educational software companies, announced today they have entered into a worldwide distribution agreement. ADS will market dti's revolutionary new online solution for automotive technical training. The product trademarked Modern Automotive Service Technician (MAST), is one of the first ever online training solutions to offer the quality training for technicians in today's high-tech automobile industry.