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Turning the Negative Equity Problem into Opportunity

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A Game Plan to Address the Affordability Gap in Your Inventory

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Vehicle Inventory & Affordability Trends for Q2 2026 | vAuto Quick Takes Podcast

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How a Dealer Group Lifts its Trade Appraisal/Capture Rate

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Live Market View Q2 2026 - Why Precision Matters in a Turbulent Market

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vAuto Quarterly Quick-Takes: A View of Key Q1 2026 Trends

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Distilling What Predictive Pricing Tells You About a Vehicle

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Live Market View Q1 2026 - Ramping Up for a Strong Tax Season

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Next Gen Perspective: Why Clear Career Paths Matter Most

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NADA 2026 Preview: A Quick Rundown What’s New in Las Vegas

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Live Market View Q4 2025 - How Mohawk Honda Keeps Pace as the Market Turns

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How a Dealer Finds His “Happy Place” Every Christmas

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Pointers to Prime Your Service Lane Acquisition Success

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Going Beyond Look to Book to Measure Appraiser Performance

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Winning Today’s ‘Race to the Customer’ in New and Used Vehicles

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From Source to Sale: A Strategic Approach to Maximizing Used Vehicle Profitability

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Live Market View Q3 2025 │ Watch the Data To Capitalize on Pent-Up Demand

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How AI Powers Service Lane Appraisals, Acquisitions

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vAuto Quarterly Quick-Takes: An “Up and Down” Retail Automotive Market in Q2 2025

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How York Automotive Establishes, Executes its Used Vehicle Inventory Strategy

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5 Key Opportunities for Any Dealer Group

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Live Market View Q2 2025 - Build on the Momentum

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Quarterly Quick-Takes: A Torrent of Tariff-spurred Sales in Q1 2025

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A Better Way to Optimize Your Group Performance

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Managing Your New/Used Inventories as Tariffs Turn the Market

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Goal-Minded: How McGrath’s is Meeting its 10 Percent Growth Objective

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Making Sense of a Market That’s on the Move

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Pointers to Determine the “Right Money” with Every Appraisal

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Inside a Dealer’s Playbook: Moving “Brown Banana” Vehicles and More

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Live Market View Q1 2025 | A Look at the Road Ahead from NADA 2025

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Applying Football Principles to Your Appraisal Process

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A Preview of vAuto Innovations Debuting at NADA 2025

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Live Market View Q4 2024 | Managing Risk Amid Strong Used Vehicle Sales

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A Sneak Preview of Dale Pollak’s New Book, Invested

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Don't Let Historic New Vehicle Troubles Haunt You Today

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How Rodland Toyota Makes Wholesaling Vehicles a Multi-Channel Priority

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vAuto Live Market View | Q3 2024

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Avoiding 5 Common Online Merchandising Missteps

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Keeping Stores “Between the Lines” to Drive Dealer Group Performance

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New Vehicle Incentives: Finding Advantage in a VIN-Specific Environment

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From Losing to Making Money: Key Elements of a Dealer’s Used Vehicle Turnaround

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Perspectives from a Fundamentals-Minded Dealer

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Growing the Group: How Used Vehicles Became a Higher Priority for Rick Case Automotive

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vAuto Live Market View | Q2 2024

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An Evolutionary View of vAuto Performance Management

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Your Merchandising Is Your Sales Process

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Putting More Merchandising Punch in Your VDP Carousels

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Next Gen Perspectives: Northwood University Students Share Views of NADA and More

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Under the Hood: A Review of ProfitTime GPS’ New Global Search Tool

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How to Start and Stay Strong in 2024

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A View of Market Conditions and Your NADA Opportunity

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Unpacking 3 Used Vehicle Lifecycle Opportunities for Dealers

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How to Grow Inventory When Supply is Down | vAuto | Used Car Week 2023

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An Inside View of an Independent Dealer’s Playbook for the Current Market

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Finding Success Amid Uncertain Used Vehicle Market Conditions

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A Marketing-Minded View of Today’s Vehicle Affordability Challenge

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An Exit-Minded Method to Secure More Inventory and Profit at Wholesale

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Best Practices for Sourcing Inventory on the Money in Any Channel

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Inside a Dealer's 90-Day Pricing Alignment Challenge

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How Rohrman Auto Group Makes its Vehicle Merchandising Stand Out

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What happens when a 100 year old dealership must reinvent itself in a volatile market?

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Elevate Your Vehicle Merchandising to Meet Shopper Expectations

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The "Used Car Factory We Never Had"– Until Now

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A Dealer Discovers a Better Way to Wholesale

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5 Reasons the Time is Right for Variable Management

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Perspective from NADA 2023 in Dallas | Q1 2023 Live Market View

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How Recon Performance Helped a Dealer Group Reshape Used Vehicle Reconditioning

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NADA 2023: A Sneak Peek & Promise from vAuto

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Rethinking Vehicle Merchandising and It’s Measurement

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Why Variable Management is Better than Velocity

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How An Independent Dealer Revised Her Recipe for Success

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How Dealers Are Going Digital in Service to Build Customer Loyalty and Value

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How an Independent Dealer Pivoted to Online Auctions for Inventory

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A Data-Driven View of Changing Used Vehicle Market Conditions

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How Dealers Should Adapt to Less Favorable Market Conditions

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How The Murgado Automotive Group Uses Technology To Thrive in an Evolving Industry

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A View of NADA’s LIFO Tax Relief Efforts

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Straight From the Source: Consumer Edition

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To Champion Change, you Must First Learn to Coach

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How Your Current Hiring Process May Hurt You Long Term

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Why a “Good Enough” Reconditioning Process Won’t Cut it Anymore

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vAuto Founder Dale Pollak Previews What’s New for NADA 2022

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Learn to acquire more at NADA Show – Kelley Blue Book® Instant Cash Offer

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Transform Your Media Carousel Into A Storytelling Experience To Win Consumers Online | vAuto

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A Recipe to Drive Social Media Success at Your Store

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A View of 2022 for Franchise Dealers

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2021 in Review: 5 Take-Aways to Shape Your 2022 Success

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Why Used Vehicle Managers Are Stealing a Page From the New Vehicle Playbook

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We’ll Make Money on Every Car We Can

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Progressing the Sales Experience during the Inventory Shortage

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Digital Dealer Wrap-Up: Pointers for Customer Car Acquisitions, Comp Plans

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Straight from the Source - Episode 3: When a Lead Comes In, It's About Speed

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Straight from the Source - Episode 2: Getting Buy-In from the Customer

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Straight from the Source - Episode 1: Customers Don’t Look at Vehicles the Same Way

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How A Changed Appraisal Process Increases Acquisition Opportunities

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Sneak Preview of Fall Expo 2021 User Summit Sessions from vAuto

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A New World Order for Your New Car Business

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Dealer Voices: “We didn’t get better. We got significantly better.”

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Ensure Your Vehicle Merchandising Meets Customer Expectations

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Keeping Pace As The Wholesale Market Turns