Mike Marak is the president of M&M Auto Sales in Hiawatha, Iowa, boasting more than three decades of buy-here, pay-here experience. Marak chose to spend three days in Dallas last week for the Best Practices Conference hosted by the National ... [Read More]

Dealers from all 50 states now are a part of AutoTrader.com’s Buy- Here Pay-Here Center as the site crossed the 1,000-store milestone before 2014 closed. Consumer traffic also is climbing significantly as site officials are seeing possible buyers from all ... [Read More]

Are you ready for February? That is probably the biggest question for January. You should have finished or be finishing your end-of-the-month and end-of-the-year reports. I hope back in November you completed evaluations of your personnel and processes. If not, ... [Read More]

Q: What are some prudent steps to make in regards to reconditioning? Julian says … First, on a side note, I think service and financing of repairs, tires etc., are going to be a good profit source for every BHPH ... [Read More]

The buy-here, pay-here business is one of the few businesses you can sell yourself out of business. Can I get an Amen on that? This reminds me of the “six P’s” rule of business that you may have heard: Prior ... [Read More]

A buyer who sustained a bad experience during a vehicle purchase might share the unpleasant details with family and friends. Or perhaps in today’s Internet age, the consumer could go on social media to describe the experiences through a myriad ... [Read More]

The income tax refund. For typical buy-here, pay-here dealership customers, that’s an injection of cash averaging about $5,000, according to an estimation from Tax Refund Services and TaxMax founder Bill Neylan. For years, those refunds meant the possibility of healthy ... [Read More]

Congress empowered the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to supervise buy-here, pay-here dealers when it passed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. Since its inception, the CFPB has not specifically targeted a BHPH dealer — until now, that ... [Read More]

If you have struggled to earn a positive return on investment or even calculate an ROI using social media, you are not alone. You can’t deposit likes, shares and followers into the bank. We have crafted and sent tens of ... [Read More]

Buy-here, pay-here operators interested in utilizing the capabilities of license plate recognition technology to mitigate losses now have another opportunity if they use the solution offered by AutoSoft NET. On Wednesday morning, Digital Recognition Network (DRN) and AutoSoft NET announced ... [Read More]