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Unlocking the Power of Automated Merchandising: Telling Your Dealership’s Story with vAuto

Unlocking the Power of Automated Merchandising: Telling Your Dealership’s Story with vAuto

Join Chris Moyer, Performance Manager at vAuto, for an insightful session on transforming your dealership’s merchandising strategy. Discover how evolving consumer expectations—affordability for new vehicles and transparency for used—are reshaping the automotive retail landscape. Learn how to leverage the latest AI-driven tools to automate time-consuming tasks, enhance your vehicle listings with compelling photos, interactive 360° […]

Turning Data into Decisions: How AI is Transforming Inventory Management

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Turning Data into Decisions: How AI is Transforming Inventory Management

Join industry leaders Jade Terreberry, Patrick Janes, Noah Lee, and Dennis Gingrich from Niello Company as they discuss the evolving role of AI and data in automotive inventory management. This Dealer Connect panel explores how cutting-edge technology is helping dealers optimize inventory, streamline pricing, and make smarter, faster decisions. Panelists share actionable insights on leveraging […]

Optimizing Profitability Across Diverse Acquisition Channels and Rooftops

With more used inventory coming from multiple sourcing channels, dealers now manage a diverse mix of vehicles with varying profit potential. The challenge is aligning sales volume and profitability objectives with the channels where you perform best. In this ASOTU Edge webinar, hosts Paul J Daly and Kyle Mountsier are joined by Derek Hansen of […]

Beyond the Buzz: From AI Hype to Real-world Impact

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Beyond the Buzz: From AI Hype to Real-world Impact

At DealerConnect 25, Cox Automotive leaders didn’t just talk about AI—they showed how it’s already working behind the scenes to help dealers make smarter, faster inventory decisions. On stage, vAuto’s AVP of Business Development, Patrick Janes, cut through the hype with real examples of how AI is quietly transforming the way dealers acquire, appraise, merchandise, and price vehicles. Forget the buzzwords. This isn’t about futuristic tech or […]

vAuto Digitization Guide blog post 2025

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Priced to Move, Not to Hope: Three Data-Driven Strategies

Efficiency is a profit lever. And for today’s top-performing dealerships, AI, automation, and digitization aren’t just buzzwords—they’re business drivers. According to the 2024 Digitization of Automotive Retail Study, dealers using omnichannel tools see a 53% greater positive impact on close rates from digital retailing compared to others. In this article, we’ll break down how Cox […]

Rules of the Road: Move Cars Smarter, Not Just Faster

Rules of the Road: Move Cars Smarter, Not Just Faster

In this ASOTU Edge webinar, learn how to stop playing musical chairs with your used inventory and start making smarter, more strategic moves. Patrick Janes from vAuto and Paul Golias from Modern Automotive Network share proven tactics for transferring vehicles between stores—covering when and why to move a car, how to keep transfers fair, and […]

vAuto Live Webinar - Vehicle Acquisitions: Making It Rain in the Service Lane

Vehicle Acquisitions: Making It Rain in the Service Lane

Get practical pointers to help you acquire more vehicles from service customers in this Automotive News webinar, featuring Patrick James, associate AVP of Operations at vAuto. Janes outlines best practices from top-performing dealers, including parameters to prioritize customers and vehicles for offers; how to scale a soft-sell, “opt-in” offer to customers prior to service visits; […]

Mining Your Misses to Make Deals and Win Inventory

This ASOTU Edge Webinar features Patrick A Janes of vAuto and Adam Claiborne of Mike Shaw Kia as they unpacked how dealers can turn missed appraisals into winning deals and inventory. The conversation explored how Mike Shaw Kia built a process-driven pipeline that re-engages customers through CRM integration, enabling them to proactively pursue previously appraised […]

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Transforming Vehicle Appraisals: How AI and vAuto Drive Transparency and Accuracy

In this Fixed Ops Roundtable segment, Patrick Janes joins Ted Ings and Sarah Vantine to explore how dealerships can bring AI into their appraising process to minimize variances and speed up vehicle condition assessments and customer offers. Janes shares how vAuto’s AI-powered data and solutions, including integration with AI imaging technology, helps dealers acquire more […]

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Smarter Decisions: How AI Is Transforming Inventory Management at Dealerships

In a recent Automotive News webinar, Derek Hansen, Vice President of Operations at vAuto (a Cox Automotive brand), joined host Emma Hancock to explore how artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping inventory management in automotive retail. Here are some key highlights from the webinar, which you can view in full here. The Evolution of AI in […]