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Have your staff trained by the premier F&I producer in the country. - Dealer Services
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Our team provides the tools to make automotive dealerships more profitable. With over fifteen years of documented success in the industry, Automotive Performance Builders assessment of your dealership will expose the unique areas for improved profitability. Our process then continues to teach new methods for maintaining a high level of performance. We will strategically introduce new products and coverage options that provide customers with a greater buying experience. The regular training, statistical tracking and product service furnished by Automotive Performance Builders will allow the dealer to concentrate on making money.
What makes us unique is that we don't just drop off some contracts and shake a few hands once per month, we take the time to get to know your dealership and the people that make it tick. Our professional trainers sit "in the box" with your Business Managers and SHOW them how to get the desired results. Anyone can say you need to be at XYZ per car but what is the benefit of that? We take all of the objections away by actually taking TO's AT your dealership with your Business Managers sitting in and watching, then sitting in as your Business Managers take TO's and highlighting areas of opportunity.
"In my opinion the only real way to train is in the dealership, in the F&I office with actual customers, actual situations and actual presentations. Product knowledge, word tracks and role playing are all important but if you're not physically in the store seeing how the deals are structured, the flow of the transaction etc.. you'll never be able to fix a lot of the underlying problems"
Ilya M. Shnayder, President & CEO
Automotive Performance Builders
We work with every member of the team - from the Dealer Principal and/or General Manager when setting the goals for the dealership and reviewing the progress, to sales management when ensuring that deals are being worked the right way to maximize front and back end profit, to the Sales Consultants when teaching them how to properly set up the F&I department as part of their road to a sale, to the service and parts personnel when teaching them how to process claims and sell additional products from the service drive, to the accounting department when teaching them how and where to remit. Our staff of multi faceted automotive professionals has literally decades of experience and understands the importance of having everyone at the store on board.
Furthermore, within the F&I department we go far beyond the typical product training and focus on the whole job of a Business Manager and/or Finance Director. Our staff has worked for years establishing personal relationships with the decision makers at local, regional, and national lending sources and can leverage these relationships to help get difficult deals approved and more importantly show your F&I department how to not just sell to a customer but to sell a tough deal to a lender. We work on solidifying the dealer-lender relationship and/or bringing in new lending sources since in this tough economic climate a supportive lender is a business partner no dealership can be without.
We work on legal compliance to ensure that everyone in the dealership knows the importance of conducting business legally and ethically and not chasing the all mighty dollar at the expense of everything else. Over the past few years, dealerships have been a target for plaintiff's attorneys and Attorneys General across the country, so we work with the staff to make sure they are in full compliance with:
- Regulation B
- Regulation M
- Regulation Z
- ECOA - Equal Credit Opportunity Act
- FCRA - Fair Credit Reporting Act
- Patriot Act
- Red Flags Rule
Learn More - OFAC - Office of Foreign Asset Control
- UCC - Uniform Commercial Code
- Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act
- Magnusson-Moss Warranty Act
- NAAG Payment Packing Resolution
- IRS Fin-Cen 8300
- Do Not Call Rules
- FTC Used Car Rule
As an AFIP 
certified organization we fully endorse AFIP certification for all Business Managers and senior management within the dealership.
We can also help with all of the following:
..."I've dealt with various automotive financing consultants and companies over the past 20 years and Mr. Shanyder and his company have proven to be one of the best."...
