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Spireon Honored in Prestigious American Business Awards

Asset Trailer Tracking, Auto GPS, Fleet Management, News / By Kathy McCoy

Spireon is pleased to announce it has been recognized in the 18th annual American Business Awards with Silver Stevie Awards for Customer Service Department of the Year and Achievement in Product Innovation. The American Business Awards recognize outstanding public, private, for-profit and non-profit companies and organizations. Tested by disruptions in the automotive and transportation industries …

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The Future of Automotive Retail

Auto GPS, Fixed Operations, Franchise Car Dealers, Kahu / By Samir Kamnani

As we adjust to a “new normal” where health and safety have unprecedented importance, dealerships are adapting to and leaning into new ways to operate. Thanks to connected car technology, dealers are moving towards touchless vehicle delivery while making efforts to grow fixed operations, regardless of how often drivers are on the road. Touchless Vehicle …

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Happy Holidays to You from Spireon

Asset Trailer Tracking, Auto GPS, Fleet Management, FleetLocate, GoldStar, Kahu / By Kathy McCoy

Happy Holidays to you and yours! As you may know from reading this blog, Spireon had the pleasure this year of sponsoring CapitolTreeTracker.com, which allowed users to track the Capitol Christmas Tree as it traveled from New Mexico to Washington, D.C. In honor of the tree and to wish you the happiest of holidays, we’d …

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Empowering the Dealer

Auto GPS, Franchise Car Dealers, Kahu / By Samir Kamnani

You made a new car sale, congratulations! You engaged your customer during the buying process by providing quality service, right? If not, you may have missed out on sowing the seeds of a lifelong dealer-customer relationship. Making the sale is only the first step. To grow profits, you need to bring customers back for service …

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Battery-Powered GPS Trackers: Are They Worth It?

Wire-Free GPS Trackers: Like a Screen Door on a Submarine

Auto GPS, Auto Lenders, Buy-Here-Pay-Here Dealers, Credit Unions, Opinion / By Mark Carrillo

Wireless has been around forever. If you’re a certain age, the concept may seem fairly new, but it was a full 20 years ago when Apple launched the wireless internet revolution with Wi-Fi on its iBook laptop. Twelve years ago, Bluetooth 2.0 was included in the inaugural iPhone (along with a whopping 16 GB of …

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Grow Your Fixed Operations with Kahu’s My Dealer Feature

Auto GPS, Fixed Operations / By Mark Carrillo

In a time not so long ago, when consumers needed customer support for a product, it could be hit or miss depending on the company. Fast forward to today, consumers can reach companies not only by phone but with social media like Facebook and Twitter, company forums, or even by text. Great customer support can …

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The Auto Industry’s Shrinking Tax Season 2019

Auto GPS, Tax Season Resource Center / By Reggie Ponsford

In years past, auto dealers benefited from a 60- to 90-day tax season, but those days are gone due to the PATH Act, which now requires that the majority of tax refunds not be processed until after Feb. 15. As a result, tax season has shrunk closer to a six- to nine-day time period. In 2017, …

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Used Auto Loans: The Now and the Future of CU Portfolios

Auto Loans, Credit Unions, Forecast / By Mark Carrillo

Despite most analyst predictions of flattening auto sales for the foreseeable future, auto loans appear to remain a highlight in most credit union portfolios. Of particular interest to institutions financing used car loans is the average age of cars on the road setting a new high water mark of 11.6 years, per Credit Union National …

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Making GPS Disclosure Fun

Auto GPS, GoldStar, Mobile App / By Mark Carrillo

Life is full of uncomfortable conversations. Maybe it’s that you don’t want to ask the boss for a well-deserved promotion. Maybe you don’t want to let on to the dentist that you haven’t been flossing every single day. Maybe you avoid telling your spouse that the chicken is dry. And that’s just it, we beat …

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What is Telematics and What Does it Mean?

What is Telematics and What it Means?

Auto GPS / By Kristina Lowe

Telematics sounds like a big science word that you probably expect to hear in a speech by Elon Musk as he unveils a groundbreaking technology. Fortunately, the truth is telematics is just a term used to outline how data is captured from vehicles transferred across different mediums, gathered, and the intelligence provided with it. Car …

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