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21st Century Auto Alliance

Business Type

Franchise

Initial Investment

$9,000 to $20,000

Total Investment

$9,000 to $20,000

Number of Units

In Business Since

1986

Overview

Our business opportunity has an easy learning curve, very modest capital investment, and provides a service that ALL automobile dealerships can use. We supply the proprietary software, marketing training, sets of the sticker stock used in daily business activities and a high level of support for our valued franchisees.

We have formed an agreement with The Polk Company to acquire accurate information about the vehicles our franchisees service. The Polk Company is an exceptional source of information as they are in the business to collect and archive data. Polk acquires data directly from the auto manufacturers themselves as well as from state agencies responsible for licensing automobiles. Unlike some of our competitors who build their own data with limited resources, our relationship with The Polk Company allows us to tap the unlimited resources of a multi-million dollar corporation that most of the nations insurance companies rely on for their vehicle information.

By presenting information about used vehicles using good advertising techniques coupled with the accuracy of Polk data, we feel that the 21st Century AutoAlliance franchise system offers the best option of alternative advertising for automobile dealerships today.

Products & Services

Inventory Reports
21st Century AutoAlliance franchisees can produce inventory reports for a dealership that reflect what vehicles are found on a lot right now. This is handy to the dealership for floorplan checks, or just to know what is out there. Sales people use them to know what vehicles they have to choose from when someone asks about a certain vehicle type.

We can also provide a complete list of all vehicles in our database for that dealership. This could be handy for dealerships subscribing to online data services such as internet search engines for vehicles.

Window Sticker Service
With this service, an AutoAlliance franchisee comes onto a dealership's lot and goes to each vehicle that needs servicing. He collects the dealer's stock number, VIN, and other information by answering a series of yes/no or multiple choice questions.

The franchisee then returns to their vehicle to print out the sticker sets. Next, they apply them to the vehicles and bill the dealership for the service.

This service holds many benefits for the dealership:

First, it provides a buyers guide to be displayed on the vehicle. This buyers guide is required by the FTC and there are large fines for dealerships who have cars on a lot not displaying one.

Second, it provides another form of advertising for each vehicle on their lot. A salesman is not there 24 hours a day, but our sticker is, telling anyone who looks at the vehicle the important information about it.

Third, it provides the sales staff with an easy to reference guide to the actual features of a vehicle while they show it to their customers.

Training & Support

21st Century Auto Alliance a franchise opportunity from Franchise Genius

Training for new franchisees is a comprehensive 2 day event. We start with some basic computer skills to make even a first-time computer user comfortable with the technology. Then we move on to more advanced computer skills and applying what you have learned to the everyday operation of your business. For this portion of the training process, we use highly regarded video training tapes along with classroom question and answer sessions to provide a productive learning environment. The fact that we send the video cassettes home with you means that you always have a professional to refer to by watching the cassettes at your leisure any time you want.

Next we cover the day to day operational procedures of your 21st Century AutoAlliance based business. This includes some insights into doing service work for the automotive industry and some of the unique aspects of this type of work.

Finally, we discuss the proven marketing techniques of selling your service to the automotive industry and even use role-playing exercises to help you get the feel of offering your services to an industry that needs your work.

The proprietary AutoAlliance software is a state of the art package that uses The Polk Company data to provide accurate information about vehicles based on the VIN (Vehicle Identification Number). This software package is designed just for the purpose of collecting information about vehicles, storing it, and supplying printed materials for the productive use by your customers, the automobile dealership.

As a 21st Century AutoAlliance franchisee, you would have a number of support options available to you:

Telephone support. This is support for problems or help with procedures. Telephone support is even toll-free for the first 90 days of your franchise agreement!
Internet Support. You also have the option of e-mailing your questions or problems in. The e-mail is checked regularly throughout the day and can be answered right away. In addition to e-mail, there is a franchisee-only forum for sharing experiences, tips and traps of daily operation, and general information about how others operate their AutoAlliance based businesses.
The franchisee network. The strength of a franchise organization is the communication between the franchisees. We encourage this communication as franchisees are eager to share experiences, tips on marketing or business practices or software tips. As a 21st Century AutoAlliance franchisee, you will have access to an up-to-date list of franchisees and their contact information (address, phone numbers, e-mail addresses, etc.). In fact, the franchisee-only forum on this web site include this list.

Why 21st Century Auto Alliance?

Internet Service
AutoAlliance franchisees can offer a full line of internet services to dealerships. This includes data forwarding (sending used vehicle data to a larger web service) and data warehousing (providing data to your own web site).

If a dealership wants a world wide web presence, AutoAlliance can give it to them. We can forward the data we collect about your vehicles to a variety of World Wide Web Automobile resources such as Autobytel, Cobalt, AutoTrader or many other used car posting services. Custom web services used by dealerships are no problem for use to send data to either.

If the dealership already has a web presence, we can provide an address for them to link to for their inventory, as well as e-mail response from interested web surfers, and even an "Internet Special" so the dealership can put cars 'on sale' on the Internet.

We also have services designed for dealerships that we forward data to web sites for.

OnePoint allows a dealership Internet person access to their inventory to change prices, mark cars sold, or even verify that a picture is available for a particular vehicle. The easy-to-use service will automatically update all of the dealership's data feeds that very day so that a high degree of consistency can be achieved for their Internet Inventories wherever they may be. This important service saves your potential customers time and headaches maintaining their Internet Inventory.

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