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GEORGIA INDEPENDENT AUTOMOBILE DEALERS ASSOCIATION
INDEPENDENT
auto dealer

FEBRUARY 2017

2 | GIADA President Supports GPS 18 | Service Provider Directory 46 | How to Make Social Media Work
Device Use Disclosure by Dealers 28 | More Regulations Means Less to for Your Recruiting Process
4 | Celebrating the Power of Talk about for BHPH Dealers 48 | The CARLAWYER
Association 31 | The Growing Need for BHPH 50 | Interview Red Flags: What to Look
6 | BHPH Dealers Should Expect 37 | Charleston Auto Auction for When Interviewing Potential
Challenges, Continued Regulatory Celebrates Recon Center Grand Employees
Oversight in 2017 Opening 52 | Auction Directory
9 | Annual Bankruptcy Filings Dip for 38 | Tornadoes Touch Down in Albany, 55 | 2017 NADA Chair on CPO,
7th Straight Year GA Standalone Used-Car Stores
12 | Top 10 Best Practices for 40 | January New-Car Sales Down 3 56 | Dealership Turnover No Laughing
Preventing and Detecting Percent Year-Over-Year Following Matter
Employee Theft in Dealerships Record 2016 Finish 57 | President Makes Efforts to Trump
15 | Auction volume likely to hit record 41 | Put an End to Buy Here, Pay CFPB Regulations
10.1M units in 2017 Whenever with Vehicle Location 58 | IN BRIEF: News Roundup
17 | Automotive Consumers Continue Data 60 | 3 Credit Bureaus Rebut Subprime
to Research Online Before Buying 44 | What Delinquency Does NOT ‘Bubble’ Talk Again to Open AFSA
Mean in Buy Here-Pay Here Event

SLATE OF OFFICERS

Chairman of the Board Sr. Vice President-at-Large
Billy Graham • Graham Auto Sales, Inc. Joe Addison • Joe Addison Motors, Inc.
Loganville, GA • 770-554-0300 Savannah, GA • 912-234-5306

President Sr. Vice President-at-Large
Jennifer Knights • M&M Motors Dennis Pope • Peoples Financial Hiram
The magazine of the Hinesville, GA • 912-877-7462 Hiram, GA • 770-948-6110
GEORGIA INDEPENDENT
AUTOMOBILE President Elect First Vice President-at-Large
Bart Barton • Barton Used Cars
DEALERS ASSOCIATION Newnan, GA • 770-527-5804 Guy Padgett • Sterling Credit
WWW.GIADA.ORG Aiken, SC • 706-830-3045
6903-A Oak Ridge Commerce Way First Vice President Second Vice President-at-Large
Lee Cavender • Cavender Auto Sales
Austell, Georgia 30168 Troy McCalla • Spireon, Inc.
T | 800-472-8101 or 770-745-9650 Gainesville, GA • 770–297-8700 Atlanta, GA • 678-362-2161
F | 770-745-9655
Second Vice President
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR | EDITOR David Mosley • Cherokee Auto Group Third Vice President at Large
Jason Reaves – Waynes Reaves Software
Paul R. John Canton, GA • 770-345-0282 Macon, GA – 478-474-8779
MAGAZINE AD SALES & VENDOR RELATIONS
Keely Burdge & Kristin Reilly | 770-745-9650 Third Vice President Fourth Vice President-at-Large
PRODUCTION EDITOR | COPY WRITING David Johnson • Cherokee Auto Group Mark Brunn – ADESA Atlanta
Professional Mojo | info@professionalmojo.com Canton, GA • 770-345-0282 Fairburn, GA – 770-357-2277
DEALER SERVICES
Amy Bennett, Director of Education & Membership Treasurer
Wayne Daniel - Car Loan Direct LLC Auxiliary Officers
For more information about the GIADA, Cartersville, GA - 770-627-2693 President, Philip Knights
topics addressed in this issue, or for additional Vice-President, Renae Barton
copies please contact GIADA, (800) 472-8101. Secretary Treasurer, Wendy Brunn
Copyright 2017 Hudson Biondo- MasterCars Auto Sales Secretary, Lisa Johnson
Doraville, GA – 770-450-5000

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