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It’s easy to forget about the shopper experience, particularly with pre-owned inventory.  Wei Yang at EasyAutoSales shares his recent experience being on the buying side. The time has finally come. My family is about to welcome our first new a

Turning More Than 1,000,000 Customers Into Fans For BMW Group Financial Services. WOODCLIFF LAKE, NJ, May ­­­­30, 2013– As BMW Group Financial Services approaches its 20th anniversary of conducting business in the United States, The Group has a

Dealer Communications and Dataium, LLC recognize the top 10 dealership websites, and the technology solution providers behind these platforms. More than 3,000 automotive dealership websites nationwide were evaluated using objective metrics to determi

Are webisodes the opportunity for your dealership to tell a story? Think of web television as a nuclear family. It all started with TV — the traditional type. Along came the web, which, in many ways, was TV’s polar opposite: interactive, responsi

Mercedes-Benz is making cars smarter. We’ve seen QR codes being incorporated into all kinds of things, from billboards to toilet paper to beer bottles. Now, German automaker Mercedes-Benz will incorporate those scannable, black-and-whi

Facebook has vowed to take action after feminist activists — upset about Facebook’s failure to ban and/or remove misogynous content from its site — sent more than 5,000 e-mails to Facebook’s advertisers and garnered more than 60,000 posts on

Nashville, TN — 5/22/2013 — Dataium, the largest aggregator of in-market automotive shopper behavior, today released its monthly Automotive Shopper Intensity (ASI™) report. The ASI index, a leading predictive indicator of automotive retail sale

It doesn’t take a mathematician to see how competitive the market has become. And modern cars, once built, have an extremely long shelf life compared with the cars of the past. With decent care, they can last 15-plus years and more than 200,000 mil

Volkswagen has laid down the gauntlet for its U.S. sales, proclaiming a goal to sell 800,000 vehicles by 2018. At its third annual fleet preview event a few weeks ago in Las Vegas, Volkswagen laid down its plans to get there. If 2012 is any indicatio