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SAN FRANCISCO — Yelp Inc. recently announced the pricing of its initial public offering of 7,150,000 shares of Class A common stock at a price to the public of $15.00 per share. The shares are expected to begin trading on the New York Stock Exc

The John Eagle Dealership group excelled in new and used car Internet sales in 2011 by increasing year over year internet sales by 6.7% despite a more limited supply of inventory.  With several stores affected by the Tsunami in Japan, the dealership

DETROIT – The 2012 Buick LaCrosse with eAssist continues to lure customers looking for a spacious fullsize luxury sedan that gets the fuel economy of many compacts. In February, an all-time high one in four LaCrosse buyers chose the eAssist model.

LEE’S SUMMIT, Mo. — Blue Ridge Mazda, a Mazda dealer in Lee’s Summit, MO, is excited to announce that for the month of February MNAO reported a total of 25,651 vehicles sold. That figure represents a 32 percent increase over last ye

WOODCLIFF LAKE, N.J. — BMW of North America, LLC announced its annual Center of Excellence honors, awarded to the top performing dealerships in the U.S.  Thirty-one of the 339 BMW dealers nationwide achieved “2012 Center of Excellence&#

Not all new employees are promoted from within. Rarely have all of the sales managers at your store once been the salespeople on your floor. In other words, dealers often look outside of their own four walls and bring in a candidate from another deal

Imagine, just for a moment, you and each of your representatives were able to save one deal a day. How much easier would each month, quarter and year be?  How much less scrambling at the end of the month might there be? Scrambling means shortcutting

I’ve not written much about selling cars to women and couples that come to a dealership accompanied, or burdened, by their children. Once I started giving it thought in preparation for this month’s column, I just kept coming up with more and more

DETROIT – Ally is launching a marketing program in March to help drive showroom traffic and increase new vehicle sales at General Motors- and Chrysler-affiliated dealerships. The program kicks off in the following initial test markets over the comi