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LEASE CREDIT APPROVAL RATES DIP SLIGHTLY TO 68.4% IN JUNE

Secondary Marketplace Activity Picks Up With Shoppers Looking to Avoid Dealer Down Payments CINCINNATI, OHIO (July 11, 2018) – Swapalease.com, the nation’s largest car lease marketplace, reports car lease credit applicants registered a 68.4% appr
Jul 11, 2018
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The 5 Essential Components to Running a Solid PPC Campaign

PPC (Pay-Per-Click) is an extremely effective way to drive legitimate, bottom of the funnel buyers into your dealership. Here are the 5 essential components you will need to run a solid PPC Campaign. 1. Identify Keywords That Under-Perform or Perform
Jul 11, 2018
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5 Tips for Switching CRMs

The decision to switch to a new CRM is not one to be taken lightly. On a daily basis, your sales team relies on your CRM for new leads and opportunities, to remind them what needs to be done, guide them through car deals and keep them on track to mee
Jul 11, 2018
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Customers Like the Easy Button: Use it to Increase Sales

It’s probably not news to you that, while customers like having new cars, many dislike the dealership experience. And, that dislike often immediately begins from the first moment they arrive and are basically accosted by 10 salespeople approaching
Jul 11, 2018
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The Three Buckets of Service Customers

Scot Eisenfelder explains the three buckets that service customers fall into and how best to reach out to them.
Jul 11, 2018
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Ask Jim: A Service Focused Q&A

“Ask Jim” is an ongoing question-and-answer series with Jim Roche, Xtime’s senior vice president of marketing and managed services, on the pressing topics and issues within the fixed operations world.  Question 1: Jim, I want to make investme
Jul 11, 2018
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Think Tank: Why You NEED A Facebook Show | Starting A Social Media Show

Digital is the way of the world– and yet so many business owners can’t figure out an alternative branding strategy to their ? TV & Radio ? advertising– it’s like the necessary evil in every quarter’s strategy. That&#
Jul 10, 2018
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Consistent Trends in Four Weeks

Welcome to this week’s edition of Black Book Market Insights, with in-depth analysis of used car and truck valuation trends and insights straight from the auction lanes. Click here to download the full report. This week’s Black Book Market I
Jul 10, 2018
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Incentivization & Teamwork: The Keys to Increased Profits

As there are several different departments in dealerships, each with their own goals and targets, it is quite common for inter-departmental fighting to occur – a woe of many a manger. This happens because each department attempts to preserve revenu
Jul 10, 2018