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Facebook has always been a platform for auto dealerships to raise awareness through advertising and to create customer engagement through the dealership’s Facebook page. It’s also becoming a stronger platform for customer acquisition, and the gro

Ask anyone on the street “Why do dealerships exist?” and I imagine you’d get one primary reason again and again: to sell cars! That much seems obvious, and based on what most dealers tell me is their biggest priority, they seem to feel the same

As an industry, we have pretty much perfected the process of following up on Internet leads, but we are far from perfect when it comes to handling inbound phone leads. According to CallSource and IHS/Polk research, 84 percent of consumers purchase ve

Evelyn Chatel’s life story is nothing short of astonishing. When she was a young girl she barely made it out of Communist Cuba with her mother as a refugee, arriving to a cold, snow-bound Chicago with nothing more than the clothes on their backs. F

Jeep share of interest on Jumpstart sites increased +15% from June 2017 to June 2018. In the past year, Jeep has leapfrogged Nissan and BMW and now is the 5th most-shopped brand (from 7th in June 2017). Additionally, the first half of 2018 was Jeep�

Any of you familiar with that classic song from Diana Ross, “Upside Down?” Well, sometimes it’s an apt description of what can be a complicated sales process for today’s car buyers. There’s a focused shift in the automotive community to red

University students are leasing short-term vehicles to meet their transportation needs for college With hefty tuition prices rising each and every year, college students and their parents brace themselves for college expenses. Outstanding Federal loa

ATLANTA, August 6, 2018 – Six months into its dramatic transformation, Autotrader is delivering the more dynamic car-shopping experience it pledged to car buyers and dealers at the beginning of 2018. For consumers, the optimizations have yielded a

Lease Approval Ratings Continue to Improve in July Following Steady Approval Increase for 3 Consecutive Months CINCINNATI, OHIO (August XX, 2018) – Swapalease.com, the nation’s largest car lease marketplace, reports car lease credit applicants re