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This is a typical conversation I had with my customers every day at my shop.  I made sure I earned this respect beginning with the first meeting.  How easy and quickly that job got purchased

In today’s automotive world, dealers are not interested in hearing about the problem or wanting to know how it was created. They are primarily interested in hearing a solution. I vividly remember

The first dealer wants the car because he’s sold a few of the same units recently, and did pretty well in terms of front-end gross. The three-year-old car has about 40,000 miles,

Much like a boxer's right hook, email has proven time and time again to be successful and should be one of the staples in your marketing playbook. In fact, email marketing is, and for the foreseeable

Everywhere we look these days, we hear about Big Data. I was watching Monday Night Football and saw a commercial for IBM’s Watson. Watson is an Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) that was

Dealerships have an epidemic on their hands, one that’s growing out of control and killing their profits. It’s happening in every showroom from coast to coast, and the culprit is right under their nose

Halloween is the one day each year when we all try to scare each other for laughs. However, there's something sinister creeping around much more often in the people’s heads that doesn't

There has been a lot of discussion lately about whether or not a DMS is considered to be “open” or not.  To make the first clarification, there are a few types of “open” in our industry.

Matt Serra is Executive Manager of the Al Serra Auto Plaza in Grand Blanc Michigan, part of Serra Automotive, which which ranks among the top ten privately-held retail automotive groups in the nation