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#FreebieFriday: Make Sure That You’re Checked In

ELEAD1ONE partner Bill Wittenmyer shares the importance of being “checked-in” at work and not “checked-out,” in this video blog.
Sep 14, 2018

Icon Responsibly

When it comes to icons, these visuals that constantly surround us, we automatically connect messages to them. Stop signs tell us to stop, speed limit signs tell us how fast we can go and so on. Icons on a website are very similar, these image shortcu
Sep 13, 2018

Facebook Gets Rid of Reviews and Changes to Recommendations

5 stars, 2 stars, 0 stars. For more than a hundred years, we’ve been ranking businesses with a star ranking system. “It’s a 5-star hotel, we have to go!”  or “Eh, it’s only 3 stars. I’d rather skip out.” We chose businesses entirely
Sep 13, 2018

Keeping Your Physical Store Relevant in a Digital World

Digital retailing: we know it is coming. The point missed by most in our industry, though, is that physical stores and the in-person shopping experience are as important as ever. In fact, you might be surprised to learn that in the wake of digital re
Sep 13, 2018

Parts Sales: Money Doesn’t Grow on Trees

At one point in time or another, we’ve all heard someone in our lives tell inform us that money doesn’t grow on trees. And they would be right. Technically. The facts are, however, that the phrase started because sometimes there is money (revenue
Sep 13, 2018

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: How does using a tablet on the se
Sep 12, 2018

Are You Training Customers to Blackmail You for Service?

If you hold a management position in the retail automotive industry, you’ve probably had a customer attempt to leverage something to get what they want. Whether it was an unreasonable request, or simply a last-ditch effort to get a perceived wrong
Sep 12, 2018

Dealers, Don’t Be Fooled: Preferred Vendor Programs Do More Harm Than Good

As any automotive dealer knows, perfecting a digital advertising strategy can be a challenge. To add insult to injury, OEM-ran preferred vendor programs intended to aid in these efforts often do more harm than good. Here are the factors your dealersh
Sep 11, 2018

Turn Rate: Is Your Inventory Invisible?

Few would argue that incoming inventory is just as important as outgoing inventory. Yes, sales are what it’s all about but, the next generation of vehicles in a dealer’s inventory is just as important. Those incoming auction and trade-in vehicles
Sep 10, 2018