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The Next Big Thing You Missed: An Online Used-Car Company You Can Actually Trust
The Next Big Thing You Missed: An Online Used-Car Company You Can Actually Trust, from Wired. Buying a used car can be downright miserable. A few years ago, while he was still a graduate student at MIT, Ale Resnik bought a used Jeep Liberty so he cou
Feb 10, 2015
How millennials are forcing dealerships to change the selling strategy
How millennials are forcing dealerships to change the selling strategy, from The Globe And Mail. Oh, those millennials. Car company bosses and media types are obsessed with these children of baby boomers born between the early 1980s and 2000, or so.
Feb 10, 2015
Increase Your Sales Productivity and ROCK the Lot!
Every sales person is looking for that extra edge to hit their sales goal and land that big bonus. But what sets the car sales Rock Star apart from the average dealership sales Joe? The answer is productivity – the Rock Stars are selling four c
Feb 10, 2015
ELEAD1ONE Integrates with CreditMiner
(Atlanta) -– ELEAD1ONE, the leader in customer contact management, CRM and dealership software, announced today its integration with CreditMiner, the only real-time solution that supplies the technology and ability to pre-qualify and prescreen auto
Feb 5, 2015
Confused at the car dealership? Chances are, so’s your salesperson
Confused at the car dealership? Chances are, so’s your salesperson, from AutoBlog. You remember Rikk Wilde. The Chevrolet regional manager became an immediate sensation last fall when he stammered through his World Series presentation and deliv
Feb 5, 2015
Car Brands Are Starting to Get the Marketing Data They’ve Always Wanted: Digital ad targeting and auto designs are better for it
Car Brands Are Starting to Get the Marketing Data They’ve Always Wanted: Digital ad targeting and auto designs are better for it, from AdWeek. The car industry isn’t slowing down when it comes to employing more data for everything from ve
Feb 5, 2015
Shiny Objects and Technology
Shiny Objects and Technology, from Dealer Marketing Magazine. Tools to Increase Your Business Aren’t Worth Much Without Follow-up and Training The recent NADA Convention is over. As always, there was plenty of information to gain and a lot of s
Feb 5, 2015
The Price of Technology
For many years, price was the most important deciding factor in picking a DMS system. As a consultant, I’d do a detailed “apples to apples” comparison of a dealer’s R+R bid to the ADP proposal. It wasn’t an easy task because these bids were
Feb 5, 2015
Solera Holdings, Inc. Announces the Acquisition of Service Dynamics, Expanding Solera’s Owner-Centric Software & Services for Vehicle Maintenance & Repair
WESTLAKE, Texas, February 3, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — Solera Holdings, Inc. (“Solera”, “our”, “us”) (NYSE: SLH), a leading provider of risk and asset management software and services to the automotive and property marketplace, including
Feb 4, 2015