Carmakers Can Relax, A Bit, Apple Car Threat Looks Years Away, from Forbes. The world’s car manufacturers can breathe easy, at least for a while; the threat that mega-rich technology company Apple AAPL -0.33% is about to launch a vehicle which

Overland Park, Kan., April 8, 2015 — NCM Associates (www.ncm20.com), a 100% employee-owned company and leading provider of the 20 Group peer collaboration model, automotive retail consulting, management training, operations Benchmark® analy

The Port City Nissan transformation: How Digital Retailing helped boost new car profit by an average of $900, from Dealertrack. Step into the Port City Nissan Showroom in New Hampshire and you’ll immediately notice how busy it is. True, as one of t

Technology is constantly providing an ever expanding list of how people communicate with one another.   Over the decades, communication channels have gone from the Pony Express, to the Postal System, to overnight delivery, to fax machines, to e-mai

How to Teach Your CRM to Think – and Learn from Big Data, from CMSWire. The problem with big data is, well, it’s big. Even with the best CRM to record and organize every interaction with your customer, if you don’t know how to leverage that

Getting inside the mind of the digital car buyer, from Automotive Management. Digital retail lessons from the US Chip Perry, Auto Trader Car dealers in the UK could learn from their American colleagues, according to Chip Perry, who established Americ

The Road to 100% Viewability in Display Advertising, from Force Marketing. Display advertising, by its very nature, is only valuable if it’s properly displayed. This is a metric that the industry refers to as “viewability.” What is viewability?

The consumer car shopping experience is no longer a linear path to purchase. Industry statistics show consumers are spending hours doing online research and visiting multiple online touch points. Dealers need to influence consumers throughout the ent

Valet of the future may park your car remotely, from Fox News. “I hate having to look for parking spots,” said graduate student Claire Bergman as her test car passed a series of occupied spaces in a Georgia Tech campus lot. “If I co