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Infographic: Creating the Perfect LinkedIn Status Update
Creating the perfect LinkedIn status update, according to Ragan.com. Between Facebook posts, tweets, Pinterest boards, and everything else on your social media plate, you probably don’t spend much time thinking about how to craft the perfect Li
Oct 2, 2013
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A Complete Beginners Guide to SEO
A complete beginners guide to SEO, from iMediaConnection. Search engine optimization (SEO) is complex and potentially confusing — especially because of its ever-changing nature. Today’s relevant strategy or tactic could slip into obscurit
Sep 26, 2013
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Why Isn’t Your Dealership Website Showing Up In Google?
Why your dealership website isn’t showing up in Google, from Stratosphere Studio. Naturally, when you develop a website for your auto dealership, you hope that it will not only explain your services, but that it will also bring you more custome
Sep 17, 2013
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Getting More Customers from Your Dealership Website
Getting more customers from your dealership website, according to Stratosphere Studio. For most companies we’ve come across, advertising budgets are limited and it can be a real challenge to determine how to spend those precious marketing dollars.
Sep 10, 2013
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Why Differentiation Should Be Your Only Goal
Recently, I wrote a blog article about Disney’s approach to customer service that was received with much enthusiasm. I’m personally a fan of Disney business practices and strategies and have attended their programs. I also encourage all of my emp
Sep 6, 2013
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Simply Useful Advice Can Drive Customers, Overhaul Marketing
At the 14th Digital Dealer Conference in Orlando, I noted that auto dealers are being out-marketed by locksmiths — on the topic of used autos, no less. I shared a story of a locksmith who had created an infographic on how to buy a used car, whi
Sep 6, 2013
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Why Are Customers So Defensive?
During my training seminars all over North America, regardless of whether I am working with Salespeople, Managers or Dealers, one question usually comes up at some time during the program: Why are Customers so defensive? Anyone in this business who h
Sep 6, 2013
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Trading-In on the Success of Digital Retailing
In today’s Internet driven auto shopping environment and in the future, a dealership’s online sales and marketing strategies will need to constantly evolve in order to attract and retain customers while positively impacting their bottom-line. Dig
Sep 6, 2013