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Freebie Fridays: Change Your Perspective

Want to change your sales results? In this Freebie Friday quick tip, ELEAD1ONE Partner Bill Wittenmyer shares an easy, but effective way to change your perspective and improve your performance.
Sep 8, 2017

Four Tech Tools That Decrease Employee Turnover

Employee turnover continues to be a problem in many dealerships, and especially in fixed ops. The ability to attract and retain service technicians, for example, is a problem so prevalent that in a recent Carlisle Dealer Principal Survey, more than 4
Sep 6, 2017

Witt’s Wise Words: Is There Brand Loyalty Anymore?

In this week’s Witt’s Wise Words, Bill Wittenmyer discusses whether brand loyalty still exists.
Sep 5, 2017

What Ever Happened to the Sales-to-Service Introduction?

A college buddy of mine relocated to the Deep South many years ago. We’ve stayed in touch with each other and in a recent phone conversation he was telling me about his car-buying experience earlier this spring. Let me tell you at the outset that h
Sep 1, 2017

Dealer Magazine Interview: Brian Benstock, GM and VP of Paragon Honda, Paragon Acura

Brian Benstock is the General Manager and Vice President of Paragon Honda and Paragon Acura. Since 1982, he has held many positions within the dealership including sales consultant, sales manager, assistant to the assistant manager, finance manager,
Sep 1, 2017

Great Possibilities Occur When Your Team Members Become Engaged

My past few articles have focused, for the most part, upon the development, retention and the engagement of your employees. The care and concern we place on our team members is the most powerful initiative you can do to raise the bar on your corporat
Sep 1, 2017

Increasing Leadership Effectiveness: It’s Simple (But Not Necessarily Easy)!

Think of the most effective leader you’ve known or read about? What characteristics made that person come to mind? Pick up any magazine, journal, or periodical and you’ll probably find one or more articles that talk about desirable leadership bes
Sep 1, 2017

Learning from Bad Examples

A benefit on one’s journey to growing as a leader is that there will never be a shortage of opportunities to learn lessons from others in leadership; both from those doing leadership well, and from those who fall short. The purpose in recognizing b
Sep 1, 2017

Black Book Insights on Impact from Hurricane Harvey

As the city of Houston and surrounding regions continue to cope with the devastation caused by Hurricane Harvey, I wanted to provide you with several updates and insight from Black Book, which is actively tracking any impact on the region’s automot
Aug 31, 2017