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Social Media 101: Twitter
Social Media 101: Twitter, from PowerSports Business. Twitter is popular in the social media world and should be one of the tools used by your dealership. Its importance can be seen in the numbers: 284 million monthly active users, 500 million tweets
Nov 25, 2014
Price: It’s More Important Now Than Ever…
Imagine the music from the movie ‘Jaws’. That ominous threat is exactly how most salespeople feel about PRICE when it comes up in the sale. I sure wish I could talk all of you out of being so afraid of price because as important as it is, it’s
Nov 25, 2014
4 Trusty Facebook Ads Strategies to Grow Your Page and Your Sales
4 Trusty Facebook Ads Strategies to Grow Your Page and Your Sales, from Kruse Control Inc.. By now, you’ve probably heard about Facebook ads. What you may not have heard about is how valuable they’ve become. Facebook has continuously improved the
Nov 24, 2014
Dealership promotion to offer $180,000 in downtown gift cards
Dealership promotion to offer $180,000 in downtown gift cards, from The Business Times. The parent company of two automotive dealerships plans to purchase at least $180,000 worth of gift cards for downtown Grand Junction businesses as part of a promo
Nov 19, 2014
Customers Cost Too Much To Let Them Disappear: What Happens To The Clients Who Don’t Come Back?
Customers Cost Too Much To Let Them Disappear: What Happens To The Clients Who Don’t Come Back?, from Flathead Beacon. Every business loses customers at some point. What separates the successful from the rest is how they act after that. Do you
Nov 19, 2014
Own the Phone – It’s Easier Than Space Travel!
Silicon Valley mogul Elon Musk isn’t shy about tackling the world’s biggest problems. He founded SpaceX, a spacecraft and rocket manufacturer that seeks to increase space travel, and eventually, colonize Mars. He founded PayPal, a technol
Nov 19, 2014
Local Events For Dealers…”Tactile Marketing” The Right Way
According to a Harvard Business Review study titled Please Touch The Merchandise (Dec 2011), “Utilizing physical warmth to engender trust should be especially effective in retail settings involving high-risk decisions and a high degree of interpe
Nov 19, 2014
How preowned car sales are driving US growth
How preowned car sales are driving US growth according to CNBC. The U.S. auto market is doing better than economists are giving it credit for because of a new untracked phenomena: The certified preowned vehicle. Even though gasoline prices have plung
Nov 17, 2014
Why Your Data Scientists Need to Be Storytellers, and How to Get Them There
Why your data scientists need to be storytellers, according to Marketing Profs. You’ve probably heard or read this stanza from Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”: “Water, water, everywhere, / And
Nov 12, 2014