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Is Cold Weather Bad for Car Sales?
From The Motley Fool: Is cold weather bad for car sales? While a positive for sales of lip balm, hot chocolate, and those hats that look like an animal, the impact of extreme winter weather is not as clear for the auto industry. Ford and General Moto
Mar 6, 2014
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Being Contextually Relevant Increases Customer Loyalty
Being contextually relevant increases customer loyalty, according to Forbes. It’s like the old 1980s ad “When E.F. Hutton talks, people listen”; success today requires you to always be relevant. Relevance is a table stake across the entire life
Mar 6, 2014
Does Mobile Search Really Matter?
From Search Engine Watch: Does mobile search really matter? Search Engine Watch recently covered AdGooroo’s Top 20 list of advertisers in paid mobile search, which found that some of the best marketers in desktop search weren’t ranking ne
Mar 6, 2014
March will be test of US auto demand
March will be test of US auto demand, according to U-T San Diego. March will be one of the most crucial months for the U.S. auto industry in years. Sales were slower than expected In January and February, and the number of unsold cars on dealer lots
Mar 6, 2014
With Apple’s ‘CarPlay,’ the Race for Flashier In-Car Touchscreen Controls Revs Up
With Apple’s ‘CarPlay’, the race for flashier in-car touchscreen controls revs up, according to Entrepreneur. As if drivers weren’t distracted enough already. Bigger, better, flashier and eye candy-filled touchscreen tablet contro
Mar 6, 2014
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The Dealership Profit Phoenix Has Risen
This year’s NADA was a great success! Reflecting on the 2014 convention, I could not help but think how far our industry has come since 2009, the last time NADA was in New Orleans. Back then, Lehman Brothers had just failed and General Motors and C
Mar 4, 2014
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A Pig Can Win More than One Blue Ribbon
Now that may be a hell of a comparison but if you stop and analyze it, it could go with anything that you are investing in and showing for a return on the investment. It doesn’t matter what it is: whether it is a show pig, a show horse, or a show t
Mar 3, 2014
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Stop the Trial Closes
In 2013, we saw the greatest increase in retail auto sales in the last six years. Industry researchers expect this year to follow in the same trend predicting even better sales ahead. With that in mind, now would be a good time to discard some of the
Mar 3, 2014
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At the Crossroads of Culture and Service Efficiency
Here are three important realities every service staff needs to embrace today: 1. Customers bring the same set of basic questions with them to the service drive that they always have. 2. Customers have a different set of expectations of what makes up
Mar 3, 2014