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MediaTrac???s LoyaltyTrac Customer Loyalty & Service Retention Program Helps Auto Dealers Drive 24 Percent Increase in Customer Visit Frequency

San Ramon, CA ???March 15, 2010??? MediaTrac, LLC. (www.media-trac.com), a marketing technology company providing customized frequency marketing, customer loyalty, retention and media tracking programs, announced today that it has reached a milestone
Mar 15, 2010

Mercedes-Benz Financial expands mobile platform to include smartphones

Farmington Hills, Mich. ??? Mercedes-Benz Financial is now the first automotive financial services company to expand personalized and convenient account management features to all of its customers using smartphones like BlackBerry??, Droid ??, and ot
Mar 5, 2010

NABD Announces Agenda For National BHPH Conference May 11-13, 2010

Houston, Texas ??? The National Alliance of Buy Here Pay Here Dealers (NABD) today announced the agenda for its 12th Annual National Conference at the Venetian Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. ???We are excited about the fabulous new Venetian venue a
Mar 2, 2010

The Marketing Genius of Bob Sr.

As many others, I was deeply saddened by the sudden passing of Bob Tasca Sr. this past January at the age of 83. I was shocked when I read Bob was 83 because the ad company I founded, CBC, worked with the Tascas when he was 56 years old. At that time
Mar 1, 2010

Going from Tourist to Tour Guide

If you don’t it will be like an orchestra without a conductor Vehicle headlights only illuminate the road ahead for about 200 feet but you can, even with this limited vision, go from Maine to Florida in these incremental steps if you are willing to
Mar 1, 2010

A Darwinian Fight for Survival: Winning dealers know customers want price and want it quick

Here is a stark but simple fact: for the past year, the marketplace has offered fewer active buyers than needed to sustain the dealer community.   A Darwinian fight for survival proceeded; over the past year an alarming number of dealers went out o
Mar 1, 2010

Rob Fowler, Modern Automotive

Modern Automotive Group’s story, to be frank, isn’t really all that modern. That’s because the group’s original store dates back before the days of the Great Depression. The Chevrolet store – one of two in Winston-Salem, NC, was going out o
Feb 10, 2010

Protecting your Ad-sets: Part II

Back in 2005 I wrote an article on issues involved with protecting your valuable intellectual property, in particular marketing and advertising themes, trademarks and slogans. We continue to receive inquires from readers on copyright protection as we
Feb 1, 2010