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Own Your Market

Affinitiv CEO & Executive Chairman Scot Eisenfelder explains why dealers need to own their market in this video blog.
Sep 14, 2018

Icon Responsibly

When it comes to icons, these visuals that constantly surround us, we automatically connect messages to them. Stop signs tell us to stop, speed limit signs tell us how fast we can go and so on. Icons on a website are very similar, these image shortcu
Sep 13, 2018

Keeping Your Physical Store Relevant in a Digital World

Digital retailing: we know it is coming. The point missed by most in our industry, though, is that physical stores and the in-person shopping experience are as important as ever. In fact, you might be surprised to learn that in the wake of digital re
Sep 13, 2018

Parts Sales: Money Doesn’t Grow on Trees

At one point in time or another, we’ve all heard someone in our lives tell inform us that money doesn’t grow on trees. And they would be right. Technically. The facts are, however, that the phrase started because sometimes there is money (revenue
Sep 13, 2018

Are You Training Customers to Blackmail You for Service?

If you hold a management position in the retail automotive industry, you’ve probably had a customer attempt to leverage something to get what they want. Whether it was an unreasonable request, or simply a last-ditch effort to get a perceived wrong
Sep 12, 2018

Witt’s Wise Words: Digital Retailing

ELEAD1ONE Partner Bill Wittenmyer advises dealerships to give consumers the option to start the car buying process online and the importance of digital retailing in this week’s edition of Witt’s Wise Words.
Sep 10, 2018

It’s Time to Embrace Online Video as a Core Strategy

After spending the last several years working with numerous automotive brands as a certified digital advertiser provider, I still find it troubling that many dealers have yet to fully embrace digital video campaigns as part of a consistent go-to-mark
Sep 6, 2018

Don’t Let Technology Make Your Customers Run for the Hills!

Communication is vital to business, that’s a given. In retail, businesses must be responsive, provide a great customer experience and stand by their products or services. But what happens when businesses fail at that? They get complaints. A custome
Sep 6, 2018

Stop Chasing Squirrels: The More You Know, the More You Sell

Henry Ford was once asked why he visited his executives rather than having them come to his office when problems arose or he needed questions answered. “I go to save them time,” said Ford. “I’ve found that I can leave the other fellow’s off
Aug 30, 2018