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Insure.com Releases Rankings of the Most and Least Expensive States for Car Insurance
March 6, 2012 – Insure.com’s 2012 study of average car insurance rates across the country reveals that Louisiana leads the nation in auto premiums. Last year’s study showed Louisiana at No. 2, down a notch from the No. 1 perch in 2010. Other expensive states are...
Yelp Prices Initial Public Offering
SAN FRANCISCO -- Yelp Inc. recently announced the pricing of its initial public offering of 7,150,000 shares of Class A common stock at a price to the public of $15.00 per share. The shares are expected to begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker...
John Eagle Dealerships Sells 10,000+ Internet Units in 2011
The John Eagle Dealership group excelled in new and used car Internet sales in 2011 by increasing year over year internet sales by 6.7% despite a more limited supply of inventory. With several stores affected by the Tsunami in Japan, the dealerships grew their sales...
Rising Fuel Prices Driving Buick LaCrosse with eAssist Sales
DETROIT – The 2012 Buick LaCrosse with eAssist continues to lure customers looking for a spacious fullsize luxury sedan that gets the fuel economy of many compacts. In February, an all-time high one in four LaCrosse buyers chose the eAssist model. In California, the...
Blue Ridge Mazda Announces Mazda Has Strong February Figures
LEE'S SUMMIT, Mo. -- Blue Ridge Mazda, a Mazda dealer in Lee's Summit, MO, is excited to announce that for the month of February MNAO reported a total of 25,651 vehicles sold. That figure represents a 32 percent increase over last year's numbers and their best month...
BMW of North America Announces Best Dealership Awards
WOODCLIFF LAKE, N.J. -- BMW of North America, LLC announced its annual Center of Excellence honors, awarded to the top performing dealerships in the U.S. Thirty-one of the 339 BMW dealers nationwide achieved "2012 Center of Excellence" status based on their 2011...
New Blood, Bad Blood
Not all new employees are promoted from within. Rarely have all of the sales managers at your store once been the salespeople on your floor. In other words, dealers often look outside of their own four walls and bring in a candidate from another dealership. Sometimes,...
How to Save a Deal a Day….Every Day!
Imagine, just for a moment, you and each of your representatives were able to save one deal a day. How much easier would each month, quarter and year be? How much less scrambling at the end of the month might there be? Scrambling means shortcutting, less follow up...
Kids – Ya Gotta Love ‘Em
I’ve not written much about selling cars to women and couples that come to a dealership accompanied, or burdened, by their children. Once I started giving it thought in preparation for this month’s column, I just kept coming up with more and more that needed to be...
Ally To Launch Vehicle Marketing Program to Support Dealers
DETROIT – Ally is launching a marketing program in March to help drive showroom traffic and increase new vehicle sales at General Motors- and Chrysler-affiliated dealerships. The program kicks off in the following initial test markets over the coming weeks: Ft. Myers,...
ADP announces new approved vendors for ADP’s Third Party Access Program
ADP Dealer Services, a division of Automatic Data Processing, Inc. announced the next wave of companies that have successfully completed the approval process of the ADP Third Party Access Program. Vendor Partners Approved between October 1, 2011 and December 31, 2011...
Co-Founder of Car-mercial.com and Carbuyersengine.com Shares Video SEO Strategies for Local Search Marketing
AJ LeBlanc, co-founder of Car-mercial.com and Carbuyersengine.com, is sharing his expertise with automotive dealers and managers on how using online video SEO can help gain exposure for their dealerships on the top of the search engine results pages. You will learn...
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