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Automotive Digital Retailing Poised for Success in 2021
By Rusty West, President, Market Scan Information Systems In 2020 the world adopted online shopping to a degree where brick and mortar retail saw a significant shift. According to Adobe Analytics, during the 2020 Black Friday event, online sales increased 22% over the...
How Dealers Will Put an Emphasis on Digital Advertising for Super Bowl Content
By Lauren Donalson, Senior Director of National Accounts, PureCars The Super Bowl, the largest sporting event of the year, is just around the corner (airing Feb. 7 on CBS). While there will always be a discrepancy as to which team truly deserves to make it to the Big...
Inovatec Systems Corporation Introduces New OCR (Optical Character Recognition) Feature Within its JAVELIN Platform
Inovatec Systems Corp. Announcement: Automatic Document Indexing Will Drastically Increase Transaction Accuracy and Speed for Financial Institutions Inovatec Systems Corp., a provider of industry-leading, cloud-based software solutions for all financial institutions,...
Used Car Calamity: The Safety Sink Hole Growing Beneath Our Industry
By Sean Reyes, Chief Marketing Officer, Recall Masters Despite the pandemic, consumers are still in-market for vehicles. At one point, manufacturers had to slow production due to local and state regulations. As a result, some dealers have been struggling to maintain a...
Who’s Watching the Watchman?
By Travis Peterson, Product Owner, One View A dealership is a complex organization with a lot of moving parts. With only so many hours in a day, an owner or GM has to trust the CFO and controller to handle financials. But as the saying goes, absolute power can corrupt...
Is Your Intention Better Retention? Well, Prove It!
By Sean Reyes, Chief Marketing Officer, Recall Masters Customer retention can be tough. Independent repair shops lure customers away in droves with coupons or offers that promise low routine maintenance pricing. But winning consumers on price alone is a short-term...
New Dominion VUE DMS Launches at NADA 2021
Dominion Dealer Solutions Announcement: Dominion VUE DMS, a cloud-native solution providing dealers the confidence to break free with digital mobility, security and efficiency to meet today's rapidly changing market, announces the launch of Dominion VUE at the virtual...
5 Tips to Drive into a Profitable New Year
By Phil Spagnoli, Regional Sales Director, Elead According to a report by the Economist, new-car sales will be up by 15% in 2021.I think we’re all happy to have 2020 in the rearview mirror. Now it’s time to refuel, refine and ride into stellar sales numbers. Get every...
A Call for Video
By Tim James, Chief Operating Officer, Flick Fusion Video Marketing According to Stanford economist Nicholas Bloom, the “working-from-home economy” is likely to exist far beyond the pandemic. Employers are enjoying decreased expense in office space and increased...
AutoLeadStar Finishes 2020 Strong Growing Quarterly Revenue by 2.5X, Supporting Growing Dealer Tech and AI Adoption
AutoLeadStar Announcement: AutoLeadStar, a marketing automation platform designed for dealers, announced today that the Q4 2020 was the company’s strongest quarter to date, growing YoY new revenue by 2.5x, capping off a year that more than doubled the company’s...
Quantum5 Announces Award-Winning General Manager Brian Kramer to Join Advisory Board
Quantum5 Announcement: Quantum5, the first social advocacy platform to transform dealership training through their lifetime value model, announced today the appointment of Brian Kramer, General Manager at Germain Toyota of Naples, to its advisory board. An industry...
Tips on Proactively Managing Vendors to Rebuild and Add to Your Bottom Line
By Travis Peterson, Product Owner, One View The average dealership has around ten vendor partners. Large groups can have hundreds. Whatever the length of your list, proper management helps you weed out the naughty (costing you money) from the nice (making you money)....
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