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Protective to Acquire Revolos, Adding Complementary Product Portfolio to Asset Protection Division
Birmingham, Ala. (September 25): Protective Life Corporation (Protective), a wholly owned U.S. subsidiary of Dai-ichi Life Holdings, Inc. (TSE:8750), today announced it has reached an agreement to acquire the Revolos family of companies. “Protective’s Asset Protection...
Dealer-FX Enhances Industry-Leading Service Suite with Customer Self-Service Solutions
Delivering convenience and transparency for consumers, while streamlining processes for automotive service departments. TORONTO, ON - September 23, 2020 - Dealer-FX, the leading service lane technology provider for automotive retailers and OEMs, announced today new...
Live Video, The New Normal to Sell More Cars & Service
By Tim James, COO, Flick Fusion Every penny spent on advertising and marketing is to get more people into the dealership. Dealers also make a significant investment in the salespeople themselves, training them to help develop the person-to-person skills needed to sell...
Affinitiv Announces Renewal of the Kia Owner Retention Experience (KORE) Program
Chicago, IL | September 24, 2020 – Affinitiv, the leading provider of data-driven marketing and software solutions to the automotive market, announced that Kia Motors America (KMA) will be extending the KIA Owner Retention Experience (KORE) Program with Affinitiv...
AiM MarketConnect Surpasses 600,000 Vehicle Posts, Remarketing Success for Dealers
Alliance Inspection Management’s web-based platform for wholesaling vehicles is fast, easy and more profitable for users LONG BEACH, Calif. (September 23, 2020) -- Alliance Inspection Management (AiM) announced a major milestone with the 600,000th vehicle sold ...
The Number One Thing that Needs to Change for the Health of Our Industry
By Laurie Halter, Founder, Charisma! Communications Recently I had the opportunity to sit down with a dynamic group of women in the automotive industry and prepare our session on hiring, retaining, and nurturing female leaders for this year’s Digital Dealer Virtual...
CDK GLOBAL Completes 46-site DMS Installation for Greenway Automotive Group
Strong partnership enables one of the largest CDK installations across eight states HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill. – September 23, 2020 – CDK Global, Inc., (Nasdaq: CDK), a leading retail automotive technology company, today announced that it completed one of its largest...
Attention Automobile Dealer: This is Your Last Call
By Tony Gomez, CEO, ZipDeal When the pace of change in your industry exceeds that of your business, the end is near. Find yourself desperately trying to hold on to control of the customer and the purchase experience while the world evolves all around you? Join the...
I Went on a Blind Date Yesterday. Their Name was…?
By Heather MacKinnon, VP-Sales, Quotible Many people over time have gone on blind dates. Sometimes those dates were set-up by friends and scheduled for one person to meet the other with the two having no knowledge of each other. Sometimes the one being set-up by their...
5 Tips for Selling in a Mobile-First World
By Bill Wittenmyer, VP-Sales, Elead Truth be told: we’re all addicted to our smartphones. Nearly 80 percent of the U.S. population owns one, and adults spend an average of 3 hours and 35 minutes every day staring at that small screen. And it’s not just for millennials...
How Dealers Can Leverage Fixed Ops and Digital Advertising for Quicker Recovery
By Jeremy Anspach, CEO, PureCars Many auto dealerships drastically cut back their overall ad spending during the springtime COVID-19 lockdowns as a way to preserve as much of their bottom line as possible. After all, the annual pace of sales fell sharply to 8.47...
You Got ‘Em. Now What Do You Do?
By Mark Gibson, Co-Founder, 1 Click Auto Auction As we know, consumers are constantly being barraged by marketing messages. Most of those messages are either via traditional (television or radio) ads. For most retail establishments, in-store retail displays are vital...
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