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What A Good User Experience Can Do for You
By Steve Southin, Co-CEO, PAVE With the majority of the country still in quarantine, people are more reliant upon digital applications like Netflix and Amazon than ever before. Netflix reportedly had 16 million new subscribers in the first three months of 2020 due to...
Improve Productivity While Managing Expenses with BDC Services
By Bill Wittenmyer, VP Sales, Layered Apps & Competitive Accounts, Elead Uncertainty is a word that business owners dislike. When you know what you’re dealing with, you can plan for it. If you don’t know what you’re dealing with, it’s nearly impossible to plan. So...
Industry’s First Vehicle Sanitization Tracking System
By Steven Banks, President, LoopMeIn Prior to March 2020, no one would have imagined we would be facing closed showrooms, managing sparse inventory, and coping with sanitization guidelines, but that is our new reality. With the automotive arena trying to cope with the...
Rick Gibbs named chairman of the board at FRIKINtech, Inc.
Former Dealer.com CEO returns to automotive with FRIKINtech Rick Gibbs named chairman of the board at FRIKINtech, Inc., effective July 22nd, 2020. FRIKINtech is short for FRIKTIONLESS technologies and aimed at car dealers who want to automate transparency on their...
Beep and Local Motors Announce Strategic Partnership to Broadly Deploy Autonomous, Electric Shuttles
Beep and Local Motors Set the Stage to Increase the Adoption of Autonomous Vehicles on Public and Private Roads Throughout the United States ORLANDO – (JULY 23, 2020) – Beep, a Florida-based autonomous Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) provider and Local Motors by LM...
National Auto Care Acquires Diversified Management Group, Inc.
(PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Florida, July 2020) – Tony Wanderon, CEO of National Auto Care, and Chris Weber and James Jodison, the principals of Diversified Management Group (DMG) today announced that National Auto Care has acquired DMG. DMG is an independent automotive...
Binary Automotive Solutions Celebrates 15 Years in Business
BEDFORD, TX — July 22, 2020 — Binary Automotive Solutions, a leading provider of customized, automotive dealer-branded marketing programs designed to drive sales, profits, growth, and retention. recently announced 2020 marks the company’s 15th year in business. “I am...
What We Really Mean When We Say COVID-19 Accelerated Dealer-Tech Adoption
By Sean Christy, VP of Sales, AutoLeadStar Since the beginning of our quarantine days, we’ve heard this over and over: COVID-19 accelerated dealer-tech adoption. But have we really figured this out? Has the industry mastered the next evolution of buying behaviors,...
The Light at the End of the Tunnel: A More Engaging Customer Experience
By Steve Southin, Co-CEO, PAVE With COVID-19 creating a ripple effect across the socio-economic fabric of America, life (as most of us know it) has been disrupted, especially with the retail customer journey migrating into the digital landscape. As a new normal...
Seeing Is Believing: Drive Service Revenue & Increase CSI Scores with Video
By Tim James, Chief Operating Officer, Flick Fusion Some dealers miss opportunities to gain acceptance of service recommendations or upsells as a result of consumers not fully understanding why the recommendations are necessary. A simple solution is to use video to...
PureCars’ Multi-Channel Digital Advertising Platform Selected By Toyota For Dealer Parts & Service Program
Leading Digital Advertising Platform Helps Toyota Dealers Promote Fixed Ops Programs & Offers ATLANTA, July 15, 2020 -- PureCars, a leading provider of digital marketing and advertising insights for automotive dealers, today announced it has expanded its strategic...
Online Virtual Retailing Continues to Climb As Automotive Dealerships Move to ‘New Normal’
Data from Gubagoo Shows that Car Buyers Have a Growing Preference for Conversational Commerce Tools BOCA RATON, Fla., July 14, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Gubagoo – the leading provider of digital retailing and messaging solutions for automotive dealerships – published data...
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