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Keeping Your Dealership’s Social Media Secure
Keeping Your Dealership's Social Media Secure, from Automotive Digital Marketing. Would you give one of your employee’s full ownership of your dealership website? Your television or radio spots? Or your billboard? Most likely, you answered 'no' to these questions....
Dealer Group Predicts Best U.S. Auto Sales In A Decade, In 2015
Dealer Group Predicts Best U.S. Auto Sales In A Decade, In 2015, from Forbes. The National Automobile Dealers Association said it expects U.S. auto sales approaching 17 million in 2015, the highest since 2005. Steven Szakaly, chief economist for NADA, McLean, Va.,...
New Volvo Factory and Products Signal Change in the U.S.
New Volvo Factory and Products Signal Change in the U.S., from Kelley Blue Book. In 2009, Volvo went through a rough patch of slumping sales, an aging product line, and an anxious parent, Ford, looking to downsize its foreign interests. In 2010, the Blue Oval cut...
The connected car ‘as-a-service’
The connected car ‘as-a-service’, from RCR Wireless News. In the next five years we will see many new developments in services for the connected car. But what about the connected car as-a-service? While discussing the issue with different companies in this area, which...
Internships: Paid or Unpaid?
With daydreams about laying by the beach on hot summer days looming in the near future, comes the burning staffing question: are we going to need student interns who are on their summer break and (quite possibly more important) do we have to pay them? As defined by...
Why Warren Buffett is wrong on car-dealer model
Why Warren Buffett is wrong on car-dealer model, from CNBC. Warren Buffett recently said he thinks the car-dealership franchise model isn't going to change. I wouldn't be so sure. At the NADA/J.D. Power Automotive Forum in New York recently, Buffett said, "When a...
The Three Car Dealership Biases to Making a Change in Culture
The Three Car Dealership Biases to Making a Change in Culture, from DealerELITE. Training and consulting with America’s car dealers is both fun and frustrating. Fun, because selling cars at retail presents one of the most challenging and (yes) entertaining pursuits...
The Gap Between Auto Dealers and Social Media
The Gap Between Auto Dealers and Social Media, from The New York Times. Matt Howell, the general manager of a Hyundai dealership in Huntsville, Tex., has been in the auto business for 18 years. In all that time, he said, “I can think of one deal that originated...
RepairLync Launches First and Innovative Vehicle to Automotive Repair Shop Communication Platform
RepairLync Launches First and Innovative Vehicle to Automotive Repair Shop Communication Platform, from PR Web. RepairLync, a startup based in the San Francisco Bay Area, launched its mobile app, aimed at the automotive repair industry. RepairLync intends to bridge...
AutoMD joins AMRA/MAP
AutoMD joins AMRA/MAP, from Tire Business. ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. (April 7, 2015) — AutoMD Inc., an online automotive repair resource for consumers, has joined the Automotive Maintenance Repair Association (AMRA). Carson, Calif.-based AutoMD, through...
Meet Auto Arrival from Service Dynamics
Meet Auto Arrival from Service Dynamics, from Autopo1nt. For many consumers, taking a vehicle in for service is not an experience they look forward to. It is also a highly competitive industry with many choices as to where they can service that vehicle. As such, it is...
Tips to help manage the spring service rush
Tips to help manage the spring service rush, from Dealernews.com. NOW THAT SPRING has sprung, service advisors should be enjoying the business they wished for all winter. But be mindful that the spring rush of business doesn't last forever and we cannot afford to...
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