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Upgrade envy has drivers trading in cars as often as iPhones
Upgrade envy has drivers trading in cars as often as iPhones, from Automotive News. Mike Fine was perfectly happy with his 2011 Nissan Xterra. Then he got a look at his son’s ride. The 2015 Jeep Grand Cherokee was packed with technology: a touchscreen loaded with...
New Car Buying Service Aims To Eliminate Salespeople
New Car Buying Service Aims To Eliminate Salespeople, from Driving Sales News. A new car buying service has entered the scene in Southern California that hopes to eliminate car salespeople altogether. According to an article by VentureBeat, car-buying service Roadster...
The Proof Behind Website Personalization – Why Your Dealership Needs to Personalize or Perish
The Proof Behind Website Personalization – Why Your Dealership Needs to Personalize or Perish, from Automotive Digital Marketing. Thinking differently can cause some anxiety. Just ask Katie Couric & Bryant Gumbel circa 1994. Remember the Super Bowl commercial about...
Getting ‘Aggressive’ Means Investing in the Dealership’s Marketing Today for Tomorrow (and today)
Getting ‘Aggressive’ Means Investing in the Dealership’s Marketing Today for Tomorrow (and today), from Dealer Authority. We’ve been told that our blog titles can be confusing. It’s my hope that the trend does not translate over to our products and services sounding...
Service and Millennials: The Keys to Winning Their Business
Service and Millennials: The Keys to Winning Their Business, from Dealer Marketing Magazine. Keeping the service bays full along with a constant flow of customers in the service drive is key to the profitability of any dealership. Many dealers choose a predictable...
AutoAlert Announces AutoCheck® Vehicle History Report Integration
IRVINE, CALIF, March 2, 2015 - AutoAlert, LLC., North America’s premier data mining and sales opportunity and retention provider, announced today the integration of Experian Automotive’s AutoCheck® vehicle history reports to its Deal Sheet function. This new one-click...
5 Keys to Sales Strategies in Automotive Repair
5 Keys to Sales Strategies in Automotive Repair, from FastTrak. A sales strategy is a plan that positions a company’s service offering in such a way that a competitive advantage is gained. A successful strategy will provide methods that allow sales personnel to...
How Customer Training Leads To Retention
How Customer Training Leads To Retention, from AutoPoint. With almost everything consumers purchase, there’s an owner’s manual or set of instructions for them to use. For decades, car manufacturers have included an owner’s manual with new vehicles. Sadly, it is no...
Service outsources small stuff
Service outsources small stuff, from Automotive News. Dealerships free to focus on customer satisfaction goals As dealers everywhere press their service departments to improve customer-satisfaction results, some Florida stores are outsourcing their more troublesome...
Auto Dealers Can Fight Price Competitors, Says Cars.Com CEO
Auto Dealers Can Fight Price Competitors, Says Cars.Com CEO, from Wards Auto. Cars.com says its new RepairPal Certified program differentiates dealerships from national car-repair chains. Dealership service departments that get good online customer reviews not only...
Vboost Helps Auto Dealerships Increase Referral Business and Convert More Leads with Release of Vboost 2.0
Vboost 2.0 Increases Viral Shares, Views and Response, with More Customer Options and Flexibility Huntington Beach, CA – March 2, 2015 – Vboost Inc., (www.vboost.com), a viral marketing company focused on the auto industry, today announced the release of Vboost 2.0. ...
Compliance Software’s Good, but Incomplete without this App
Dealership compliance practice helps ensure the business’s integrity to various federal and state consumer finance, identity theft, and employee health and safety laws. Dealers are wise to give compliance its due respect. Federal and state regulators continue to...
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