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100 Years Ago, The Auto Industry Was America’s Silicon Valley
100 years ago, the auto industry was America's silicon valley, according to Huffington Post. Cars have come a long way in the last 100 years. As car companies showed off their latest models at the Detroit auto show last week and engineers experiment with self-driving...
High Car Loan Delinquencies Suggest Solid 2014 Sales for Automakers?
From Business to Community: High car loan delinquencies suggest solid 2014 sales for automakers? We expect American consumers to do a lot in this country; not least of which is to be the nation’s economic engine, after all, 70% of our gross domestic product (GDP)...
BMW Asks, Does It Take a Genius to Sell a Car?
From Forbes: Does it take a genius to sell a car? BMW AG is rolling out a new model for its retail sales to “future-proof” its distribution. Translation: Make sure its dealerships don’t become obsolescent, says Peter Miles, executive vice president of the company’s...
Tips to Increase your Dealership’s Bottom Line
Tips to increase your dealership's bottom line, from Brady Ware. Increasing revenue is one approach to increase your dealership’s profitability. Lowering taxes or improving efficiency are other ways to increase your bottom line. Here’s an article that discusses some...
Auto/Mate Introduces Multi-Point Inspection for its Mobile Service Solution, Enabling ‘Paperless’ Fixed Ops Processes
Auto/Mate Dealership Systems introduced a multi-point inspection feature for its mobile service solution, tailored to work on windows-based tablets. With multi-point inspection, service advisors can use tablets to greet the customer, conduct a vehicle inspection,...
In New Book from Candid Cory Mosley, High Spark Attitude and On-Point How-to Intelligence Create the Right Mixture to Help Car People Sell More Cars
Cory Mosley’s new book on developing traditional and new-school selling skills, attitudes and successes is a pearl of selling intelligence for any automobile showroom, Internet and Business Development Center (BDC) sales associates. He unveils “The Way I See It” this...
Haystak Digital Marketing Earns Google AdWords Premier SMB Partner Award for Customer Satisfaction for Second Year in a Row
Haystak® Digital Marketing, the leading provider of digital marketing services to the automotive industry, was awarded the Google AdWords™ Premier SMB Partner Award for Highest Customer Satisfaction for the second consecutive year. The Highest Customer Satisfaction...
Latest GMEP Graduating Class Completes the 11-Month NCM® Institute Auto Dealer Development Program
NCM Associates, a leading provider of automotive 20 group, retail operations consulting, management training, data management and operations Benchmark® analysis services to U.S. auto dealers, announced that 21 managers in NCM Institute’s fourth General Management...
DealerMatch Unveils New Matching Technology at NADA
Finding profitable, dealer-to-dealer buying and selling opportunities and trading partners just got a lot faster and more efficient thanks to MatchPro – an exclusive innovation DealerMatch is launching as a component of their services. DealerMatch will demonstrate the...
From under the hood to in the spotlight: Valvoline Instant Oil ChangeSM ranks No. 60 on the 2014 Entrepreneur Franchise 500® list
Accelerating its brand distinction as a proven, profitable business, Valvoline Instant Oil ChangeSM announces its No. 60 ranking on the prestigious Entrepreneur Franchise 500® List. This is Valvoline Instant Oil Change service centers’ second year on the coveted list,...
5 Reasons to Shift Auto Marketing to 50-Plus in 2014
5 reasons to shift auto marketing to 50-plus in 2014, according to Huffington Post. U.S. auto sales have been racing ahead on the fast track, rising by 1.5 million in the last three years. Fueling the auto industry's acceleration is the 50-plus population, which...
Why TV Ad Spend Will Grow More Than Digital Spend In The Next Five Years
Why TV ad spend will grow more than digital spend in the next five years, according to Media Post. TV ad spend in the U.S. will grow more each year for the next five years than digital video ads will (yes, you read that correctly.) At the closing panel of Gridley...
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