September 2012 Blog Posts (144)

Is Your Job Worth Going To Prison For?

If this doesn’t make you think about how your dealership does business, I don’t know what will.

 

News broke this week about a dealer and 9 of his employees that were indicted by a federal grand jury for conspiracy to commit wire fraud as a result of deceptive advertising, fraudulent sales practices, and falsely reporting sales to the manufacturer. Besides the…

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Added by Jim Radogna on September 16, 2012 at 8:16pm — 19 Comments

Share or Not to Share: That is the question!

Lately I have read several articles by some very competent people when it comes to Personal Branding and what you talk about and share online. And I agree with these people myself, up to a point. However, it occurred to me the other day that something is missing in these articles and I can't quite put my finger on it.…

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Added by SCOTT TYNER on September 16, 2012 at 8:00am — 11 Comments

FREE Social Media Tools You May Want To Consider

 


1. Klout
 
Klout's vision is to allow people to discover and measure social influence. Through a variety of algorithms (over 400 variables), Klout assigns users a score measuring a particular user's influence in the real…
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Added by Bob Carmack on September 15, 2012 at 11:00am — No Comments

Spring Forward Or Fall Back?

 

In many parts of the country, it's been a scorching hot summer, but as temperatures heated up, so did the auto industry. Fewer days of blanking-clocking 12 hours of labor and not a single car sold to show for your team’s efforts, banks are loosening their noose of credit requirements and releasing their stronghold of LTV restrictions, and more qualified…

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Added by Marsh Buice on September 14, 2012 at 10:30pm — 12 Comments

"Word"

"God created the cosmos with a word, so imagine what a word from Him could do for

you today.
"

 

  

The psalmist say it best in Psalm 119:11... "Your word I have hidden in my heart, That I might not sin against You." The first stage of faith-creation is to get the Word in your heart, read it, hear it and meditate on it, so it is transformed from information to wisdom.

 

Secondly, rely on the Word... Psalm 119:105... "Your word is a lamp to my…

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Added by David Villa on September 14, 2012 at 11:56am — No Comments

Google Adds Another Fun Trick

Have you heard the theory that no one is more than six degrees of separation away from Kevin Bacon? Well, itʼs a pretty decent party game (if youʼre at a party with no booze or music) and itʼs been banging around the Internet in one form or another for a decade now. So why are we bothering to talk about it? Well, Google has yet another notch to scratch into its bedpost…

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Added by Timothy Martell on September 14, 2012 at 10:47am — No Comments

The Evolution of the BDC - Stan Sher of Dealer eTraining at AutoCon 2012

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Stan Sher, president of Dealer eTraining presented “The Evolution of the BDC” at AutoCon 2012. The session discussed how a BDC department needs to be structured and the keys to success. Stan also discussed the needs for various…

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Added by Stan Sher on September 14, 2012 at 2:41am — 1 Comment

Dealer Principal, Paul Sansone Jr. Will Be A Speaker At The Internet Sales 20 Group in October 23-25

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Dealer Principal, Paul Sansone Jr. Will Be a Speaker At The Internet Sales 20 Group in October 23-25

To sign up, goto…

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Added by Sean V. Bradley on September 14, 2012 at 1:00am — 2 Comments

Keep on Keepin' on

Michel de Montaigne... "We are masters of nothing but our will.



This quote is so true! We are powerless to control the winds of life... circumstances, situations, other people and their attitudes; natural disasters, accidents and the unforeseen events that overtake us. Preparation can equip us and spiritual development can strengthen us for the unexpected, but only our inner-man can truly be under our…

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Added by David Villa on September 13, 2012 at 5:28pm — No Comments

What is your competitive advantage?

What Is Your Competitive Advantage? from Potratz on Vimeo.

Do you have a good answer to the question "Why should I buy from you"?  Everyone can compete on price, but in order to gain more customers and increase your sales, you need to have a…

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Added by Paul Potratz on September 13, 2012 at 4:32pm — No Comments

The Transparent Marketing Strategy

Ever since I attended the B2B Marketing Sherpa Summit at the end of August,  I’ve been following Dr. Flint McGlaughlin’s latest articles and observations. Today, I came across an article on Transparent Marketing that I believe is worth sharing with you all.

Back in the late 1800s there was a product named Modoc Oil that promised to cure all your…

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Added by Ketty Colom on September 13, 2012 at 10:11am — 1 Comment

Do you suck on the phone?

Do your people suck on the phone? Then have them sign up for this free webinar taking place today! Click here to register.…

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Added by Jerry Thibeau on September 13, 2012 at 9:45am — No Comments

Overcome

"Don't tell God how big your storm is. Tell the storm how big your God is!"

 

  

There are plenty of opportunities to express faith:  because, obviously, life is replete with challenges and difficulties. If we look at difficulties as an enemy we will always be marching off to war (in our mind) with an enemy that remains just out of reach. However, when we realize difficulties are simply part of the process (like plowing is part of the process of growing a…

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Added by David Villa on September 12, 2012 at 2:18pm — 2 Comments

Throw in a Bag of Doritos and You’ve Got a Deal

When our oldest son was about three, my wife and I told him we would paint his room any color he wanted.  His top two choices were a medium blue and yellow.  Not just any yellow, but yellow like Play-Doh yellow.  He settled on the yellow.  Frankly, I couldn’t imagine that any of us would want to live with that color for too long and that I would end up repainting soon.  So I…

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Added by Lance Boldt on September 12, 2012 at 2:17pm — No Comments

The Most Important Chat Infographic You'll Ever See

It’s true that the live chat adoption rate is growing astronomically among auto dealers. The ability to greet your online shoppers and walk them around your virtual showroom has proven to be an invaluable technology, driving more customers to physical dealerships and ultimately selling more cars. You know all of this already, but one question remains: Do I manage my own website chat, or…

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Added by Stephen Jackson on September 12, 2012 at 11:57am — No Comments

DMEa/Automotive News Webinar Shares Keys to Success in Increasing Customer-Pay Service Dollars

Free ‘power training’ webinar September 18th at 2 p.m. EDT provides important best practices and revealing data on capturing today’s service dollars.

 

Daytona Beach, FL–September 12, 2012 – DMEautomotive (DMEa), the science-inspired, results-based automotive marketing leader, announces the third in a series of webinars that the company is hosting with Automotive News -- all…

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Added by Crystal Hartwell on September 12, 2012 at 10:56am — No Comments

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