Think Tank Tuesday- Are You Missing Sales With The Wrong Messaging? from Potratz on Vimeo.

Are you missing out on sales because your marketing message is focused only on price points?  If you're only focused on price, you are not connecting with customers who are…

Maximizing your Most Valuable Asset

Use the data you already own as your most valuable asset for producing maximum ROI

Use the data you already own in smarter and more efficient ways; decrease waste and increase revenue with an informed and targeted approach. Find out how modern dealership systems and best practices help you sell more cars for less money. What kind of data sells cars? How do I segment my data? What ROI should I expect from this approach?…

What More is your Website Hiding?

Technology exists today that reveals valuable market advantages and solves the issue of lost leads with traffic to an automotive dealership’s website. Start proving marketing ROI and take back control of your own data with proven best practices from the top OEM franchises in the country.

Learn what happens behind the scenes of a dealership website. Knowing what and how your consumers search will give you powerful insight to…

Turn your Dealership Upside Down! Create a Digital Dealership for Maximum Profit

Turn your dealership from a ‘traditional structure’ to a ‘digital structure’ to meet the demands of the changing customer and dealership landscape

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The Makings of a Great Internet Director

Lessons learned and tactics tried by top Internet directors to improve their own success

Moderator: Joe Webb

Panelists: Lisa Jo Swain, Director of e-Commerce Operations, SunStar Autos

Jon Berna, e-Commerce Director, Hubler Automotive Group

Richard Lucy, e-Marketing Director, Tim Dahle Nissan

One excellent leader can single-handedly transform the online profitability of your store. Dealer…

Post one of ten posts I will be making leading up to Digital Dealer 12.

If you are one of the best dealers in the country you are using 10% of your Secret Weapon…what is it?…

Innovative Dealer Summit invites Sean Stapleton, CSO and Kendall Billman, VP of Interactive Marketing to speak at the event hosted by the Colorado Automobile Dealers Association Event

Overland Park, KS – March 14, 2012- VinSolutions, an industry-leading developer of automotive Internet-based Customer Relations Management (CRM) and Internet Lead Management (ILM) software, is a sponsor at the Innovative Dealer Summit, organized…

The Seven Habits of Internet Buffoons

How to avoid the common mistakes that spell disaster for your 2012 e-commerce efforts

What can you learn from a pizza parlor, the Mercury-Gemini program, and a cat that will make you great at e-commerce? You will learn how in this entertaining and educational session that will show you that it is often not what you do that makes you great in your online efforts, but what you don’t do. Real-life examples,…

As a certified sports nut, I love big-time game-changing plays – the “Hail Mary” pass to win the game as the last seconds tick off, and the three-pointers from 'Downtown' at the buzzer, those remarkably bold plays that lift fans out of their seats...

We can learn much about sales success strategies from those who have and continue to lead their teams to championships in the sports arenas and on the fields across this great nation.

Consider the discipline,…

A friend shared a story about his pastor, who, wanting honest "In your face" feedback about his sermons, invited two close friends to lunch, gave each a pad of paper and pencil and invited them to “unload" with comments about the things that they did not like about his sermons.” They did.

As difficult as honest feedback usually is to hear, isn’t a truthful assessment of how others perceive us, (personally or as a business), valuable information to…

Doug Van Sach named vice president strategy and analytics; Robert Silberman heads CRM and product strategy for automotive marketing leader

Daytona Beach, FL – DMEautomotive, the industry leader in science-based, results-driven automotive marketing, today announced two key appointments to further bolster its expanding Strategy and Analytics team.  Consumer behavior and data…

It is no secret that we are all experiencing some difficult times in our respective economies and that these times are causing many in the automobile industry to question their career paths. However, even in these challenging times, there are those that continue to flourish because they seem to know something that many or their counterparts do not.  These individuals continue to give themselves pay raises every month and every year.  They have figured out some time ago that they have to make…

It’s November and the weather is changing, so it’s time to get ready for our slow season. This is the time of year that many of us in the car business often dread because the days are long, quite boring and in the windy city where I live, you can actually feel your brain shrinking after one too many days of snow. However, this is the perfect time of year to do some housekeeping in preparation for spring, your true selling season. This is the perfect time to generate some momentum by taking…

CAR-Research XRM Enjoys Unprecedented Growth,

Appoints Patrick Kelly as President & COO

Houston, Texas, October 18, 2011, CAR-Research XRM, a single-source CRM solution uniquely branded as; “XRM, Exceeding CRM”, today announced the appointment of Patrick Kelly, formerly Senior Vice…

CAR-Research XRM Launches AutoDesk: Automated Rates & Residuals Program Provides Auto Dealers All Automotive Incentive Information in Simple, Integrated Format

Houston, Texas, September 20, 2011, CAR-Research XRM, a single-source CRM solution uniquely branded as; “XRM, Exceeding CRM”, today announced the launch of AutoDesk, a new automated Rates and…

Many auto dealerships are closing just twenty percent of shoppers who come through the doors, while the remaining eighty percent simply walk away to a competitor. CAR-Research XRM, a single-source CRM solution uniquely branded as; “XRM, Exceeding CRM”, recently released: An Auto Dealers' Guide to Outselling Competition, Increasing Car Sales, Decreasing 3rd Party Leads and Closing more…

CAR-Research XRM Releases Auto Dealers' Guide to Outselling Competition, Increasing Car Sales, Decreasing 3^rd Party Leads, & Closing more Be-Backs

Houston, Texas, August 16, 2011 – Many auto dealerships are closing just twenty percent of shoppers who come through the doors, while the remaining eighty percent simply walk away to a competitor.…

Published On: July 25, 2011

"The Sales Manager’s Laws of CRM Use" presented by Greg Wells at the 10th Digital Dealer Conference.

We’re living in the age of information, and a CRM is an effective hub car dealers can use to record, analyze and implement information. That’s the message Greg Wells presented at the 2011 Digital…