Added by Dave Benson on March 31, 2017 at 10:22pm — 2 Comments
A 78 year old famous baseball couch filled the auditorium in 1996 at Chris Sperry’s first of many American Baseball Coaches Association conventions. What John Scolinos spoke about was more than baseball. For his whole speech Coach Scolinos wore a strung up home plate around his neck and after his lengthy introduction, dived into the meat of his speech. As he pointed…
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So you've decided it's time to differentiate your dealership from the competition, and that video is the way to do it. Your next probable question is, do you produce, distribute and market the videos yourself, or outsource some, if not all of these functions?
The answer to this question is, it depends. We've got dealers who are successfully doing both. In my…
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First time in a long time I've been able to time stamp my Good-Morning Message at 5:30 AM. .... My visit to the Back Surgeon yesterday as an outpatient has me up and…
ContinueAdded by James A. Ziegler on March 16, 2017 at 1:30pm — 2 Comments
As negotiations are an expected part of the vehicle buying process, there are three strategies we advocate doing often and consistently to increase your sales gross and reduce many of deal-cutting concessions.
Depending on how you respond to a customer will determine if you get the deal and how comfortable the customer feels about their experience.
By…
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So, you’re operating a profitable dealership, and everything should be rolling right along and running smoothly, right?… |
Added by Scott Bergeron on March 15, 2017 at 10:30am — No Comments
Customer experience has become an industry “buzz term” of late when talking about customer acquisition and building loyalty. Most of the time, the focus is on the small things that turn a customer off -- attitudes, inefficient processes, or other such actions. But what happens when, well, everything goes wrong?
Imagine if a couple visited a showroom where…
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Auto/Mate Presented with ‘Top Rated' award for Dealer Satisfaction in Dealership Management System (DMS) Category
Booth 1707
New Orleans, LA – January…
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Booth #1707
New Orleans, LA – January 27th, 2017 – Auto/Mate Dealership Systems announced today that Keiser University, based in West Palm Beach, FL, selected Auto/Mate's dealership management system (DMS) to use as part of…
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Dealerships have forever tweaked pay plans to satisfy bottom lines and keep employees happy. Many employees in the sales department can make more money from a single sales commission than any technician can make in a day. There are even some salespeople that are so productive that their paychecks can exceed those of their sales managers – and sometimes that leads to friction…
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January 1, 2017 — The Mar-Kee Group announced that 10-time National Automotive Dealers Association speaker and President of the Mar-Kee Group, David Martin, will present a sales training workshop, “Marketing Opens the Door: Closing Seals the Deal” at the 2017 NADA Conference & Expo.
"Yesterday's closing techniques will no longer work with the tech savvy buyers,…
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There is a lot of talk going on about car dealership turnover. It seems that everyone has an opinion about it but not a whole lot of solutions. I am going to do some "REAL TALK" in this post because it is time that the sugar coating stops. I have spent a great deal of time between consulting dealers and working for dealers on a case by case basis over the…
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Albany, N.Y. – December 19th, 2016 – Auto/Mate Dealership Systems announced today that its dealership management system (DMS) is fully integrated with the DealerOps Platform, expanding auto dealers' actionable insight into their enterprise-wide analytics. Dealerships that use both vendors' solutions will now receive automatic and seamless updates from their Automotive Management Productivity Suite (AMPS) software into their…
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Albany, N.Y. – December 5th, 2016 – Auto/Mate Dealership Systems announced today that Patrick Reilly has joined its team as the new Head of Marketing. Reilly brings more than 25 years professional experience in marketing research, advertising, branding and strategy for technology companies and agencies.
In his new role Reilly will oversee the…
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DMPs are a topic gaining escalating attention as we head into 2017. A dark cloud of big, irrelevant data still lingers above the automotive industry, just waiting to be analyzed. What are DMPs? For those of you that don’t know, the acronym stands for Data Management Platforms. Think of a DMP…
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Imagine your salespeople starting each day with the most important sales training program available? With The Mar-Kee Group’s new, revolutionary 90 Day Boot Camp, training just got a lot easier for managers…
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Between endless meetings, work-related tasks and familial responsibilities it probably seems as if you’re continuously pulled in different directions. Our society has devolved into a place where we often fail to stop and notice important things, simply because we’re so busy satisfying the needs and wants from those we love, or to those whom we have to…
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Development processes in the economy is directly related to the investment. Production resources are transformed into an economic product and combined entrepreneurial initiative. Required control involved in the production has a direct impact on the resources. Because of various factors in the production, process creates a certain economic product - goods, services, and a variety of work.
Budget and public investments are part of the national income in the form of cash of various…
ContinueAdded by Anna Lynch on November 23, 2016 at 5:40am — No Comments
All the people in our time, graduate school, get one or more of higher education, and continue to work. Some of them prefer to be employed, and some want to do their work and create their own business. Most often, businesses are opening not alone, but with someone else. Whether it be friends, relatives - it does not matter, it is very difficult without partnerships. However, that would create a business, and, in any industry, you just need start-up capital. So, where do we get the money to…
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DMS Designed By Car People For Car PeopleTM Remains #1 in Customer Satisfaction
Albany, N.Y. – November 21st, 2016 – Auto/Mate Dealership Systems announced today that with its latest round of hiring, its employees have surpassed 1,000 years of combined experience working in car dealerships. Auto/Mate's dealership management system (DMS) software was Designed By Car…
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