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A Call to Fix Your Dealership’s Bottom Line

Your customers’ experience is immediately impacted by your callers’ journey, and making that journey a great one is the biggest area of opportunity that a dealer has. Your bottom line is directly impacted by your phone processes and your phone sk
Aug 8, 2017

The Key to Connection: Stop Following Up with Your Internet Leads Like It’s 2009

When is the last time you inspected your internet lead processes? Do you know what the content of your emails being sent are? Do you know when they are being sent? How often, or not often? How can you know for sure that the emails that are being sent
Aug 8, 2017

Attribution: Do Auto Dealers Really Know What’s Happening?

We asked dealers how they are adapting to new marketing measurement tools. Things have changed considerably with the state of marketing measurement and we wanted to know how dealers are adapting to new measurement tools like Multi-Touch Attribution.
Aug 4, 2017

Information Hiding in your DMS

Peter Drucker once said, “We’ve spent the last 30 years focusing on the T in IT, and we’ll spend the next 30 years focusing on the I.”  Information gives us the power to increase profits.
Jun 21, 2017

Technology and Office CRM

According to Harvey Mackay, “Southwest Airlines is successful because the company understands it's a customer service company. It also happens to be an airline.” While almost every major
Apr 24, 2017

The Year-End for Your DMS

We spend the first part of every year consumed with the prior year. There are the dreaded 13th month entries that are a double-edged sword; a huge amount means smaller tax payments,
Apr 1, 2017

A Simple Way to Test CRM Sourcing by your Salespeople

When it comes to marketing attribution, there’s one vital activity that even the most advanced algorithms and technology cannot interpret – inaccurate human input. While no CRM system
Mar 29, 2017

Is Your BDC Costing You Money? Probably.

Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but as you read this, countless dealership BDCs are successfully losing dealership dollars. It could be due to faulty processes, lack of communication
Mar 8, 2017

What is an Open DMS?

There has been a lot of discussion lately about whether or not a DMS is considered to be “open” or not.  To make the first clarification, there are a few types of “open” in our industry.
Mar 3, 2017