As a business succession planner, I encounter the full gamut of dealership business structures, Regular C corporations, S-corporations, partnerships, and limited liability companies. I have had clients owned by public corporations and foreign corpora

Why you should start taking Millennials seriously, according to NPR.  In the U.S., people born between 1980 and 2000 now outnumber baby boomers, and their numbers are still growing because of immigration. This generation is already shaping American

Always-on marketing to the always connected, from Marketing Profs. Marketing used to be a far more laborious, time-consuming process: weeks for focus groups, months crafting a campaign, photo shoots and contact sheets, building ads without a computer

7 reasons your SEO campaign will fail and what you can do about it, according to Search Engine Watch. Most SEO campaigns are destined for failure because expectations are too high, budgets are too low, decisions are made based on assumptions instead

Large and well established companies in our space are notorious for spending the lion’s share of their resources protecting their golden goose rather than making moves to grow it larger. This logic is understandable to some degree, as key decision

The automotive landscape is changing at a rapid pace and that pace is quickening. Every day, week, month, and year, the car business is evolving, and in doing so, vaguely resembles the business that many of us started in years ago. A sales department

With the coming wave of eCommerce in automotive retail, dealers stand the chance to either lose control of their retail businesses or make a choice to stay in control and deliver outstanding customer experiences. Since the Internet first came into ou

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The Holiday Inn on Jacksonville Beach in February of 1986 was the first open forum I held. Myself and eighteen dealers and used car managers walked in the room that morning. I actually had no real idea of what we were going to discuss. In that room w