STOP UGLY TWEETING SOCIAL MEDIA GURUS, GOOGLE DOESN'T LIKE IT

Google views the overuse of #Hashtags much like spam, and excludes those tweets from their real time search results. So,…

Considering the gullible, easily confused, passive, and exploitable little creatures that women inherently are, it’s about time a company came up with a way to help us buy cars all by our wispy, delicate selves, without the need to bring a strong, savvy man along to ensure we don’t swoon at the first sight of…

A friend made this for me just for…

I'm sure pretty much everyone will agree that the hardest part of running any department, is having the right people.  Whether you're in car sales or managing a McDonalds or a bowling alley, having the right people working for you is the most important part of the three P's (Product, People, Process).

With Internet sales I've seen its all to often the make or break difference.  The biggest mistake that can be made is having the wrong person responding to leads.  The most common…

Having just finished a morning plyometric workout (and still "huffing and puffing" like an old steam engine), I sat down at my console where an AUTOMOTIVE NEWS alert was waiting for me.  I clicked away and found an article titled, "The Sales Game Has Changed..."

This article has multiple…

You have all seen or heard Albert Einstein’s definition of insanity – doing the same think over and over again and expecting different results. And yet, day after day, in dealerships large and small, owners and sales managers trot out the same tired old sales process, watch the same decades-old videos and hire the same trainers and consultants and expect…

Watch the tips featured in this week's Think Tank Tuesday and increase your profitability with your management style.

In order to efficiently optimize your brand new website for search engines, from ground up, you have to execute a strong SEO campaign. The experts of a reliable SEO company can help with managing key factors that mount an effective SEO campaign; allowing you to primarily focus on operating your business. A complete SEO campaign should be conversion focused to widely…

Swapalease.com, the nation’s largest car lease marketplace, reports lease credit approvals during the month of January were at 70.5%, down from the 73.3% level in December of 2013. The credit approval levels have witnessed some recent turbulence, going as high as 73.3% and dropping as low as 62.9% in…

Car shoppers today have access to all kinds of online data when making a purchase decision: car reviews, price information, inventory availability, dealership reviews, you name it. With a few clicks (likely from their smart phone), they get the answers they need, possibly while standing right in front of you in your store. Talk about consumer empowerment.

The thing is, all this ready-access to information can also be hugely empowering for dealers. Dealerships that adapt their…

Start Your Day Off Right -

Effective salespeople begin their day with a few simple but highly effective steps.

First step grab your coffee. Wake up and be ready for a great day.

Step two grab your prospects - either from your Daily Gameplan, CRM call list, or up log.

Step three plan the day as to who is the hottest prospect.

Step four get with your manager and team up to make a deal today.

Annual report offers industry’s most comprehensive list of acquisitions; market brisk in 2013; Chrysler/Jeep franchises led activity

Detroit, MI –February 11, 2014 – The Banks Report, the retail auto industry’s leading online source for analysis and insight, today released The 2014 Dealership Acquisition Report, the auto industry’s most comprehensive assessment and analysis of dealership acquisition activity from the previous…

There was a recent article in "Automotive News" regarding the Lithia group's success with service drive VSC sales.  Here is a link to that article  http://www.autonews.com/article/20130408/RETAIL07/304089992/service-lane-focus-lifts-lithias-f&i-sales# 

Our agency, AGS Direct, introduced service drive VSC sales to this dealer group in 2009.  We realized, after…

Press Release about Report on 2013 Dealership Acquisition Activity compiled by The Banks Report

Below is just some of the data you'll find in the report:

(Report includes industry's most comprehensive list of dealership acquisitions in 2013)…

Hello and welcome to this week’s edition of Beggs on the Used Car Market, the very latest used car market data provided by Black Book and Ricky Beggs. Well, at least in the southeastern United…

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