From a dollars and cents standpoint, is it now better for your wallet to lease a car or finance one? Swapalease.com, the nation’s largest online car lease marketplace, analyzed an apples to apples to apples comparison of three different car-shopping scenarios using the same vehicle in order to determine where the most savings would be found. Click here for the full data chart.
The three different scenarios included financing…
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Sale of California dealership group to the 3rd largest auto group in the state reinforces buy/sell market strength in California and nationally; consolidation continues - the big are getting bigger
Irvine, CA, August 5, 2014 – Kerrigan Advisors, a leading national dealership buy/sell advisory firm, advised Irvine, California-based Fladeboe Automotive Group in its successful sale to The Conant Auto Retail Group (The…
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Sprinklr’s recent study on “Top Car Brands in Social” revealed that while BMW has the largest audience, Rolls Royce has what they consider to be the best social content, with the highest rate of engagement.
Any dealer can achieve similar success in social, regardless of…
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Do you remember the last time you were excited to watch a commercial on television? If you're like most people, that probably never happens. Over 50% of new automotive shoppers are more likely to watch your commercials when you use…
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This article was written byJoe Basil and was originally published on the NCM Institute Up to Speed blog.
As the great recession started to unfold in 2008 and 2009, gasoline prices rose above four dollars a gallon, the banking and housing industry began to collapse, unemployment rose and auto sales fell off the charts. Those dealerships that came…
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TECHNOLOGY HOLDING COMPANY TO CHANGE THE ENTIRE INDUSTRY
August 5, 2014, California, Already working with a start-up that will change the consumer world as we know it. Imagine a battery that will keep your smart phone charged for 30'days. What would it be like to power your entire house(Or Dealership) off the grid for less than $200 a month, including heat? Now, think what it would be like doing this with absolutely no fossil…
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It started for me early. Social selling that is. I was working on a project for a hospital charity about a dozen or so
people turned out. Painting the walls in the old building and the guy next to me, in conversation, asks, “What do you do for a living?”. Of course I said I sold cars… About an hour later as we were “admiring” our handy work… another…
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Basic text email absolutely stinks for many of the applications we typically use it for in the automotive industry. There, I said it! Do I have your attention now?
There’s a reason I’m saying this and I think you’ll agree after hearing me out. The fact of the matter is, text communication causes fights. When is the last time you sent your wife, girlfriend, husband, or boyfriend a text message that was completely taken out of context? For me it’s daily, sometimes, even…
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What do I have to do to develop a great sales team?
An ideal sales team of veteran salespeople would allow each dealership to maximize revenue. In reality, sales departments experience a high level of turnover. As a result, there is no easy answer to this question.
Focusing on what we can’t control while ignoring what we can is a pathway to frustration and declining success. Fearing turnover is no excuse for not investing in training your sales staff. A…
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Hello and welcome to this week’s edition of Beggs on the Used Car Market, with data and analysis from Ricky Beggs of Black Book.
Another month has passed and the overall movement this past week took pretty much the same direction as the previous four weeks. About the only difference is the level of declining amount continues to get larger week over week.
Looking at…
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ALBANY, N.Y. – August 4th, 2014 – Auto/Mate Dealership Systems (http://www.automate.com) today announced that Dave Druzynski, Director of Human Resources at Auto/Mate, will present "How to Avoid the Costs of a Bad Hire" at the upcoming 2014 Montana Auto Dealers Association (MTADA) 100th Anniversary Convention in Helena, Montana.
Druzynski's presentation is designed to help dealers understand the true costs associated with poor hiring decisions,…
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Millions of years ago dinosaurs became extinct. They became extinct for one reason only, a failure to adapt to a changing environment. Not all dinosaurs became extinct. Many, according to scientists evolved and became the birds that soar in our skies today.
The theory is a massive meteorite struck the planet, changing the environment dramatically. This new environment made it difficult, no impossible to survive without adapting.
Metaphorically…
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Has anyone seen the Infiniti Q50 Eau Rouge Concept?
Infiniti's concepts keep getting better and better. The performance version of the Infiniti Q50 shown through…
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Differentiate - Differentiate -Differentiate
It's essential to give your customers good reasons to come to you rather than going somewhere else. You must differentiate with something that matters to your market, product and your customers. You might offer a…
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Randy Price owner of University Volkswagen Mazda
For some time, Randy Price was reluctant to follow in his father’s footsteps as a car dealer, even…
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Trust is your business's biggest asset today. With the ability to easily publish reviews of businesses, products, and services, customer satisfaction is more important than ever before. Because one of the first things a potential customer does before visiting you in person is search for reviews…
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Contact: Cathy Dupont
Assistant, National Accounts
cdupont@jandlmarketing.com
(800) 346-9117
J&L Marketing Announces New Company President
Jamil Zabaneh brings to new role years of experience as Vice President of National Accounts…
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The conversations your sales team has with your customers often dictate whether they’ll purchase or not. That’s why having a sales team trained in customer service is so important.
Your standards should be exactly the same for your live chatting team. But how are their conversations even remotely similar?
As the saying goes, you only have ONE chance to make a good first impression. You have to make it count! Your…
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Bob is on his lunch break. Lately, he has been drooling over the latest high-tech camera so he decides to make a quick trip to Best Buy to check it out. He walks into Best Buy and heads to the camera department. Once there, he finds the camera on display, but no employees are in sight to explain it to him. He picks it up,…
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In May I wrote a blog article explaining how employee retention in service will become increasingly important due to many factors. Apparently, that’s becoming true faster than even I thought. Auto Remarketing published an…
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