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Seminar "3 Rules For Increasing Service Absorption" Jan 5th

Still not too late to sign up. Send an email to freetraining@dealerprotraining.com for phone access and workbook.

Make 2011 the Year of Results!

Added by Leonard Buchholz on January 5, 2011 at 12:30pm — No Comments

Top 6 Dealership Social Media Predictions for 2011

As I sit down to write this post, I’m reminded of a situation where I once had to break the news to the owner of a dealership that he needed $1 million cash infusion to keep his… Continue

Added by Kathi Kruse on January 4, 2011 at 2:00pm — No Comments

An Addendum to John Skelton’s post on December 29, 2010“ I have a question, that stems from my reading a reply to a dE post Monday”

John I have tried to post these comments to your original post.  It keeps popping up that the post has exceeded 40,000 characters and will not accept the post.  According to Word this post has 3,596 characters.  I believe the 40,000 limit is for the whole post.…

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Added by Douglas R Manley on January 4, 2011 at 8:45am — 2 Comments

IF I WAS THE IMPERIAL POTENTATE OF DEALERLAND I WOULD DECREE

 

HERE YE, HERE YE

 

Let it be known on the first day of…

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Added by Douglas R Manley on January 1, 2011 at 12:00am — No Comments

Automotive Marketing Boot Camp to Precede 10th Digital Dealer Conference

The 2011 Automotive Marketing Boot Camp (#AMBC), organized by PCG Digital Marketing, is scheduled from April 16th – 18th in Orlando Florida.  

The Boot Camp will feature two full days of classes on Sunday and Monday to provide the strongest educational experience for all that attend.  This is the second year that the Automotive Marketing Boot Camp will be…

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Added by Brian Pasch on December 31, 2010 at 5:00pm — No Comments

Lucky and Enlightened!

 

At my first dealership, in the mid 70's, we used cards and a file for everything. From the system for ordering parts to reconditioning costs on used cars.  And here I am, dawn of 2011, blogging my aspirations for the future. A digital web, open to the world, will hold my words long after I am gone.  But for now this blog is another tool used towards achieving my goals for the coming year.

Why lucky?  Timing I suppose.  Moving from hand written inventory controls to…

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Added by Craig Darling on December 31, 2010 at 11:46am — No Comments

Let's Swap Dollars

 

A few years back as I was getting ready for work, I reached into the left pocket of my suit pants and found two five dollar bills.  Hmmm, I thought, anything in the right pocket.  Eureka, a ten dollar bill.  Life is good, twenty bucks found. …

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Added by Douglas R Manley on December 31, 2010 at 8:21am — No Comments

Analyzing Your Website Traffic

In pulling up stats on random websites, I have seen a very definite trend in the past 30 days of visitors. Traffic is highest the first part of the week – Monday through Wednesday – then seems to taper off into the weekend. This surprised me, as I always thought people would spend time on the weekend shopping online. What this tells us is that you should focus your…

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Added by Joseph Little on December 30, 2010 at 12:25pm — 1 Comment

DID YA KNOW

THE PEANUT FARMER

 

In November, 1976 the citizenry of the United States of America elected a Georgia Peanut Farmer as President of the United States along with a Democrat Congress.…

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Added by Douglas R Manley on December 30, 2010 at 8:58am — No Comments

7 Lessons From 7 Great Minds



Have you ever wished you could go back in time and have a conversation with one of the greatest minds in history? Well, you can’t sorry, they’re dead. Unless of course you’re clairaudient, be my guest. But for the rest of us, we can still refer to the words they left… Continue

Added by MANNY LUNA on December 29, 2010 at 11:30pm — No Comments

My Video Blog Proposal to BMW for the Mini E Experiment

If you want more information about viral videos and commercials for your dealership, visit… Continue

Added by Snehal Patel on December 29, 2010 at 8:43pm — No Comments

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Join the VinSolutions Community today to read my featured social media blog posts, located here.

 

Here's a taste of one of my latest posts:

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Added by Kelsey Jones on December 29, 2010 at 5:00pm — No Comments

Flashback 1974

 

In 1974 when I first ventured into Dealerland:

 

The population of the United States was 213,854,000.…

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Added by Douglas R Manley on December 29, 2010 at 4:09am — No Comments

Track Your Auto Dealership's Facebook Following

Ever wonder how many people really see what you post on your car dealership's Facebook page? Facebook recently added features to its Insights for business pages, offering new opportunities to see how people are connecting with pages.



Now, you can see how many people saw a post or interacted with it by…

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Added by Paul Potratz on December 28, 2010 at 4:46pm — No Comments

QUACK, QUACK

From an interview with the German magazine Der Spiegel: …

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Added by Douglas R Manley on December 28, 2010 at 6:16am — No Comments

The 5 Cornerstones Of Building An Influential Personal Brand

Continuing on the path I started when I wrote "Building Your Personal Brand by Harnessing The Power of Social Media" I wanted to write a second post that digs a little deeper into a few aspects of that…

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Added by David Johnson on December 27, 2010 at 5:27pm — 2 Comments

A Car Dealers New Year’s Resolution

Did you know that 45% of American adult make one or more resolutions each year. Among the top New Year’s resolutions include resolutions about weight loss, exercise, and stop smoking.  Now I am sure all of you have made a New Year’s resolution at least once in your life and if you have ever kept yours, you’re one of the few.  A simple Google…

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Added by Terry Holbrook on December 27, 2010 at 10:51am — No Comments

Dealer ELITE Members Invited Into Automotive SEM Study





I am pleased to invite members of Dealer ELITE to participate in the Automotive SEM Study which starts on February 15, 2011. The study will take 100 dealers through using pay-per-click advertising strategies to increases sales. There is…

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Added by Brian Pasch on December 27, 2010 at 10:17am — 1 Comment

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