Richard Holland's Blog – August 2014 Archive (4)

How Simply Getting the Job Done Can Be a Bad Thing

Working at a car dealership often takes its toll on employees. The demands of a fifty, sixty or seventy hour work week often leaves the employee exhausted, mentally and physically. Generally, these employees are not clock-watchers, they are your commissioned sales people, your technicians, your management staff and they are the bread and butter for your dealership.  Are…

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Added by Richard Holland on August 28, 2014 at 8:08am — No Comments

Random Acts of Generosity Can Build Loyalty

Finding a lost earring in the jewelry box, discovering the old autographed Tom Seaver baseball card when you clean out the attic, and learning that the shirt you are about to pay retail for is discounted, are all pleasant surprises.  How about walking into your bank and having the ATM talk with you and then give you a gift for being a customer?  Could that surprise highlight…

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Added by Richard Holland on August 21, 2014 at 8:01am — No Comments

Is Instant Customer Feedback In Your Future?

There’s no doubt that customer satisfaction is important to all car dealerships. Whether a dealership actually cares about making the customer happy, or merely wants to ensure that their CSI scores stay acceptable to the OEM, these scores play a major factor in the overall health of a dealership. Poor online reviews can sway a buyer to go somewhere else. Poor CSI scores can…

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Added by Richard Holland on August 14, 2014 at 9:22am — No Comments

Fix the Affliction

The adage “two brains are better than one” has long been used to think through matters and solve problems.  And to take it even further, excluding the human element, often two computers with different programming can solve problems more effectively than a single device.

 

As an example; the government has admitted to a problem with the security lines at…

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Added by Richard Holland on August 7, 2014 at 9:23am — No Comments

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