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Disruption is the New Normal
Disruption. One of the buzz words lately over-used and misunderstood. The standard business definition is “radical change to an existing industry or...
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Communication Has Changed: A Conversation with Joe Shaker
How do you interview someone who is truly an industry heavyweight, a Massachusetts Dealer of the Year, the CEO of a Tech Company, and who has been...
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How to Sell More Cars When You Don’t Have Enough Cars To Sell
Talk about disruption! 5 years ago I wrote an article here in Dealer Marketing proclaiming that the car business as we had known it was long dead,...
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Disruption is Change
In the automotive industry we usually connect the word disruption to some up-and-coming vendor program, product, or new technology. When really...
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Curing your COVID Hangover
If you ordered a new vehicle and were told it could take a few weeks to come in, and all you had to do was leave a deposit and wait, you’d be pretty...
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How Combining Agile Thinking and Acknowledging the Individualism of the Customer is Disrupting Auto Finance
In the post-pandemic world, the, in some ways forced, adoption of digital has had resounding effects on the purchasing process. The pandemic created...
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Six (6) Perspectives On The New GLB Safeguard Regulations
The new Gramm Leach Bliley Act (GLBA) regulations aren’t going away and become effective on December 9, 2022. You don’t have to agree, but you do...
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Dynamic Pricing: Can Dealer Operations Take Lessons from the Airlines?
Many of us have had the experience while booking a flight, of watching the price for a seat change as the plane fills up as the time for the flight...
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Inventory Trends
How long have we been waiting for inventory levels to return to normal? At this point, the ongoing inventory crunch in both new and used cars is just...
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NADA 2022 Annual Convention
To say that the last two years have offered some significant challenges to our industry would be an understatement. As we have been forced to change...
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Connected Car Helps Drive Automotive Retail Consolidation
It’s no secret that significant consolidation of automotive retail is underway. Every week, Automotive News reports additional acquisitions by the...
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Digital Transformation in the Automotive Industry
Technology touches every part of our lives. From the Alexa alarm that wakes you up to the UberEats app that brings you lunch, technology has...