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  1. ArtMorris

    WIN a CarFax Car FOX! Oh SNAP!!

    I was all excited to enter, but they gave it away on Tuesday!#!%#@!
  2. ArtMorris

    Friedman Swift Associates?

    Must supply a yes/no decision on the spot after their pitch? That kind of ultimatum would allow me to make a decision before the pitch.
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    Anti-Dealer messages on websites run by Cars.com

    WhyPaySticker is associated with Classified Ventures, according to the WHOIS: WhyPaysTicker.com - New Car Buyers: Never Pay Sticker. Get The Best Price On Your New Car And according to this website, Classified Ventures is the parent company of Cars. Classified Ventures® LLC The WHOIS for...
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    Quick question for the Toyota Guys in the Room.

    @Rick: Thank you for sharing your idea. We both benefited, 'cause I'm implementing the same thing for my Toyota stores. @Jeff, MBisset, bzweifel: I think the Ford approach to the window stickers is best: free public access for the last ten model years. It would be nice to have that for all...
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    Quick question for the Toyota Guys in the Room.

    @Rick: Do you realize that your customers cannot reach dealer.toyota.com from their home internet connections? So even if the VSPECs were static PDFs you still wouldn't be able to directly link to them. That is why you must download all of them and store them on your own server, or convert...
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    Quick question for the Toyota Guys in the Room.

    This sounds like an interesting idea. Here's how I'd approach it. 1. How can we automate the retrieval of the VSPEC PDFs from Dealer Daily? a. Build the correct URLs for each of your dealership's vehicle's VSPEC PDFs. The format is like this, but you'll need to insert an accurate VIN &...
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    DealerSocket, get your act together (RANT)

    A shady vendor has a good reason to discredit a forum like DealerRefresh: DealerRefresh keeps them honest. DealerRefresh is where we (dealers) get together and discuss what works best for us, how much we should pay for various services, what we should pay our employees. Just as a labor union...
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    QR Codes - In or Out?

    Hell, translate it to English and put it on your poster. It's equally bewildering.
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    E-Mail Marketing Old School? SmartPhone Marketing is the Future!! Don't be left Behind!!

    I don't think I would be comfortable using SMS for marketing because a single text message can cost the recipient. Could you imagine how you would feel if you were billed for the privilege of receiving junk mail from the postal service? That is not an emotion I want to have associated with our...
  10. ArtMorris

    Anyone using CONNEX CRM?

    I did the exact same thing Alex, it looks like a bolt-on for Microsoft Dynamics. Perhaps a better question to pose here would be: Are there any dealers out there successfully running their business with Microsoft Dynamics?
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    Converting to Apple

    Do you Mac guys have problems with your manufacturer's resources? Honda's "Interactive Network" and Toyota's "Dealer Daily" don't seem to tolerate anything other than IE.
  12. ArtMorris

    I am BEYOND frustrated with Dealer.com

    We sell Hondas... that task is almost plug & play :lol:
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    I am BEYOND frustrated with Dealer.com

    I just wish we had some way to include ONE javascript file and ONE CSS file in the <HEAD> of our pages. Two files that we could edit ourselves to make the site work as we desire (and know is easily possible).
  14. ArtMorris

    New Friend

    <shrug> she filled out the rest of her contact information, and it seems legit. Unless she's impersonating a SalesChat salesperson, that is. Googling for "Art Morris" won't tell you much about me. Maybe Chaudhry is a common Indian name? Also, why did you accept the friend request if you're...
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    Funny Reviews

    The bitter taste of terrible customer service can be very memorable... at least I find it to be.
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    Taking pictures

    I believe they are in the 20-30k range. Heavy Duty Turntable, Large Truck Turntable, Vehicle Turntable, Commercial Turntable, Rotating Displays ? Carousel USA But with the turntable you can put the camera on a tripod, activate the turntable, and record a 360degree video without lifting a finger.
  17. ArtMorris

    Hello.

    Yah, I was thinking you could probably automate the first part of your problem (getting the data out of UCS) by using those features. You could probably write one AutoIT script to fire up the UCS client, gather the data, process / format it as necessary, and then upload it where it belongs.
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    Hello.

    Excellent advice. I personally like AutoIT because it has a free compiler, if that's something else you need.
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    QR Codes - In or Out?

    Based on that email exchange, I don't think Cars.com even knows where to begin with that funny looking chess board thingy. I think the way you put the QR code right in the photo feed is pretty cool. Hopefully we'll see QR codes continue to gain consumer acceptance.