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  • kevinfrye
    You will get knocked out by this Digital Dealer 17 Review Have you seen my Led Zeppelin sweater?  It’s made of Kashmir…  As I entered...
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  • Daniel J. Mondello
    How far, on average, are your customers willing to travel to purchase their next vehicle from your dealership? For those of you out...
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  • mwpistell
    You're likely spending a decent chuck of change each month on PPC at your dealership. Wouldn't it be great to know you're doing it...
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  • J
    Last month the DealerRefresh community lost a member to an unfortunate accident. Not only a good member, but a freaking great member...
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  • Eric Miltsch
    The Connected Car movement continues it's rapid expansion. Our connected lifestyles have changed our personal activities tremendously...
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  • J
    Latest HOT Discussion in the Forums Skip the Dealership. Buy Online! Saw a TV ad for a new online vehicle buying service called...
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  • ben.anderson
    Today Apple announced a watch and a new iPhone 6. Most of the headlines you read will be centered around these devices. However, a much...
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  • MikeHaeg
    Government officials have tried long and hard to make streets around schools safer for pedestrians. In particular, for pedestrian...
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  • J
    Jeff Kershner and I were having a great conversation the other day about why dealers don't have a blog on their dealership's website and...
  • K
    You gotta be familiar with the concept of Occam’s Razor… ...it’s something I quote often here at String whenever we’re faced with a...
  • A
    Google uses over 200 factors to determine website relevancy, and now HTTPS has been thrown into the mix, with a rule that Google is...
  • JD Rucker
    They say that if you torture the data long enough, it will confess to anything. In the case of AutoTrader's recent "study" about car...
  • Cobalt
    I found myself squinting at the letter "N". That’s all I could see after I pinched and zoomed in on one guitar after another on the...
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  • JD Rucker
    Which comes first...the VDP or your dealership's overall marketing? Ever since the rise of dealership websites as a virtual showroom...
  • Daniel J. Mondello
    The challenge of Paid Search/Adwords can be quickly dismissed once one realizes the incredible possibility of impressive results. There...
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  • B
    As larger dealer groups allocate more internal resources to manage their digital marketing investments, our industry needs to discuss...
  • B
    Dealers are spending more and more money each year on Google AdWords campaigns. AdWords can be a very effective way to connect dealers...
  • TMuellner
    If you had to guess, how big would you say your dealership’s showroom is? Somewhere in the neighborhood of 15,000 or 18,000 square...
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  • J
    Email isn’t easy; you have less than 30 seconds. We all know it’s not easy to build a relationship with prospective customers through...
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  • D
    Although most dealers don’t perform formal market segmentation analysis, the vast majority understand and use some form of segmentation...
  • J
    While it would be great to have an official list of everything that helps and hinders a website's ranking, Google doesn't exactly give...
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  • malinda.terreri
    Mobile continues to take over the world. Here are some recent stats on email marketingand how you can apply them to improve your...
  • JD Rucker
    In my years working for a dealer website provider, I was often tasked with keeping up with the latest trends in website design...
  • Aaron Wirtz
    Subaru of Wichita has been in the news a lot lately, and each encounter has reinforced the importance of our state of media readiness as...
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  • JD Rucker
    At one point, I was J. Jonah Jameson. When I left the dealership world and hit the vendor side over seven years ago, I learned from...
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