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  • J
    Jeff, First of all, good job on winning the award... you certainly deserve it! Second, are you saying that you used to use Prospector...
  • R
    Jeff, You truly do have the best blog. Todd, Dealers are the masters at smoke and mirror marketing.
  • A
    Finally, the topic I've been waiting to sink my teeth into! First off, congrats on the award Jeff. I didn't vote for you though. I...
  • S
    Jeff, That’s why I love reading your stuff... You hold NO punches. I always wondered myself on how certain companies won all of these...
  • T
    Jeff, I couldn't have said it better. This type of marketing has worked well in the pass, however, I believe (Hopefully) dealers will...
  • umer.autojini
    Yes about time for the separate department/coordinator to fade out. I have been on a quite a few website training calls where the...
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    Andrew Salamone replied to the thread Will the Internet sales department fade away?.
    In the near-term, I think Alex is right about the issue of GM's effectively following-up and data-mining. We have been in this space...
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    Alex Snyder (blog) replied to the thread Will the Internet sales department fade away?.
    Our "Internet Department" (a non-BDC-like department) lasted from 1997 to July of 2006. In our larger stores we had a BDC-like Internet...
  • J
    Our dealership has been with TKCarsites for over 3 years. When we first started with TK we were extremely happy. A company who knew who...
  • lisamasariu
    We are an 8 rooftop dealership in Indianapolis and launched with TK in January.  We have had nothing but problems with our sites since...
  • J
    I have had nothing but issues with TK carsites.  Their customer service is lacking...they failed Toyota compliance checks 4 months in a...
  • R
    Richard Valenta (blog) replied to the thread TK Carsites - Dealer Website Services Profile and Reviews.
    Thanks for the support Greg. I have spoken with Ron personally this morning and we are back on track. Hopefully, we can right the...
  • G
    Gregory Abel replied to the thread TK Carsites - Dealer Website Services Profile and Reviews.
    Ron, Sorry things didn't work out for you with TK but after we got our bumps worked out, which happened in the first 90 days, we hit...
  • G
    Gregory Abel replied to the thread TK Carsites - Dealer Website Services Profile and Reviews.
    matt, Thanks for the response, the custom webdesign was presented as an option but it seemed like they were all based on the same base...
  • M
    Matt Murray (blog) replied to the thread TK Carsites - Dealer Website Services Profile and Reviews.
    Hey Gregory, I hate to jump in on TK's page here and apologize for that first. My name is Matt Murray, Director of Digital Marketing...
  • R
    @ Ron Barbosa, I feel your pain, we had nothing but trouble with our websites from the time we signed the contract till about 1 1/2...
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    Gregory Abel replied to the thread TK Carsites - Dealer Website Services Profile and Reviews.
    When the Chapman auto group first decided to leave dealer skins for obvious reasons we considered about 20 website vendors which I...
  • R
    Richard Valenta (blog) replied to the thread TK Carsites - Dealer Website Services Profile and Reviews.
    Ron, Sorry to hear you are having such difficulty with our staff. I just left a message for you with my direct number and cell...
  • R
    TK Website is the worst website company I have ever had to do buisness with!!!!!!!!!!! I have gone through several department heads to...
  • T
    In today's busy world we sometimes forget to give kudo's to those that we take for granted. The team at TK has gone above and beyond...
  • C
    Chris Hyundai replied to the thread TK Carsites - Dealer Website Services Profile and Reviews.
    Thanks for the advice, I actually learned a lot from the comments.
  • D
    I have to say vast improvements from the TK Carsites that I used to use. The one I had was drastically outdated as far as SEO and...
  • B
    Hi Everyone! Regarding my previous comments I posted above TK has gone and solved all my issues that I had above and they are now back...
  • R
    Richard Valenta (blog) replied to the thread TK Carsites - Dealer Website Services Profile and Reviews.
    Brodie, First of all, thanks for the comment. We appreciate the feedback from our customers and hope that we can resolve the situation...
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