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  • joe.pistell
    AI assistants will create behavior change from the dealer or their staff
  • john.quinn
    RIF: The Playbook to Landing Your First CEO Gig An advice column for tomorrow's automotive SaaS executives, by Brock Hammerstein, CEO of...
  • joe.pistell
    joe.pistell replied to the thread DealerRefresh 2.0.
    RUN FAST AND DON'T LOOK BACK
  • Alex Snyder
    Alex Snyder replied to the thread VinSolutions issues.
    We agree on most things, Steve. I certainly agree that you're a good salesman ;-) Regarding our back-and-forth in this thread, I think...
  • Alex Snyder
    Alex Snyder replied to the thread VinSolutions issues.
    Good point on Tekion, but I have to take issue with "plugging solutions is not a solution." It most certainly is a solution! In many...
  • Alex Snyder
    More good ones (outside of the orignial intent of this thread), but focused less on "inside the business"...
  • Alex Snyder
    :bump: for @awolniewitz
  • ryan.leslie
    ryan.leslie replied to the thread DealerRefresh 2.0.
    Welcome Alex! I love what you are doing here. I have encouraged many colleagues over the years to visit and learn from this community...
  • Alex Snyder
    Alex Snyder replied to the thread VinSolutions issues.
    One thing that isn't spoken about, but we all know... software is handcuffed to the technology they are originally built on. Without a...
  • Tallcool1
    Tallcool1 replied to the thread DealerRefresh 2.0.
    I wish what I had been told is that some things work because of the people and not the "thing". Some people can and do make anything...
  • Alex Snyder
    Alex Snyder replied to the thread DealerRefresh 2.0.
    We're stoked to be working with Alex (Alejandro) to make DealerRefresh a place where your newbie, fresh sales manager, or old owner who...
  • Alex Snyder
    I showed this version of his store to @Jeff Kershner the other day, and he responded: "I have never looked at my DMS like this." It got...
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  • john.quinn
    john.quinn replied to the thread An Homage to Alex....
    I'll be here -- Michelle won't let us go anywhere. Not to mention: VT is a great place to raise kids, and since I'll be raising a...
  • Alex Snyder
    Alex Snyder replied to the thread An Homage to Alex....
    And since your next 15 years will have nothing to do with me, GFY, John! :rofl: This post is quite the homage. I feel honored and...
  • john.quinn
    It was 2011. Jeff and I worked together at MileOne. Alex had (the year before, I believe) left Checkered Flag for the shores of Lake...
  • joe.pistell
    The winds of change is in the air... @A Kappler You need an AI wiz kid, not a dev.
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  • Alex Snyder
    Alex Snyder replied to the thread AI = Awesome Intelligence.
    We took all the data we had on individual customers and asked Claude to distill it into a simple-to-digest paragraph for each customer...
  • CarlAutofusion
    We have built 3 such tools for dealer clients over the last 15 or so years but all of them were eventually replaced by something else. 2...
  • joe.pistell
    joe.pistell replied to the thread AI = Awesome Intelligence.
    I never knew I had an ADHD mind until I got AI. AI's strengths addressed my core weaknesses so well it shocked me. If you have a friend...
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    I’ve seen something similar with tools like Spyne… the whole “background + logo + description in one flow” idea definitely clicks...
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