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We switched from Mail Chimp to SendinBlue recently due to MC's soaring costs. SendinBlue's UI is intuitive and there were no issues in migrating our customer list over to the new service.

FYI: Solera is the company that bought out DealerSocket earlier this year … shortly thereafter they fired approx. 35% of DS’s workforce and shipped most of the engineering/development jobs off to India...

"What's interesting is none of the dealers featured on Tekion's testimonial page seem to use Tekion digital retailing on their website." That's true with most DR provider websites. Most have testimonials from customers who no longer use their services.

@Brad Burlingham You mentioned you were going live with the Tekion DMS/CRM back in June. Just wondering how it's going and if you have any pros & cons you can share.

@Richard Secor ValuInsight's level of service has always been excellent. Scott Dreisbach has always been a hands-on guy who takes a personal interest in making sure their dealer clients are taken care of. And he always seems to be right on top of things and great with communication &...

@Chris - Obviously you cannot pay what they're asking, but if you stay consistent in the negotiations, hopefully you can arrive at something that works for both parties. Don't give up because they don't want to lose your business.

Dan Sayer took a survey in October of 2020 of what dealerships around the country were paying for Cargurus and what their average monthly results were in terms of SRP totals and VDP views. He didn’t get a huge response back (likely because it’s in every Cargurus contract that dealerships cannot...

@ Rick Buffkin - The inventory button only shows up on the mobile view right now. That will change in time, but for right now it's only on the mobile view.

GM to Phase Out Gas- and Diesel-Powered Vehicles by 2035 -- from the Wall Street Journal GM to Phase Out Gas- and Diesel-Powered Vehicles by 2035 - WSJ

DBA is saying they can just scrape all the required inventory info from a dealer's website. When asked if dealers can send their inventory feed directly to Google, DBA's reply was "Not at this time. Dealers need to go through an approved vendor."

They're saying the inventory postings will not initially be indexed by Google. But they're pointing to what Google did with SWIS. Initially when SWIS was launched the listings we're not indexed and then a little later on users saw inventory posted via SWIS showing up in the Google search results.

I just saw that DBA out of St. Petersburg, FL is an approved vendor and they are charging $35/mo per location with a one year contract. And right now, the inventory tabs will only show up in the mobile view of a GMB listing.

@ Jeff Kershner - Definitely a DIY job on the truck. Can't say I'm a fan of the truck or the new GM logo. Even Alex would agree that the new GM logo is totally tragic. Heh Heh.

Wow. Their new color scheme actually goes well with this used GMC Sierra we just took in on trade.

Also, is there anyone else out there who thinks Magne Furuholmen from the 80's band A Ha could possibly be one of Jeff Kershner's long lost biological siblings?

Our strategy will be the same strategy as a responsible parent's strategy when their teenager is throwing a vocal fit in a department store because their parent won't buy them exactly what they want. "Do not give into the terrorist's demands". Cargurus is justifying their price increase on the...

We originally signed up with CarGurus in January of 2017. In 2018 they hit us with a 19.5% price increase. In 2019 they hit us with another 16% hike of the ol' monthly rate. Earlier this week I was notified that they are planning to raise our monthly subscription price by 62%. If we don't...

Has anyone looked into AimLogic.com further? @Chris Leslie: You opened this discussion a couple months ago, but it never got any traction. Our dealership recently received an email ad from AimLogic and they're still claiming they can retarget a dealership's top competitor by showing...