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  1. SoCalMark

    Help With Odd Website Analytics & BOT Traffic.

    The Bad Bot Trap Typically, good bots will follow your robots.txt file, but the bad bots don’t care and they ignore the “rules” because they think they’re cool and are after your assets for the most part. Step 1. Install Blackhole PRO for bad Bots Plugin. Blackhole for Bad Bots does one thing...
  2. SoCalMark

    GM dealer leaving CDK website who to look at ?

    I have had the same consistent problem with CDK in their Executive Desktop and they acknowledged the issue, have had other dealers complain about it and yet here we are a year later dealing with it. I also had someone from CDK call me directly from my complaint post on dealerfresh.com who...
  3. SoCalMark

    BREAKING news! Carvana & Vroom is bleeding cash. Is Ecommerce in auto DOA?

    Carvana is just going through growing pains -- They will make it and the reason why is that it is what anyone 35 and under wants from a car buying experience. No one want's to sit in a dealership like mom and dad did for five hours just to purchase a car. It's the number one gripe and joke of...
  4. SoCalMark

    My Rant about DealerInspire.

    You hit the nail on the head when you said "understanding of the use of inventory feeds" Many DMS systems are licensed with other companies and will not allow inventory feed or data pulls - I tried it that way already. The rest of the build is easy and pretty repetitive. One car dealership...
  5. SoCalMark

    My Rant about DealerInspire.

    Well said ----------- !!
  6. SoCalMark

    Tesla Reality Check?

    Now THERE is a REAL .... "screenshot" :D :D :D :itsok:
  7. SoCalMark

    Tesla Reality Check?

    What's sort of funny is that they really are NOT a good looking vehicle. I only see it as a status symbol -- For me, the Jaguar XF is far more luxurious of a sedan for less. I know, it's not electric ... but who cares. I am not into this electric vehicle "look at me, I'm saving the environment."
  8. SoCalMark

    DealerTrack - Yay 0r Nay?

    Yah, I saw this but this is SEVEN years old already --- Technology happens in a matter of weeks! Even CDK went to hell in a matter of months
  9. SoCalMark

    Can't Ignore the Carvana Craze!

    I just watched again as the shares of Carvana stocks rose from 11% to 27.55 and had a revenue of $360.4 million! Pretty good for a guy that started on Shark Tank. In the first quarter, it sold 18,484 vehicles, up 122% from the year-ago period. That was slightly above management's guidance of...
  10. SoCalMark

    DealerTrack - Yay 0r Nay?

    My dealer principal is switching to DealerTrack and there was a 2012 forum post here that pretty much executed them in review. Have they gotten any better yet? nyone else sail the ship away from Reynolds and CDK to give these people a try? Comments are helpful and welcomed... They do have a...
  11. SoCalMark

    DealerSocket Email Hell

    #1 -- No matter what DealerSocket has to say about the SPF records, email SHOULD NOT be sent through a third party email server using the domain of another. It's just bad practice -- period! Here is what they sent me THANKS TO THIS FORUM !! v=spf1 +a +mx +ip4:198.46.81.61 +ip4:209.11.182.133...
  12. SoCalMark

    Are Car Dealers Liars?

    Being tied to the business, I should be more aware but it seems to me that the deception comes, not from the salesperson but from the finance department managers. Most of them need a lesson in customer awareness and that the tactics they used in the 1970's are no longer acceptable. It's too easy...
  13. SoCalMark

    Tesla Reality Check?

    I have a friend who is an underwriter for AAA and they are backing off many of the claims because the average time Tesla customers are expected to be in a rental vehicle is 6+ months with not enough Tesla approved body shops put there either.
  14. SoCalMark

    The misconception about millennials

    Didn't we forget about this - lazy - pot smoking - job hopping - parent sucking - music loving - party culture - sex maniac - barefoot Generation --- in this discussion?
  15. SoCalMark

    Tesla Reality Check?

    God forbid when the owner get's into a fender bender for the 6-20 months it takes to get parts Even the insurance companies are raising their rates for Tesla owners
  16. SoCalMark

    What do you guys think of everything that's happening with Facebook?

    My favorite is when a dealership salesperson is insisting that they are selling vehicles off their Facebook account (to avoid being blocked) but yet, cannot provide the GM a single example of selling one from FB Facebook will not survive as MySpace died
  17. SoCalMark

    CDK Executive Desktop Issue

    I have been doing this a very long time and my general feeling is that ever since CDK took over the ADP platform, they have had a genaeral "I don't give a shit" attitude. That includes the motorsport division also branded as 'LightSpeed' CDK is a thorn in the side of many software brands that...
  18. SoCalMark

    CDK Executive Desktop Issue

    Looking to find out if anyone else has experienced 'Does not Respond' or freeze-ups for dealership managers using the Executive Desktop command when trying to view reports also. Note: This is in "Enhanced Store View" CDK says this is a known issue and they have been working on it for months...
  19. SoCalMark

    DealerSocket Email Hell

    Yah, Right -------------- :thumbup: Most of these CRM programs have more bells and whistles than the average salesperson can comprehend anyways. All you have to do is watch one of them try to create a template in any of the programs and you can witness a complete meltdown. Anything requiring...
  20. SoCalMark

    DealerSocket Email Hell

    SOLVED: changing the SPF records did nothing for us especially since we are using GSuite for the delivery of mail. I subscribed to the service called SMTP2GO and started rerouting all the dealerships outgoing email through it with the updated SPF records and that did it like a charm. Even crap...