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  1. jscole86

    Car Sales Website Startup

    Part of the reason we are in business, is to sell extended service contracts and products, not just from a gross perspective, but also from a reinsurance company profit perspective. I'm sure that's your profit stream as well in this scenario, but I would have to imagine that's going to be a...
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    Looking to interview car dealers/salespeople active anytime during the 1950s-70s

    thanks for the clarification...
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    Buying Center CRM?

    They should go hand-in-hand ideally. No different than tracking sold vehicles.
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    Aging Experiment - Trying to Get Sales Lurkers Engaged

    Great job!
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    Aging Experiment - Trying to Get Sales Lurkers Engaged

    ^Spot on. Unless, - You just wholesaled a lot of vehicles at end of month, and incurred (high?) wholesale losses or sold those units to a group store. - You just bought a lot of cars this week.
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    vAuto Replacement

    Disclaimer: Last time I looked was probably 7+ years ago. I probably did 50 to 75 appraisals side by side to see how many vehicles were listed in vAuto versus the other tools - since this is the data used in pricing your vehicles. I set the filters identical, set the radius the same - check...
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    vAuto Replacement

    Last time we looked at most of the competitors, the data (competitive sets) within vAuto were untouchable. Did you find VinCue to be on par with them from a data perspective?
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    Websites

    If this isn't the sad truth. xTime is our favorite as well. Our scheduling is set up from an hours based capacity, which helps manage the shop load, and not overbook (too much). It does take a lot of thought with setup though, but I'd say it's worth it.
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    #RefreshFriday Merchandizing - Someone is Launching a new Service | Joe Pistell

    @BillKVMotorCo Are you using an iPhone or DSLR? If it's an iPhone, are you taking photos from within an app? or using the native camera app? great pictures by the way.
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    U.S. Key Performance Indicators for Variable Operations - NCM Associates

    You won't. They normally publish the report yearly for everyone. They also published Fixed Ops metrics as well. https://go.ncmassociates.com/KPIs.html
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    I need a replacement for AccuTrade...Any Suggestions?

    It's a chrome extension that reads VIN Numbers on the website you are on, puts an appraisal number on it, along with other data for appraisals.
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    DealerRefresh Top100

    Amen.
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    Price Changes

    Daily as adjustments are needed because we are on vAuto ProfitTime - prior to ProfitTime, we would shoot for Tuesdays. Monday's still tend to have a lot of working deals from Friday and the weekend. Plus they are Mondays (busy!)
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    New Tool: Google My Business Review Management/Removal

    Good find!
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    How are you using Call Tracking?

    I can only imagine how much more efficient this system is, compared to 99% of the industry. Very jealous. Is this all through a certain company or custom build?
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    Uncle Joe's Makeover Diary 2.0

    #1 - It was taken at the correct height. I wish the exterior color was bolder like it is when you see it in person. Because of the better height, the wheel really pops as well. #2 - The exterior color looks the sharpest and shows the contours / curves well, but I agree with Ryan, it was taken...
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    Credit Unions & Banks - Looking to Add

    I'm guessing this has dropped off substantially the past few months.
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    Uncle Joe's Makeover Diary 2.0

    Phone > Texting > Email for our store. I would hide chat on mobile (as long as it's truly chat and not a hybrid). Texting trumps chat IMO all day long on most platforms. My ideal texting workflow - customer fills out a quick lead form with just name and phone number which sends the lead /...
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    Creative use of Car Pics.

    I'll take you up on this :lol:. In an ironic twist of events, I have this exact light bank arriving very soon. It was ordered about 3 weeks ago.
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    Creative use of Car Pics.

    I really like the idea for marketplaces - goal is to get the click to the VDP. For our own 1st party websites, I'd say that clean, non-doodle versions are best, assuming that elsewhere on the VDP we can clearly clarify and identify the top selling points of the vehicle for the customer. Might...
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