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    Is WHAT you stock a marketing decision?

    No frustrations. Just facts. I'm off Dealer Refresh. good luck to the next guy with an opinion.
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    Is WHAT you stock a marketing decision?

    @ Joe and anyone else reading this string. I have been with Yago for 10 years. He speaks his mind and while his message isn't always conveyed the best in the written form there are many people including myself that know the merits of his experience and knowledge. He certainly doesn't need...
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    Is WHAT you stock a marketing decision?

    And V-Auto is just the tool to help you do all that right? :) Built to kill off my breed once and for all!
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    What do Honda and Justin Bieber have in common?

    Wow. I am on the news letter of many of our clients but that is first. Honda and Justin Bieber?
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    Is WHAT you stock a marketing decision?

    Ed, Yes I am talking about $500 more than the bottom. You might stand a chance in the middle if you found a way to really brand yourself above and beyond with customer service and care. But if you were from $500 more than the top you would be dead in no time even if the Pope was there to...
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    Is WHAT you stock a marketing decision?

    If I understand Joe's last post correctly I am in complete agreement. If I didn't than I am off point of this thread and I apologize. Ill speak my mind anyway. If manufacturers were to give a discount to consolidators particulary ones that own multiple dealerships of the same make throughout...
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    You Have an Evil Customer Sabotaging You

    Probably would need to add key phrases plus gmail and hotmail domains like [email protected] or f#*[email protected]. These people always think they are being creative?:)
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    Why Would Anyone Post Helpful Hints to DealerRefresh?

    I was only a reader for quite some time and then with a push from my CEO he got me to jump in and start expressing opinions. Certain threads can really spark a chord that sometimes leads to relentless debate and sometimes even masked agression. But I think if you follow enough, that most end...
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    Dealers flooding review sites with fake user reviews

    Ryan I think you make a great point. But I don't think the Auto Industry expects a lower standard they just expect to be treated fairly. I think you might be right. I think because there potentially is a stigma attached to the Auto industry that might lead to an increased sensitivity by...
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    Dealers flooding review sites with fake user reviews

    Ryan I have read ZMOT and while I agree with much of it I don't take it as the Gospel and admittedly have not read it enough times to site pages. So my numbers while not scientific are based off of 80 or so dealers giving feedback to the Yelp Rep at Digital Dealer and what I see over all...
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    Dealers flooding review sites with fake user reviews

    While as a company we do not believe in gaming the systems in place for reviews I understand why some dealers have chosen to seek out companies that will either create fake reviews or post them on behalf of a dealer on Yelp, Google or Dealer Rater ect... The playing field is unfair especially...
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    Show Me the Leads!

    Always a question to ask any lead provider is are your 3rd party leads also someone else's third party leads?
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    Craiglist Pricing Analytics - Priceonomics Startup

    Some of the markets that you list in your metrics are 45 day CL markets while others are 7 day CL markets which means that some of the prices are well behind current market price. How do you account for that?
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    Sales Contest Ideas?

    How about this idea. Let's step away from the old idea of how many deals this month but focus in on how can we get more in the future. In the era of ZMOT and the Thank you Economy, maybe creating an incentive to get more positve reviews is something to be considered. What if you put an...
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    Our time with Dealer E Process

    I have also had the pleasure to meet the guys from E Process and found them to be good solid guys generally interested in innovationing not only for the sake of generating new revenue (which btw I believe most companies are in business for) but also because they were passionate about creating...
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    VinSolutions issues

    Remember the old adage "Don’t put all your eggs in one basket"? I have listed a couple of online dictionary definitions to affirm my recollection of what it meant. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/don't_put_all_your_eggs_in_one_basket...
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    Have you been Pashed?

    I have been Pasched along side Yago and I echo his sentiments. (Note the Spelling..I you are going to Pun someone's name it should be spelled correctly) Brian has passion about what he does and practices what he preaches. I have also learned a great deal from my first workshop and tonight...
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    I am BEYOND frustrated with Dealer.com

    As someone who who has worked in support for a company that handles data distribution I have worked with DDC support many times. One thing to remember is the support is only as good as the support person you are working with and how much they care about what they are doing. There are always...
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    UCS POWER DATA EXTRACTION

    The experiences we have had with polling when it comes to UCS echos the posters frustrations. As far as I know the only way to extract data is to have someone at the dealership manually push a dealer created excel file.
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    New Reynolds and Reynolds process to prevent third party data collection.

    Here we go again with RR. We went through this once before Circa 2009 when RR decided to shut off modem access....Ok Fair enough...technological advancement is a good thing. One of our dealers with a zealous IT manager who braved the hold times and support tansfers was told that RR was...