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  1. Mid-Grade Ford

    Looking for a new digital retailing vendor to replace AutoFi

    AutoFi has been falling off lately. They're our only vendor that still hasn't figured out how to send conversions to GA4. Anyone having a good experience with a different digital retailing service? I just scheduled a demo with Upstart but I don't know if there are some other options I should...
  2. Mid-Grade Ford

    Is there an app for that? (checking how your pricing compares to neighboring dealers for new vehicles)

    Does this app already exist? Would be awesome to know how our pricing compares to the other dealers in our area. Like if the guys down the road start pricing their F150s at $500 below MSRP and we're at $400 below MSRP. If there's no app, what do you guys do to keep track of this?
  3. Mid-Grade Ford

    Who is innovating?

    I wonder how Ford SMARTT does it if there's no API.
  4. Mid-Grade Ford

    Who is innovating?

    Seems like Fortellis is missing an API that would let you read and write service appointments to CDK. What a pity! They have like everything except for the one thing I was looking for. :(
  5. Mid-Grade Ford

    What's the best Craigslist posting software in 2015?

    So LotVantage got it figured out with posting the VDP url for our own site, so I think that is acceptable. Already sold a couple vehicles off craigslist!
  7. Mid-Grade Ford

    What's the best Craigslist posting software in 2015?

    Anyone got a 2021 update on this? Just giving LotVantage a go and I am not super impressed. Archaic UI and can't link to our own website - has to go to random url like http://928137.bestusedcarmarket.com Love auto-posting our inventory to Craigslist but hoping there's more modern offering out...
  8. Mid-Grade Ford

    How to set up email alerts to customer when price drops

    Huh. I guess I'll have to test it out myself. When I asked I was told the opposite.
  9. Mid-Grade Ford

    To fence the lot or not to fence the lot. That is the question.

    Just had the annual meeting with our business insurance guy. I asked if removing the fences would affect our rates and he got kind of weird and gave a non-answer. Eventually he said he would get back to me (he didn't). Also, when he showed how our claims stats compared to other dealerships, we...
  10. Mid-Grade Ford

    How to set up email alerts to customer when price drops

    Yep, exactly. They do at least send it to us with a subsource that says "price drop alert" or something like that.
  11. Mid-Grade Ford

    How to set up email alerts to customer when price drops

    Hey guys, so we just got a new website provider. We switched from CDK/Sincro to DealerOn (couldn't be happier w the change). Anyways, both the old site and the new site have CTAs for price drop alerts. With the Sincro site, Sincro would handle sending the email to the customer whenever the...
  13. Mid-Grade Ford

    To fence the lot or not to fence the lot. That is the question.

    Yah! I was thinking if we can't lose the fence, maybe we could replace the barbed wire with electrification. Cooler and more visually appealing! You guys seen this company Anduril that's making autonomous drones (potentially to patrol the Southern border)? Hopefully in the future we can use...
  14. Mid-Grade Ford

    To fence the lot or not to fence the lot. That is the question.

    Hey, what are your guys thoughts on fencing the lot? We are one of the few dealerships in our area that is still fenced. I'm wondering if any one has de-fenced recently? Did your insurance cost go up? Did you do other stuff to protect the lot? Or for those who still have fences, what kind of...
  15. Mid-Grade Ford

    Process for cleaning the vehicles/lot after a big snow

    Nice! I still think the tarp idea could work! What if there were wires running through the tarp like a heated blanket? Could be a revolutionary product.
  16. Mid-Grade Ford

    Who is innovating?

    Anyone know if fortellis is still a thing? I'm trying to access CDK programmatically. Seems like they are the guys to go through, but they never respond when I email them. Not sure if they went under or what.
  17. Mid-Grade Ford

    Latest thoughts on CRM vendors

    Dang, well I am an in house developer so the idea of a product that I can modify to do exactly what I want actually sounds amazing. Works with plugins? Dang that's more than I can say for any dealer-centric CRM I've ever used. Also, last time I talked to SalesForce, they said they had a new...
  19. Mid-Grade Ford

    Process for cleaning the vehicles/lot after a big snow

    Yeah I was kinda hoping someone would reply with a link to a giant hair dryer I could order off of alibaba. Step 1 Order the giant hair dryer Step 2 Get forklift certified
  20. Mid-Grade Ford

    Latest thoughts on CRM vendors

    Oh dang, we only have like 15 users so at that price I think it would be even cheaper than the bargain bin, trash bag FordDirect CRM we currently use.
  21. Mid-Grade Ford

    Process for cleaning the vehicles/lot after a big snow

    Hello to my fellow Northern dealers. How do you guys clean the cars after a big snow day? Currently all our sales guys have to come early and help plow and brush the vehicles. Seems very tedious and always a decent chance someone slips and hurts themselves, or nicks a vehicle w the plow. Anyone...
  22. Mid-Grade Ford

    Latest thoughts on CRM vendors

    Anyone tried SalesForce? I'm dying to do a demo with them. So sick of the archaic UI of dealersocket/elead. Elead doesn't even have a freaking way to track link CTR in the email (despite the fact that they convert all your links to some janky dealerinfo.com url. I'm praying FordDirect starts...
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