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    Cargurus reviews

    Hey guys, I just noticed customers leaving reviews on my dealership profile page on Cargurus but what I don't understand is if these are real customers and if they are who is prompting them to leave a review and how are they leaving a review? I have reasons to believe that some of those...
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    Tracking on-site VDP's and SRP's with Google analytics

    Hey guys, Since I have my made my own content management system for my site. It is working really great, I am able to track traffic but the only things missing are the inventory statistics. I want to be able to track VDP's and SRP's of my inventory through Google analytics. I do not want to...
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    New Macbook pro for christmas!

    How do you compare VMWare to Parallels, I was reading a couple of reviews online and a lot of people are recommending parallels! Also using a virtual machine will it lag your computer? Thanks a lot those bags look awesome, specially that messenger bag! I will definitely order one. I tried...
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    New Macbook pro for christmas!

    Hey guys, I just ordered a new Macbook pro for work + for home. I told myself I need one amazing computer for at least the next 4 years and I believe it was worth the investment! What I got: Macbook Pro 15” 2.4GHz quad-coreIntel Core i7 8GB ram 750GB HD @ 7,200rpm Hi-Res Glossy Widescreen...
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    Google places reviews

    Everyone has some excellent points in this discussion. I would like to note that my dealership has been open since 2003 and I have 0 reviews on yelp or google reviews. The dealer I am currently at is a volume dealership (7,300 units/year) and all the reviews online date from 2007 and they are...
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    Google places reviews

    Hey guys, I have been reading about on-site reviews for a while and decided to do reviews with customers once a day. Real customers that are happy with the service they are getting at my store right before the delivery of the car. I opened my google places account and I just bought an iPad for...
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    Closing & Delivery percentage

    Hey guys, Let's compare some numbers, I have been in the same dealership all my life and I would like to compare to other people to find out area's where we can improve. One of the numbers we look at our dealership is our average walking vs signature (deposit) and our percentage of...
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    Reynolds Form Programming

    Why don't you use contact management, I believe it provides a true integration with reynolds and saves the emails in the software. I have never thought of keeping the emails in reynolds. If you had to send a newsletter to all your customers, would you then have to export it then give the list to...
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    Any DriveItNow Experiences?

    Sorry for the bump on this thread but since its on "Deals for Dealers" I had a question, At our independent used car dealership what we are most proud of is our back-end f&i average. I proposed this to my f&i's and they are all against it claiming that it will lower the back-end average. Then...
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    vAuto effectiveness!

    Hey guys, This is the first month for us at our dealership to be using vAuto, how effective has it been in your dealership ? Did the "typical car guy" understand the data ? Because we using it but we still have some "cowboys" (as I like to call them), who still go out and buy on top of there...
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    Who Chats For Your Dealership?

    We have a designated salesman that only does e-mail & chat. I think it's great to have someone qualified to this, because the typical "car salesman" can certainly close but they are still the old mentality and don't believe in internet leads....yet = ]
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    Traditional marketing

    Yeah, all those books with a bunch of cars on them that you can pick up for free. I personally think it's dying out but I would like to know what other people think. - Rick
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    Traditional marketing

    Hey guys, I wanted what you guys think about traditional ways of marketing. I know alot of my stores sales are from the internet, how effective is those car & truck magazines and other magazines these days for the auto industry ? Personally, I find it painful looking for cars in those old...
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    Need help Windows 7 and Reynolds.

    I have windows 7 64 bit, and I wasn't able to load era on it. I called reynolds and they weren't able to do it either. Does anyone know a fix to this ?