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The thread argues that car dealers should shift their vendor management strategy from obsessing over lead volume metrics to establishing true partnerships where vendors take responsibility for their tools' role in the complete sales journey. Key contributors emphasize that dealers must demand vendors align their KPIs with actual car sales outcomes, document clear scope and expectations, and innovate beyond lead generation—with one vendor noting that real progress happens when vendors treat dealer relationships as their own business. The emerging insight is that dealers have an "invisible internet audience" of website visitors who never generate tracked leads but still convert to sales, suggesting the industry has been measuring vendor success through the wrong metric entirely.