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video: Why Car Dealers will always fail at Social Media

Joe, Do you think implementing Social later than some others hurt you at all? Or were your energies better spent where they were spent over the past two years?

Ed,

This is exactly why I avoided Social for the last few years. Time is not infinite. If I spend time developing Social, then what will it income generating project will it replace? Social has always remained on page ten on my todo list.

Late start has no bearing as it was never a concern nor a resource to shoppers to begin with.
 
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A dealer principal shares a Guy Kawasaki video about "enchantment" to argue that dealers fail at social media because their culture prioritizes short-term commissions over creating genuine value and trustworthiness. The thread explores the tension between dealers' transaction-focused mentality and what social media actually rewards—authentic engagement and culture—with participants debating whether early adoption matters and how social media's role in dealership strategy will evolve.

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