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Patrick (blog) replied to the thread Mobile Social Networking Apps WILL Threaten Your Dealers Online Reputation!.
Good timing with this article. I just stumbled upon Foursquare a couple weeks ago; this app can also be actively used by sales...
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Steve Barrett replied to the thread Mobile Social Networking Apps WILL Threaten Your Dealers Online Reputation!.
I provided our customers with a list of many of the top review sites. They could submit a review to as many as they wished....adding a...
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Steve Barrett replied to the thread Mobile Social Networking Apps WILL Threaten Your Dealers Online Reputation!.
I did a handout/mailer that suggested some top sites: Google Maps, Local.com, Citysearch, Yahoo Local, Yellowpages.com, etc.
The beauty...
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Alex Snyder (blog) replied to the thread Mobile Social Networking Apps WILL Threaten Your Dealers Online Reputation!.
Steve - how many review sites are there? I can think of 30 that just belong to local radio stations, TV networks, and newspapers in my...
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Steve Barrett replied to the thread Mobile Social Networking Apps WILL Threaten Your Dealers Online Reputation!.
Alex wrote:
"It is just impossible to get your happy customers to write positive reviews on every review site."...
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Alex Snyder (blog) replied to the thread Mobile Social Networking Apps WILL Threaten Your Dealers Online Reputation!.
Glad you brought this up Jeff. It is a bigger deal than anyone is giving these kinds of things credit for. I have to commend...
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lfinney replied to the thread eLead Reports a Record Year - PR.
Well, I will say I have spent my last three days with the Elead install as a new client. We bit the bullet and decide to change CRM...
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bpulseadmin posted the thread eLead Reports a Record Year - PR in Automotive News, Press Releases, and Events.
Industry Leading Automotive CRM Provider Attributes Record Growth to Product Enhancements, Key Personnel Additions and Impressive Dealer...
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bpulseadmin posted the thread Contact At Once! Announces Appointment of Skip Dowd as Vice President of Business Development in Automotive News, Press Releases, and Events.
Former AutoMart executive to join leading provider of live chat for car dealers
ATLANTA, GA – January 20, 2010 – Contact At Once!, LLC...
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D. Rawls replied to the thread Internet Managers Know it All; Their Dealer Principals, Not So Much.
Sounds Good Steve;
As recently as mid-December I had the fate of joining the ranks of your previous employer. The idea that the...
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Stan Sher (blog) replied to the thread Internet Managers Know it All; Their Dealer Principals, Not So Much.
I think that Dealer Principles just try to get a scope of what is going on without really digging too deep. They figure since they are...
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Craig Belowski replied to the thread Internet Managers Know it All; Their Dealer Principals, Not So Much.
As a GSM it was never my first choice to be an Internet Manager. However I do like to feed my family, so I figured it was make the...
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Jeff Reardon replied to the thread Internet Managers Know it All; Their Dealer Principals, Not So Much.
Skip - Send your dealer principal and GM a link to the NCM seminars Steve is writing about.
Of course, if they don't get off their rear...
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Skip Shakely replied to the thread Internet Managers Know it All; Their Dealer Principals, Not So Much.
Funny reading this makes me think of what I go through daily with upper level and junior (deskmen) managers and the lack of motivation...
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Alex Snyder (blog) replied to the thread Internet Managers Know it All; Their Dealer Principals, Not So Much.
Nice article Steve!
I would like to reiterate the point about not keeping information to one's self. There are certain things I don't...
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tallahasseeautomall replied to the thread Internet Managers Know it All; Their Dealer Principals, Not So Much.
It is not easy to manage a company. It is even more difficult to promote a business especially when there is stiff competition. That is...
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DealerGroup replied to the thread Internet Managers Know it All; Their Dealer Principals, Not So Much.
I wish the knowledge gap stopped at the GM or principal level, but it permeates the corporate offices of large dealer groups too.
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Matt DoCampo replied to the thread Internet Managers Know it All; Their Dealer Principals, Not So Much.
The thread title made me chuckle a bit. I'm actually doing some work for another GM in our company and he's pretty clueless. As are...
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Guest Poster posted the thread Internet Managers Know it All; Their Dealer Principals, Not So Much in Off Topic & Everything Else.
Running from Training?
Just as some top athletes train by running, many senior managers in the automotive industry run from training...
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Chris in Buffalo replied to the thread Doing Twitter the Wrong Way.
I agree that Twitter is a side-note within our marketing strategy we should not ignore. And since it takes so little time to attend to...
Wei Yang replied to the thread Doing Twitter the Wrong Way.
There are a number of ways dealers aren't doing Twitter or social media correctly. How many dealerships have you seen redesign their...
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Kevin Frye replied to the thread Doing Twitter the Wrong Way.
Both are great comments - but has Twitter really helped you sell more cars or create more service RO's? Really??? Yes, we do Twitter...
Eric Miltsch replied to the thread Doing Twitter the Wrong Way.
@Jeff - thanks for reposting Amit's original; should serve as a gentle nudge for many.
@Stan - Twitter as a brand may be a fad, however...
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Wendy S replied to the thread Doing Twitter the Wrong Way.
Twitter as well as other social media is now a necessary evil. For every dealer that does not use Twitter to reach out to potential...
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SMStan replied to the thread Doing Twitter the Wrong Way.
Twitter is one big electronic Macarena. It is a glorified email listserv. It is a broadcast media channel in an age where we have too...