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    John B (blog) replied to the thread Autotrader.com Annual Sales Meeting 2009 - Another Side of AutoTrader?.
    Oh, and by the way -- ATC doesn't "control" any inventory -- the dealers do.
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    John B (blog) replied to the thread Autotrader.com Annual Sales Meeting 2009 - Another Side of AutoTrader?.
    Kool-aid, Obviously, based on your comments you do not know how the Comscore data is generated. You are exactly the problem with AT --...
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    Kool-Aid replied to the thread Autotrader.com Annual Sales Meeting 2009 - Another Side of AutoTrader?.
    I forgot to mention...Most consnumers appraise their trade or research at KBB.com, Edmunds.com, or NADA.com before they go into the...
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    Kool-Aid replied to the thread Autotrader.com Annual Sales Meeting 2009 - Another Side of AutoTrader?.
    John B...Let's see...Cars.com averaged 8 million unique visitors per month in 2007. Leap forward to 2009 and according to the latest...
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    John B (blog) replied to the thread Autotrader.com Annual Sales Meeting 2009 - Another Side of AutoTrader?.
    Jim, I liked your comments however Cars.com is not a "distant second" in reality. Here's why... AT likes to use traffic sites like...
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    John B (blog) replied to the thread Autotrader.com Annual Sales Meeting 2009 - Another Side of AutoTrader?.
    Mike, Keep spewing that nonsense about "a limited number of Partnerships available in a DMA". You drank the Kool-aid. A District...
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    Geoff Chisholm replied to the thread Autotrader.com Annual Sales Meeting 2009 - Another Side of AutoTrader?.
    Before you guys spend big money with ATC or Cars.com, make sure you are tracking the ACTUAL independent leads generated from these guys...
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    Jim replied to the thread Autotrader.com Annual Sales Meeting 2009 - Another Side of AutoTrader?.
    Like it or not, it's the age of the internet. And from the venom spilled here by a some crying sour grapes because the price they paid...
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    MiketheATCguy replied to the thread Autotrader.com Annual Sales Meeting 2009 - Another Side of AutoTrader?.
    John B The bottom line is why is there a Premium section? Because dealers asked for it. How many times do you think a dealer has said...
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    John B (blog) replied to the thread Autotrader.com Annual Sales Meeting 2009 - Another Side of AutoTrader?.
    Mike, Your comparison to newspaper placement is exactly the problem with AT. AT is an internet site trying structure itself like a...
  • J
    Joe Diaz replied to the thread Autotrader.com Annual Sales Meeting 2009 - Another Side of AutoTrader?.
    meant to say above “...in order to pre-prepare IN ADVANCE and utilise forward planning… ”
  • J
    Joe Diaz replied to the thread Autotrader.com Annual Sales Meeting 2009 - Another Side of AutoTrader?.
    At the end of the day, there's a paradigm shift of the strategic staircase; to reverse wrongsiding the demographic by leveraging talents...
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    MiketheATCguy replied to the thread Autotrader.com Annual Sales Meeting 2009 - Another Side of AutoTrader?.
    As to the selling of positioning on ATC. All media does it. Radio and Television charge more for prime time spots. The newspaper gives...
  • J
    John B (blog) replied to the thread Autotrader.com Annual Sales Meeting 2009 - Another Side of AutoTrader?.
    ... meant to say above "This is why you really DON'T see your AT rep until cancellation time"...
  • J
    John B (blog) replied to the thread Autotrader.com Annual Sales Meeting 2009 - Another Side of AutoTrader?.
    As a former AT employee, it is not surprising that you did not get the service you needed after the sale at AT. It was never the focus...
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    MiketheATCguy replied to the thread Autotrader.com Annual Sales Meeting 2009 - Another Side of AutoTrader?.
    Wow; as a new ATC Ad consultant; all this pent up venom really surprised me. I've been with ATC since June 08. Prior to that it was five...
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    Joe Diaz replied to the thread Autotrader.com Annual Sales Meeting 2009 - Another Side of AutoTrader?.
    Soon, when it's too late, you'll see what I'm talking about. I'll let all of you find out for yourselves. For years, no one at the SEC...
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    Trader Hokie replied to the thread Autotrader.com Annual Sales Meeting 2009 - Another Side of AutoTrader?.
    Joe-- Lay off of David Metter. He didn't drink too much of the Kool-Aid. If you're familiar at all with the Mile One Group, you'd know...
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    Joe Diaz replied to the thread Autotrader.com Annual Sales Meeting 2009 - Another Side of AutoTrader?.
    Oh yea, the Kool-Aid flows freely and all are required to overindulge; same as with the HEAVY drinking, high fiving and back stab... er...
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    Bill Young replied to the thread Autotrader.com Annual Sales Meeting 2009 - Another Side of AutoTrader?.
    Trader Hokie- Yes, the same. Alpha Dominator..... On top of the $6500 or so we pay as a partner an additional $3000/mo. That is for one...
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    Trader Hokie replied to the thread Autotrader.com Annual Sales Meeting 2009 - Another Side of AutoTrader?.
    One more thing… I hate to put it this way, but ATC IS a necessary evil for dealers everywhere. It’s not their fault, they just built...
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    Trader Hokie replied to the thread Autotrader.com Annual Sales Meeting 2009 - Another Side of AutoTrader?.
    Bill-- What's the Dominator package? Is it that big orange ad at the top of the page? With the banner in the middle of the page, and...
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    TraderHokie replied to the thread Autotrader.com Annual Sales Meeting 2009 - Another Side of AutoTrader?.
    One more thing… I hate to put it this way, but ATC IS a necessary evil for dealers everywhere. It’s not their fault, they just built...
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    TraderHokie replied to the thread Autotrader.com Annual Sales Meeting 2009 - Another Side of AutoTrader?.
    Ok. So I've decided to put my two cents in here. I've been lurking around here too, and have been reading a lot of the same stuff on a...
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    Stan Sher (blog) replied to the thread Autotrader.com Annual Sales Meeting 2009 - Another Side of AutoTrader?.
    David, Please keep doing guest posts they are interesting and I want you to know that I am a big fan. Keep up the good work...
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