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    Longtime Cox/Traderpub employee replied to the thread Cox Auto Trader Makes Strategic Moves to Improve Online Automotive Advertising Business.
    MMK, do you work for Cox right now? If not, then it is reasonable to assume that you probably do not know what is going on. Being...
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    MMK replied to the thread Cox Auto Trader Makes Strategic Moves to Improve Online Automotive Advertising Business.
    I'm surprised that no one has commented here that these decisions were made in the wake of a truly atrocious year for the automotive...
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    Brian S. replied to the thread Cox Auto Trader Makes Strategic Moves to Improve Online Automotive Advertising Business.
    I feel for you Josh. Anytime a company puts incentives on collections and concentrates more on that than new business sales, something...
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    Josh R. replied to the thread Cox Auto Trader Makes Strategic Moves to Improve Online Automotive Advertising Business.
    I work for Auto Trader and the thing that has me worried and mad is that for some reason our branch gets paid on our receivables not on...
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    andy sypherd replied to the thread Cox Auto Trader Makes Strategic Moves to Improve Online Automotive Advertising Business.
    I totally agree that Cox did everything they could to eliminate these publications. I was a long time employee and unfortunately saw...
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    Matt replied to the thread Cox Auto Trader Makes Strategic Moves to Improve Online Automotive Advertising Business.
    Scott @ CarsForSale.com Your website is a pretty blatant copy of AutoTrader.com. You need to make your website a little more...
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    Longtime Cox/Traderpub employee replied to the thread Cox Auto Trader Makes Strategic Moves to Improve Online Automotive Advertising Business.
    Actually, that is not correct, Cox did not buy anything. When Trader Publishing was started in 91, it was half owned by Landmark, half...
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    Need another print book replied to the thread Cox Auto Trader Makes Strategic Moves to Improve Online Automotive Advertising Business.
    I'm sad for the people that lost their jobs. The print gave us a lot of biz to and are rep was great. They have too many wesbites...
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    Dan Stapleton replied to the thread Cox Auto Trader Makes Strategic Moves to Improve Online Automotive Advertising Business.
    This company went downhill about 2 years after Cox purchased the company. I think the sales manager in San Diego hung himself and their...
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    Also about to be jobless replied to the thread Cox Auto Trader Makes Strategic Moves to Improve Online Automotive Advertising Business.
    I''ve been with the company for going on 7 years as a graphic artist for Cox Auto Mart and our last day will be February 6...Waiting to...
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    Jennifer Schrader (blog) replied to the thread Cox Auto Trader Makes Strategic Moves to Improve Online Automotive Advertising Business.
    I am blown away by this. I feel horrible for all that are in this position of losing their jobs and all. From what I have read they tend...
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    Cox Employee replied to the thread Cox Auto Trader Makes Strategic Moves to Improve Online Automotive Advertising Business.
    To, "about to be jobless," yes know DP pretty well, just had a class w/ him a few wks back. My top two reps are in Atlanta now being...
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    about to be jobless replied to the thread Cox Auto Trader Makes Strategic Moves to Improve Online Automotive Advertising Business.
    DP was my regional. Once the local manager left, we had a great temporary fill-in for a short while. After that, they just let it slide...
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    eddie m replied to the thread Cox Auto Trader Makes Strategic Moves to Improve Online Automotive Advertising Business.
    I too was a 12 year management employee at Cox. This is a heck of a way to blow 1.7 Billion. The real reason to close the pubs down is...
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    Cox Employee replied to the thread Cox Auto Trader Makes Strategic Moves to Improve Online Automotive Advertising Business.
    "About to be Jobless" - my top reps were still billing $25k/wk & $12k/wk. Despite the economy we barely skipped a beat. Give me the...
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    Employee replied to the thread Cox Auto Trader Makes Strategic Moves to Improve Online Automotive Advertising Business.
    I have to agree, the management is very poor and unprofessional. They were slow to react to economic changes locally and changes...
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    Longtime Cox/Traderpub employee replied to the thread Cox Auto Trader Makes Strategic Moves to Improve Online Automotive Advertising Business.
    I have been employed with Trader Publishing, now Cox for 8 years. The beginning of the end was when the company was split in to a...
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    Observer (blog) replied to the thread Cox Auto Trader Makes Strategic Moves to Improve Online Automotive Advertising Business.
    This is all terrible news. God bless the employees and their families that have been wronged after years of providing loyal service. SS...
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    Mattie replied to the thread Cox Auto Trader Makes Strategic Moves to Improve Online Automotive Advertising Business.
    I sympathize with those impacted by this layoff. I believe Cox will cull as much business as they can from the print reps they took on...
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    HORRIBLE NEWS replied to the thread Cox Auto Trader Makes Strategic Moves to Improve Online Automotive Advertising Business.
    To comment on the rest of the bad news the rest who are staying on with Auto trader Latino formerly Auto Mercado will later be let go as...
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    Amazed replied to the thread Cox Auto Trader Makes Strategic Moves to Improve Online Automotive Advertising Business.
    This is amazing to me. I can understand why Auto Mart Magazine was not profitible with their heavy discounting but there had to be...
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    about to be jobless replied to the thread Cox Auto Trader Makes Strategic Moves to Improve Online Automotive Advertising Business.
    To "cox employee" what is the average your reps were billing weekly?
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    about to be jobless replied to the thread Cox Auto Trader Makes Strategic Moves to Improve Online Automotive Advertising Business.
    My unethical, corrupt GED-holding Regional gave me the news about losing my job over the phone. He said the severence would be similar...
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    Scott Simmons replied to the thread Cox Auto Trader Makes Strategic Moves to Improve Online Automotive Advertising Business.
    O.K. Mike. Thanks for the advice. We will try to do better this year. Produce good results. Get shorter name. Thank you Michael.
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    Mike (blog) replied to the thread Cox Auto Trader Makes Strategic Moves to Improve Online Automotive Advertising Business.
    Scott, Shameless plug for sure. Not only that but what value will your site bring to dealers? Your site name is too long, I would...
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