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    Please explain to me why i should be excited about having another site where I have to worry about getting customers to leave reviews...
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    You may have seen some comments from me on the message boards, but for anyone interested in who I am (Nick Hummer) and why I wrote this...
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    Cathlyn replied to the thread Crazy Sexy Content Marketing: Get in the Game.
    Jade - you have a great article here. Articles are really great tool nowadays especially for building relationship and company branding...
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    BrianPasch (blog) replied to the thread Crazy Sexy Content Marketing: Get in the Game.
    Jade Bravo!  Great article.  I am a strong advocate and practitioner of content marketing and all I can say is that it works!  Now, why...
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      Whoever said content doesn’t sell products was seriously disturbed. Starting now, content marketing has eclipsed traditional sales...
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    1to1 News replied to the thread 7 Easy Ways To Get More of Your Emails Opened.
     @Dealerrefresh Thank everyone for your nice comments. And Vicki, thanks too for adding the Google Analytics info.
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    vickioneill replied to the thread 7 Easy Ways To Get More of Your Emails Opened.
    Great post, Malinda! Thanks for sharing. Google Analytics can be a great resource for determining "timing" of sending emails. Here's the...
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    Alex Snyder (blog) replied to the thread 7 Easy Ways To Get More of Your Emails Opened.
    These are fantastic tips Malinda!
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    If you could improve the performance of each of your email campaigns by 10% - what would that mean to your sales and service revenue in...
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    blogproautomo replied to the thread The Future of The Dealership’s Web Presence.
    Just finished reading through everyone's comments. I remember reading your post Kyle when it first went up. I was curious to see what...
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     @Kyle Suss  By all means, I am an advocate of making the entire shopping experience easier and more relevant.  I think there are ways...
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    Kyle Suss replied to the thread The Future of The Dealership’s Web Presence.
     @terrencegordon Hey Terrence. I understand your position. Let me create an example for you.   Say Mark comes to my site on Tuesday and...
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    Kyle Suss replied to the thread The Future of The Dealership’s Web Presence.
     @JoePistell By HIPPO you mean "Herbivore Induced Plant Protection Odor" right? ;)   Haha had to look that acronym up and there were...
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    Kyle Suss replied to the thread The Future of The Dealership’s Web Presence.
    Hi Mark. Great feedback. I look forward to the future of the dealer's web presence and hope to bring some new ideas to the table in the...
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    Kyle, excellent forward-thinking post, and a good debate!   I'm going to disagree slightly with your prediction...on prediction ;)   As...
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    JoePistell replied to the thread The Future of The Dealership’s Web Presence.
     @Kyle Suss  At this hour, I am not a fan of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to improve the user experience.  IMO, our sites User Interface...
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    JoePistell replied to the thread The Future of The Dealership’s Web Presence.
    Kyle S!  A brother from a different mother!  We're on the same page and you nailed it!     To expand on you theme,  optimizing a site...
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    Kyle Suss replied to the thread The Future of The Dealership’s Web Presence.
     @bwood I think it really depends on the situation/CMS/etc. In the article, I was referring to something like the Google Prediction API...
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    bwood replied to the thread The Future of The Dealership’s Web Presence.
    You had mentioned third party tools that can help with website personalization.  Do you have any examples?  I was looking at Reedge.com...
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    Marc (blog) replied to the thread The Future of The Dealership’s Web Presence.
    Kyle, great post.  I come from a varied background of B2B and major retail B2C, so I get the perspective from both sides.  The...
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    Kyle Suss replied to the thread The Future of The Dealership’s Web Presence.
     @NetBizCoach Thanks, Mike. I tried to avoid implying that these tools were the responsibility of the vendors after our previous...
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    Kyle Suss replied to the thread The Future of The Dealership’s Web Presence.
     @lgoering Gotcha. Yeah, I feel like it would have to be more well known to gain traction. That being said, I know a lot of people value...
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     @Kyle Suss  @lgoering From what I understand, the Do Not Track button would prevent the cookies from being stored so there would be no...
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    NetBizCoach replied to the thread The Future of The Dealership’s Web Presence.
    Nice post Kyle.   The key in my mind to getting this kind of tool working as intended would be to allow anonymous user feedback along...
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    Kyle Suss replied to the thread The Future of The Dealership’s Web Presence.
     @lgoering Hadn't heard of Do Not Track until now; however, I just read an article that said:   "Once finalized, these standards won't...
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