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    Jeff Kershner: "I'd surround myself with GenY all day long if given the opportunity." Welp, quit your job, move back in with your...
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    Larry Lea replied to the thread Make Your Dealership a Gen Y Hiring Magnet: Part 1.
    Jade I understand the point you are trying to make I am just having a hard time reconciling the Gen Y attitude with certain...
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    Declan Lopez replied to the thread Make Your Dealership a Gen Y Hiring Magnet: Part 1.
    Wow ! what an nice blog.Thanks for sharing this information.Your information is really informative for us. Keep sharing more & more.....  
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    Boomer?  I'm not that old... but I do prefer vanilla over Jazzy Choco Fudge-A-Rific Chunk :)
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    Ryan-Love your tongue-in-cheek ads! Too bad I don't actually work in a dealership or I would challenge you to a friendly Craigslist...
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    Ryan Leslie replied to the thread Make Your Dealership a Gen Y Hiring Magnet: Part 1.
    Hey John, I sure hope that it didn't come across negatively. It was intended to be lighthearted for sure and I agree with almost...
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    Ryan Leslie replied to the thread Make Your Dealership a Gen Y Hiring Magnet: Part 1.
    Nicely written Jade. Somebody has to play the Devil's Advocate though, so I'm going to "fix" a couple of your messages, tongue firmly...
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    Making Your Dealership a Gen Y Hiring Magnet In my last article "Why You Should WANT Gen Y Workers in your Dealership", I talked about...
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    Joe Pistell replied to the thread From Bad To Great!.
    Jack Welch/GE/Sigma7 is where I get one of my mantras: Hug your top 20% Turn over your bottom 20% Train everyone in the middle...
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    Kevin Frye replied to the thread From Bad To Great!.
    Great job Jerry!
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    Jerry Thibeau replied to the thread From Bad To Great!.
    Bingo Jeff!  I have another dealer who just fired his manager (last week) because he was not willing to take the program serious.  I...
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    Stan Sher (blog) replied to the thread From Bad To Great!.
    Nice job...I guess you are pretty good.
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    Stan Sher (blog) replied to the thread From Bad To Great!.
    Nice job...I guess you are pretty good.
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    Joe Pistell replied to the thread From Bad To Great!.
    thnx Jerry!
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    Jerry Thibeau replied to the thread From Bad To Great!.
    Joe, I asked Tim that very question and he did not have an answer ready for me me when I interviewed him.  I can tell you that we're...
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    Joe Pistell replied to the thread From Bad To Great!.
    Jerry,  Great work!  Is it possible to tell me how many calls were needed to produce 79 appts? thnx!
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    Joe Pistell replied to the thread From Bad To Great!.
    Jerry,  Great work!  Is it possible to tell me how many calls were needed to produce 79 appts? thnx!
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    Jerry Thibeau replied to the thread From Bad To Great!.
    Jeff forgot to add the chart showing their progress.  Here it is:
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    Guest Poster posted the thread From Bad To Great! in Off Topic & Everything Else.
    This is a story of how one dealership went from bad to great on the telephone in just 6 months. Since I started Phone Ninjas in 2009, I...
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    Motorhome Storage replied to the thread IT, oh how I love thee.
    The fact is not simple. The fact is that we have developed a need that has changed since our original requirements. We have many users...
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    Motorhome Storage replied to the thread IT, oh how I love thee.
    The fact is not simple. The fact is that we have developed a need that has changed since our original requirements. We have many users...
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    Alex Snyder (blog) replied to the thread IT, oh how I love thee.
    I read that article when it came out earlier this week and again after you posted this Theron.  That is definitely the downside, but...
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    Theron Gammell (blog) replied to the thread IT, oh how I love thee.
    Then when the place gets cleaned out, they fire the IT guy...
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    Eric Miltsch (blog) replied to the thread IT, oh how I love thee.
    So true, the IT element of the dealership isn't easy. I've found that the IT dept. (me) needs to have a thicker skin than the car guys...
  • Alex Snyder
    I am a customer of the IT department.  I am not an IT expert.  I am just a customer. Ed Shaffer asked a simple question in the comment...
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