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TV’s Not Dead. Our Imaginations Are.

A curious byproduct of the data age is that, despite our access to technology that lets us segment, dissect, and analyze like never before, we tend to talk about marketing in sweepingly broad terms, often limiting our discussions to the platforms themselves. You’ve heard this conversation, I’m sure—“What’s your Facebook spend? Are you doing any …
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An Argument for Personalization in 2015

Okay, we get it. 2015 is the year of Customer Experience. But what is the first tangible step that a dealership can take toward not just better customer experience, but the sort of award winning, mind blowing, shareworthy, life changing customer experience that will convert your prospects into loyalists? The answer is so simple it …
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Why We Said No to Yelp Ads Twice: In Response to Yelp’s Dylan Swift

  Dylan Swift, Yelp’s Director of National Marketing, spoke this morning at the Driving Sales Executive Summit to a predictably tepid audience. The presentation included a lot of the same old statistics we’ve seen about the rise of mobile trends, and then abruptly ended. Charlie Vogelheim, looking dashing in his velvet tuxedo jacket, asked a …
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Authenticity for Car Dealers: Engaging Generation C

In response to Jordan Hyatt’s Presentation at Digital Summit at Mountain View At the Digital Summit at Mountain View, Jordan Hyatt, Google’s Senior Product and Solutions Specialist of Automotive, gave a presentation called “The Power of YouTube: Video for Dealers,” in which he discussed the concerns of Generation C: the YouTube Generation. Mr. Hyatt called …