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What Traditional Dealerships Can Learn from Carvana

If you’ve been in the car industry, you’ve probably heard of the new dealership on the block, Carvana. They are known for their car vending machines. That’s right, vending machines. Carvana’s mission is “to change the way people buy cars by providing a completely painless and transparent car buying experience online, eliminating the need to …

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Can a $100 Chatbot Really Replace 2 BDC Agents?

Can a $100 Chatbot Really Replace 2 BDC Agents? Before I answer the question posed in the title, let’s agree on a few things: Facebook is not going away; Most of your customers are already there; Your kitten pictures and inventory vomits aren’t being read; and Facebook Ads work, but you need to start …

Are You Closing Your Appointments at 80% or Better?

Learn how to provide The Perfect Appointment in your dealership and enjoy 80% show rates and 80% close rates! In 2013, we officially introduced dealers to The Appointment Culture as an answer to the dozens of worthless activities we observed managers, salespeople and BDC agents conducting in some effort to appear as if they were …

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Stop Overthinking Your Emails!

Overthinking Your Emails and Email Templates? Between prepping for 20-Group presentations to serving our regular clients, we mystery shop scores of dealers each month – reading their emails (mostly templates) and texts, and listening to their voicemails – and while we’ve seen definite overall improvement over the years, one aspect of the internet sales process …

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Hey, Mike Jackson: So Call Me, Maybe

So Call Me, Maybe (Author’s Note: While the title of this post might lead you to believe this is all about AutoNation, it is not. The issues addressed here are common across nearly every large dealership group I encounter – publicly traded or private.) … Hey Mike Jackson, is it true you wrote the following …

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Some Website “Expert” Adjusted Your Buttons, And It’s Costing You Sales!

Website Buttons… and why in the world are you letting self-appointed “experts” screw everything up? There are two quotes from baseball’s late, great Rocky Bridges that I just love: “Albuquerque: You can’t spell it, but you can smell it.” and “There are three things the average man thinks he can do better than anybody else: …

Self-Driving Cars: the Winners the Losers

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How America’s New Car Dealers Can Prepare – For the Coming Autonomous Vehicle Disruption

As I wrote in 2015’s Self-Driving Cars: the Winners and the Losers, new car dealers will be among the “Obvious Losers” when, not if, self-driving vehicles become ubiquitous. However, I also predicted that this evolution wouldn’t likely begin impacting new car dealers before 2025. My timeline has actually contracted a little in the last year and …

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Mystery Shops: What You Don’t Know Could Be Dangerous!

I’ve often heard top process people say something like “The first step to process improvement is understanding what needs to be improved.” Knowing, they say, is half the battle. We mystery shop hundreds of dealers each year and like to think we learn something new with each shop. Certainly, the shop reports can be eye-opening …

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The First Call Should Be the ONLY Call

One of the greatest challenges for dealers trying to master the internet is getting over their own preconceived notions about what internet sales entail. As I’ve been writing throughout this this 7-part series, internet sales are not hard; they’re not mysterious and they’re certainly not anything to overthink. My hope has been to detail in …

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Email Templates can be Personal AND Automated

Internet sales are easy! There, I said it (or rather, wrote it.) Let me be clear: internet sales are about as black and white as anything we do in the car business – they really are. The problem is we tend to overcomplicate things we don’t understand; and traditional automotive sales managers have (for the …

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steve stauning – Page 3 – DealerRefresh

What Traditional Dealerships Can Learn from Carvana

Are You Closing Your Appointments at 80% or Better?

Stop Overthinking Your Emails!

Hey, Mike Jackson: So Call Me, Maybe

Some Website “Expert” Adjusted Your Buttons, And It’s Costing You Sales!

How America’s New Car Dealers Can Prepare – For the Coming Autonomous Vehicle Disruption

Mystery Shops: What You Don’t Know Could Be Dangerous!

The First Call Should Be the ONLY Call

Email Templates can be Personal AND Automated