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...
View ArticleThe Best Internet Sales Process Ever!
Let’s be clear about the best “anything” when it comes to helping dealers sell cars: This new, best “thing” is only as good as the execution by your team. The best CRM for you and your team, for...
View Article10 Key Takeaways from the ‘Data Doesn’t Lie’ Panel Discussion (DSES 2017)
In October 2017 I had the honor of co-moderating a panel discussion at the DrivingSales Executive Summit. Together with fellow attribution front runner, Steve White, Founder & CEO of Clarivoy, and...
View ArticleConfused by Attribution and Analytics? Don’t Sweat It!
You Don’t Need a PhD in Google Analytics, Attribution Models or Calculus to Hold Your Vendors Accountable There’s been so much talk about and money being spent on marketing attribution and analytics...
View ArticleDealing with a Blacklisted CRM and Measuring your Response Rate.
Skip to the point if you don’t care to read the backstory. I sit back, this morning, amazed at how unreliable email delivery is. It might be getting worse and worse every year. Due to abusive...
View ArticleDominion contracts CRMSuite (formerly iMagicLab) as CRM solution
Dominion Dealer Solutions announced today the launch of its new CRM, Dominion VisionTM. The most advanced automotive CRM in the market today, Dominion Vision combines the most intuitive CRM interface...
View ArticleWas I Too Dumb for CRM?
In the early aughts, my dealership invested in a CRM system. I was basically a sales guy/assistant manager who (quite by accident) had championed/embraced internet leads, and whipped-up an internal...
View ArticleFuture of CRM
You know the biggest players: eLead, VinSolutions, DealerSocket, and Reynolds Contact Manager, but do you know when they were originally coded? I believe the newest one of that pack came to market in...
View ArticleHow Customer Reviews Enrich Attribution Insights
Many automotive dealerships listen solely to CRM data and whatever they can learn from Google Analytics to understand and attribute the factors that influence a customer’s purchase decision. Both tools...
View Article7 Seismic Shifts Coming to Automotive CRM
We live in a world where new technology swirls around us at a relentless and often dizzying pace, yet as we look closer inside the automotive industry and one particular area – the CRM – the winds are...
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