Podcast: How Service and Sales Can Work Together
Noel Walsh, CEO of NW&A Sales Training, joins us to discuss how service and sales can work together for the betterment of the dealership.
Podcast: How Digital Assistants Can Work
Michael Markette, partner at Market Tech Consulting, joins us to discuss digital assistants and how they can work for your dealership.
Paragon Builds the Dealership of the Future with Google
Paragon Automotive, the largest Honda and Acura dealer in the nation, has experienced significant year-over-year growth in market share and profitability every year over the last 10 years. The dealership has continued to reinvent itself in an effort to pursue constant, never-ending improvement.
The Chatbot Won’t Save Your Business
Chatbots: the latest buzzword in the automotive industry. Effective solution or hype?
As all this talk about chatbots comes to the forefront of our lives, we need to take a hard look at reality versus science fiction. Right now, the machine-learning industry is the driving force of the chatbot ecosystem, while the technology world works toward the world of real artificial intelligence (AI).
Emerging Frontrunner: The Power of Video
Armed with this knowledge, it’s time to take a look at your dealership’s video strategy. How does it fit into your greater comprehensive marketing approach? Are you leveraging this channel to its full potential right now and giving yourself a foundation to build on in the near future?
Podcast: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Eric Brown of LotLinx speaks with us about using artificial intelligence and machine learning to connect with your dealership’s customers and to serve them more effectively.
The Convenient Truth
Anyone who has been in our business for some time can tell you the auto industry has changed dramatically — and so have our client’s habits and expectations. For today’s client, convenience is everything.
Continuing the Incredible Climb
“People can be resistant to change, so you break that resistance down by embracing it, understanding it and putting focus on it. By embracing it, our team adapts to change pretty well.”
Podcast: Building a Dealership for the Future
Chris Lee, general manager of McCarthy Chevrolet, speaks with us on how to build a dealership to take on the future. mccarthychevyls.com
In a Jetsons’ World, It’s the Flinstone Mentality That Will Win
But as we continue to try to keep up with constant innovation and make sense of this whirlwind of information, a lot of us have forgotten the most important part of our business: relationships.
Preparing Your Dealership for Autonomous Vehicles
Although the future of autonomous vehicles seems like it’s light years away, it will be here before we know it. Dealerships need to start preparing now. Make sure you have an efficient, time-tested process to provide the best customer experience and keep them coming back for years to come.
Stronger Together
The experts are predicting trends for the industry that may or may not come true, and dealerships need to have plans in place for any eventuality. And, if 2017 taught us anything, it’s that nature can always have the final say in how we do business, or if we can open at all.
