Customer Relationships
Reimagining The Parts Return Process, an Interview with Jennifer Jones, Global Lifetime Warranty Manager at Ford Motor Company
Jennifer was encouraged by her high school science teacher to pursue her love of math and science with a career in engineering. When it came to...
Community Minded Marketing Strategy
Marketing, customer-dealer interaction, and even your website are more than just the sales process, it is engagement with your community. Are you...
Bucket Filler or Bucket Dipper?
There are two types of people in life. Bucket dippers and bucket fillers. People that invest into others and pour their time, effort & energy into...
Building Summits: Creating value through Networks
We sat down with Pam Walter, the VP of Business Development for Thought Leadership Summits, the producer of CXAUTO Summit Series and Founder of...
Seeking and Creating Environments that Honor People: How Sarah Vantine is changing the BDC
In preparation for our meeting with Sarah Vantine of Quantum5, we spent time researching the company and reviewing her profile. Anything but ordinary...
Disruption is the New Normal
Disruption. One of the buzz words lately over-used and misunderstood. The standard business definition is “radical change to an existing industry or...
Communication Has Changed: A Conversation with Joe Shaker
How do you interview someone who is truly an industry heavyweight, a Massachusetts Dealer of the Year, the CEO of a Tech Company, and who has been...
Disruption is Change
In the automotive industry we usually connect the word disruption to some up-and-coming vendor program, product, or new technology. When really...
Curing your COVID Hangover
If you ordered a new vehicle and were told it could take a few weeks to come in, and all you had to do was leave a deposit and wait, you’d be pretty...
Changing the Narrative to Sustainable Profit
I can vividly remember discussing a car deal with a sales manager and him telling me, “Get all the profit you can, it’s not like they are going to be...
The Not-So-Hidden Gold Mine That Could Increase Dealership Revenue Instantly
A customer for life goes a long way in automotive. It’s not just the vehicle purchase, it’s everything that comes with it: maintenance, service,...
Emotional Intelligence: A Good Dealership Habit To Pick Up
You may have never thought of it this way, but problems at dealerships usually walk through your office door on two (2) legs: Either with customers...
