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How Google’s Website Ranks Website Vendors for Average SEO, Accessibility, and Best Practice Scores
How Do You Measure Up? We’ve now written three articles on how Google views our industry for speed and performance. We touched on Page Speed, Speed...

Transparency And Trust: Overcoming Negative Price Perception, an Interview with Art Shaw, CEO of RepairPal
"I have built a framework from the best of everyone I ever paid attention to, and I don't read many books. I don't have a lot of time," Art smiles as...

ASOTUCON: These are a few of my favorite things
From the venue to the guest list to the panel-style workshops, this conference lived up to its infamous tagline, “the rebirth of the automotive...

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...

Optimizing Quality Management Between Stakeholders To Reduce Warranty Risk and Costs: An Interview with Jason Payne, Founder, JPSI
When Jason Payne graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering, he also sold the web design company that he had started in his...

Enabling The Dealer Network To Optimize Parts, Service & Warranty To Drive Service Profitability: An Interview with Ashok Kartham, Chief Product Officer, Syncron
“In 1995, as web adoption was excelling and Internet browsers were engaging users I realized three key things. One, there was a clear opportunity for...

How Google’s Website Ranking Factors Rank Website Vendors Part One
How do you measure up? PART ONE In our previous two articles, we wrote about how Google uses its software to assess a website’s performance, from...

The Best Parking Lot Strategy
I'll be in trouble with my wife if she finds out I told you this. Do you have a strategy for getting the best space in the parking deck? From my...

The importance of data orchestration & connectivity
As we progress more and more in the “information age,” and move into what looks like a strong 2022 for automotive, different things become key to our...

10 + 10 = Exposure
Any one of these issues could cost you a lot of money. Consider the “what if.” What if…this were to happen or that were to happen? How would...

Exploring Influential and Impactful Automotive Advertising Campaigns (Part Two)
From 2001 on, the auto industry took a new approach for disruptive marketing that aligned with a world that was rapidly changing and evolving....

Exploring Influential and Impactful Automotive Advertising Campaigns
Advertising has come a long way since its humble beginnings. There's no doubt about it – marketing remains an ever-changing landscape: What worked a...