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Three Industry Thought Leaders: Key Changes in the Automotive Industry Part Two

In Part One, Steenman engaged Hollenbeck, Phillips and Conley on Key Changes in the Retail Automotive Landscape. In Part Two, the focus shifts to...

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Dealership Data is Key to Unlocking the True Power of ChatGPT

ChatGPT.  It’s everywhere. It’s taken over social media and the evening news - it’s come up in work meetings and over dinner with family and friends....

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Dealership Data is Key to Unlocking the True Power of ChatGPT

ChatGPT.  It’s everywhere. It’s taken over social media and the evening news - it’s come up in work meetings and over dinner with family and friends....

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Building Integrations for Automotive: An AdTech and MarTech Journey

Through the years, I would ask myself, "Is the automotive industry ready for this?" In my sixth year in the space after nearly two decades of...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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How Google’s Website Ranking Factors Rank OEM Websites (vs Independents) Part Two

PART 2 In Part 1 of this two-part series on website ranking factors, we discussed Page Speed, Page Index, and Technical SEO scores. We look at the...

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Google Analytics 4 – The Change You Have to Make Happen Now

July 1, 2023 is the all-important date Google has announced it will discontinue Universal Analytics. At that time, the new Google Analytics 4 (GA4),...

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eCommerce Has Permanently Disrupted the Way New Car Dealers Sell OEM Parts

Over the past two decades, retail has drastically changed with the rise in eCommerce. Compared to other sectors, the automotive industry has been...

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Dealing with Digital Disruption: How to Make Digital Retail Work for your Dealership

Over the last few years, a combination of advancing technology and changing consumer behavior driven by the pandemic have pushed digital retail to...

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