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Did you know that last year, women purchased an estimated 27 million vehicles? That is the equivalent of cars a day at new and used car dealerships. Women are now the fastest growing segment of vehicle buyers and car dealerships are taking notice. To that end, there is much more flexibility when buying a car more than ever!

It seems that women are still more reluctant than men when it comes to the advantages of leasing a car. With the car industry back on its feet after the…

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MSADA & Toyota Are Aligning For Internet Sales 20 Group 6 In Boston - September 22 -24 - Automotive Sales…

A recently released white paper based on a collaborative study between Cars.com and GFK, reported that consumers are leaving dealership service in favor of independents due to a lack of…

WAAOL - Auto Industry…

A vintage car is an old model car. These types of cars were designed between 1919-1930.

Their features were as follows:-

*.Design features:- these describe the parts that made up the car.

*.Functionality features: - these describe how the cars used to operate in terms of speed and safety.

Design features

Onboard navigation

*.A cable was attached to the speedometer to pull long paper scrolls.

*.They could only move up and down. If one…

by Ben Brockhaus-Hall, Cobalt SEO Specialist

Google has gotten smarter. Just this past September, they surprised everyone with a complete…

By Brian Pasch

This week, Automotive News…

Why Work Harder For Less?

On this week's Think Tank Tuesday:
  ✓ Learn how to identify your clients
  ✓ Find out what you need to be spending time on
  ✓ Determine key mistakes in your sales process

Swapalease.com, the nation’s largest car lease marketplace, reports lease credit approvals during the month of March were at 69.6%, up from last month’s yearly low of 66.7%. The 69.6% approvals mark is also the level of the last three months, indicating a credit approvals landscape that continues to hover near the “healthy” mark of 70%.



The credit approvals rate over the last twelve months stands at 71.7%. Prior to March, the approvals rate had continuously dropped from early fall…

When an employee expands their family they will have questions about options for maternity or paternity leave. Here are a few things to consider when an employee requests maternity/paternity leave.

Maternity/paternity leave typically refers to the time parents take off during and after the birth of their child, however, company policies vary. Under federal law, employees who work for a company with 50 or more employees within a 75 mile radius of the office, who have worked for their…

 Perfection is unsustainable, while personal progress is obtainable.

Stay green and let yourself grow!

When someone claims to be “green”, what first comes to your mind?  They are making an effort to reduce their carbon foot print on mother earth?  Maybe they are a vegetarian?  Or they are actively recycling?

When I hear the…

A fascinating article in Forbes shared a concept that is increasingly winning over customers. In the article, the author described what he termed “anticipatory customer…

I really don't know who I'm going to offend on this one. We've been researching so many vendors over the last couple of months that work with chat, lead-gen widgets, and website platforms themselves that we haven't taken the time to explore PPC vendors. Maybe that's why I was blindsided to find out that…

Apple’s recent announcement of CarPlay which will integrate the iPhone, Apple maps and Siri into the car dashboard, is a move meant to compete directly with Google’s Open Automotive Alliance (OAA), and Microsoft’s Sync platform. This means big changes are in store for how shoppers driving, commuting and traveling by car will find and learn about your business.

The fast moving map space plus local-search is attractive areas for innovation for software developers. One of the more…

By Brian Pasch

Have you started to test Twitter promoted tweets for your business?  You should because there are many opportunities for car dealers and the vendor community on Twitter.  The cost of Twitter promoted tweets is not expensive, but any expense without proper tracking is wasted…

When most car shoppers arrive on your dealership’s website, the first place they are likely to go is straight to your inventory pages. However, after they get there, do they really have access to the most helpful navigation tools?

Let’s play a game of "What’s Wrong With This Picture." Below is a screenshot from a dealership’s website:…

Processes save lives. It’s true. It is especially true when you are lying in a hospital bed with a doctor and a nurse talking to you about how their processes will save your life…which was where I found myself in the not too distant past.

Hello and welcome to this week’s edition of Beggs on the Used Car Market, with used car pricing data from Ricky Beggs and Black Book. Just when most all parts of the country thought winter was gone and pollen from the budding trees was the dominate particles in the air, we hopefully had the final blast of winter weather that swept across the Midwest and actually left Detroit enough of the white fluffy flakes to set an all-time record level of snow for the winter season.



As the Black…