April 2015 ADM Blog Posts (80)

CallSource expands its leadership in end-to-end call management, tracking, and training

Westlake Village, CA – April 30, 2015 - CallSource, the leader in call management, tracking, and training, has entered into an agreement with ContactPoint (also known as LogMyCalls) to acquire the company’s phone coaching and training division. Simultaneously, CallSource agreed to sell to…

Welcome to this week's edition of Black Book Market Insights, with in-depth analysis of used car and truck valuation trends and insights straight from the auction lanes. Click here to download the full report.

 

The Black Book editors began to see signs of a tiring spring tax season in last week’s report, and this week those signs have become more obvious. This week’s data showed the largest drop off of the spring for…

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act is a law enacted in 1998, enforced and administrated by the U.S. Copyright Office. Every three years, the U.S. Copyright Office is tasked with holding hearings to determine what new technology should, or should not, be exempt from copyright laws. According to…

Mobile devices are becoming a standard means of browsing the internet, researching products and services, and making purchases online. According to Global Web Index, 80 percent of internet users own a smartphone and 47 percent own a tablet. With these kinds of…

The Good News? Women account for 50% of car purchases, and influence more than 80% of the deals.

The Downside? One in three women report feeling apprehensive or overwhelmed when they shop and buy a car. Only 38% of women feel confident about the process.

Women have different buying criteria and behaviors than men. Women rank trust…

Featuring independent, third-party data for consumers higher in the shopping funnel promises to accelerate purchasing decisions

Austin, Texas – April 29, 2015 – CarStory, the industry’s largest provider of crowdsourced data and analytics on used vehicles,…

Swapalease.com executives recently analyzed the difference in how Hollywood leverages cars today versus during the 1970s and ‘80s. The difference is obvious.



During the 1970s and ‘80s, Hollywood went to great lengths to showcase iconic cars and trucks in popular TV shows and movies.

• The A-Team van

• Magnum P.I.’s Ferrari

• Smokey and the Bandit’s Trans-Am

• Herbie The Love Bug

Since the late 1990s,…

Buying a used car can be stressful, intimidating and takes many out of their comfort zones. Decreasing the risk of purchasing a car that does not run well is paramount when looking to invest money in a used car. The used car industry can be rife with those trying to take advantage of potential buyers. Typically, used car salesmen are not always known to tell the truth, which almost always ends up costing the purchaser money. There are three things one can do to be successful at buying a good…

On this week's Think Tank Tuesday:

What is SOS? (It doesn't mean what you think!)
How much is it costing your business?
What can you do to avoid it?

The Alpha Dawg Discusses Payment Packing

Believe it or not, I still hear a lot of managers asking me about how much “Leg” you need to leave in the payment for the F&I Manager. It came to a head…

Mike Esposito Honored with Special Leadership Award from the Times-Union

For Immediate Release

Albany, N.Y. – April 27th, 2015 – Auto/Mate Dealership Systems (http://www.automate.com) announced today that it ranked number one on the…

FCA US CEO, Sergio Marchionne, recently announced plans to reduce the profit on new cars sold within the FCA brands by increasing the invoice prices, while keeping the MSRP the same. This will result in less potential profit for its dealers. The move, as reported by Automotive News, is FCA's attempt to increase its profitability. This, of course, will probably…

It wasn’t too long ago that we saw most dealers’ VDP pages contain only a couple of pictures of a vehicle. As technology improved and made it easier and more efficient for dealers to take and upload more images, best practices quickly raised the standard for image quantity to 40 or more pictures. Now, however, a recent article in…

12 Great Events in Automotive History



By Boyd Warner



As we’re talking about cars and dealers and dealership business software here, I’m keeping that theme going for this quiz, which I’m calling “12 Great Results in Automotive History.”



Some readers may have to ponder…

How Is Mobilegeddon Going To Change Your Rankings?

The Truth About ‘Mobilegeddon’ and the Impact On Your…

I'm about to discuss data, which means that many will stop reading right about now. Data is boring. Data is the ugly side of marketing. Data makes my brain hurt sometimes, but I continue to look at it tenaciously for one very simple reason: data helps dealers sell more cars.

Let me be more specific so there's no…

Welcome to this week's edition of Black Book Market Insights, with in-depth analysis of used car and truck valuation trends and insights straight from the auction lanes. Click here to download the full report.

 

In this week’s report, the Black Book editorial team reports on data trends straight from the auction lanes that may be showing signs of a tired tax season. Comments from the lanes and data show that used vehicle…

Assuming you drive just under 10,000 miles per year, does it truly make more sense to Uber everywhere compared with car leasing?



There has been some debate…

eLEND Solutions named highest rated in Auto Finance category

Mission Viejo, CA – April 20, 2015 – eLEND Solutions™, the leader in next-generation consumer finance for the auto industry, today announced that it is the winner of Dealer Marketing Magazine’s 2015 Technology Leadership Awards in the Auto Finance category.

“This award is really…