All ADM Blog Posts Tagged 'home' (11)

Many RV buyers, especially the younger lot, have little time (or desire) to drive all the way to the dealers’ showrooms and bargain with their sales reps. Yet, like everybody else, they want to get a good deal on their purchases. This is where a motor home broker enters the scene.

If you are on…

The four bases that make up a baseball diamond can be directly related to the car shopper’s journey. We all know the path begins online. The final destination, or home base, is the dealership. The goal is to surpass all your bases and arrive back at home, or rather, get…

The market is calling Beepi, Vroom and the Carvanna’s of the world ‘Disruptors.’

I simply call them evolutionary companies that will assist in gaining consumer trust and confidence with the car buying experience -- and ultimately with dealerships.  

Today’s technology has made it a…

Ok, so you have known about the 2016 NADA Show for quite some time now, yet you find yourself freaking out a day before you…

At the end of March, Amazon announced the launch of what they’re calling “Amazon Home Services.” This new service by Amazon enables customers to order services for their homes without the inconvenience of having to search for these service providers, obtain references and obtain pricing. Services range from television installation, painting contractors, electrical work and……

The VALUE OF DVS CUSTOMER

I get the Boston Globe newspaper every day.  I’ve been reading it since I was old enough to read. Friends of mine who are fellow members of the New England Motor Press Association write for the Autos section.

Being a car guy of sorts, I own more cars than I…

Back in the bad old days of car sales, if someone planned to buy a car, the first thing he or she’d do is… put off the process for three months to a year!  Finally, when the old beater started costing far more to fix than the monthly payments on a new car, they’d pick up a copy of the Consumer Reports annual new car issue,  grab the Autos section of the Sunday newspaper and start doing some homework.

Usually, they’d start with the model.  “Hmmm, it needs to fit me, the wife…

What legally defines a merchant who uses a self-funded, in-house financing program?  Any merchant extending credit of any kind to one or more of their customers is this type of merchant, whether they realize it or not.

They may be running an in-house financing program using their own money, or they may simply be allowing a customer they’ve known for years to pay a few days late which constitutes…

Being part of working from my satellite office for close to 5 years, I cannot imagine it any different if I went internal. I have been asked several times on how I do it, what I do along with much criticism to that effect.  For example “You must have a lot of time” and such, trust me you will find yourself more busy working from your external office than you would…