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At 2:23pm on June 1, 2009, Mike Gilhooly said…: Hi Ralph,
I am in training with a friend of yours, Mauro Schifino. He is our KIA product trainer and when I mentioned your website he about jumped out of his skin! He does a nice job. I really like the resource you have here. Thanks!

At 3:34pm on May 30, 2009, Jeff said…: So true Ralph! Its amazing how many people ask what I drive in the course of the sale.

At 3:46pm on May 29, 2009, Brian Pasch said…: You are the Microsite King....:)

At 8:38am on May 20, 2009, Chuck Dapoz said…: Ralph,
My vote is to keep chat. I see no difference in load time, and it's interesting to see who's online.
Chuck

At 9:23am on May 19, 2009, Cristina Hibbs said…: When is your next convention? I want to come see you live to learn more from the master and help me help my dealers.
Cristina

At 8:54am on May 19, 2009, Craig Belowski said…: Ralph,
No problem, thanks for noticing the effort made by ALL of us here at Acton Toyota. It's nice to be refered to and looked at from internet sales captains of industry such as yourself. I have no issue with anyone trying to duplicate our sales model.

At 6:52am on May 18, 2009, Craig Belowski said…: Ralph,
I think you have myself and Shawnee Wandless, also on ADM and out Truck Manager here at Acton Toyota confused. It was me you met at Digital Dealer 6. It is easy to get us all confused here at Acton Toyota because most of us share the same passion for customer service, reputation management and digital marketing.

At 7:37am on May 15, 2009, Chris Fousek said…: Ralph,
Good morning! Have a question for you regarding inboxes and one of those ISP's (Comcast). Can you point me in the right direction. I was going back through your DD presentation and your sitituation with Cox but I am having trouble finding where to go with Comcast.

Also on a brighter note check out www.bostoncadillac.com I have been busy and getting it ready to rock!

At 11:04am on May 14, 2009, Silia J. Hatzi said…: Ralph: I was thinking that you may want to create occassional "boost campaigns" to increase your membership... most of us like you & want to support you but like most people don't really think about it...

You know how we can "invite friends" to join? What if occasionally (say every 3-4 months) you ASKED us in a personalized email to invite 3 people who we think would welcome the invitation & add to the ADM community? If you send this request to 3,000 of us and 10% of us take you up on it (x 3 invitations each) that's 900 invitations; sent out 4 times a year that's 3,600 invitations... if 10% join that's an extra 360 members per year (a ~15%+ increase per annum based on your current numbers) & then you have the magic of compound growth...

I know... WHY am I thinking of this??? Don't tell me you don't work out other people's marketing campaigns in your head even if you don't know them... just a reflex :)

Ciao!

SJH

At 10:36am on May 14, 2009, Silia J. Hatzi said…: ...Happy Birthday to us!

SJH

At 11:40pm on May 13, 2009, Silia J. Hatzi said…: ...by the way, your music selection right now is "House of the Rising Sun"... have you heard the Nina Simone rendition? If not, you may want to check it out. (I'm on I-Tunes as I'm writing this putting together playlists; one of them is named "Cabriolet": songs to play while cruising PCH in a convertible at sunset, belting out tunes...)

At 7:56pm on May 13, 2009, Silia J. Hatzi said…: Hi Ralph... I'm responding to your quarry regarding the value of the ADM chat feature versus load times: My preference & my recommendation differ, but I'll give you both...

My preference is to keep the chat feature because I find it curious to see who's online at different times.

My recommendation is to can it because your membership seems to me to be composed primarily of males and in my experience such are an impatiernt demographic and more likely to click off with longer load times so I think you may be losing visitors, especially new ones, as they are not yet vested in the ADM community, value or brand.

If a "test canning" is not technologically cumbersome, you may want to try canning chat for 2-3 months, watch visitor numbers along with comments re: missing/wanting chat and then decide. I predict that your numbers will go up in a scale far outweighing those of us who may miss the chatting.

If testing is a nightmare, I vote for canning it to help you grow your membership.

Best,

Silia

At 12:53pm on May 13, 2009, jason keo said…: Hi Ralph,

Can you please help me get my message out to all the dealers out there?
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6. Immediately notice the results

thanks!
Jason Keo
jason@picstarllc.com
858-829-6024

At 8:22pm on May 7, 2009, Chris Fousek said…: Ralph,
I almost forgot...Happy Birthday! Wishing you a happy and healthy year and many more. As we say here in Boston have a wicked good day!

At 5:45pm on May 7, 2009, JOHN GURU said…: Happy birthday Raplh "the Lord of the Net" Paglia. Just wanted to thank you for sending Christina Hibbs in to our store today. She gave us some great ideas and is supposed to get back to us with a proposal. Have a great night tonight and dont get into to much trouble :).

At 3:11pm on May 7, 2009, Matthew Cole said…: just clicked your profile and the "Red Pill" came on :) nice

thats us! the red pill www.dealerfire.com

good stuff! I think I saw on facebook its someones Birthday!

At 10:59am on May 7, 2009, Diane Anderson said…: Ralph,
I have been fortunate to have been able to attend every Digital Dealer Conference, except the first one...I make it a point to attend every session that you lead - ALWAYS valuable, usable take-away information! Even after 19 years in the industry I still consider myself a student of the business. I appreciate your candor and presentation style, you are truly an asset for our business!

At 12:00pm on April 30, 2009, Mike Roscoe said…: Thanks Ralph...for attending, for putting the FMC deal together, for speaking, for moderating a roundtable and for not turning the AC down in your suite so that I could easily recognize your guests the rest of the night (PHEW!)

At 8:27am on April 29, 2009, Mark Thomas said…: Raph,
I did attend your Tuesday AM session and took copious notes. Thanks for your leadership in our industry.
Mark Thomas

At 3:50pm on April 28, 2009, Jon Knox said…: Ralph, thank you for the invite, we all gotta start somewhere right? I am associate publisher at Automotive Industries and was surfing whilst researching and came across your network, so I decided to "get on board" as they say.Although I work in the sector at the OEM Tier1/2 supplier chain I though that I might network my way into other expertise from the other interconnected elements of the automotive enterprise. I am particularly interested in contacting any groups involved with PHEV, EV, alternative drive systems/fuels/Hybrid technology, embedded software developers, / vehicle-egine-chassis management, 3G telematics sectors. Clean tech companies.
I am in Spain but mostly work with US based customers so mmy working hours are much like your own. I look forward to the opportunity to speak with you one of these days. Thanks
Jon Knox
Assoc. Publisher
Automotive Industries
www.ai-online.com
www.autoindustry.us
Ai-Estd. 1895
BPA member

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