The annual NADA exposition is a measurement of time for professionals in the auto industry. A stark contrast to the SEMA Show, NADA concentrates on the franchise dealer business and its ancillary vendor community. Complete with geniuses, lackeys, one-hit wonders, and veteran players, the NADA circuit is certainly its own society. Somehow, back in 2002 [...]
16 Aug
If you haven’t seen this report on USA Today about Scott Robinson Honda in Irvine California, you might want to take two minutes to do so. In the video, subject John Pohlig unashamedly confirms that he, “can not prove” a single vehicle sale as a result of using social media. Why is this important? It’s [...]
24 Mar
Earlier this week Dealer.com held a webinar to introduce its new Social Relationship Manager tool, or SRM. I did not attend but I did spend some time on an in-depth review of it by Brian Pasch, who has a knack for breaking things like this down in to its components. I don’t know how much [...]
31 May
As the hum drum of social media marches on across the auto industry, a new approach to selling cars on the web has begun emerging. I don’t know what it will be called but it is based on the idea of building brand equity into individual sales professionals working for an auto dealership, much like [...]
19 May
Here is a special video. You may want to be in a quiet space when you watch it, though. The message is subtle and it requires your attention, but once you realize what presenter Brian Hoecht from Ai-Dealer is getting at then you will be transformed forever. I know I was. The premise behind this [...]
05 Jan
Recently we had a spam bot bombard one of the blogs here on BlogPro and so we had to blacklist the IP addresses from where this bot originated. Blacklisting IPs, or anything for that matter such as specific words, phrases, email addresses, etc., is quite simple to do and this video tutorial walks you through [...]
14 Aug
This video tutorial shows how to create a new page in WordPress and how to update or modify it or other existing pages. The process is as simple as crafting an email message. First you log in to your WordPress site. BlogPro Automotive runs on WordPress so if you are in the auto industry and [...]
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"Great post. I'm a forward thinking car dealer who embraces new marketing concepts in articular new media. "by Ryan Gerardi
"Rorie that is interesting to hear. I doubt there are more than 10-12% of dealers in the USA getting a ..."by Rorie Hannigan
"Very interesting, looking forward to seeing how effective the introduction of these ads is going to be hopefully we see ..."by Rorie Hannigan
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