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Here are 15 Great BDC Templates to Steal!

Automotive BDC templates are critical to efficiency. Your BDC’s templates should include both word tracks for phone calls and full email templates. If you have strong templates and a BDC that utilizes them you will be well on your way to success. [Tweet “Steal these BDC templates, plug them in, and then chill… “] A …
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Stop Overthinking Your Emails!

Overthinking Your Emails and Email Templates? Between prepping for 20-Group presentations to serving our regular clients, we mystery shop scores of dealers each month – reading their emails (mostly templates) and texts, and listening to their voicemails – and while we’ve seen definite overall improvement over the years, one aspect of the internet sales process …
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Email Templates can be Personal AND Automated

Internet sales are easy! There, I said it (or rather, wrote it.) Let me be clear: internet sales are about as black and white as anything we do in the car business – they really are. The problem is we tend to overcomplicate things we don’t understand; and traditional automotive sales managers have (for the …
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How My Bad Email Advice Almost Ruined a Friendship

A friend of mine called to pick my brain on email marketing. His company has about 70,000 subscribers and their open rates were getting WORSE with each new campaign. In his testing, he saw that a lot of their emails were getting delivered to the spam folder. He was looking for changes they could make to improve their …
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Winning More Customers By Providing A Great Experience – Presentation

Winning the Customer with a Great Experience Win More Customers by Providing a Great Online & Offline Experience   In this presentation, originally put together for DSES 2013, Jeff Kershner and Ryan Leslie discuss and review several key elements around providing a stellar online and offline customer experience with your dealership. From managing and obtaining …
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When First In Doesn’t Win: Driving Sales with a Quality Lead Response – Cars.com Webinar

When First In Doesn’t Win: Driving Sales with a Quality Lead Response – Webinar The old expression—Haste makes waste. — rings especially true with online car buyers. Fast response times contribute to Internet sales, but you’re just as likely to lose the deal with a rushed response that fails to answer the shopper’s questions. In …