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Getting Local with your online advertising
By William Bryant at 15 December, 2008, 4:51 pm
There’s lots of mediums to advertise online. They are almost all cheaper than any other sort of advertising you can do. In fact, large dealers like Courtesy Chevrolet have gone 100% online with their advertising budget, with huge success!
But if you’re not big time in it yet, which most dealers aren’t (a big competing dealer [...]
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Read More >>IBM Lotus Symphony FREE Beta 4
By William Bryant at 6 February, 2008, 4:49 pm
Most of you, I’m sure, use Microsoft Office for your day-to-day business activities. Some of you may have heard of the free office application, OpenOffice.org, which has most of the features available in Microsoft Office for the grand total of $0.
IBM has been growing their open source business vastly in the past several years, and [...]
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Read More >>Taking Great Pictures
By William Bryant at 27 January, 2008, 3:45 pm
The following is a general how-to of making the most of your photo taking for your pre-owned inventory. The tips are from years of taking inventory photos on cars that I care about since they’re on my lot. If you care about how your inventory looks online, you’ll want to take this how-to as a [...]
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Read More >>Dancing for smarts, and cars.com
By William Bryant at 21 January, 2008, 4:19 pm
In this week’s episode: How to improve your thinking skills by moving around, cars.com and their super expensive $6.6 million TV ads, and our fresh new website look.
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Read More >>Republicans kissing butt at Detroit
By William Bryant at 18 January, 2008, 5:03 pm
The republicans were hot on Detroit to show their republican finesse. The auto industry is struggling, but does it need the millions of dollars of our tax dollar support to get Detroit out of its woes? Some republicans think so.
Read the article here: http://info.detnews.com/redesign/blogs/autoshowblog/index.cfm?blogid=252
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Read More >>Infomercial Video Walkarounds
By William Bryant at 15 January, 2008, 5:03 pm
Here’s an example of video walkarounds and the power of the camera on the Internet. We’re starting to do infomercials online, and this has been our launching pad. In fact, the videos we’ve been doing has helped convince our owner that it is worth it to do similar commercials on television!
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Read More >>RE: I Hate Internet Customers!
By William Bryant at 15 January, 2008, 4:16 pm
My response to the letter from Jeff’s site, Dealer Refresh.
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Read More >>Internet Customers FTW!!!
By William Bryant at 28 December, 2007, 5:29 pm
Video intro thanks to Johnson Automotive, that’s so hilarious.
Jeff knows I’m kidding with him… I hope.
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Read More >>Web2Carz.com, surviving in December, and more
By William Bryant at 21 December, 2007, 3:54 pm
Got this news from Jeff’s site, DealerRefresh:
Web2Carz wants your dealer’s inventory on their website and it’s FREE! Plus you get your inventory will be send to their data distribution partners such as Google and Oodle. Contact Alex Bravy for more information at 1-847-780-4821.
I called and left a message with Alex, we’ll see what happens.
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Read More >>eBay Second Chance Offers
By William Bryant at 16 November, 2007, 5:21 pm
There’s one powerful tool which I forgot to mention on my previous eBay HowTo, Internet Sales Tip: eBay — Closing and Delivering an eBay sale.
This one is very powerful. Second chance offers allow bidders to buy the item immediately at your reserve price, and you don’t get charged unless it sells. Maybe 10 people bid [...]
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