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Webinar: A Four-Part Plan To Minimize Margin Compression

December 1, 2017

It seems margin compression is on the minds of a lot of dealers, judging from recent calls and conversations. Given the interest, I thought it woul…

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A Waymo Visit Brings Way More Future Mobility Insight

November 18, 2017

I did a little recon work prior to my visit this week to Google’s autonomous vehicle division, Waymo. I wanted to get a sense of how driverless v…

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3 Must-Dos To Combat Dealer Margin Declines

November 15, 2017

How many dealers figured they’d make up for ever-smaller margins in new and used vehicles by selling more cars in 2017? If you asked the question…

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A New Way To Think About “Water” In Your Inventory

November 10, 2017

Dealers have long understood that having water in their inventory is a bad thing. The conventional view holds that you determine the level of water…

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AutoNation Makes A Play For Future Relevance

November 3, 2017

I can’t help but regard AutoNation’s…

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My First-Ever Op-Ed in Automotive News

October 16, 2017

I dialed up the digital edition of this week’s Automotive News a bit earlier this morning than usual. I was excited to see my first-ever…

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A Sneak Peek At My Fourth Book—Like I See It

October 10, 2017

I don’t normally use this blog for promotional purposes. But I hope you’ll forgive this one-time policy suspension to plug the upcoming publica…

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3 Lessons From The Impending Sale of Rolling Stone

September 19, 2017

When I was a teenage kid, if you wanted to keep up on music and politics, you read Rolling Stone. I credit my older brothers for introduci…

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A Post-Harvey Call For Rational Retailing

September 6, 2017

My phone’s been buzzing this past week with dealers and others asking for my take on how Hurricane Harvey will affect the used vehicle market. Fo…

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