Many of my regular readers know that I am not longer In the Trenches as and Internet Sales Manager.  I now am working full time to help build an Automotive Social Network and publish content in many places.  Today has had to be one of the more interesting days since starting this adventure.

• A good friend who I met either here or at another network that deals in Automotive Digital Marketing was announced as the winner of the DrivingSales.com automotive marketing strategy contest.  Eric Miltsch, the winner, is the IT director for Auction Direct USA and a runs a Used Car Blog, by sharing with others how he is leveraging twitter and other properties to sell more cars.
• We had the most post ever at the leading auto industry blog in the world today.
• A magazine that told me that they were publishing one of my articles I submitted to them did not.
• Read the post at http://dealerrefresh.com about the two upcoming conferences in a few weeks.  I will be attending Digital Dealer, to bad I wont finally get to shake Jeff’s hand and imbibe beverages with him.  I do look forward to the other networking that will take place though.
• Caught a website vendor stealing content.  No link.  They are not the first ones to catch doing it.  They were the first to respond properly.  I have caught other individuals doing it before, they just took their whole site down and scattered like a cockroach when you turn the lights on.
• Finally the never ending emails stopped over a squidoo lens that ranks well for Special Auto Financing in a certain metro market ended.
• No phone calls from people pitching me to review their product or asking “How do I ___  ___  ___?” unless you count another friend who is trying to get streaming audio up on his website as his Radio Show about MMA is about to go into syndication.  At least he did not want a handout.
• Had a sudden awakening.  I really don’t care who emails what to who.  The old school is fading fast and I was surprised see who was partnering with who with real dated material and calling it training.  I saw the video “testimonials” of the last one and they resembled an interrogation, not to mention some of the “key points” that are taken back to a dealership were last century.  Fool’s and their money are soon parted.
• Finally learned to communicate with eastern Indian programmers.  I have to learn to talk to them like they are three.  Not that they are not intelligent, but a lot gets lost in interpretation on both sides.
• For every task I strike off my to do list five more show up.

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