Online chat for customer interaction has huge potential especially when it has to deal with a service issue.  But the chat above shows why you should not outsource this part of your business.
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Automotive social networking still has ages to go as far as recognizing how things work in social settings.   Right now we have two very large extremes going, one has strict guidelines and the other tolerates …

You can have the best trained certified staff, excellent process, the ideal inventory and all the lenders in the world, a high converting website and barely move metal because you rely solely on antiquated media …

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You can easily capture today’s in market car buyers and the buyers who will be in the market when things start recovering, like they always do, by building your Internet presence today.

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 ___ ___ ___?”

Sometimes a consumer will never be happy with your responses even if you take the path of helping and a response in that situation may even cause them to become more diligent in getting negative information out about your company.

The reason you see so many blogs being created daily is because most are just pure marketing pieces not designed to build a brand or encourage dialog. We are in need of people who wish to blog about their experiences as dealership employees, online automotive marketing, current industry news, new products, training or anything else auto industry related.

What they can look at is your participation in other venues not car related, personal blogs, giving views of other products and anything else you publish online. He is part of the ever growing circle of influence that will bring the car business into this century leaving the old school in the dust looking at each other blankly in the eye wondering what happened.

With the current state of the car business people on the ground need to learn how to expand their business without relying on the dealers to prop up new initiatives financially when they could use free time to build their own marketing portfolio that is transportable if they change dealers.

You can see the letter at scribd.com the live link is Letter from Jim Ziegler’s Attorney to Paul Rushing This was attached to that letter : Draft complaint James Ziegler vs Paul Rushing My reply to this letter can be viewed at My Response to James Ziegler vs Paul Rushing My Second Letter removing my retraction: My Second Response to James Ziegler vs Paul Rushing