by The Alpha Dawg | Oct 8, 2016 | Uncategorized
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by The Alpha Dawg | Oct 8, 2016 | F&I and Showroom, Jim's Thoughts
I’m sure you’re all familiar with the story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin. Although more legend than truth, it’s based on events dating back to the Middle Ages, around 1284. As the story goes, the German town of Hamelin hired a piper who promised to solve it’s rat...
by The Alpha Dawg | Sep 10, 2016 | Auto Dealer Monthly, Featured, Jim's Thoughts
Whether he actually said it or not, one of Henry Ford’s most famous quotes is, “If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.” When he was the president of Ford, Lee Iacocca and his staff played off that legend, finding equine names for...
by The Alpha Dawg | Aug 14, 2016 | F&I and Showroom, Jim's Thoughts
In the past 40 years, I’ve interacted with hundreds of thousands of car sales professionals who work for thousands of dealerships in 49 states. Every month, they start over again at zero, with this month’s hero going back to the starting line as a new race begins....
by The Alpha Dawg | Aug 7, 2016 | Auto Dealer Monthly, Featured, Jim's Thoughts
I was sitting in a big comfortable chair in the mall just outside the second-level entrance to Macy’s department store. I was extremely lucky to have secured one of the big comfortable chairs, because every last one of them was occupied. There was a family of five...