by The Alpha Dawg | Sep 13, 2014 | Auto Dealer Monthly, Featured, Jim's Thoughts
The 1990 Arnold Schwarzenegger blockbuster “Total Recall” (and its underwhelming 2012 remake) is a futuristic fantasy trip centered around Rekall, a company that sells dreams so real they become actual memories. In the original, after a virtual trip to Mars goes awry,...
by The Alpha Dawg | Aug 14, 2014 | Featured, Jim's Thoughts
Hear this incredible episode where Jim offers up some great tips about what dealerships should be doing with online marketing in today’s fast changing marketing landscape. (Clicking below will take you to the Motorcar Marketing podcast page.)...
by The Alpha Dawg | Jul 31, 2014 | Auto Dealer Monthly, Featured, Jim's Thoughts
We’ve always known Bob Dylan was a friggin’ genius, but nobody ever realized his early song lyrics would double as cutting-edge future-casting commentary about the state of the retail automotive industry 50 years later. We find ourselves working in an...
by The Alpha Dawg | Jul 16, 2014 | Auto Dealer Monthly, Featured, Jim's Thoughts, Seminars
“Whatever you think is gonna happen may not be the way it turns out.” I think Batman might have said that to the Joker once. Perhaps it was a Dirty Harry quote. Or maybe it was a one-liner subliminally recalled from a late-night rerun of Pee-Wee’s...
by The Alpha Dawg | Jul 3, 2014 | Featured, Jim's Thoughts, News
Hello Friends and Fellow Speakers. It is with great sadness that I am leaving the National Speakers Association because of what I perceive as treacherous behavior by the current leadership, closed door decisions that should have been voted on by the membership,...
by The Alpha Dawg | Jun 5, 2014 | Auto Dealer Monthly, Featured, Jim's Thoughts
In 1897, after a premature obituary for Mark Twain was printed in the New York Herald, America’s favorite writer and humorist responded by saying, “The rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated.” Well, actually, he said, “The report of...
