by The Alpha Dawg | Jul 20, 2013 | Data Wars, F&I and Showroom, Jim's Thoughts
Recent events are giving me flashbacks to Jim Ziegler, the hippie, circa 1973. Yeah, I’m talking about the long-haired, bearded, rock ‘n roll deejay. The Vietnam War was winding down and the country was polarized politically, culturally and philosophically. There was...
by The Alpha Dawg | Jun 14, 2013 | F&I and Showroom, Jim's Thoughts
We are rapidly approaching the day when all of the nation’s car dealers will walk out to their henhouses and discover all their chickens are gone. I have been warning you for years this was going to happen. I’m sort of the Alpha Dawg version of Paul Revere. Did you...
by The Alpha Dawg | May 21, 2013 | F&I and Showroom, Jim's Thoughts
Am I just stuck in time, or is the entire world caught up in an endless replay? It just seems like nothing is unique or new these days. It’s all just recycled news made by new players. I write that after watching a YouTube video of one of the greatest tunes, “Ball of...
by The Alpha Dawg | Apr 21, 2013 | F&I and Showroom, Jim's Thoughts
There’s nothing the human race loves more than a war of epic proportions. Whether the battle is rooted in the struggle of good vs. evil, or the need to save the world from total destruction, we are drawn to it like moths to a flame. There’s nothing better than when...
by The Alpha Dawg | Feb 18, 2013 | F&I and Showroom, Jim's Thoughts, NADA, TrueCar
It was slightly after dark on a September night when two buddies and I climbed the fence behind Duval Ford in Jacksonville, Fla. We hopped over with our fingers crossed, hoping no dogs were hanging around back there. No, we weren’t burglars or vandals. The year was...
by The Alpha Dawg | Jan 19, 2013 | F&I and Showroom, Jim's Thoughts, NADA
The movie opens with a feather wafting whimsically in the breeze. The picture then fades to a scene with a General Motors executive sitting on a bus stop bench telling a nurse next to him his life story. Then, in a very British accent, he tells her that life is like a...
