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 | Jun 7, 2013 | Data Wars, Jim's Thoughts, WardsAuto
Some dealers think they are paying for exclusive leads when, in fact, they are getting ones that are passed around and re-sold. A while back, I heard from a dealer complaining about Cars.com’s relationship with a company called RoadLoans. It since has become quite a...
by The Alpha Dawg | May 21, 2013 | cars.com, Data Wars, Jim's Thoughts, Video
The Alpha Dawg talks about the Cars.com issue heating up.
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 | May 7, 2013 | cars.com, Data Wars, Jim's Thoughts, Video
Jim Ziegler and Tim Martell discuss the Cars.com controversy. When a consumer submits a lead on a paying dealer’s inventory, is it wrong for cars.com to feed the consumer the competition’s inventory too?
by The Alpha Dawg | May 2, 2013 | Data Wars, Jim's Thoughts, Video
The Data-Pirates may be at it again. Check and see for yourself. Are renegade vendors putting your proprietary inventory on other websites you did not authorize? Do they have a legal or contractual right to do this?
