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Advertise Where You Get the Most Return

February 10, 2011

3 Times More Sales Projected for Used Cars over New Cars I visited the National Automobile Dealers Association’s Convention in San Francisco last week.  The mood was definitely more upbeat for dealers, the manufacturers and the exhibitors. There will be an increase in new vehicles sold this year, maybe to about 12.5 million units and [...]

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AutoStar’s Huge, Untapped, Growth Opportunity – as Confirmed by CarMax

January 26, 2011

CarMax’s Performance in 2010 Thanks for all the positive messages about my blog last week.  It seems that many of you were quite surprised by the history of CarMax, the way that company got started in 1993 and its deliberate and slow growth.  If you would like to see and substantiate their history, use the following link: [...]

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AutoStar Superstore in 2011

January 19, 2011

Important Strides Forward It’s been a busy two weeks since the start of the year here at the AutoStar National Dealer Network®.  As with all businesses it has been a time to analyze what we accomplished last year and set goals for this year.  While we have not grown as quickly as we wanted to when [...]

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AutoStar and CB Richard Ellis Strategic Marketing Agreement

November 3, 2010

Driven Brands/Jump Start Strategic Marketing Agreement Recently we here at AutoStar National Dealer Network had the pleasure of announcing that we had reached a strategic marketing agreement with Driven Brands/Jump Start.  What that means to our dealers, driven brand dealers and potential dealers throughout the United States and Canada is that we can now combine the [...]

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AutoStar and Driven Brands Forge a Joint Marketing Agreement

October 18, 2010

AutoStar, Meineke and Maaco Team Up The big news at AutoStar National Dealer Network is we have forged a joint marketing agreement with Driven Brands/Jump Start.  This means that our current AutoStar dealers can put Meineke Car Care Centers and MAACO Paint and Body Repair Centers in their dealerships when there is not a conflict with an [...]

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August New Car Sales Lowest in 28 Years

September 1, 2010

I’ve Been in the Car Business All My Life I started selling cars right out of college in June of 1978.  It’s easy for me remember because that was the month my wife and I got married. I started out selling cars. I was general manager of the dealership within 14 months and became part owner shortly [...]

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