NADA Updates and Show Coverage

Thousands of franchise dealers descended on San Francisco for the 2019 NADA Convention. One of the high points of the event is the installation of the Association's new Chairman; Texas dealer Charlie Gilchrist. We had the chance to sit down with Charlie just before...

CBT News spoke with David Marod, senior vice president of sales at Conversica on the stage at NADA this year and discussed artificial intelligence in the dealership, and employing a virtual assistant in the day-to-day operations that can alleviate the tedious tasks. For more coverage from...

During this year's NADA Show, CBT News spoke with Alexi Venneri, co-founder, and CEO of Digital Air Strike. Alexi and Jim discussed the origins of Digital Air Strike, social media marketing, and the importance of online engagement between dealers and their consumers. Check out...

Cody Tomczyk, Vice President at Force Marketing joined Bridget Fitzpatrick at our NADA 2019 stage to discuss how Force is having the right conversations with dealers to help support their efforts to increase new market share, used car volume, and service retention. To see more...

During this year's NADA Show, CBT News met up with Joshua Holmstadt, product marketing manager at Graco. Joshua and Jim discussed the new additions to the Pulse Fluid Management line. Dealers often find themselves losing fluids during service, which can lead to an increase...

CBTNews.com welcomed Len Short, founder of LotLinx onto the CBT Network stage at NADA this year were we chatted about the role AI plays in delivering vehicles to dealers. According to Len, great dealers are doing AI themselves to get that intuitive data at a...

While in San Francisco at the 2019 NADA Show we caught up with Sean Gardner, trainer, and instructor for the Joe Verde Group to find out his opinion on how dealers can prepare for potential industry headwinds, and how to establish a good foundation of solid...

CBTNews.com welcomed Stewart Lyons, Senior Vice President of Emerging Business at SiriusXM Radio onto the the CBT Network stage at NADA this year were we chatted about Automatic, a new service SiriusXM recently rolled out to automotive dealers everywhere. The software platform powered, by a...

At The NADA Show 2019 in San Fransisco, CBT's Jim Fitzpatrick spoke with Amy Hughes, Senior Director of Dealer Intelligence at Experian to discuss how to build successful and confident automotive marketing campaigns that will continue strongly into 2020. VIDEO TRANSCRIPT:  Jim Fitzpatrick: Thank you so...

Automotive marketing is constantly evolving and changing. While CBT News was at the 2019 NADA Show we took a few minutes to speak with Eric Mercado, Chief Sales Officer at Force Marketing and asked him what marketing trends dealers can expect to see as...