Tag: car business
How did Lucid Motors perform its first day on the...
Welcome to another edition of The Friday 5 with Steve Greenfield, Founder and CEO of Automotive Ventures, an auto technology advisory firm that helps entrepreneurs raise money and maximize the value of their companies. The Electric Vehicle SPAC and IPO market continue to be very hot and we’ve had a number hit the public markets […]
How to effectively influence your peers at the car dealership...
This past May, we took a look at leadership from the middle of an organization with keynote speaker and New York Times best-selling author, Scott Mautz. His book, Leading from the Middle: A Playbook for Managers to Influence Up, Down, and Across the Organization, has been wildly successful since its release, and he joins us […]
CBT automotive newscast: July 30, 2021
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How to Effectively Influence Your Peers at the Car Dealership - Scott Mautz, NY Times best-selling author
This past May, we took a look...
CBT automotive newscast: July 29, 2021
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Nissan increased its annual outlook for the year, projecting a return to the black, after reporting a surprise first-quarter profit due to the...
Why new vehicle inventory shortages don’t have to prevent you from...
Leveraging backend marketing technology used in variable operations can have positive effects on the fixed operations side of the business as well. Joining us...
How influencer marketing can benefit your car dealership
It would be easy to think that influencers have been a new tool for marketing in the last ten years, but you would be wrong. Dealerships and manufacturers have sold with a “race on Sunday, sell on Monday” mantra for decades through NASCAR. And advertisers have paid for inclusion in movies and TV shows since […]
Record quarterly profit announced by Tesla despite production challenges
On Monday, Tesla released their financial results more than three weeks after reporting fantastic quarterly production numbers. For the first time in the EV maker’s history, quarterly GAAP net income exceeded $1 billion US. With production ramping up and Tesla somehow avoiding the deepest throes of part shortages, total revenue grew by 98% year over […]
CBT automotive newscast: July 28, 2021
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Why new vehicle inventory shortages don’t have to prevent you from gaining new customers
Leveraging backend marketing technology used in variable operations can have...
CBT automotive newscast: July 27, 2021
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What is driving the increased volume of auto technology deals? - Steve Greenfield
It has been quite an active year for mergers and acquisitions...
CBT automotive newscast: July 26, 2021
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First half 2021 automotive sales analysis - Tyson Jominy, VP of Data at J.D. Power
After coming off 18 million-plus SAAR in Q2 of...
