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Car Czar Consulting says: The future is now, and with it the cost savings business needs now. Throw away those frequent flyer cards and expense budgets.
Cascade Web Development’s BrandLive Generates Buzz, Enables Live Visual, Voice Multi-Users
Imagine your sales team interacting while viewing you’re training. moreover, imagine your clients and [...]

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Car Czar Consulting says: Me thinks Toyota does protest too much.
Toyota Slams ABC Report on PedalsNetwork ‘Staged’ Video, Car Maker Says as It Replicates Acceleration in Other Makers’ Vehicles
Toyota Motor Corp. on Monday criticized ABC News, saying the broadcaster “staged” part of a report that purported to show electronic problems could cause Toyota vehicles [...]

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Car Czar Consulting says: Gas prices rise while consumers feel pinched in all directions, what with high unemployment still at or near 10% for those still in the workforce.
NASCAR still helps drive car sales
The Republic, Cash for NASCAR is no clunker.
For $150 million, it better not be.
While racing fans watch for their favorite drivers [...]

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Car Czar Consulting says: We were impressed with the blog entry below and wanted to bring it to auto OEM’s and dealers alike for their information and posting to their staff.
Will all this “fly?” Enjoy the video spoof below.
Every Customer is Sacred
March 2010, TheConferenceBoard, J. Jaffe, There is no acceptable level of churn.
What would happen [...]

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Car Czar Consulting says: Follow what MarketFolly says the “Big Boys” buy in the blog entry below.
From YouTube: “…It’s long been suspected that financial journalists are a little too close to the hedge funds they cover. Using Facebook and a specific episode of unusually skewed coverage, this video below seems to prove it’s true. Opposing [...]

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Car Czar Consulting says: Tier 5 Assistance is needed for the Long Term Unemployed. We need more Tiers and/or more weeks added to existing Tiers.
Neither H.R.4691 or H.R.4213 will help the 15 million unemployed who have already exhausted all Tiers.
WE NEED EVERYONE’S HELP to get more Tiers added and/or [...]

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Car Czar Consulting says: You can’t tell if you’re being had unless you’ve read the best 18 months of grifting the U.S. has ever seen section below.
While you’re at it, be sure to view the video below.
Wall Street’s Bailout Hustle
Goldman Sachs and other big banks aren’t just pocketing the trillions we gave them to [...]

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Car Czar Consulting says: This is exactly what I was saying, it’s about a government takeover not “health care” per se.
The video below parody’s the debate’s obvious partisan foundation. Opposing views always welcomed to be published unabridged.

It’s About Government, Not Health Care; What the Dems are doing makes perfect sense, for them.

So there was President [...]

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Car Czar Consulting says: “U-6″ for is data classification by the Labor Department which accounts for people who have stopped looking for work or who can’t find full-time job.
Note: 4 in 10 people are Long Term Unemployed.
Who can blame them!? The country needs J-O-B-S, and now, so this large group of  people will be encouraged [...]

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Car Czar Consulting says: We’re pleased to have our friend Jim Vogel from Apex, NC opine once more here (see below). We wish our friends at Toyota well as well. However, there’s no question but the piper is being paid by Toyota and its franchised dealers, employees and customers for its highly insular, “blind-eye” [...]

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Car Czar Consulting says: When Superheros are still being laid off, well, that’s troubling. Video below.

Peter Parker, The Amazing Spider-Man, Fired
Mar 4, 2010, CAMDEN, N.J. (CBS) ―
The reality of unemployment is spinning its ugly web into the fantasy world, catching Superhero Spider-Man off guard.
Spider-Man’s’ alter-ego Peter Parker, a Daily Bugle newspaper photographer, is laid [...]

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Car Czar Consulting says: It can be all too daunting. The alphabet soup of Internet website management jargon, which often seems at odds with the English language. Here’s a primer below for what might ail you and your site.
Publishing great information is what works today. See the video below for SEO success stories.
Seven Ways [...]

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Car Czar Consulting says: Dealer Communications reports last weekend, a car salesman from Oregon was shot while giving a test drive on Saturday. This incident has dealers across the country tightening up their safety standards for their employees. According to KDRV News Channel 12 out of Oregon [

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Car Czar Consulting says: Let’s say you’re a Chrysler dealer, waiting for new product. What can we do that will motivate you to sell more of what you have to sell today?
Let’s start by paying you to treat customers well and prepare the dealership physically and financially for the future and the sale of  future [...]

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Car Czar Consulting says: The economy needs to add over 100,000 new jobs per month to get us back to where we once belonged.
It was the bursting of the American subprime housing bubble that triggered the Global Financial Crisis, and while the US is slowly climbing out of its worse slowdown since the Great Depression, [...]

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Car Czar Consulting says: Car dealers love Rhonda Lindsay, affectionately known as:  our balloon lady as in ourballoonlady@aol.com because see serves a as a trusted business adviser to so many dealers in the Boise, ID market and elsewhere throughout the US and Canada.
Rhonda knows auto retail having worked sales in franchised dealerships in the Boise, [...]

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Car Czar Consulting says: It’s Ford vs. Chevy again (just like the old days!) See the video below.

Ford Beats GM in U.S. Sales for First Time Since 1998
March 2, 2010 (Bloomberg) — Ford Motor Co., buoyed by redesigned cars and a rebound in truck demand, posted a 43 percent jump in U.S. sales in [...]

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Car Czar Consulting says: All the ingredients are there: High unemployment, no jobs and lackluster consumer demand etc., yet continued exuberance in the stock market. You decide.
Pictures of a Market Crash: Beware the Ides of March, And What Follows After
Jesse’sAmericanCafe, Feb. 27, 2010, There are a fair number of private and public forecasters with whom [...]

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Car Czar Consulting says: To see how far we’ve “evolved,” please see the video below. Where were you in ‘62?
Chrysler races to upgrade its lineup
15 vehicles are being reworked; all will be on sale by early 2011

A prototype of the redesigned Jeep Grand Cherokee

In a bid to improve its lineup before a fleet of [...]

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Car Czar Consulting says: You’ve got to have a resurgence in job creation to have a sustained resurgence in new vehicle sales.
Payrolls Probably Declined in February: U.S. Economy Preview

Feb. 28 (Bloomberg) — Companies in the U.S. probably cut more jobs in February and the unemployment rate increased, indicating the labor market in the world’s [...]

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