February 13, 2012 By netbizcoach Leave a Comment

Regional Autos Project

Getting motivated to make a difference

One thing that always seems to happen after a great conference is I get motivated to do something bigger than the norm. I think it would be safe to say that the Driving Sales Executive Summit created some serious motivation for everyone that was there. The event that the DrivingSales team put together was top notch and the speakers still have me motivated even 4 months later.

Taking projects off the shelf

We all have projects that we are working on all the time. All too often the really important ones get shelved or slowed for the squeaky wheels [Read more...]

Filed Under: Conversion, Reputation Management, SEO

January 26, 2012 By netbizcoach Leave a Comment

Creating ADF/XML Emails with Gravity Forms for WordPress

When adding email forms to an automotive WordPress website, making sure that they make it into the CRM is important. The “standard” in the industry for passing emails into most CRM tools is ADF/XML. With a little tweaking you can set up any of your Gravity Forms to send in ADF format. The video will cover some of the basics and then I have included the ADF v1 document so that you can build your own. [Read more...]

Filed Under: Plugins

January 23, 2012 By netbizcoach Leave a Comment

Selling Cars Online Academy has been updated

WordPress Training Videos and More

You may have noticed an update email last weekend for our blog & training site, the Selling Cars Online Academy. We added over 40 WordPress tutorial videos and made it easier to navigate at the same time.

If you are already a Selling Cars Online Academy member make sure to log in so you can view the training content. If you would like to become a member and get access to all the WordPress videos click here.

Another benefit of the new site is that it is running on a new Genesis child theme and uses a responsive layout. This means that it will work on all “smart” devices; iOS, Android etc.

As always if you have any requests for tutorials let us know.

Filed Under: DealerTrend, WordPress Tutorials

October 15, 2011 By netbizcoach Leave a Comment

Social Networking Sells

As I am going through draft posts that I have written, I came across this one. Not even sure why I hadn’t posted it yet. This message was very prevalent at DSES so I almost decided to wait and post it later. It is such an important message though that I don’t think it could be said enough times. What do you think? [Read more...]

Filed Under: Conversion, Reputation Management

October 12, 2011 By netbizcoach Leave a Comment

3 Days at the Driving Sales Executive Summit

Take Away from Driving Sales 2011 “Get of the Couch!”

I am sitting at the airport in Las Vegas waiting for my plain to head back to Reno after the Driving Sales Executive Summit thinking of the take aways from the week. First of all, what a great conference with outstanding speakers and a great message.

For me the biggest take away was that the message that has been being said over and over by a few vendors and a few dealers seems to be getting louder. The message of [Read more...]

Filed Under: Branding

October 11, 2011 By netbizcoach Leave a Comment

Twitter stream is strong at #DSES

Filed Under: Events and News

October 11, 2011 By netbizcoach Leave a Comment

Google on mobile #DSES

Filed Under: SEO

August 16, 2011 By netbizcoach Leave a Comment

Build a page in WordPress for SEO

WordPress SEO by Yoast plugin

WordPress is known for being a great website platform for SEO. It is also known for having a lot of really cool plugins. In the video we will take a look at WordPress SEO by Yoast which is a great plugin that provides user input for the SEO elements on your pages or posts.
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Filed Under: Plugins, WordPress, WordPress Tutorials

August 12, 2011 By netbizcoach Leave a Comment

Black Label WordPress Theme

Time to Re-Think Your Video Website

So I just got off the phone with a website developer, and as usual we were talking shop. Showing each other the cool stuff we have seen etc. He pointed me to a WordPress theme that I hadn’t seen before called Black Label. It is available for sale on Themeforest.net for $30.00 and is really cool. The entire home page opens up as a video and upon completion transitions into a slide show. Make sure that you check out the demo on www.themeforest.net.