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Fixed Ops Friday w/ Eddie Palomba, Chris Wood, & Andrew Batenhorst | Daily Dealer Live
Friday, October 30, 2026 • Duration 01:06:09
Today's show features:
- Eddie Palomba, Parts and Service Director at McGovern Automotive
- Chris Wood, VP Client Strategy (Automotive) at LocalIQ/USA Today
- Andrew Batenhorst, Body Shop Manager at Pacific BMW
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Digital Retailing Was a Broken Promise. Here's What Finally Fixed It | Noah Lee, Director of Product Consulting for Multi-Solution Sales at Cox Automotive
Thursday, October 29, 2026 • Duration 29:35
Online car buying was sold to dealers as a way to sell cars on the internet, but for years it delivered little more than a souped-up lead, and the idea became a dirty word across the industry.
Noah Lee explains why the technology has finally caught up, with deals that start online now closing about 46% more often and bringing in about 26% more gross profit, and argues that the biggest thing still standing between most stores and a one-hour car deal isn't the technology, it's fear of change.
Noah Lee is the Director of Product Consulting for Multi-Solution Sales at Cox Automotive, where he maps how the company's tools, from Autotrader and Dealer.com to VinSolutions, vAuto, Xtime and Dealertrack, work together as one system inside a dealership.
He has spent years helping dealers clean up their processes and connect their tools, and he speaks candidly about how AI shopping agents are already filtering out dealerships that won't share numbers upfront, how outdated customer data quietly erodes trust, and what the Fullpath acquisition means for dealers sitting on years of messy records.
Topics:
00:00 AI Agents Skip Stores Without Upfront Prices.
04:35 Dirty Data Would Take Years To Clean Manually.
13:45 85% Of Customers Redo Steps At The Store.
14:30 Digital Deals Close 46% Higher.
16:30 Digital Retailing Was A Fake Promise.
20:45 Digital Shoppers Negotiate Less.
25:10 People Are The Biggest Block To Change.
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Wilkins on VinSolutions, Dortch on Processing Rates, Strong on VW | Daily Dealer Live
Wednesday, October 28, 2026 • Duration 59:30
Today's show features:
- Jason Wilkins, Dealer Principal at Joshua Tree CDJR & Victorville Mitsubishi
- Charles Dortch III, Senior Vice President of Sales at CrossCheck, Inc.
- Walker Strong, GM at Strong Automotive
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CrossCheck, Inc. – Dealerships spend significant resources selling and delivering vehicles, but what is the true cost of getting paid? CrossCheck helps auto dealers reduce payment processing costs, minimize payment risk, and offer customers more flexibility with guaranteed ACH and check payment solutions. Learn more at https://www.cross-check.com/car-dealership-guy.
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Why This 50-Year Dealer Group Grows by Shutting Down Stores & Why It Works | Jay Healey, Chief Marketing Officer at Healey Brothers Automotive Group
Tuesday, October 27, 2026 • Duration 35:16
Jay Healey is the Chief Marketing Officer at Healey Brothers Automotive Group, the largest dealer group in New York's Hudson Valley, with 10 stores, more than 750 employees, and a newly added Cadillac franchise.
A third-generation leader of the business his grandfather started nearly 50 years ago, he works alongside his father and uncle, while his 94-year-old grandfather still reads the store numbers every single morning.
He speaks candidly about earning trust with manufacturers, why AI made his people more valuable instead of replacing them, and how the group promotes from within in an industry known for turnover.
Topics:
01:25 Grandfather Still Checks Numbers At 94.
03:10 Buy The Right Store, Not The Next One.
06:40 AI Is Not Just A Lead Source.
13:00 Customers Shop At 10 PM After Kids Sleep.
19:00 BDC Got Pay Raises, Not Layoffs.
32:35 Transparency Rules For Social Media Ads.
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Miles on Pre-Owned, Pulluaim on Absorption, Stapleton on 3x Sales | Daily Dealer Live
Monday, October 26, 2026 • Duration 01:02:48
Today's show features:
- Kip Miles, Director of Automotive Operations at Tom Wood Group
- Korey Pulluaim, Vice President at Pocket20
- Ben Stapleton, GM at McGraw Ford
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Pocket20 - Pocket20 reads a dealership's factory financial statement, benchmarks every line, and turns the gaps into ranked, dollar-figured opportunities with a fix path for each department. Operators see exactly where gross is leaking, from technician productivity to unapplied labor, and whether it moved the next month. Learn more: https://pocket20.com/cdg
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Fixed Ops Friday w/ Greg Johnson, Scott Painter, Mark Payne & Joseph Ruppel | Daily Dealer Live
Friday, October 23, 2026 • Duration 01:08:45
Today's show features:
- David Thomas, Director of Content Marketing at CDK Global
- Greg Johnson, General Manager at Mohawk Honda
- Mark Payne, President at Total Dealer Solutions
- Scott Painter, Founder and CEO at TrueCar
- Joeseph Ruppel, Parts and Service Director at Meier Chevrolet Buick
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Total Dealer Solutions — Since 2003, TDS has been the leading third-party parts inventory provider, trusted by 800+ dealerships nationwide. From onsite physical inventories completed in about 6 hours and buy/sell audits, to daily parts-to-GL reconciliation with PartsRec and PartsFisher, the dealer-only marketplace for obsolete OEM parts, TDS turns parts departments into profit centers. Learn more: https://totaldealersolutionsinc.com/
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"It's All Going Away!" Why Your Dealership's Software Stack Is About to Collapse (+ What Replaces It) | Mike Gilson, CEO at Conversica
Thursday, October 22, 2026 • Duration 37:09
Mike Gilson believes that five years from now, the car business will look back and laugh at the software dealers run on today.
Groups with 50 to 100 stores often juggle dozens of different store management and customer management systems, stacked up through decades of acquisitions, and replacing any one of them, he says, is like open heart surgery.
Meanwhile, 64% of car buyers now use AI tools to compare models and payments, yet most dealerships can't even be found by those tools, and he argues the real problem is the scattered data underneath, not a missing AI feature.
Topics:
00:55 San Francisco Was A Zombie Apocalypse.
05:40 Acquisitions Create DMS Chaos.
07:35 Software Is Becoming Conversational.
10:55 CDP And CRM Will Collapse Into One.
15:50 Context Is The Fuel That Powers AI.
22:15 Industry Will Laugh At Today's Dysfunction.
28:50 64% Of Buyers Now Use LLMs.
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Preston on Turnarounds, Saylor on Service, Shivers on Community | Daily Dealer Live
Wednesday, October 21, 2026 • Duration 01:07:10
Today's show features:
- Bobby Preston, President at Preston Auto Group
- Kim Saylor, Sr. Director of Product Marketing, Fixed Operations at CDK Global
- Mark Shivers, GM at Suburu of Orillia
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CDK Global – CDK CONNECT explores the technologies, data and strategies helping dealers sell more, service more and operate more efficiently. Get the details on these and next week’s briefings (12 in all) and register now: http://cdk.com/connect
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The Coin Flip That Built an 11-Store Dealer Empire | Jim Speck, President of Circle Auto Group
Tuesday, October 20, 2026 • Duration 52:00
Jim Speck walks through how he turned down a $125,000 job in Arizona for $4,000 a month plus 8% of a profit that didn't exist yet, and argues that a young operator trying the same climb in a big metro market today would get squeezed out by the public companies.
Jim Speck is the Pesident of Circle Auto Group in Southern California, where he built an 11-store group alongside his late partner Hank and still runs the business with Hank's trust today.
He built his foundation on the fixed side of the business, mechanic to service advisor to service manager, then worked for Kaiser Jeep and Saab before buying his first store at 31.
Topics:
00:00 Stole Cars As A 14-Year-Old.
07:15 Coin Flip Decided His Career.
14:00 First Store At 31 With 25% Equity.
19:50 Took $4K Salary Over $125K Offer.
32:20 Guaranteed Pay During COVID, Won Big.
49:30 Small Towns Beat Big Metros.
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Seale on New, Kent/Salicco on co-marketing, Meisinger on Fixed | Daily Dealer Live
Monday, October 19, 2026 • Duration 55:18
Today's show features:
- James Seale, Managing Partner & General Manager at Parkway Family Auto Group
- Jamie Kent, Chief Strategy Officer at Overfuel
- Michael Salicco, CEO at On.Page
- Michael Meisinger, CEO at Mauer Auto Group
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