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		<title>Do You Treat the Symptom or Cure the Disease?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You’ve noticed a suspicious looking growth on your face. You visit a dermatologist and find out it is melanoma, a type of cancer.  Your doctor wants to cut off the growth, pursue follow up treatments and work to rid your body of the cancer.  Sounds like a logical course, but you aren’t sure, so you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dubisgroup.com/blog/?p=230</link>
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		<title>6 Things to Always Tell a Car Salesman</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Vehicle shopping is getting more challenging than ever. The Internet is both a source of information and confusion. There are many so called &#8220;experts&#8221; sharing tips with consumers but rather than inform they often only serve to scare the public rather than educate them about the auto buying process. In a car-buying transaction the salesman [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It’s a Buyers World Out There!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Consumers are taking control online.  This is nothing new to most of us in auto retailing. Over the last 12 years the average consumer can glean extensive information, reviews, pricing, availability and ownership history on just about any product you can think of.   Since autos are a major purchase item we have gotten extensive scrutiny [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dubisgroup.com/blog/?p=146</link>
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		<title>I&#8217;m a Car Dealer. . . Trust Me</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You’ve all seen the annual &#8220;Trust&#8221; surveys showing auto sales as one of the least trustworthy professions. The good news is we are moving up the ladder. The bad news is we, as Americans, have lost trust in many professions and institutions. We have lost trust in our politicians, our financial institutions, our medical providers [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dubisgroup.com/blog/?p=153</link>
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		<title>Old Habits Die Hard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently an internet manager posted a discussion asking about looking for &#8220;silver bullet&#8221; solutions to bring in more business.  I shared some of my thoughts in that discussion, and share them here on my blog too. Every sales professional knows the secrets to success. Work the process, keep in touch with customers, treat them right and work [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dubisgroup.com/blog/?p=166</link>
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		<title>Top Reasons Internet Departments Fail</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the last few years I have been fortunate to meet and speak with hundreds of Internet Sales Managers from new car dealerships all over the country. Without an exception they all loved what they were doing and were overly optimistic about the future of the Internet and how it could better serve their customers. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dubisgroup.com/blog/?p=45</link>
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		<title>People are Talking about YOU</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Online social networks are increasingly providing an impact on Internet users in North America. Not only are consumers flocking to these sites, but they are getting recognition from businesses too.  This past October Microsoft Corporation invested $240 million (US) for less than a 2 percent stake in Facebook.com. That investment in the small, privately owned [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dubisgroup.com/blog/?p=41</link>
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		<title>Hey There. Join My Network</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bill would like to be your friend, Carla wants to be a connection, Ralph wants you to join his group, Phil wants to invite you to his blog show, Jeff invites you to subscribe to his RSS feed! This is the lingo of online social networking, and if I get one more invitation to recommend [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dubisgroup.com/blog/?p=37</link>
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		<title>Industry Events Calendar</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our industry has a number of local, regional and national events for auto retailers and vendors to participate. Here is a list of selected events. If you have an event you would like posted, please submit your information via the contact form on this website. September  2010 Events Sept 8 :  Automotive Fleet and Leasing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dubisgroup.com/blog/?p=86</link>
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		<title>Who Can You Trust on the Internet?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[People do business with people they trust. A customer on the dealer’s lot meets the sales associate and either feels comfortable with them or doesn&#8217;t. If the customer trusts the sales associate the chances of a sale go way up. It’s that simple. So, how do you convey a message of trust on a web [...]]]></description>
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