A close friend of mine is living smack dab in the middle of the economic challenges, playing the role of Marketing & Public Relations for a dealership. In this economy, the industry feeling it that bad would be those in construction or residential realestate.
He was kind enough to sit down and talk a bit about life in the dealership.
Interview With:
Al Wise
Director of Marketing and Public Relations
John Elway’s Manhattan Beach Toyota and Scion
MFG: Give us a run down on your position, . . .
Well, we have a new president (this isn’t about politics) and we are a almost two weeks into the era that is Obama, but where are we with the bailout?
I found this interesting article in the NY Times this weekend and thought it would be worth passing along. There is roughly $320B left and the article clearly shows where the first half (and then some) has gone.
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/technology/index.html
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This morning I was watching Sesame Street with my son. It’s not a show I typically “enjoy,” but this morning really offended me. OK, I ‘m not serious, at least not that serious. See, this week I was speaking with a sales rep and talking about the service true sales professionals provide to their clients, trying to help them get past the stigma even they have with “selling.”
We spent an hour talking about their feelings of being bothersome or intrusive, dealing with . . .
Julien Jordan recently stated:
I hear experiential websites are on their way out, being replaced with social networking websites and content driven websites. Has the end come to those cool, flashy, experiential sites?
Sites like http://www.planetinneed.com/ , or http://www.paybeautyforward.ca/en/
Have people stopped wanting to be taken through a rich experience in favor of connecting to real people, or in favor of searching out information? Are people paying less attention to the cool, and more attention to the simple? Have people started to care . . .
I read an article on CNN.com that got me thinking about small businesses and why I have always enjoyed working with them.
At first it was a local clinic, then a local optometrist, then a local designer and so forth. What drove me away from the big corporate towers? Upon graduating, why didn’t I want to put my nose to the grind and take my place at a cubicle?
Well, THAT is why. I don’t want a cubicle. I don’t want to . . .
