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Welcome to The WardsAuto Dealer 5 - we've put together important items from WardsAuto.com and across the Internet. So let's go:
| 1. | We'd never say dealership customers are dumb, but some of them would flunk a financial literacy test. The industry wants to tutor them. | ||
| 2. | Dealership people are a tough group, yet everyone needs to regroup now and then. Feeling burned out? Here’s how to relight the fire and warm up for bigger and better things.
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| 3. | Let’s look at how auto dealers can get started with big-data analysis. It's easier than you may think. | ||
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| 4. | Beware of financial wizards spinning get-rich-quick schemes. A guy like that wants to work his black magic at General Motors. What is going on?
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| 5. | Lawyers reached a settlement in a wrongful-death suit against a dealership. The suit claimed a Lexus suddenly accelerated, causing a fatal car crash. The ripple effect of the 2009 accident has caused a lot of grief and cost Toyota billions of dollars. |
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