Day 10

Met with our Autobase rep for about two hours today going over the major upgrade that will take place, along with an explanation on how the new internet module will fit into our plans.

Narrowed my selection for the Internet Appointment Coordinator down to 2 and couldn't make up my mind. So I invited each back for an interview on Monday and I'll make my decision then.

Trained the rest of the salespeople on phone-ups. They were pretty receptive also. After the training, I met with the new and used vehicle Internet Managers to discuss my plans for the department. They also realize that everything I'm attempting to do has a direct result to their income. So I think I have them on my side.

Worked on the website to make some changes. We have a templated website from Cobalt, so there's not many changes I can make. GM has had some problems with their servers lately, so the certified logos on the used vehicles weren't showing up. They must have fixed the problem because I can see them now. If we want to capture a lot of leads from our site, we may have to have another one created, although we'd need to keep this one since GM would not send us any free leads without it.

Hopefully I'll get some good resumes from the new vehicles salesperson ad I placed in Careerbuilder.com. We need to add another three salespeople, and I'm responsible to do all the interviewing.

Have a great weekend.