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Today's episode of Connected features Shannon Robertson, Executive Director of The Association of Finance and Insurance Professionals. Our discussion is about all things compliance when it comes to your protecting dealership. AFIP trainings are very beneficial to preventing "bad behaviors" in your dealership.

Today's guest on Connected is Kelly Stumpe, who's also known as The Car Mom! Kelly co-hosts the Carpool Podcast and helps her followers on Instagram and YouTube navigate the car buying process.

With experience selling cars and becoming an industry influencer at the height of the pandemic, Kelly's niche is focusing on helping first-time, young, or women car buyers through the car buying experience. Her approach is all about the four E's – educate, empower, entertain, and engage. Through her growing platform, she's been able to interact with and bring value to her audience, and she emphasized how dealerships can take this same approach when it comes to their customers and their sales process.

Carpool Podcast: https://www.thecarmomofficial.com/the-car-pool-podcast

Car Mom Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_car_mom/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheCarMom

This week's guest is Shawn Leibold, Director of Industry Relations here at Reynolds. Shawn's experience in creating community outreach events and sponsorships spans past the automotive industry. He brings great knowledge as to why it's important to build relationships with your community and how dealers can create impactful events to drive outreach. Enjoy listening to Shawn's many stories from the different events he's helped put on and attended!

If you've ever attended a Fixed Ops Roundtable event, you'll definitely recognize this week's guest! We're talking with Ted Ings, Executive Director of the Center for Performance Improvement and host of the Fixed Ops Roundtable. Ted talks about his 40 years of experience in the automotive industry, shares some stories from past events, and the charity focus of this year's Fixed Ops Roundtable.

Is your dealership looking for a way to create value, generate profit, and help customers with low credit scores? This week's guest is Paul Sansone Jr, owner of Sansone Jr's 66 Automall and co-founder of Dealer Controlled Leasing. Paul recently won the Best Idea Contest at the 2022 DrivingSales Executive Summit. In this episode, Paul talks about the origin of Dealer Controlled Leasing and how it works!

"It all boils down to one acronym, BRT: build relationships of trust. Without relationships, we're nothing. Without desire to serve and empower others, we get nowhere."

This week on Connected, Greg's chatting with Michael Cirillo, CEO of FlexDealer and host of The Dealer Playbook podcast.

We have another great guest on this week's Connected! Greg is joined in studio by Brian Pasch for an insightful episode that touches on several important topics: cybersecurity, Google Analytics 4, connected retailing, and the upcoming Modern Retailing Conference.

It's the 100th episode of Connected! We've come a long way from recording episode one in Greg's basement and we have a fantastic guest to celebrate the occasion. Greg is joined by Susan Givens, publisher of AutoSuccess Magazine, for a conversation about the evolution of media consumption, what AutoSuccess has in store for 2023, and how dealers can provide value by sharing quality information. Listen to this episode wherever you get your podcasts!

We're raising a little trouble on this week's Connected! Greg is joined by Paul J Daly and Kyle Mountsier from Automotive State of the Union (ASOTU) and The Automotive Troublemaker podcast. Together, they discuss their upcoming ASOTU CON event and the importance of collaborating within the automotive industry.

We have another first this week! John Keohane, vice president of operations at Temecula Valley Buick GMC, has never appeared on a podcast before but he joins Greg for a wide-ranging conversation. They discuss dealership CRMs, supply and demand, virtual retailing, how to transition online buyers once they arrive in store, and the future of the automotive industry.