This book is the pocket guide I wish I had when I first became a general manager of a Mitsubishi dealership in New York. Honestly, I am not the brightest star in the sky and made every mistake anyone could've possibly made. Unfortunately, I see dealer principals/general managers/general sales managers making the same mistakes today. The only difference is the time and consequences of these mistakes. I got my first GM gig in 2004. That was in the beginning days of the Internet, before millennials joined the workforce, and way before any viable disrupters entered the market space. It was a lot easier to get away with mistakes then. I don't think you could get away with making the same mistakes now. The stakes are too high. Automotive retail profit margins are tiny. According to the National Automobile Dealers Association (NADA), automotive net profit margin as of March 31, 2019 was merely 1.38 percent. As a result, every misstep makes it harder to stay in business.The car business desperately needs better leadership skills, understanding of social media, inventory management, fixed operations, and so much more. There is no educational barrier to the entry into car business, and there are only a handful of universities offering a major in car dealership general management, such as Liberty and Keiser. On top of that, only a tiny percentage of dealer principals and general managers attend the National Automobile Dealer Association University. That means that a vast majority of general managers receive training on the job, even if we took business-related classes in college. The auto business is a different animal. General information will only carry you so far. That is exactly why general managers make the same mistakes year after year. My goal is to break this vicious cycle and provide as much information as possible to ensure that automotive retail survives the disruptions we are witnessing today. We need to be ready for the next generation of car buyers, people who are more computer savvy and not afraid to search for better deals. According to surveys, 80 percent of millennials plan to buy a vehicle in the next five years. In fact, millennials worldwide will buy about 40 percent of all vehicles in the next decade. At the same time, they spend an average of 17 hours on line before going to a dealership.Are you ready for them?

Now revised and updated, with powerful new tools for cutting through dealers' tricks and tactics, this is the quintessential guide to buying the right car at the right price. Former car salesman Darrell Parrish teaches the art of car buying at Los Angeles area colleges and corporations. 30 line drawings.

The meteoric rise of the largest unregulated financial market in the world-for contemporary art-is driven by a few passionate, guileful, and very hard-nosed dealers. They can make and break careers and fortunes. The contemporary art market is an international juggernaut, throwing off multimillion-dollar deals as wealthy buyers move from fair to fair, auction to auction, party to glittering party. But none of it would happen without the dealers-the tastemakers who back emerging artists and steer them to success, often to see them picked off by a rival. Dealers operate within a private world of handshake agreements, negotiating for the highest commissions. Michael Shnayerson, a longtime contributing editor to Vanity Fair, writes the first ever definitive history of their activities. He has spoken to all of today's so-called mega dealers-Larry Gagosian, David Zwirner, Arne and Marc Glimcher, and Iwan Wirth-along with dozens of other dealers-from Irving Blum to Gavin Brown-who worked with the greatest artists of their times: Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, Cy Twombly, and more. This kaleidoscopic history begins in the mid-1940s in genteel poverty with a scattering of galleries in midtown Manhattan, takes us through the ramshackle 1950s studios of Coenties Slip, the hipster locations in SoHo and Chelsea, London's Bond Street, and across the terraces of Art Basel until today. Now, dealers and auctioneers are seeking the first billion-dollar painting. It hasn't happened yet, but they are confident they can push the price there soon.

The online private party used car buying and selling movement is stronger than ever! How would you like to learn how to buy and sell cars for profit privately without a dealer's license? How would you like to ensure that you maximize your profit while still buying and selling with honesty and integrity? The fundamental goal of my book is to provide you the tools to accomplish the following: Maximize your profit while mitigating your risk as a private party car salesman. The secondary goals of my book are to provide you the tools to accomplish the following: 1) Learn what it takes to get started as a private party car salesman, 2) Learn how much you can reasonably expect to earn annually as a private party car salesman, 3) Learn how to identify a good car deal as the buyer, 4) Learn how to research the buyer or seller on the other end of the transaction; while acquiring public data about them prior to meeting them, 5) Learn how to negotiate a deal as both a private party buyer and a private party seller, 6) Learn how to complete a proper car inspection prior to your purchase, 7) Learn how to advertise your car more efficiently than your competitors, 8) Learn where to identify the forms associated with your title transfer and how to fill them out properly, 9) Learn the difference between buying and selling cars in the private party market as opposed to becoming a licensed car dealer or wholesaler, 10) Evaluate your own personal strengths and opportunities to maximize your confidence level. The final goal of this manual is for you to understand why my strategies are unique and superior to my competitors. As you will learn, anyone can do this. However, many getting started will follow guidance from my competitors that will cause them to be unethical, cause them to lie to their potential buyers and/or cause them to break both federal and state laws. The guidance I will provide you will accomplish maximizing your profit on each deal; while mitigating the risk of investing in bad cars and doing business with shady and dangerous people. Have you ever heard of "standing on the shoulders of giants?" It means you find someone who knows how to do what you want to do, ask them what to do, and then most importantly, GO DO IT! I want to be your giant. I want to give you the tools to become more successful than I ever was. Most important, after reading my book, I want you to have the confidence to go do your first deal! Once you've read my book, I would love to get your feedback. I would also ask you to rate my book. Finally, I hope you can include telling me about your own personal success story after you complete your first deal.

Invites young readers to touch Impressionist and other nineteenth-century paintings, including Van Gogh's "Starry Night," Degas' "L'Etoile," and Morisot's "The Cradle." On board pages.

A thought-provoking, gorgeously illustrated gift book that will spark your creativity and help you rediscover your passion with “simple, low-stakes activities [that] can open up the world.”—The New York Times Welcome to the era of white noise. Our lives are in constant tether to phones, to email, and to social media. In this age of distraction, the ability to experience and be present is often lost: to think and to see and to listen. Enter Rob Walker's The Art of Noticing—an inspiring volume that will help you see the world anew. Through a series of simple and playful exercises—131 of them—Walker maps ways for you to become a clearer thinker, a better listener, a more creative workplace colleague, and finally, to rediscover what really matters to you.