Jeff Raab [dot] com

Business Development Professional, Leadership Coach, Digital Marketer & Meditation Student.

Automotive BizDev Professional

For nearly 20 years, I have been focusing on the opportunity, promise and problems facing automotive retailers, lead generators and lead aggregators within in the digital spectrum.

My digital career began in 1999 with StoneAge.com, one of the true pioneers in the 3rd party lead space. I have experienced the full lead spectrum, from consumer origination to retail/wholesale distribution to dealer processing and management. I furthered my experience with online automotive classifieds (Director of Marketing, LiveDeal.com), automotive paid and organic search engine marketing (Founder, SearchSandbox.com), and online directories, social media marketing and online reputation management (Founder, DealerDex.com – sold in 2010).

My passion for the car business has led me to Detroit Trading Company (2007-2015) where I focused on new car lead purchasing through the introduction of Lead Scoring on the Detroit Trading Exchange.

Since 2015 I’ve been working on automotive call center solutions at Rock Connections, part of the Quicken Loans & Rock Family of Companies.

Connect with me here:  Jeff Raab on LinkedIn

 

Kamiwaza

Today Seth Godin provided an update to his newest manuscript – The Icarus Deception. In it, he included a wordcloud of what is inside: Instantly I was intrigued by the phrase kamiwaza. What? Never heard of kamiwaza? Neither have I. A quick check at Google didn’t return what I was looking for. Even the Comments […]

TEDxDetroit

TEDxDetroiters in the Rivera Court, Detroit Institute of the Arts.

How To Move Thesis Theme Navigation Bar Below Header

This post is mainly a quick-reference for myself, but many people have the same question: How do I move the Thesis Theme navigator bar below the header on my wordpress site? In your custom_functions.php file (which is even easier to update in Thesis 1.6) add the following lines of code: /*move the nav bar below […]

Free Web Conferencing

There is a new (at least new to me) company called Dimdim that offers a free web conference platform for up to 20 users. I have previously been using GoToMeeting.com, but will be trying Dimdim moving forward. They also have Pro and Enterperise versions, but for the average small business, I can’t imagine you would […]