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WE HEAR IT ALL THE TIME: Maintaining a welcome, friendly atmosphere is the key to success. Dealers who treat their customers like family are generally rewarded wi

KURT MECHLING is a watcher. A watcher’s a guy who sees what’s happening outside of his store and outside of his business and then turns his observatio

IT WAS A PLAN that could never work: Start with an expensive location that had seen previous dealerships collapse, combine that with a terrible economic climate,

THIS IS A LANDMARK YEAR for Wayne Jaecke. The owner of City Cycle Sales in Junction City, Kan., celebrates 50 years in business while holding claim to 2012 Dealer

Rexburg Motorsports launched a fully convertible e-commerce platform enabling customers to configure a vehicle, obtain a discounted price quote, eSign a purchase

The charity bike, before (top) and after (bottom). The House of Harley-Davidson in Milwaukee recently unveiled the product of its online promotion, a custom Harl

Planning commissioners are holding up a zoning change for Village Motorsports in Unionville, Va., that would allow the 2012 Top 100 Dealer to hold more big sales

Not every business is willing to give an ex-con a break. But Renegade Harley-Davidson, a Top 100 Dealer in Alexandria, La., is teaming with a local business for a

XTREME MACHINES FEATURES a monolithic storefront that’s impossible to miss from the highway. And one would think that inside this large Millstone, N.J., dea

When times get tough, the tough get creative. For Bill Comegys, owner of Grand Prix Motorsports in Littleton, Colo., it was clear that he needed to diversify his