Technology Trends

Thomas J. Armitage

What Dealers Need to Know About Local Search

f your dealership has a physical storefront, there’s a huge opportunity to get in front of more buyers by levering your digital properties.

Lisa Ryan

Open Your Books to Increase Employee Engagement

If you’re looking for a great way to build employee trust and engagement levels, you may want to consider incorporating an open-book leadership strategy.

Mike Kallenberger

John Deere’s Precision Technology Program Found New Ways To Listen To Their Customers

What do customers want?

Becky Schultz

How Equipment Dealers Can Go Head-to-Head with Online Giants

Dealers must evolve their online services to meet changing customer expectations in order to compete against these new entrants in the construction market space.

Mark Spangler

Dealership Survival Knowledge and Skills You Need to Navigate Today's Cyber-Connected World

Today’s cyber threat landscape is awash in everything from classic phishing scams to ransomware attacks, computer spoofing and social engineering attacks.

Thomas J. Armitage

How to Use Lead Intelligence to Fill Your Sales Pipeline

A few years ago, “Big Data” was one of the top queries in Google search.

Sara Hey

Marketing: Where to Begin

“I’m trying to put together a marketing schedule; where do I even begin?” a dealer asked me after a recent National Dealer Meeting.

2021 Technology Showcase

Lori Lovely

Secuvant Security Comes to the Equipment Distribution Industry

With 350,000 new malware threats and 80,000 cyberattacks detected daily in 2020, the reality for businesses is not if they get hacked, but when.

Kevin Forestell

DOZR

E-commerce is a term that is gaining traction in all industries.

Karen Scally

Prepare Now for the Future of Electric Construction Equipment

A future with electric construction equipment is coming, and Dave Bolderoff says fleet managers need to be taking steps now to make sure they’re ready for it.

Thomas Armitage

How Equipment Dealers Can Turn Website Visits into Sales Through E Commerce

Tips to generate more revenue through direct, online selling

Caleb Yell

How Technology Is Guiding the Rental Industry Through This Ever Changing Time

The year 2020 challenged our industry in unexpected ways.

Brian P. McGuire

From the President April 2021

Since CED Magazine’s focus is on technology this month, I’d like to take a moment to speak about the critical role that technology plays in this industry.

ASV Genuine OEM Rubber Tracks Provide Longevity, Reliability and Derailment Prevention

ASV Holdings Inc., an industry-leading manufacturer of all-purpose and all-season compact track loaders and skid steers

Jesse Buckingham

Winning Rental Businesses Are Transforming Their Business With Inspection Management Software

Record360 has worked with hundreds of equipment rental operators across the country, and the most successful operators we’ve seen follow a simple winning strategy.

Ben Dattner & Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic

How to Curate Your Digital Persona

Who are you online? In the business world, there is a simple way of working out who our professional personas are: just pay attention to how others see us.

Karen M. Scally

How to Get the Most Value From Telematics Solutions for Construction

f you’re not already tapping into what your construction fleet management data is telling you, you are already behind.

Sugath Warnakulasuriya

How the Digital Journey to Service and Maintenance Enablement Leads to Unexpected Value

Although construction and industrial equipment dealers and distributors have taken steps to connect online and digitally market to customers...

Dirk Beveridge

Struggling with Tech Adoption? This Could Be Why

Living and breathing innovation in the distribution industry means I’ve worked with a lot of companies as they’ve introduced new technology platforms.