Originally Posted by xenigo

So I'm going to get in touch with my inner used-car salesman. I'm going through the process to start a car dealership. Working on acquiring the occupational license right now. Going to look at small retail locations soon...

Seeing all the available resources kinda reminds me of how adult was back in 2002. Lots of training materials, lots of consultants that seem to be able to help you build just about anything. I'm pretty excited to put my photography and video production skills back to use to produce some killer walk-around and test-drive videos.

And on the other hand, I feel like a fish out of water! It's a bit overwhelming when I'm looking at software solutions and I'm seeing 15 different acronyms for products I'm completely unfamiliar with... but I'm excited about getting involved in an industry that's so incredibly large.

I did some research on domain names and was surprised to learn how competitive the domain market is in the auto industry... holy crap! Any combination of even completely lame names is taken... quite a contrast to adult where I can sit down for 15 minutes and end up with a very brand-able domain. Looks like I might just have to buy from a 3rd party...

Do any of you have experience running this type of operation? Any words of wisdom you can share?