Binging on Google Adwords is an Unhealthy Diet: Add Some SEO
The most common marketing decision (blunder) that auto dealers make in an attempt to accelerate sales is to blindly increase their Google AdWords investments. While AdWords is a critical part of a competent online marketing strategy, dealers are overspending.
5 Most Important Parts of a Successful Direct Mail Letter
Creating a successful direct mail letter is as much about what you don’t write as what you do.
Paragon Builds the Dealership of the Future with Google
Paragon Automotive, the largest Honda and Acura dealer in the nation, has experienced significant year-over-year growth in market share and profitability every year over the last 10 years. The dealership has continued to reinvent itself in an effort to pursue constant, never-ending improvement.
Walmart Expands CarSaver Program Nationwide
Certified dealers agree to provide fair, upfront pricing to Walmart’s customers and, in exchange, they receive exclusive leads and appointments that are only sent to their dealership. Dealers are reporting that these opportunities convert significantly higher than traditional leads.
Making the Shift: Why Switching to Digital Marketing is Valuable
As a Millennial, I will be the first to admit that I’m actually a little old fashioned. I still take notes for everything by hand in a notebook and I still get books from the library on a weekly basis instead of downloading them onto any kind of e-reader.
Emerging Frontrunner: The Power of Video
Armed with this knowledge, it’s time to take a look at your dealership’s video strategy. How does it fit into your greater comprehensive marketing approach? Are you leveraging this channel to its full potential right now and giving yourself a foundation to build on in the near future?
A Different Way to Sell on the Service Drive
How do we lose so many customers between the sale of the car and their return to service to have it maintained? It is a well-excepted notion that customer retention involves all departments, but the service drive seems to be Ground Zero in making customers loyal.
Buy My Stuff — Right Now!
If it is superior to the competition, you need to explain how and why. Don’t try to simply tell the market what it wants; that will never end well.
How the Experience Economy Will Drastically Change the Automotive Industry in 2018
More than anything, people crave experiences. Consumers are spending more on traveling, dining out and going to the theater — and less on material goods. Their desire for unique, authentic experiences has fueled the rapid growth of companies like Airbnb. In the restaurant industry, pop-up restaurants, food trucks and experiential dining venues continue to increase in popularity.
Welcome to the Age of Dealer Control
The days of third-party leads and Google are over. Dealerships around the country have poured their advertising budgets into these abysses for too long. For the first 90 years of the car business, things pretty much stayed the same. All you had to do was put up a big sign and place ads in the newspaper and customers showed up, ready to buy cars.
A Vision For Success: How Your Many Marketing Pieces Tie into a Single Strategy
Whether you’re looking at launching an SEO campaign, dedicating resources to monitoring your digital reputation or reviewing content for your Website, digital marketing in today’s world has become a complex, many-headed beast.
Understanding Rewards
A solid rewards program is not trying to trick the customer into doing business but thank them for their business in a meaningful way.
