Slow and Steady Never Wins When It Comes to Your Website
Pole position on the racetrack is important, but it doesn’t guarantee a win. It is, however, strongly correlated with top-five finishes, including first place. Think of your Website like a race car. When you consider its value and performance relative to selling cars, a blazing-fast Website is your marketing cornerstone.
The Lies Green Arrows Can Tell
Sometimes red is good and sometimes green is bad, which, in the end, only makes the digital universe harder to understand. This is especially true when it comes to a client who just wants to see green and forward movement.
Sell at Recon: A Photo-First Workflow Strategy
Used cars offer the best defense against margin compression — and how you leverage reconditioning as an offensive tool makes this work. Getting incoming cars reconditioned and to the sales line quicker can mean healthier gross margins for your used car operation.
Loyalty Versus Retention
Customers become loyal when they think you have gone the extra mile. The days of saying, ‘We’ll treat them right and they’ll come back’ are pretty much over. Everyone treats their customers right in this market.
Are Your Customers Feeling the Love?
Whether you think Valentine’s Day is the most romantic holiday of the year or an elaborate scheme by greeting card companies, it is upon us. We spend this time of year showing our loved ones we care, but is your dealership doing the same for your customers?
Dealers Are Waking Up to the True Value of Their Customer Data and Sales Attribution Models
To reach these objectives, dealership managers will need to embrace change. There are new metrics and methods to determine which marketing channels are supporting the goals of the business. One of the changes managers will need to embrace, for example, is that metrics such as cost per click (CPC), impression share, bounce rate, and time on site (TOS) should not be included in the list of key performance indicators (KPIs).
Dealer Marketing Performance Metrics: How to Tell What’s Working
Every one of your marketing channels is raising their hand on linked sales saying, “Me, me, me, I get the credit!” If they can’t prove a direct sale, vendors should at least be able to prove influence.
How to Measure Purchase Intent and Manage Inventory Using Social Media
Marketers have learned to use these platforms to collect data, target customers and engage directly with them. Advanced technologies enable marketers to access vast amounts of information using tactics such as keyword performance metrics and attribution modeling
In a Jetsons’ World, It’s the Flinstone Mentality That Will Win
But as we continue to try to keep up with constant innovation and make sense of this whirlwind of information, a lot of us have forgotten the most important part of our business: relationships.
Sales Tips for Email Marketing
You’ve captured my attention, made me stop browsing my emails and I think I’m interested in the cars you’re selling. Now what? Is it time sensitive? Do I need to download something? Make an appointment? Tell me plain and simple what to do next.
Dealership Managers Were Set Up to Fail
Dealers have been increasing digital marketing investments for years but more recently the online marketing machine is running out of gas. Dealers are spending more on marketing and selling fewer vehicles. Net profit margins are down as healthcare, insurance and financing costs increase.
Five Steps to Improving Video
Use videos to display the automobiles being sold in new locations, away from the dealership and buildings associated with all the negative aspects of buying a car.
