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.
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.
Master of All: Why Executing on Just a Few Marketing Channels is No Longer Good Enough
To be truly competitive in such a landscape, dealers increasingly have to be not “jacks” of all marketing channels, but masters of all marketing channels.
Making the Shift: Why Switching to Digital Marketing is Valuable
Digital marketing is one of the greatest resources available for dealerships right now. If marketing of any kind isn’t already a part of your budgeting plan, why not?
Up in a Down Market: Inventory and Competition, Part 4
Certain vehicles sell quicker in certain colors and packages than others, so we use technology to determine what the fastest-moving vehicles at any given time in the market would be and that’s what we try to acquire.
How the Right Employees Can Improve Your Online Brand
The average car buyer in 2004 visited five dealerships before making a purchase. By 2014, buyers visited only 1.6 dealerships. This change happened largely because buyers started completing their research online before setting foot in a dealership.
10 Innovative Technology Companies Who Help Dealers Dramatically Evolve and Emerge
The automotive industry continues to evolve around the way consumers research, buy and service vehicles. One thing remains the same in the highly competitive industry: dealers continue to implement marketing strategies and technologies to help drive new sales and service business while at the same time retain their existing customers.
Out of the Red and Into the Black
The dealership was out of touch with what the market demanded. In a little under a year and a half’s amount of time we’ve been able to move it to the modern way of doing business.
Challenging Myths: Auto Dealership Lead Performance Reports
While doing research for an upcoming book, I asked marketing managers and GMs how they evaluate the success of their marketing investments. While total sales opportunities and units sold per month are the ultimate KPIs, many dealers have flat-to-declining sales.
Insanity: Doing the Same Thing and Expecting Different Results
Over the years, there has been a slow evolution of how we do business in the automobile industry. Essentially, not much changes and, if it does, it’s so slow that it is imperceptible.
