How Illegal Interview Questions Hurt Your Dealership
As an employer, your focus during the recruitment process should always be on finding the most qualified person to fit a specific role within your organization. We’ve found that dealerships hire the right individual about 50 percent of the time. Simultaneously, the average turnover rate for salespeople at today’s dealerships hovers around 70 percent. When
Change Management: The “Upward Climb” With New Dealership Tech
Adopting new technology in a dealership is an important business decision that requires a process to ensure success. A comprehensive, user-friendly technology platform can be extremely advantageous and profitable to your dealership. It makes collecting data easier, provides the ability to mine existing customer information, and even helps integrate sales, service, inventory acquisition and other
Click or Treat: Three Ghoulish Tricks for Better PPC Results
All advertising inspires additional online research. The challenge is how to influence consumers as they enter keywords and navigate through search engine results. Text ads are just one of the many moving parts in a successful PPC strategy — but they are an important component. A combination of PPC best practices and creativity will lead
Don’t Just Target – Video Retarget for Better Campaign Results
Retargeting is a hot trend in online advertising these days. Retargeting (also known as remarketing) campaigns serve ads up to customers who have previously engaged with your Website. When customers leaves your Website, retargeting ads appear to them as they travel around the Internet. The purpose is to keep your brand and products in front
Does Your Dealership Preload Vehicles and Use Addendum Labels?
Do you preload vehicles and use addendum labels? If so, there are a few things to keep in mind to accurately and professionally present options you offer your clients in this socially connected world. Before we begin, I want to clarify that I am not an attorney and you should consult your legal counsel for
Vehicle E-Commerce: Why Would Today’s Dealers Stay Relevant in the New Sales Dynamics?
Barath Ashokkumar & Anand Sethuraman The biggest revolution currently underway is taking place neither in the manufacturing plant nor in the innovation labs, but in people’s living rooms. What started off as a demonstration of online shopping systems in 1979 has now exploded into a world of e-Bays and Amazons. With every kind of retailer
Expectations
An expectation is something we think about but maybe unconsciously take for granted in establishing our dealership’s culture, or the way we conduct business on a daily basis. Do we really take the time to fully understand exactly what this word means? We should, because it is an important key to our success as an
Building Today’s Communication Tool Box
The ways in which we communicate are ever changing, and that means thriving businesses must always be on the lookout for ways to update and clean out their communication tool boxes.
Boosting Service Center Revenue – What Dealership’s Can Do To Better Retain Service Customers
Featuring responses from more than 500 respondents who used a dealership’s service center in the past year, the survey unearthed what’s at the heart of customers choosing their dealership’s service center versus other options and the factors that likely lead to customers no longer visiting at all.
Bridging the Gap Between Data and Actionable Data
Complete the picture of the customer journey and you can deliver relevant messaging at the right time. How do we complete that picture? How do we turn raw, useless data into consumable information that we can act upon?
