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A Call to Fix Your Dealership’s Bottom Line

Your customers’ experience is immediately impacted by your callers’ journey, and making that journey a great one is the biggest area of opportunity that a dealer has. Your bottom line is directly impacted by your phone processes and your phone sk
Aug 8, 2017

A Recipe for Customer Retention at Your Dealership

Dealerships spend a lot of time, money and effort in order to attract new customers. Some dealers may even become so fixated on drawing in new customers, that they overlook the relationships they already have. The dealers who are looking to shift to
Aug 8, 2017

Breaking into the Top 100 Dealers List: A Unique Story of One Rural Dealer

Every car dealer dreams of sitting on top of their regional sales rankings. Some may also strive to be number one in a larger area, such as their state. Preston Ford strives for an even bigger objective. For the past eight years, Preston Ford has mad
Aug 8, 2017

How to Use Facebook’s Powerful Targeting Capabilities

Never have we, as advertisers, had such granular capabilities that allow us to pick and choose who receives our digital advertising impressions. We can place ads in front of our past customers, customers who have recently browsed our websites and mob
Aug 8, 2017

The Key to Connection: Stop Following Up with Your Internet Leads Like It’s 2009

When is the last time you inspected your internet lead processes? Do you know what the content of your emails being sent are? Do you know when they are being sent? How often, or not often? How can you know for sure that the emails that are being sent
Aug 8, 2017

Database – Gold Mines or Bottomless Pits?

I know that mining your database can seem, well, overwhelming. Aren’t there services that will do that for me? Why should I have to do this? I DON’T WANT TO! (you say, stomping your foot like a child). But, hey, mining your database is not as dif
Aug 7, 2017

Screen vs. Screen: How to Bridge the Creative Gap from TV Commercials to Video Pre-Roll Advertising

For decades, television has been the ultimate advertising playground for car dealers. From crazy to conservative, from soft to silly, and every wacky idea in between, dealers have had a blank canvas to do whatever they want. But guess what, that canv
Aug 7, 2017

Faster, Simpler, Easier is Going to Win

What can we learn from Amazon about streamlining the automobile purchase process? Let’s start with a far-flung example. Do you like Doritos? If you like them a lot you probably don’t want to run out of them. You may like them enough that you don�
Aug 7, 2017

Who Is Responsible for Your Company’s Success? You Are!

I was teaching a workshop the other day at an Automotive Digital Marketing Event on building a successful team. As the audience filed out, a GM of a dealership pulled me aside and asked if he could ask me some questions. We found a few seats in the h
Aug 7, 2017