How to Find The Best Hashtags for your Car Dealership | #Automarketing, from 9 Clouds Automotive Marketing. If you’ve read anything about social media best practices for car dealers in the past few years, you’ve probably heard about hashtags. The

Your Dealership’s Digital Marketing Strategy Sucks!, from Dealer Refresh. Well… Maybe “Sucks” isn’t exactly the right word but, I promise that you are going about your digital marketing in the wrong order of operations. And, yes, there is a

5 New Year’s Resolutions for Paid Search in 2015, from Search Engine Watch. Well, it’s that time of year. Time to reflect on 2014, and look forward to 2015. And with that, comes the making of resolutions for the new year. Exercise more. Eat less.

5 ways the auto industry let consumers down in 2014, from Consumer Reports. Bad behavior from automakers and dealers We’re excited for the year ahead in cars. New drivetrains, designs, and technologies make every new year more exciting than the las

Cleveland Honda dealers blaze trail with regional ad tactics, from Automotive News. When American Honda Motor Co. decided 18 months ago to fund marketing for regional dealer associations, members of the Northern Ohio Honda Dealers wanted to do more t

GM to use GM Financial for subsidized leases, from MarketWatch. General Motors Co. plans to use its GM Financial lending arm as the exclusive provider of subsidized leases in the U.S., a move that could help boost earnings while significantly increas

Auto dealers, experts say 2015 car purchases will slow slightly but won’t grind to halt, from The Blade. The auto industry’s glimmering rise is expected to continue in 2015, though not quite with the same white-hot intensity of the last few years

BMW’s December Surge Solidifies U.S. Luxury-Sales Leadership, from Bloomberg. BMW boosted December sales 11 percent to hold off Mercedes-Benz and recapture the U.S. luxury-auto sales crown for 2014, as premium brands benefited from a surging stock

7 bad marketing habits to break in 2015, from Citi 97.3FM. I don’t know about you, but it feels like 2014 flew by. It seems like it was yesterday that I was at the pool with my kids and then BAM school started and then BAM Thanksgiving and Christma