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Negative Reviews Can be Sales Gold!

Study after study finds that word-of-mouth is the single greatest influencer when it comes to sales. Providing a consistently excellent customer experience, then having those customers go out and tell their family and friends about it is the marketer
Apr 18, 2018

Is Facebook Marketing Still a Valuable Strategy? Absolutely.

Recently Facebook announced that it will stop using data from third-party data aggregators to supplement its own data that it uses for ad targeting. What does this mean for car dealers? Until this announcement, Facebook collected data from three sour
Apr 18, 2018

How Localized Programmatic Advertising Can Work for Dealerships

The auto buyer’s path to purchasing a new car is extended and complex. There are 24 average touchpoints, 19 of which are digital (Google). In order to reach an engaged car buyer and increase foot traffic, it’s essential to adopt multiple targetin
Apr 17, 2018

Think Tank: What CEOs Could Learn From Reality TV

While it may seem like reality TV comes up empty-handed in terms of educational programming, it did teach us something very interesting about what consumers considers valuable. Companies and their executives could leverage this lesson into sales, and
Apr 16, 2018

Witt’s Wise Words: All About Personalization

When is it good to have the “it’s all about me” mentality? Not often, but in this week’s Witt’s Wise Words ELEAD1ONE Partner Bill Wittenmyer breaks down why it’s important to take the “it’s all about me” approach with customers.
Apr 16, 2018

How Facebook’s Latest Announcement Will Impact Your Ad Targeting

As a dealer, you need to know that the way you advertise on Facebook is about to change. On Wednesday evening, March 28, Facebook made this brief announcement: “We want to let advertisers know that we will be shutting down Partner Categories. This
Apr 12, 2018

Are You Setting Up Your Marketing Team for Failure?

Marketing is an incredibly complicated and convoluted field which involves everything from direct marketing, to brand management, customer communications, social media, public relations and on and on. Whether you call the person responsible for your
Apr 10, 2018

Think Tank: Still Not Getting Social? WATCH THIS

While the possibilities available with paid social advertising may seem obvious to you, they’re not to most! I get calls regularly from people asking how to advertise better & when I ask them what their Facebook strategy looks like, I get r
Apr 6, 2018

Your Website is Only Built for 30% of Your Buyers: Maximize Mobile Traffic & Convert More Leads!

I probably don’t need to tell you that lead forms are prevalent in today’s automotive digital retail space. Visit the website of almost any dealership in the country, and odds are you’ll be asked to complete and submit some variation of a lead
Apr 6, 2018