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When Using Customer Data, Don’t Be Creepy!

When it comes to providing the ultimate customer experience, can technology go too far and instead, backfire by creeping out the customer? Consider this example, which disturbs many people – Facebook’s unnatural ability to read your mind. While F
Dec 22, 2017

4 Reasons Why Your Customers Love Video

For professional marketers across all industries, the top priority for 2018 is to convert leads into customers, according to Hubspot’s State of Inbound 2017 report. Sound familiar? Most auto dealers I know have the same goal. In order to accomplish
Dec 21, 2017

Are Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Going Mainstream for Dealer Marketing?

In the automotive sector, when most people hear “Machine Learning,” they immediately think of self-driving cars – which are very far off for the average dealer and buyer. But there is a discipline within automotive where machine learning has al
Dec 20, 2017

The Challenge of Split Personalities in Consumers

For those unfamiliar with the story of Sybil Dorsett, she was a woman with dissociative identity disorder who had as many as 16 different personalities which would dominate and reveal themselves at different times. Made famous first by the non-fictio
Dec 20, 2017

The Allure of Cross-Monetization & Evolving Loyalty Rewards

Today, consumers have grown used to loyalty programs and they have become the norm. So, to keep their customers’ interest, businesses have been forced to become more innovative and creative with their rewards. In fact, experiential rewards which tr
Dec 19, 2017

Top 2018 Automotive Digital Marketing Trends You Need to Know

Digital Marketing is a dynamic industry that changes very quickly. These trends can severely affect your marketing campaigns and, because of this, it’s important to understand what consumers want and how to handle your digital marketing. Here are s
Dec 18, 2017

Hard Facts: Your List Size Matters

Worried about size? This update lets you leverage more data in customer match. Learn more about THE UPDATED feature in this week’s Hard Facts.
Dec 15, 2017

Auto Subscription – The Dealers’ New Frontier

There is currently much talk in the industry regarding automotive subscriptions as a new innovative ownership model.  The fact is, the subscription model has been with us for a long-time.  However, most models merely fill the gap between short-term
Dec 15, 2017

You Need to Know How to Get the Most Out of Your Banner Ads

We’ve all seen them. Banner ads, or display advertisements, are everywhere. They’re a marketing tool that is used on websites and can come in a variety of formats, like images, videos, gifs, etc. You might even have some on your own website. Unfo
Dec 12, 2017