Marketing & Advertising
Trust Me: A Great Way to Build Customer Trust in Your Brand
This time, it's all about trust. Trust contributes to customer loyalty, but how do you get there? How do you effectively build customer trust in your brand so that people come to view your company as an automotive dealership that values its customers and works hard to...
A Pig Can Win More than One Blue Ribbon
Now that may be a hell of a comparison but if you stop and analyze it, it could go with anything that you are investing in and showing for a return on the investment. It doesn’t matter what it is: whether it is a show pig, a show horse, or a show truck. When we look...
Stop the Trial Closes
In 2013, we saw the greatest increase in retail auto sales in the last six years. Industry researchers expect this year to follow in the same trend predicting even better sales ahead. With that in mind, now would be a good time to discard some of the old practices...
The Top 5 Apps to Assist with your Body Shop Marketing
The top 5 apps to assist with your body shop marketing, according to Stratosphere Studio. As an agency that specializes in marketing for the automotive industry, we know that auto body shop owners wear many hats. They often field customer questions, oversee most...
Using “Options” to Change your Service Sales Success
I recently read an article that explained how vehicle owners repair and maintenance habits change between 60,000 and 70,000 miles. The article explained that this vehicle may have been the owner’s “baby” receiving only the best care, the best tires, etc. Now that the...
At the Crossroads of Culture and Service Efficiency
Here are three important realities every service staff needs to embrace today: 1. Customers bring the same set of basic questions with them to the service drive that they always have. 2. Customers have a different set of expectations of what makes up service...
Lessons Learned from the Fast Lube Industry
You perform oil changes to make customers…so you can sell fuel and fluid maintenance services to make money! This is a profound business strategy that, if implemented properly, will have a dramatic impact on your fixed ops bottom line in 2014. There are roughly 450...
Auto/Mate and DealerSocket Integrate DMS and CRM Solutions, Improving Sales Efficiency for Auto Dealers
Auto/Mate Dealership Systems announced that DealerSocket, a leading provider of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software to auto retailers, has completed integration with Auto/Mate's dealership management system (DMS). Dealers using both Auto/Mate and...
Maritz Dealer Solutions/Opportunity Max Announces WEBCHECK√sm Digital Marketing Review Service – Revolutionizing Auto Dealership Websites
Opportunity Max, a strategic digital marketing company serving the automotive industry, announced today the formal release of its new digital marketing review service called “WEBCHECK√” which examines a dealership’s digital assets to check the consistency and accuracy...
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