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5 Ways to Sell More Cars on Social Media
Facebook has eclipsed its first decade in business and Twitter has joined it in the upper echelons of hot, publicly traded companies, marketers in the automotive industry are continually pondering if social media really helps them sell more cars. It depends on whom...
Reputation Management Need to Know
Solid management of your reputation can result in real business growth. Word of mouth means everything in the business world, and having a great reputation can really impact that word of mouth in a positive way. You will also want to protect your reputation. Keep...
5 Secrets To Getting Subscribers To Forward Your Emails
Social sharing gets a lot of attention — in large part, because it’s relatively easy to measure — but the all but invisible email forward can be just as powerful for brands. Whereas social sharing is public, diffuse, and powerful at driving top-of-the-funnel...
5-Step Guide to Generating Great Content Ideas
For many SEOs, content marketers, and writers, generating ideas for content is one of the most difficult tasks to perform, especially as a beginner. But whether you’re just getting started or simply struggling with a business SEO strategy, this five-step guide will...
Service Worth Sharing is the Future of Your Dealership
As the automotive industry continues to evolve and look toward the future, it is clear that service departments are an integral piece of every dealership’s overall success. For varying reasons, consumers are looking to dealerships to provide outstanding service, both...
Customer Service – The DISC Styles Way!
Everywhere you turn today, you hear about the importance of customer satisfaction. From the bank to the phone company to the video store, every business seems to proclaim “The Customer Is King,” that “People Are Our Business,” that “Your Satisfaction Is Our No.1...
Jump Off the VDP Bandwagon and Meet Your Highest-Value Visitors
Your analytics dashboard reports a healthy bump in visitors, SRPs, and VDPs – sounds like you’re in for a great month. But by the time the 30th rolls around, showroom traffic was flat, and so were your sales. That disconnect is the central problem of automotive...
Boost Your Sales Revenue by Converting Service Customers
Customers are the lifeblood of a dealership, both on the lot and in the service lane. But the nature of the purchase-to-service-to-repurchase relationship is more cyclical than we give it credit for. Recent DMEautomotive research shows customers with more service...
The Up-Tick of the Click: Putting the Rise of Cost Per Click into Perspective
It’s not surprising that digital media, as a percentage of total media consumption, officially surpassed TV in 2013. You can’t go anywhere without being surrounded by folks staring at a screen or tuned into their ear buds. We now travel unfettered by any previous...
Hiring at Dealerships: 5 Steps for Perfecting Your Reference Checks
Do you enjoy a long game of phone tag or relish trying to track someone down after hours of time-consuming effort? If so, ignore this blog; but if you’re like the rest of, let’s say—the majority of people inhabiting this earth, then continue reading. The hiring...
If All Dealerships Look the Same, How Does the Consumer Choose?
Try not to take your eye off the ball when it comes to competing for sales. The manufacturer of your dealership’s brand of car has a very different focus than you do. Remember that if your manufacturer builds Chevrolets and you are a Chevy dealer, you have different...
Try Again
Two of the most important words in our language are “try again”. If you consider every major accomplishment in the world today the individual responsible for it said those words often. Thomas Edison invented the light bulb, and when he stated, he had over 10,000...
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