5 Car Dealership Advertising Ideas to Blow Out Your Next Quota
When it comes to advertising, it can be hard to consistently come up with something that is both fresh and compelling, so you see a lot of the same thing from dealership to dealership. But when sales are sluggish, it becomes a bit more difficult to go with the same old campaigns and procedures. That’s […]
5 Automotive Video Marketing Tactics That Will Set Your Dealership Apart
Video isn’t exactly the next big thing, we’re not going to try to pretend that we invented the idea of marketing your dealership using video. But we think it’s fair to say that not all automotive video marketing is created equal. There is a lot of poor video content out there that isn’t doing anyone […]
How to Create an Automotive Dealership Marketing Plan – Steps 3 & 4
This is Step Three and Four of our Automotive Dealership Marketing Plan How-To Guide. If you haven’t read Step One or Step Two yet, we advise you go back to Step One: Market Research and read the whole guide. STEP THREE: Tactics The research has been done, the analysis has been made. The strategies have […]
How to Create an Automotive Dealership Marketing Plan – Step 2
This is Step Two of our Automotive Dealership Marketing Plan How-To Guide. If you haven’t read Step One yet, we advise you go back to Step One: Market Research. STEP TWO: Building the Foundations of Your Automotive Dealership Marketing Plan Once you have conducted your market research and have your results, you can begin to […]
How to Create an Automotive Dealership Marketing Plan – Step 1
Sometimes the most daunting task in creating a retail automotive marketing plan is knowing where to begin, and what steps logically flow from each other. We’re here to help; what follows is Step One in our concise four-part retail automotive dealership marketing plan series. STEP ONE: Market Analysis Market analysis isn’t easy. Many businesses […]
How to Evaluate an Automotive Marketing Services Vendor
We write a lot about car shoppers and their wishes, hopes, and fears. They want something to fit their needs at a decent price, and they’re worried about getting tricked or misled. When it comes to selecting an automotive marketing services vendor, many dealers feel the same. There are a lot of options out there, […]
Automotive Marketing Strategies That Suck and How to Replace Them
Famously, there are only two inevitabilities in life; death and taxes. Everything else, within reason, is up to us. So why would we put up with bad automotive marketing strategies when we don’t have to? Avoid the frustration of doing quality work only to see zero return thanks to poor decision making higher up the […]
Thinking of Hiring an Automotive Marketing Consultant? Read This First.
When times get tougher and profit margins get thinner, many dealerships are tempted by anything that promises to kick their marketing into gear and bring in more sales. And that is exactly what so many automotive marketing consultants promise to do. Higher conversions, more traffic, more sales, more profit. But those in the auto business […]
Common Automotive Marketing Problems and The Kickass Solutions
We’ve talked about digital tactics and awesome examples of automotive marketing, but this post is about combatting some of the auto industry’s most common problems with marketing. Got a season that always tanks sales when it comes around? Annoyed by having to constantly lower prices? We’ve done our best to give solid solutions to the […]
3 Dealerships That Are Killing it With Customer Centricity
We’ve been talking a lot about customer centricity, and as awesome as it is as a strategy, it can be a little hard to imagine implementing customer centric tactics at home. So we put together a list of some of the top customer centric dealerships, and delved into exactly what makes them customer centric, and […]