auto dealership marketing
October App of the Month: myKaarma
myKaarma is the communication and payments platform of choice for the nation’s top automotive manufacturers and groups alike — enabling a consistent...
How Dealers Can Cultivate Successful Vendor Relationships
As a dealer, one of your most important goals is to keep your relationships with customers, or potential customers, as healthy as possible. Building...
Keep Up With Cross-Shopping Customers by Using Mobile Location Data
It’s no secret that auto buyers shop around. In fact, they’re savvier than ever. They come to the dealership armed with research they conducted...
Find Your Unique Selling Proposition and Quit Racing to the Bottom on Price
In this new world of automotive dealerships and customers demanding more for their money, your dealership’s success depends on more than just selling...
Focus on Dealership F&I Process Accountability for a Better PVR
Most of us, truth be told, don’t like being held accountable. The word accountability can sound negative, like punishment. We don’t cozy up to it...
How to Fine-Tune Incentive Programs to Improve the Customer Experience
Automotive dealerships and service centers have long seen the sales and bottom-line-boosting value in providing rewards and rebates to customers....
October Q&A: Are You Leaving Potential Fixed Ops Profits on the Table?
Data from the National Automobile Dealers Association (NADA) reveals that in 2016, new-vehicle dealerships wrote more than 300 million repair orders,...
How Proactive Tracking Keeps Sales Strong During Downturns
The auto market is slowing down. Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock, you know this. And hey, I get it if you’ve been hiding under that rock. This...
What Information From Big Data Actually Helps Dealerships Sell Cars?
With the world swimming in big data and dealerships looking for any marketing advantage they can get, what data actually works? Having provided data...
How Google Analytics Help You Assess Vendor Performance
Dealers today have an infinite number of ways to get in front of their consumers. Display advertising, social media, video, targeted campaigns, and...
5 Signs Your Dealership Is Leaking Customer Retention
A dealership sinks or swims based on its ability to retain customers — or not retain them. Are you certain you know which outcome you’re moving...
Service: Now Is the Time for Dealers to Get Serious
Dealerships collectively write up more than 315 million repair orders annually — nearly 10 times the transactions of new and used vehicle sales...