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Ilana Shabtay

VP of Marketing

Fullpath

About Ilana Shabtay

Ilana Shabtay is the VP of Marketing at Fullpath, Automotive’s first customer data and experience platform (CDXP) serving the dealership community.

Ilana is focused on engaging audiences and expanding market share. She contributes thought leadership for tech companies in and out of the automotive industry and is constantly thinking about perfecting conversion funnels to build brand awareness.

Ilana continues to innovate and contribute to the automotive industry by leveraging her experience across Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Paid SEM Strategy, Social Media, CRM, and Public Speaking. Disrupting the traditional standard as an experienced marketer and growth hacker with expertise in digital marketing and artificial intelligence, Ilana also hosts the InsideAuto Podcast.

Articles by Ilana

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How First-Party Data Can Revolutionize Advertising Strategy and Budget

You are not imagining it. Your dealership’s marketing ad budget is not stretching as far as it did just last month. Ad costs have skyrocketed over...

Copy of People Matter How to Retain Dealership Talent

Use it or Lose it: The Vital Role of Activated Data in Closing Sales

There’s a lot of talk about data in automotive these days, and rightfully so. We are living in an age where data is literally the factor that...

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The Critical Role of Audience Suppression in Effective Dealership Marketing

We talk a lot about how sending the right message at the right time to the right shopper is key in creating hyper-personalized shopping experiences...

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Dealership Data is Key to Unlocking the True Power of ChatGPT

ChatGPT.  It’s everywhere. It’s taken over social media and the evening news - it’s come up in work meetings and over dinner with family and friends....

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The 4 Must-Haves for Any Company Rebrand

Your company’s story and messaging are the core of everything: it’s how you market, how you sell, and how you retain loyal customers. The story is...

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Live Launches: Commitment to Innovation

Live product launches have become an innovative marketing strategy aimed at creating hype around the introduction of new products and technologies to...

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ASOTUCON: These are a few of my favorite things

From the venue to the guest list to the panel-style workshops, this conference lived up to its infamous tagline, “the rebirth of the automotive...

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The importance of data orchestration & connectivity

As we progress more and more in the “information age,” and move into what looks like a strong 2022 for automotive, different things become key to our...

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The Biggest Disruption of All: The Quiet

When we think about disruption, we think loud, rowdy, and bumpy. But in reality, it’s the dealerships that can mitigate the noise who are making the...

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Google Ad Extensions 101 For Dealers

Ad extensions are dynamic add-ons to Google ads that expand the information you can show in any given ad.  They are usually more eye-catching than...

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The Not-So-Hidden Gold Mine That Could Increase Dealership Revenue Instantly

A customer for life goes a long way in automotive. It’s not just the vehicle purchase, it’s everything that comes with it: maintenance, service,...

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RIP Facebook Marketplace for Dealers?

Facebook Marketplace underwent some changes in September and no longer lists vehicles from partner catalog feeds. This includes the entire...

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No Inventory? No Problem. Marketing Tips From the Field for Your Dealership’s Success

The automotive industry is consumed with the inventory shortage-- while gross is higher than ever, dealerships are finding it hard to strategize...

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The Automotive Website Tragedy Still Exists and Frankly, I’m Shocked

We’re halfway through 2021 and we’re still seeing website tragedies in automotive. And yes, it really is a tragedy. When a dealership spends that...

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Dealership Inventory Crisis: Marketing Lessons From the COVID-19 Crisis

It’s obvious that fluctuations in inventory are going to dominate the automotive narrative for the rest of 2021. And while it seems like we’ve just...

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One Size Does Not Fit All: The Importance of VIN-level Targeting

It’s always exciting when you purchase a one-size-fits-all shirt: it serves many purposes, anyone in your family can sport it, and you don’t have to...

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Streamlined Metrics, Open APIs, in-house Marketing, Oh My!

Let's finally talk about it. The automotive industry as it stands today will never be tech-first-- and dealerships will not operate as technology...

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Your Dealership's New Unforeseen Competitor. How Will You Keep Up?

Your dealership isn't competing with the dealer next door, it's competing with Netflix. The fight for digital real estate is real. In-market car...

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Dealers: Are You in the Clubhouse?

If anyone missed high school cliques, you could thank Clubhouse for bringing that feeling back. Yes, the newest social media app is consuming our...

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Mask-less Socialising: What This Means For Your Dealership

There will come a time, sooner than we think at this point, where we'll be living in a post-COVID era. We'll be back at our favorite crowded bars,...

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5 Lessons From the InsideAuto Podcast as We Enter 2021

The InsideAuto Podcast hosts top GMs, Thought Leaders, Entrepreneurs, and Marketers in and out of the automotive industry. Launched in the middle of...

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Now Is Not the Time to Pause Marketing Spend

Reject every instinct in your body that's telling you otherwise. Now is not the time to pause your marketing spend. Yes, we're in a totally new...

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Hindsight is 2020: Tech Supports These Issues We Didn't Know We Had

We talk a lot in our industry about meeting the customer where they live and creating a frictionless sales experience. While these things are...

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Why Automation Is Like Fine Wine - and the Data Thereto

We all know that unlike most things, wine gets better with age. This is because of a complex chemical reaction among sugars, acids and substances...

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Emerging Incentives Will Drive Demand. Here’s How Your Dealership Can Capitalize

With emerging markets on the rise and a complete shift in consumer behavior, dealers are forced to get even more competitive (who knew this was...

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The Pandemic's Ripple Effect: AI Marketing Tech Trumps Traditional Marketing Agencies

With millions of consumers turning exclusively online in the recent months, dealerships were forced to acknowledge their aging digital...

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Newly Released Research Reveals An Emergence of New Automotive Markets

As a company that lives and breathes data, we turn to the numbers in times of uncertainty. When we need answers, we rely on data, not gut, to guide...

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A Roundup of Google’s Latest Best Practices for Your Dealership

Simply put, in times of crisis, we look to the experts. We turn to the voices that will provide us with actionable support to help us navigate...

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Chatbot - Friend or Foe

A chatbot is exactly what it sounds like: A robot that managesyour conversations. The bot simulates a human-like interaction to give shoppersthe...

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In a Time of Crisis Turn to Each Other

In a once in a lifetime experience, where we're all looking for guidance, answers, and direction, now is the time to come together as an industry....

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Why Automating Your Google Ads is the Future of Your Dealership

It's no secret that there is a revolution happening in the automotive industry that, in many ways, has already impacted other industries: Applying...

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Why Your Ad Budget Should be Optimized by AI and Not Humans

For a long time, we all feared that machine learning and AI would take our jobs, diminish work, and leave us unemployed. But we’re over that. Now,...

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The Art of Detecting Manipulations in Marketing Reports

A while back, my teammates looked into performance reports from various vendors and agencies, trying to assess the industry standard. I’d love to say...

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