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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...

3 Tactics to Make Full Use of the Digital Marketing Toolbox
In the automotive sector, marketing has continued to evolve with the onset of digital. Not only are marketers in the space adding digital channels...

How E-Contracting Accelerates the Buying Experience
Blame it on the internet. Retail stores are closing at record levels, so dealerships are obliged to maintain a strong web presence if they want to...

Pricing: No One Wins a Race to the Bottom
If the extent of your future marketing plan and strategy is to see how much money you can lose advertising both new and pre-owned vehicles below your...

Why Mobile Marketing Is a Must in the Service Department
Auto buyers consider many factors, both logical and emotional when they’re determining whether or not they will purchase a vehicle. Outside of the...

September Q&A: Mobile Marketing Provides a Constant Customer Connection
With smartphones and other mobile devices, we’ve reached the point where when we see someone who isn’t going through life constantly connected, we...

Artificial Intelligence: Provide the Ultimate Digital Shopping Experience
Today’s dealership faces ever-rising customer expectations. Across industries, shoppers actively seek out great service, with more than half willing...

How Mobile Marketing Advancements Influence the Car-Buying Process
The message-delivery methods to automotive consumers have drastically changed over the past couple of decades, when customer retention and...

Today's Automotive Data Science: The Future Is Now
There is a lot of discussion going on these days regarding how big data will be a benefit to dealerships, manufacturers, and consumers in the future....

Use CRM Training to Build a Staff of Winners
It’s an all-too-familiar story. A dealer realizes his sales staff needs a CRM — which, in my opinion, is the most important tool for a car...