Best Practices

How Programmatic Video Marketing Makes Consumers Laugh, Cry, and Then Buy
As programmatic spending continues to rise through 2017, video accounts for a healthy percentage. Infrastructure and creative tech for programmatic...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

Going Digital Doesn't Mean Giving Up the Personal Touch
The automotive industry’s move to digital can make the personal touch seem irrelevant. These days, people interact first with dealerships online...

3 Ways to Get Your Sales Staff Out of the Seven Car Club Rut
You probably have heard of the Seven Car Club theory if your dealership onboarding involves watching and learning from the comical 1990s-style...

10 Ways to Boost the Performance of a Sales Team
Being a member of a team that is underperforming is something that we have all gone through at some point in our career. In the world of sales,...

5 Ways You May Be Killing Your KPIs With Good Intentions
Thanks to the wealth of data captured by the typical enterprise system, key performance indicators (KPIs) and the dashboards that display them are...

7 Features You Need in Your CRM Software
The right CRM software delivers tremendous benefits for your dealership. It simplifies operations to make them more efficient — and that positively...