Marketing
Make Local Search a Priority in Your Marketing Strategy
According to by BIA/Kelsey’s “Insights into Local Advertising — Automotive Vertical” report, automotive dealers and manufacturers are projected to...
How to Leverage Geofencing to Boost Conquest Sales
Achieving vehicle sales and service goals is becoming increasingly difficult. Your current customers may be looking at other options, while those...
Affinitiv Introduces Connectiv1, an End-to-End Marketing Platform for Dealers and Manufacturers
Chicago — December 5, 2017 — Affinitiv, a leading provider of marketing and technology services to automotive manufacturers and dealerships,...
Customer Data: Is Double Entry Dragging Down Your Bottom Line?
Remember the game “telephone” you played in elementary school? Everyone sat in a circle, and the first player whispered a phrase in the next player’s...
Is Your Dealership Customer Experience Living Up to Your Hype?
Imagine seeing advertising for a circus coming to town: the big top tent, elephants, dancing horses, trapeze artists, lion tamers, and the...
Artificial Intelligence Lets You Focus on the Work That Really Matters
When it comes to implementing new technology on your dealership website, there can be a learning curve. Every change requires understanding a new...
Is Your Dealership's Video Marketing Relevant to Its Target Audience?
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a video is worth a million. That is, of course, if your content is relevant to your target audience....
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...
The Future of Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality in Automotive Retail
Electric and autonomous driving, connective technology, and car ownership trends are challenging the way car companies connect with customers....
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...
Reputation Management: The Marketing Most Dealers Fail to Do
Before car-shopping customers step foot on the lot or showroom, many have done their homework. Most car buyers know the make and model they want,...
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,...