Dealership Marketing

Third Party Automotive Leads Are Like Tainted Wine

I want to recognize that DealerRefresh contributors, and members of the dealer community, have discussed the need for third-party lead reform in the automotive industry in the past. Today,  I am joining with Jeff Kershner, and automotive professionals who have voiced their concerns, to raise national awareness and energize the discussion of third-party lead quality. Can …
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Organizing Your Custom Website Content To Track ROI

It is extremely important you understand that if you can’t track the ROI of your Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and content writing investments, your manager(s) will likely pull the money from the budget for these services. It is equally important to face the reality that you will likely change or upgrade website technology in the …
Dealership Marketing

Defining A Hierarchy Of Automotive Digital Marketing Responsibilities

As larger dealer groups allocate more internal resources to manage their digital marketing investments, our industry needs to discuss roles and responsibilities for digital marketing execution. In the graphic above, I started a conversation in my latest book, using this chart, on how a dealer group could organize their marketing team or employees who are performing marketing tasks. …
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Cobalt Delivers A Personalized Consumer Experience Online

Car dealers have been promised that Big Data will be enhance their businesses yet for the most part, there have been few products delivered at the automotive retail level. Dataium was one of the first companies to offer car dealers insights based on the millions of data points collected by Dataium from Internet car shoppers. …
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Why Would Anyone Buy a Car From Your Dealership – Really?

  [highlight color=”#fddcaf” font=”black”]We’re getting some conversation and sharing rolling this weekend with a post by Brian Pasch. He’s looking for the answer to what appears to be a simple question. But, is it?[/highlight] Why Buy A New Vehicle From Your Dealership? I love working with car dealers to create a comprehensive marketing road map …
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2010 ASMA Report Will Review 45 Automotive Website Platforms

PCG Digital Marketing announced today the list of 45 companies that will be included in their research reports on automotive website technology. The website platforms of all companies in this year’s study will be put through a series of tests and the results compiled and published in a whitepaper for the automotive industry. The automotive …