Best Practices

How to Sell More Cars When You Don’t Have Enough Cars To Sell
Talk about disruption! 5 years ago I wrote an article here in Dealer Marketing proclaiming that the car business as we had known it was long dead,...

Disruption is Change
In the automotive industry we usually connect the word disruption to some up-and-coming vendor program, product, or new technology. When really...

Embracing the Future Facebook Ecosystem of Today
The title may have seemed confusing. If we’re going to take a dive into a future ecosystem, how can it also be available today? The answer is simple:...

Need Management over Lead Management
It seems like a simple concept. Take care of people’s needs first and foremost. Yet, it continuously falls short on the planning and execution when...

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...

I Hope You'll Learn With Me!
An October, 2021 survey by Embroker stated that just 22% fully read through their insurance policy, 56% admit to not knowing the cost of their...

Dealer Marketing: Embracing the Future Facebook Ecosystem of Today
The title may have seemed confusing. If we’re going to take a dive into a future ecosystem, how can it also be available today? The answer is simple:...

How To Create More Efficiency In Your Advertising Strategy
While a showroom may be full of shoppers and potential leads, dealers shouldn’t cast their advertising to the side. The market for consumers is ever...

Emotional Intelligence: A Good Dealership Habit To Pick Up
You may have never thought of it this way, but problems at dealerships usually walk through your office door on two (2) legs: Either with customers...

No Third-Party Cookie Data? How Dealers Can Leverage Marketing
Third-party cookies have slowly phased out of the internet for years with stricter privacy regulations taking effect in Europe and several different...

5 Keys to Get More Customer Referrals
We all know that referrals represent our greatest opportunity for peak profits and predicable growth. As Mark Zuckerberg has acknowledged, There is...

How Dealers Should Handle COVID (Co-author Kristina Vaquera)
Another article about COVID-19? Ugh! Snap! And oh, my! Employers everywhere are tired with having to handle this additional burden to running their...