Best Practices

Why Your Team Should Be Part of Your Marketing Strategy
We humans complicate things, and it’s no surprise in dealerships it manifests in grandiose form, especially noticeable when it comes to how teams,...

Dealership Culture: Make Trust Your North Star
According to the Guinness Book of World Records, Rory Blackwell, the ultimate one-man band, played 108 different musical instruments simultaneously...

No Inventory? No Problem. Marketing Tips From the Field for Your Dealership’s Success
The automotive industry is consumed with the inventory shortage-- while gross is higher than ever, dealerships are finding it hard to strategize...

How to Set Up Google My Business (GMB) Nested Department Listings for Car Dealerships
Leveraging the power of Google My Business can place your store before the right customers, increase your sales potential and grow your dealership...

Combat Your Cookieless Future by Creating Your Own First-Party
You’ve seen it and have read the headlines circulating your feeds and emails. The topic about a cookieless future. And while yes this can be jarring...

Dealership Inventory Crisis: Marketing Lessons From the COVID-19 Crisis
It’s obvious that fluctuations in inventory are going to dominate the automotive narrative for the rest of 2021. And while it seems like we’ve just...

3 Pieces of Content Your Car Dealership Needs Today
Let me ask you this: What content is your dealership creating every day? More often than not when I ask that question I get pulled into conversations...

Auto Dealers: What’s Your Total Cost of Risk (TCOR)?
Financial statements track how you are doing financially every month. Consider measuring and benchmarking TCOR as a part of your ongoing financial...

Risk Avoidance – Ignored
Are you too busy selling cars to pay attention to the myriad number of lurking problems and issues that you haven’t had time to address? You would...

Cultivating a Winning Sales Team
When your dealership hits its sales goals, profitability and morale run high. Life at your dealership is energized, employees are engaged and looking...

8 Management Techniques to Maximize Employee Engagement
Employee engagement is a critical issue for most dealerships. Engagement is the level of involvement, enthusiasm and commitment and employee feels...

The Big Buzz in Digital Retailing: Dealer Ultimate Milestones
Everyone in the car business is talking, writing, and podcasting about digital retailing. The list of related virtual events is exhaustive. The...