Setting Up For Success During an Inventory Shortage

Setting Up For Success During an Inventory Shortage

Written By AE Staff

In this blog, you’ll learn how to:   Adjust your strategy during the inventory and chip shortage to maintain pre-owned stock.  Intercept selling-curious people just seeing what options are available and arrange appointments.  Adjust your advertising and marketing strategy to encourage customers to sell or craft incentives to push. Get a great messaging experience that can keep you top of mind …

The Importance of Car Dealership Digital Marketing

The Importance of Car Dealership Digital Marketing

Written By Carol Marshall

First things first: What is digital marketing? Digital marketing covers your overall online presence. This includes your website, social media accounts, email marketing, mobile devices, and smart fridge — you get the picture. Wherever you can place ads to engage your potential customers online: that’s digital marketing. But, we’re going to get more specific and talk about the importance of …

How to Build the Best Internet Sales Dealership Processes

How to Build the Best Internet Sales Dealership Processes

Written By Carol Marshall

When selling cars online, it’s imperative to ensure your automotive internet sales processes are up-to-date, impactful, and streamlined. Car dealerships are no longer purely physical places. Automotive retail has changed, and for the better (in our opinion). The car dealership website is now just as much of a showroom as your in-store showroom is, and is now built on top …

What’s Your Chat Follow-Up Process?

What is Conversational Commerce?

Written By AE Staff

Advertising doesn’t work like it used to, and reaching customers takes more than a flashy commercial. Millennials, particularly, are highly resistant to ads, having grown up in a digital environment. You’ll have to work for their attention if you want them to make purchases at your dealership.  Consumers want connection, and they seek out brands committed to their needs. Customer …

7 Tips for Dealership Marketing

7 Tips for Car Dealership Marketing

Written By Carol Marshall

Dealer marketing has gotten a lot harder in the post-pandemic world. People have adjusted their spending priorities and changed where and how they shop. Unless you change your training and strategies to match, your brand will end up in the dust. It’s all about digital platforms now, and the trend shows no signs of slowing anytime soon. More people who …

10 Social Media Strategies for Car Dealerships

11 Automotive Social Media Marketing Strategies

Written By AE Staff

This blog was updated on 3/21/2024 Are you thinking about your automotive social media marketing efforts? In 2021, nearly 63% of the entire world’s population actively used social media for almost 2.5 hours a day. This statistic is simply staggering, and there is something pretty invaluable for those in the automotive industry to infer from this: Those people drive cars. …

7 Car Dealership Advertising Ideas

7 Car Dealership Advertising Ideas

Written By AE Staff

Okay, so you know you need to put out car ads, but you’re not sure where to put your efforts. Maybe you’ve run a few campaigns with minimal success. Maybe worse, you dumped a respectable amount of money into a car ad platform that returned nothing but a few wishy-washy leads. Dealership marketing isn’t easy, but you’re not alone! If …

Dissecting Review Responses – How to Respond to Reviews Properly

How to Respond to Reviews in Automotive Reputation Management

Written By AE Staff

Now that almost every business has an online presence, getting online reviews is a normal part of everyday life. Still, it can be challenging to know the best way to respond to customer feedback. And with automotive reputation, unfortunately, being historically mediocre, you’ll likely run into a few difficult customers when you have increased review quantity. There’s always a temptation …

What’s Your Chat Follow-Up Process?

What’s Your Chat Follow-Up Process?

Written By Carol Marshall

It’s not good enough to close the ticket when the chat ends. Your follow-up methods can have a significant impact on future customer interactions.  Your Customer Relationship Management (CRM) team needs to address every chat request quickly and professionally. Suppose a lead asks a question about a potential purchase or has a service inquiry. In that case, it’s essential to …