10 Social Media Strategies for Car Dealerships

11 Automotive Social Media Marketing Strategies

Written By Eric Schlesinger

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 Eric Schlesinger

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 Eric Schlesinger

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 …

Quality Messaging with Randy Jeffrey

A Closer Look at ActivEngage Quality – Featuring Randy Jeffrey

Written By Carol Marshall

When we talk about quality as a concept, a few things usually come to mind. Some describe it as the degree of excellence of something (or someone!). Others may say it’s about meeting certain expectations. Vague at best. But when we talk about quality in a chat evaluation, it’s important to know what characteristics you’re measuring and why. ActivEngage Director …

ActivEngage COVID-19 Response Message

Committed to Our Customers During COVID-19

Written By Ted Rubin

Thank you very much for entrusting your customer-facing communication to ActivEngage.  We take this responsibility very seriously, making sure that we deliver detailed and quality conversations to your customers each day. Many of you are closely monitoring the Coronavirus (COVID-19), and the state of its impact on our country and businesses. At ActivEngage, we’re monitoring it closely as well. Because …

consumer privacy laws in automotive

Consumer Privacy in 2020: The New Age of Data Ethics

Written By Ted Rubin

Welcome to the new decade and the age of data ethics. We’ve entered a time where consumers are warier than ever about how companies use their personal information—and with good reason. The risk of inadequate data security and lousy privacy practices has skyrocketed in the last few years.  Since 2013, 9.7 billion data records were lost or stolen globally. Almost …

dealership live chat rescue feature

Does Your Dealership Live Chat Team Need Rescuing?

Written By Carol Marshall

You know that dealership live chat feature vendors are raving about? The one where you can ride in on a horse and shining armor to ‘save the day’? Yes, that one — the live chat feature that allows you to take over your provider’s conversation. It’s absolutely terrible. Rescuing your live chat provider is ridiculous. Here are three reasons why …

Setting appointments increases the value of internet leads

The Competitive Advantage of Internet Leads with Appointments

Written By Ted Rubin

Internet leads from consumers who schedule and keep an appointment have a closing rate of almost 50%. Meanwhile, traditional ups typically close at 20%, says a recent study by PLADOOGLE, LLC. The study also found that if dealers go above and beyond by having the vehicle cleaned and make the shopper feel special during their showroom appointment, the closing ratio …

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Dealership Service Department Best Practices

Written By Carol Marshall

We are well into 2021, and car sales continue to cool off despite the summer heat. As vehicle sales flatten, optimizing dealership service department best practices will play a critical part in maximizing dealership revenue. The service department brings in a large sum of money to your dealership, often accounting for a majority of the profit. Yet, it’s very likely …