This week’s snowstorm is affecting dealerships across the country as they plan to deal with the weather: getting ready to dig out the lot and preparing for fewer customers to come in. But bad weather can be the perfect opportunity to send out a special offer. Your auto dealership’s marketing campaign needs to connect to […]

There seems to be some missed opportunity of what Facebook was originally intended. As part of a well thought out auto dealership social media strategy, we consider what message and tone is appropriate for that space. Facebook was established to network and build friends in a non-intrusive manner. It’s a social network and yet many […]

Location based marketing within your social networks and applications provide your dealership an excellent opportunity to promote itself and your service department. With geo-based apps gaining an enormous amount of headway, it's important that your dealership use them to help promote your various marketing campaigns and departments. Location based networks like Foursquare, Gowalla, and SCVNGR […]

Technology is constantly changing the playing field in business; especially advertising. Most people in the industry are always looking for the next big thing and automotive dealers are always looking for the next "silver bullet". But sometimes you have to take a look backwards to keep ahead of the curve. As new advertising tools are […]

Drive Leads to Your Car Dealership with QR Codes If you keep up with the latest digital trends, you know about QR codes. They're similar to bar codes (only with a 2-dimensional pattern) and can be scanned by any smartphone with a QR reader. Once someone scans a QR code, he sees a coupon, special […]

Running an Ethical PPC Campaign for Your Dealership Recently, we were searching one of our dealership clients (Bill Rapp Superstore) in Google and found that a competitor, Nemith Nissan, is bidding on their dealership's name in search. So when we typed in "Bill Rapp Nissan," a pay-per-click ad showed up saying "Bill Rapp Nissan-we beat […]