Mar 13, 2020 | CRM, Digital Retail, Email, Lead Response, Marketing, Websites
In addition to our shared personal concerns about the coronavirus outbreak, car dealers, understandably, are also worried about the potential impact on sales in the coming weeks and months. When foot traffic slows, how are we supposed to keep in-market car shoppers...
Sep 11, 2019 | CRM, Desking, Digital Retail, Lead Response, Websites
Instant gratification is the desire to experience pleasure or fulfillment without delay or deferment. Basically, it’s the Veruca Salt complex. Whatever you want, you want it now. Businesses that embrace solutions designed to satisfy human impulsiveness will...
Jul 1, 2019 | Digital Retail, Marketing, Websites
A few years ago, tech company managers were sitting around a room, and someone started lamenting about a bad experience they had buying a car… and someone else nodded their head… and by the end of the meeting, they had decided that customers don’t want to buy cars...
Apr 3, 2019 | CRM, Email, Lead Response, Marketing, Websites
Your internet leads deserve more than a voicemail and generic email reply. With only 20% of automotive internet leads responding back to dealers, it’s easy to agree that we’re doing something wrong, universally, when replying to shoppers. When a car shopper reaches...
Mar 6, 2019 | Digital Retail, Lead Response, Marketing, Websites
Our manufacturers and vendors can answer this question easily about their own businesses, but can the dealers? A product is a “thing produced by labor or effort. “A “thing” isn’t always something physically tangible. Before we jump into digital retailing,...
Mar 6, 2019 | Digital Retail, Marketing, Websites
If one were to ask me what was the biggest life-changing event I’ve experienced I’m not sure I could say it was meeting my better half. Although she is certainly life changing, she wouldn’t have happened if it weren’t for me becoming a car dealership customer. I...
