The annual NADA exposition is a measurement of time for professionals in the auto industry. A stark contrast to the SEMA Show, NADA concentrates on the franchise dealer business and its ancillary vendor community. Complete with geniuses, lackeys, one-hit wonders, and veteran players, the NADA circuit is certainly its own society. Somehow, back in 2002 [...]
02 Jun
In a recent study by Arbitron and Edison Research, which you can see in detail on the HubSpot Internet Marketing Blog in the post titled, 5 Twitter Charts For Marketers, Twitter was deemed equal to Facebook in awareness with consumer audiences but lagged far behind Facebook in terms of actual usage. While marketers can speculate [...]
19 May
In February 2010 we looked at how to use the text-based coupon codes in the CMP Mobile system. Prior to that we looked at the key components of the CMP Mobile system. These included how to create a group, create a keyword campaign, set an auto responder, and more. This month CMP Mobile is back [...]
11 May
With the advent of Foursquare.com this year, auto dealers have a new game to tackle in the digital age, literally. Foursquare.com is a location-based social networking that requires the use of your mobile phone or device to check in to venues. To “check in” requires you load and log in to Foursquare from your mobile [...]
03 May
When it comes to shopping online, auto dealers have limited ability to meet the needs of customers. Most people visit a dealership website to get pricing information and availability. Most dealerships have a website so they can generate leads for their sales people. Do you see the disconnect? People aren’t going to your website to [...]
27 Apr
When using Facebook to represent your dealership, you must consider the fact that approximately 95% of the people visiting your website already know about your dealership. If you are not selective in the information you publish to Facebook, you risk falling in to the trap of using Facebook as a replica of your website. To [...]
12 Apr
Despite the rapid embrace by auto dealers to pick up Facebook as part of their digital marketing strategy, there still is a large number of people uncomfortable and not familiar with the use of Facebook, be it for personal or business use. As a result, many people are not able to benefit from the full [...]
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"Great post. I'm a forward thinking car dealer who embraces new marketing concepts in articular new media. "by Ryan Gerardi
"Rorie that is interesting to hear. I doubt there are more than 10-12% of dealers in the USA getting a ..."by Rorie Hannigan
"Very interesting, looking forward to seeing how effective the introduction of these ads is going to be hopefully we see ..."by Rorie Hannigan
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04 Mar