How auto dealers can leverage Word of Mouth Advertising

Later this week, Thursday actually, March 11, we are holding a special webinar with guest presenter Mark R. Dubis (@mdubis), one of the co-founders of Carfolks.com. Carfolks is the first dealer advocate site to help reward dealers and their sales and service team members for doing things right. The Internet has made it easy [...]

Using coupon codes in your Mobile Marketing Strategy

In January we explored specific areas in the CMP Mobile Marketing Interface. You can view the edited version of this on our Viddler channel.
This month, we are back with a follow-up episode and with guest Presenter Brian Collins, one of the founding partners of CMP Development Group. Collins has been building awareness of mobile marketing [...]

Example of bad email marketing practice in CRM

The other day I went to unsubscribe from an email I received from a local car dealer. I received the email as a result of scheduling a service appointment on their website. What I saw blew me away. Watch the video and for the real thing take a look at this PDF file.
As an email [...]

Using Social Media for Vehicle Sales

About three years ago before we had any official products on the market, a lot of time was spent trying to find ways to use a blog to display inventory. But after a short while I put that effort to rest because it did not make sense to try to re-invent the wheel of displaying [...]

Mobile marketing ideas with online coupons

Mobile marketing and text messaging are becoming more and more favored with people today which means it is becoming increasingly important to consider the mobile marketing aspect of your message and product. By doing so you will find new ways to connect with people which has its benefits. But like with everything else, you want [...]

Using Facebook to blast a car dealership

It has been said that the Internet affords regular folk the opportunity to speak out on issues and situations, and with the advent of blogs and social media, getting your voice out can be a lot easier than ever before. I guess it was only a matter of before Facebook became [...]

Blogging and Social Media setups for Car Dealers

For the past few years, the auto industry, specifically the dealer community, has inched its way into blogging and automotive internet marketing. It is actually safe to talk about these things whereas fewer than 2 years ago I purposely avoided using such terms in my conversations with dealers and auto insiders [...]

Silver Bullets and Car Sales

Automotive internet marketing on the Web has taken a hard turn recently towards video. But will video marketing be just another trend that phases or at least balances out in 2-3 years? Chances are YES, it will.
From 2003 to about 2006, pay-per-click advertising, particularly in the auto industry, took the field by [...]

Filtering Noise with Social Media

In the past I had often posed the idea of blogging and social networking as part of the automotive internet marketing CRM or BDC process. I saw it as a way to organize and cultivate individual relationships for dealers to sell more cars. Arguments against this suggest that CRM is about marketing to [...]

Real results with permission-based email

Email marketing is one of the most impacting and cost-effective ways to drive quality traffic to your website. Problem is, email marketing is also one of the more abused and mis-used online marketing practices, particularly in the auto industry where email practices by car dealers are a disgrace.
Implementing the necessary steps to true permission-based list [...]

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