Trust is your business's biggest asset today. With the ability to easily publish reviews of businesses, products, and services, customer satisfaction is more important than ever before. Because one of the first things a potential customer does before visiting you in person is search for reviews online.

Let's take a look at how they're being influenced by those reviews and what you can do to improve your business's online reputation.

The Effect of Online Reviews on Customer Perception…

When it comes to selling cars, dealerships do all they can to get the most out of leads. But when someone comes in and is ready to buy, once they’ve completed that process, the relationship tends to end. The customer moves on with their new car and salespeople focus on the next sell.

However, with social media keeping businesses connected with customers, there’s no reason your dealership’s Facebook page can’t see a huge boost from offline customers. Here’s why its important to promote your Facebook and other social media profiles, and a few things you can do to connect your offline customers with your online business:

Why Social Media is Important for Customer…

The conversations your sales team has with your customers often dictate whether they’ll purchase or not. That’s why having a sales team trained in customer service is so important. 

Your standards should be exactly the same for your live chatting team. But how are their conversations even remotely similar?

The Greeting

As the saying goes, you only have ONE chance to make a good first impression. You have to make it count! Your sales floor associates are trained to greet the customers as soon as they walk through your doors. You would probably fire an employee if they gave shoppers the cold shoulder or ignored them when they walked onto your lot. If you only have …

2014 has been the year when a lot of dealers and a handful of vendors have embraced responsive website design. We've heard a handful of rebuttals and seen some blog posts from industry experts explaining why they haven't invested into RWD, but the most absurd excuse came to us the other day when a dealer told one of our partners what their website provider said about responsive design.

"It's just a fad. It will pass."

Really? At first, I thought that maybe they had misspoke. Maybe they meant to say that it was the current trend. With companies like Google promoting the concept that websites in an ideal internet would be responsive, one could definitely say that it's trending and will soon be the accepted norm, but to say that it's a fad that will pass is…

For inbound marketing, leads determine success. The assumption is that the higher the lead volume and percentage, the higher the sales and service volume. All too often, these do not go in step with each other. Below we identify ten statistics that are the main cause of increased lead quantity not equating to increases in appointment shows and sales.

1. Setting an appointment at the time the lead is converted will increase show rate 37 percent. – This seems like a no brainer, doesn’t it? If the customer commits to the appointment at the time they submit the lead, there is a very powerful psychological affect.

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In May I wrote a blog article explaining how employee retention in service will become increasingly important due to many factors. Apparently, that’s becoming true faster than even I thought. Auto Remarketing published an article last week reporting that AutoNation and the Asbury Automotive Group are indeed discovering that skilled technicians are becoming harder to find. “In…

Are you an automobile enthusiast? A person who loves to buy cars? The automobile industry is a dynamic one. It’s always in motion. Every year quite a few new cars are introduced. This has been the trend for a long time now. So, new cars become the talk of the town. Sometimes the old ones passes into oblivion and the companies stop manufacturing them. However, some of them can still be priced possessions of the owners. The concept of owning antique cars have gained ground over the years. If you are looking to invest in such vehicles, you need to do it prudently. There can be pitfalls, which you need to avoid. Here are a few tips that can help you choose the best antique cars.

How old is the car?

This is probably one of the most important questions to ask when you are buying an antique…

As mobile continues to emerge as the most important strategy component in digital marketing for savvy dealers, it's more than just driving mobile traffic and having a good mobile website solution. There's a psychology to it all that applies to the different way visitors engage with your web pages through mobile devices.

This is why the appropriate landing page is so important. In this infographic by String Automotive, they point to four key bits of information that can help a dealer or marketing company maximize the way that people interact with their website through mobile devices.…

There’s an on-going struggle in the dealership community for winning a shopper’s trust. 

Why?

Because shoppers have a pre-conceived idea about what they will expect when arriving at a dealership. They expect to be the prey. They expect your sales team’s hawks to swoop down and engulf them in persuasive techniques. They expect that they will have to haggle their way to a better price. All of these expectations are bottled into a stereotype, which is fueled by the stories from parents, friends, and coworkers…and the media.

So how do dealerships overcome this stereotype? How do you get shoppers more comfortable with the experience of buying a car from YOUR dealership?

Step…