All ADM Blog Posts Tagged 'model' (11)

The hottest thing in social media marketing right now is influencer marketing. Businesses continually leverage celebrities to gain exposure and attention. Think about all the dealerships that hire famous athletes, or a YouTube celebrity, to help draw a crowd to their dealership. Sure, it works. That’s why businesses do it. But do they always attract the right…

In the last seven years, new vehicle gross margins have declined from four percent to two percent.

If that pace continues, profit margins will be wiped out by 2025. It appears that the front-end grosses dealers enjoyed 10 or 15 years ago are never coming back.

F&I…

Netflix is one of the most successful disruptors of the digital age. How did they do it?

By developing a business model built on customer obsession and personalization at scale. So take note of their strategy: here are three takeaways from Netflix’s meteoric…

There’s a lot of buzz around subscriptions as a new ownership model, with various industry pundits forecasting major disruptions for dealers. I see things differently.

I believe there are several major barriers to subscription growth for non-dealers, and opportunities for dealers to thrive, should subscriptions break through as a significant ownership model.…

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SEAT, the Spanish carmaker has announced the addition of SEAT Born to their list of pure electric cars being introduced by the next…

Packaged predictive analytic models enable automotive marketers to send perfectly timed, more relevant communications without the cost and complexity associated with standalone analytics tools—freeing your dealership up to acquire and engage customers instead of wrestling with data and technology.…

Automotive News recently carried a story about a lawsuit filed by Subaru of America against one of their franchisees. The lawsuit accuses a Southern California dealership of falsifying 224 CSI surveys in an effort to increase their CSI scores. This was after…

The model year hasn’t been standard across car makers for some time, but is staggered with one make and model getting to shine for one brief window at a time. Some 2013 models will be available for the summer, while others won’t be out until later in the year.

Redesigns seem to be a common theme…

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TrueCar Launches National Compliance Campaign and Pro-Industry Product Changes

Sweeping changes include a more balanced advertising approach, revised billing model in some states, consumer membership program, and formation of a Dealer Advisory Council

SANTA MONICA, Calif., Jan. 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — TrueCar, Inc., which is devoted to bringing innovation to the car buying…

I have seen websites like http://livefaceonweb.com/ or http://www.rovion.com/ that charge $260 for a 15 second promotional video where a person is talking about your website to grab the attention of visitors. The models walk and move around your website keeping customers engaged.

I have figured out how to do it. I have put up a demo at http://spoonjab.com/ to show…