All ADM Blog Posts Tagged 'vendors' (29)

I have a lot of vendor friends and consultants I really love.  In fact, I'm so popular, I make new friends among the vendors every day.  My dealer says I spend way, way too much time with them when I should be working.  But I just love talking to…

Consumers today are increasingly becoming finicky about where and how they want to communicate. While the past may have seen a traditional print ad performing well on its own, that’s increasingly not the case. Data supports the fact that consumers are all over the place and successful marketers know that their message…

On March 9, the popular television show “60 Minutes” aired a segment titled “The Data Brokers: Selling Your Personal Information”. In the segment, Steve Kroft interviewed various privacy experts who explained how…

I was talking to an internet manager yesterday about their marketing when I brought up Hook Logic. His challenge was that he only gets credit for leads, so while he definitely wanted to help the dealership with our SEO and social media products, he wasn't crazy about the concept of increasing more showroom visitors that did not…

Content marketing and exposure are becoming increasingly important in digital marketing and today’s race for eyeballs. In the automotive space, there are many companies that do great jobs marketing and optimizing exposure for dealerships through websites, search engine optimization, social media marketing, pay per…

This is an industry that has no shortage of vendors. There are more choices amongst those supplying dealerships with websites than several other major industries combined. It's competitive out there, which is a great thing for dealers. Unfortunately, it can also be confusing. Who is really…

Businesses are increasingly recognizing the importance of having an online presence in social networks. Consumers have come to expect it and, whether you’re there or not, they will have conversations about you. Every year sees a higher percentage of consumers turning to business’ social media accounts for a…

Author's Note: "Hello ADM community. Happy to be here. I just signed up last week and can tell I am with my kind. I've enjoyed reading so far. Listed below is my first blog here in the ADM community. Hope you enjoy. Even if you don't, thanks for reading anyway. :)"

Gold is valuable! (“Thanks Jeff for the heads up there…”) Which is precisely why you want to avoid Pyrite.…

As a technology provider, AutoAlert has the weighty obligation to deliver great service and support to its customers, North America’s franchised automobile retailers. 

As a dealer, do you entertain great service expectations from the vendors with which you do business? If not, you should – and you should hold them accountable for meeting those expectations.

This is an important issue. Because a recent article in…

Look, I get it. I understand that it’s hard for vendors and OEMs to produce a social media solution for their dealers that scales properly while still bringing in good content. I do not, however, understand the concept of not even trying to mix things up. There’s an easy road and a hard road for automotive social…

The next automotive e-Commerce revolution: a real photo interface

It occurs to me as I navigate my iPad and latest Android phone that our inventory hosting options, both on dealer websites and third parties like…

There's a trend in the automotive industry that is alarming. We hear this scenario played out almost every day and it normally manifests itself into one of two stages:

• Stage 1: The Fresh Tech Hunter - When a dealership is tired of the limitations of their various vendors,…

There's something that can be said about transparency. It's hard as an automotive vendor to be completely transparent. I know because for the first few years that I worked in the industry there were many things in the world of SEO and social media marketing in particular that could not be shared with our clients. It…

This is as much a question that I would love answered as it is a personal opinion that I'm posting on my own behalf. News of yesterday's big buyout of ClickMotive has many in the industry stirring up old (and new) feelings that the industry is heading towards one-stop-shops as a preferred choice.

Disclaimer: I work for KPA. With over 3,000…

I was brought into a discussion today with a dealer who is considering hiring a new digital marketing agency.  This is a…

Over the weekend I had an excellent conversation with a dealer who was weighing whether to invest more heavily in PPC advertising or to take the plunge into the world of SEO. She knew the stats and was well-aware that most clicks come from organic search (even noting that she, herself, could not…

Dealers United, the service I co-founded with Jesse Biter, is currently registering vendors to participate in future members’ only deals.

While vendor registration is not required, it is the only way to ensure your company is invited to take part in deals for products…

In the movie “Groundhog Day,” Bill Murray had to learn how to be a nice person and help other people (and genuinely mean it) before he won the girl and got his life on track. Only then could he escape the eternal blaring of the alarm clock that woke him up to re-live Groundhog Day, over and over and over…

Much like Bill Murray, many car dealers are also re-living Groundhog Day. Every day many dealers wake up determined to improve their bottom line. Cut costs. Increase profits.…

My experience at the 11th Digital Dealer Conference and Exposition was full of firsts. It was my first conference. It was my first time in Vegas. It was my first time gambling (and winning)! It was my first time hanging out in casual situations with my company’s President and head of sales. Needless to say, the “virgin” jokes got really old really fast.

However, it was not the first…

Here at ActivEngage, we are constantly contemplating the future of business on the Internet.  As we strive to provide our clients with thebest live chat service available, we often find ourselves gazing toward the horizon of what is possible.  This is the first installment of a blog series in which we will consider what the Internet is and what the…