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Auto Dealer owners and managers must work to make sure that they are ready for the increasing number of people who now access the Internet from their mobile devices.  This shift has taken place over the last five years and is likely to continue.  In fact, it is expected that by 2014, that mobile Internet use, will overtake desktop internet use.  In some ways this may mean some dramatic changes in how dealerships market themselves.  Websites will need to be optimized for a mobile experience,…

When we think of mobile marketing, we are usually thinking in terms of two primary areas of concern.

1) We are thinking about whether a dealership has a mobile optimized website, and

2) We are thinking about whether or not the dealership is suited well for a text messaging campaign. 

In the case of needing a mobile optimized website, it doesn’t really matter what your business sells, your location will benefit on a local level from having a mobile optimized website. …

Auto Dealerships are now taking advantage of SMS Text Message marketing to build a more profitable business.  What text messaging offers the dealership is the ability to construct a contact database from the mobile telephone numbers of their patrons.   Of course, having a contact database is not significantly different from having an email or newsletter list, except for people’s response to receiving text messages.  Currently, according to multiple research firms, SMS messages are opened and…

The fact that people are spending more times using their mobile devices can be either an enormous opportunity, or an enormous headache, for your business.  The headache comes as a result of the new questions that mobile device use causes business owners to ask:

1)      Will customers and prospects still visit my website? If so, how can they see it on that little screen?

2)      If they are on the phone and not at their computer, will they read my emails?

At the same…