Use text message marketing to reach people directly in their phones with a personal message! You can customize a text message marketing service to fit the specific needs of your auto dealership marketing campaign. These messages are not spam but instead reach only those people who choose to text a number and request information. Thus a texting campaign can reach a specific target audience.

After setting up a number for people to text, you can…

Car-Mercial has developed a way to squeeze others off of the first page of search results. The results made my chin drop! They do this by producing a large amount of custom professional videos for each of their clients. These videos are matched with an extensive key word list (unique to each brand/vehicle/location) and uploaded to numerous video search engines. From there the videos get picked up by thousands of additional sites and displayed all over…

So you’ve set up a Facebook page for your auto dealership. You’re adding daily content and running giveaways, but you want to keep driving people to the page. What better way than to run ads right on Facebook?…

Automotive marketers are in the midst of planning their promotions for the upcoming auto show season. These shows are a prime opportunity to reach both casual car shoppers and serious buyers with the latest offerings and even a glimpse into the future. Across the country tens of thousands of curious onlookers will pay for the privilege of being courted by all the major domestic and import brands.

But can the…

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Think about the average car shopper visiting your website. Let’s say you sell Nissans. Joe wants to buy a Nissan Altima, so he searches for “nissan altima” in Google. Your car dealership pops up at the top of the search results.…

Social media offers an incredibly effective medium for automotive marketing to promote your latest specials. You can promote offers by posting on Facebook, Twitter, and other pages. However, your customers often can be the best form of advertising. When they are posting your latest service specials on their personal Facebook and Twitter profiles, your message reaches thousands of their friends and followers.



The question is, how can you get your car shoppers to post your specials…

Google is giving car dealerships one more way to be found online! The new Places search category offers an easy way to search Place pages, which already existed but now are more visible. You can see a business location right on a map, read reviews, and see promotions right in search results.



After entering a search on Google, you'll see a "Places" option on the left side (along with Images, Videos, etc.). You can click this to search just for Place pages; anything from your…

All around the country people are making plans for their holiday celebration. Seems at times that our sales people are distracted, many think they can not compete with the man in the red suit. Not True! In over thirty years in the automobile business, I was once one of those who relaxed in the holiday season. In 1994 while trying to work this new tool called "the internet" I discovered there was business out there. I just had to place my…

• Places (the maps listings) have moved to the right sidebar and stay persistent with the page as you scroll down.
• The organic ranking algorithm now controls the rankings on Places.
• Reviews are now visible on your standard Google…