Jim Flint's Blog – February 2019 Archive (6)

Spring Selling Season

The time is now. Spring selling season is upon us. When your inventory, personnel and plans are in the right spot on February 20th, your 2019 is set up to work to your maximum advantage. Five of the best six seasonally-adjusted sales months over the years happen between March and August.  Working the details and making sure that you’re taking care of them…

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Added by Jim Flint on February 22, 2019 at 10:21am — No Comments

Hottest New Models

The hottest new models in the automotive space aren’t relegated to cars anymore.

 

Cars are key, but statistical models are catching favor and acclaim. Rightfully so.

 

The Houston Auto Show recently debuted the 2019 Aston Martin DBS Superleggera TAG Heuer Edition at their Havana Nights Charity Preview Night. With a carbon fiber…

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Added by Jim Flint on February 15, 2019 at 9:48am — No Comments

Knock-Knock—It’s Amazon

Google and Facebook, Watch Out! There’s someone approaching in the rear-view mirror, and it’s Amazon.

 

Don’t worry about Amazon pursuing automotive retail--think expensive land and expensive cattle (aka cars). As far as the desire to pursue automotive advertising--think cloud ready and margin friendly.

 

The duopoly of Google and…

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Added by Jim Flint on February 12, 2019 at 10:50am — No Comments

Cold Turkey Test

A key to implementation and execution in Google Ads’ space is to secure no less than 80% impression share for your name in the geographies where you sell and service vehicles.

 

Many dealers ask what would happen if I didn’t buy my name. Or better yet what would happen if I didn’t spend any advertising money or, more often than not, what if I…

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Added by Jim Flint on February 5, 2019 at 8:30am — No Comments

Rethinking Possible – Super Bowl Ads

$5 million for a Super Bowl spot in 2019. That’s what the big brands are paying for huge visibility. There is arguably no better way to reach 100+ million people.

 

All in, there were 5 automotive OEM’s in the mix.  Audi delivered details…

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Added by Jim Flint on February 4, 2019 at 9:56am — No Comments

Fog Machine: Digital Retailing

San Francisco is famous for fog. The city’s given a nickname to its fog - Karl. Karl the fog even has an Instagram account with 243k followers.

 

As I traveled back from the NADA Show 2019 held in San Francisco, I’m reminded that our industry resides in a fog of Digital…

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Added by Jim Flint on February 1, 2019 at 10:41am — No Comments

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