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Improve customer retention and increase sales with texting

What is your customer retention percentage? Are you asking for more incremental work when the vehicle is on the hoist? Are you using SMS to your advantage?


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Industry data shows that dealer’s customer retention ranges from 35% to 75%. Customers are looking for trust, value, convenience and clear…

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Added by Thomas F. Jung on February 28, 2017 at 7:38am — No Comments

What is the best texting app for car dealerships?

No matter the business niche, texting is currently a must, and it promises to continue being useful for years to come. The advantages of texting are numerous, but in a sea of texting apps, it is hard to choose one for your dealership.

“Will it meet my needs? What if it is not TCPA-compliant? What if it does not work? How much money is too much?” These are all…

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Added by Thomas F. Jung on February 23, 2017 at 3:10am — No Comments

2017 TCPA texting rules every car dealership needs to know

Today’s reality regarding real-time communication is proven in the data. On average smartphone users in the United States send 764 text messages and place 164 phone calls per month. Without a doubt younger users skew the data, but even people aged 55 to 64 text on average 80 times per month and 65+ text on average 32 times per month. Based on this information we can…

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Added by Thomas F. Jung on February 7, 2017 at 2:59am — No Comments

Online SMS alerts mean more sales

online SMS alerts mean more sales

Whether you are the biggest shipper of PCs worldwide, a local bakery, or a small Mid-Western car dealership – you need to provide your customers with the best service support – and resolve all emerging issues in almost an instant.

Why? Your clients are demanding it.

SMS and other …

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Added by Thomas F. Jung on February 1, 2017 at 5:45am — No Comments

Digital signage trends in 2017

Digital signage trends in 2017

The biggest benefit of digital signage, according to a survey of Digital Signage Today is improved customer experience and improving customer experience is AdvantageTec ’s focus.

With 2017 Digital Signage Expo being just around the corner, we have decided to give DS some thought and see what the future of this powerful technology holds.

2016 in review

In…

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Added by Thomas F. Jung on January 24, 2017 at 9:12am — No Comments

Texting demographics: everybody texts!

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Not only Millennials text – all age groups text and research shows texting is the most used function on a smartphone. For car dealerships, the real question is should they be texting with clients? AdvantageTec can answer that for fixed operations as we provide texting solutions to hundreds of large and small, public and family-owned dealerships across the United States.

Let’s look at some data – one of our dealership clients…

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Added by Thomas F. Jung on January 24, 2017 at 4:13am — No Comments

A Tale of Two Automobile Dealerships – Mobile Texting Works!

According to Peter Drucker, “Management is responsible for doing things right, and leadership for doing the right things.” Yes, we should all embrace this management philosophy, but as always it is easier said than done.

To help simplify this axiom let’s look at a concrete example where leadership points a dealership in the correct direction…

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Added by Thomas F. Jung on January 18, 2017 at 9:00am — No Comments

Is texting while driving a 21st-century epidemic?

Driving is a highly engaging activity: it demands all your senses to be alert, including visual and motor skills. With smartphone usage growing every day, it is no wonder almost everyone’s become a little bit obsessed with these devices, no matter the age. Not so surprisingly, though, texting demands the same set of skills as driving.…

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Added by Thomas F. Jung on January 17, 2017 at 9:13am — No Comments

The power of customer satisfaction survey

Business and, as a matter of fact all relationships depend upon good communication. If you do not know something it makes perfect sense to ask. When you do, you may get an answer you either like or dislike, but you will have the most powerful thing, the answer.

This is why OEM’s have CSI (customer satisfaction index) and this is how dealers are…

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Added by Thomas F. Jung on December 20, 2016 at 7:44am — No Comments

AdvantageTec’s view of Edmunds reports that texting can be key for dealerships

Many auto dealerships continue to be challenged with finding the most effective method of communicating with their customers. To date, they have been unable to bring their services closer to their target audience, and when they do, retention becomes problematic for their resources.

The resolution depends upon many factors, one of…

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Added by Thomas F. Jung on November 30, 2016 at 9:00am — No Comments

Automotive dealership texting [VIDEO]

Have you asked yourself this question lately, is my dealership communicating properly? On average smartphone users in the United States send 764 text messages and place 164 phone calls per month. Without a doubt, younger users skew the data, but even people aged 55 to 64 text on average 80 times per month and 65+ text on average 32 times per…

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Added by Thomas F. Jung on November 23, 2016 at 8:30am — 2 Comments

DealerTV for Automotive Dealerships

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Digital dealership system

When a customer comes to a dealership to have the car serviced, they need something to do. Most of them will grasp for their phones to kill the time, but you can use the advantage of having them in your waiting room by offering them content. Content can be displayed on your dealer TV using the amazing technology of digital signage.

How…

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Added by Thomas F. Jung on March 11, 2016 at 4:57am — No Comments

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