Toyota PPC budget increase yields results: when dealers ask about Google spend they don’t understand that there is a direct correlation between spend, traffic, and leads. These numbers are from a Toyota dealer. It went from $5000/month, to $8000/month, to this at $17,000/month in a quick 3 month growth. Notice that traffic grew almost at the same percentage as leads.…
Category: advertising
Will this affect the future of attribution?
Will this affect the future of attribution? Attribution tools rely on more than straight customer input; there is an entire ecosystem of IP tracking systems, algorithms, etc put to work to anonymously identify the customer or at least to classify the customer so we can properly assign a targeted campaign. But attribution assignment relies somewhat on its ability to record.…
Facebook extends messenger capabilities to business websites
In short, there is a way to replace your current chat/text system and implement messenger (FBM). Not everyone has Facebook and not everyone that has Facebook has or uses messenger (it is a separate download for mobile devices) but the advantages of using FBM could be enormous. For one you will have some knowledge of who is that you are…
advertising, Auto Dealer Marketing, car dealer websites, content, Content Marketing, dealer websites, Digital Marketing, mobile, social media
BZ Results Websites – remember them?
Remember those BZ Results websites (they were acquired by ADP in 2006)? If you don’t I’ll tell you: Those looked good. Mainly flash based, they appealed to the most dangerous word in the automotive industry: “I like that” (rather than “the data shows we should use this one instead”). Those guys made money. They are long gone but flash survived…
advertising, Auto Dealer Marketing, car dealer websites, inventory, Inventory Management, Marketing, system tools
New Inventory Search Features
We added two new search fields to every website inventory; search by package and search by features. The data is dependent on what the VIN decoder provides which nowadays is pretty accurate. Check it for example at www.larsondodge.com The idea is three fold: 1) It was added as one of the several refine search options. Non intrusive but available for customers…
Google Posts
Google just rolled out something new, called . It is basically like a little image/card with the ability to have a link on someone’s Google My Business Page. (See the example below, circled in green) Cool Things: · It’s FREE! (to Google). You have to maintain/manage/create the graphics/offer/landing pages (or we can do it with your PPC)…