Automotive marketing isn’t hard. It’s actually pretty straight forward. Yes, there are times when many vendors (ourselves included) try to make it sounds more difficult than it is, but at the end of the day it’s really about putting your inventory in front of as many local buyers as possible. Simple.
Put Your Cars In Front of More Buyers Online
By JDRucker Automotive Advertising, Automotive Content, Automotive SEO, Automotive Social Media, Dealer Authority, Dealer Tips, Philosophy, Uncategorized Mar 27, 2014
Automotive Digital Marketing
By JDRucker Automotive Advertising, Automotive Content, Automotive PPC, Automotive SEO, Automotive Social Media, Dealer Authority, Dealer Websites, General, Increasing Sales, Reputation Management, Uncategorized, VDP Marketing Feb 01, 2014
Are you an aggressive car dealership that will accept nothing short of absolute domination of your competitors? Have you ever been promised the world by an automotive vendor, only to find that your expectations and their results didn’t match at all? Are you tired of the mediocrity that the OEMs want you to accept for[…]
It’s About Content that People Want to See… and Share
By JDRucker Automotive Content, Dealer Tips, General, Uncategorized Jan 06, 2014
One of the most eye-opening conversations that I’ve ever had in my marketing career happened the other day when a client was discussing content strategy with me. It was one of those moments in which the significance doesn’t hit for a couple of days. This one hit me like a medicine ball to the face.[…]
Content Marketing is About Quality, Not Size
By JDRucker Automotive Content, Automotive SEO, Automotive Social Media, Dealer Tips, Dealer Websites, General, Uncategorized Dec 28, 2013
If you didn’t know who Bruce Lee or Kareem Abdul Jabbar were and the two were stacked up next to each other ready to fight, you’d probably put your money on the huge, muscular Jabbar rather than the miniscule Lee. In the incomplete movie, Game of Death, Lee beats Jabbar in a fight. It was[…]
Variations: An Important Bit of Advice from @LotPopAuto
By JDRucker Automotive Content, Dealer Tips, Dealer Websites, General, Uncategorized, VDP Marketing Dec 26, 2013
Is it a sunroof or is it a moonroof? Yes. Do you sell 4×4 trucks or 4wd trucks? Yes. Are your customers searching for navigation or nav? Yes.
Why We’re Betting High on Tumblr
By JDRucker Automotive Content, Dealer Tips, General, Uncategorized Dec 01, 2013
When we first started using Tumblr in my former company about six years ago, we had challenges finding the real value for dealers. Sure, it was a quick and easy blogging platform that had a growing community and the potential for greatness, but the community within Tumblr seemed to be heading away from our clients’[…]
Psychology: The Reason Your Website Must Work Perfectly
By JDRucker Automotive Content, Dealer Tips, Dealer Websites, General, Uncategorized Nov 22, 2013
If a button here or a link there is broken, it’s not a big deal, right? Wrong.
OEM-Mandated Sites Don’t Have to Be Bad
By JDRucker Automotive Content, Automotive SEO, Dealer Websites, General, Uncategorized Nov 20, 2013
Depending on the manufacturers, many dealers are stuck with sites that they do not want. Some OEMs mandate sites or give a limited selection of vendors that are approved to build sites. This doesn’t have to be a bad thing if you do what you can to make it better.
NEVER Automate Your Website Content
By JDRucker Automotive Content, General, Uncategorized Nov 15, 2013
Some trends just won’t die. Since 2011, Google and Bing have handed down stiff retribution against those who create bulk content in an effort to fool the search engines. Automatic page generation has been around for a long time and was extremely effective before the Panda update. That pretty much killed it… or so we[…]
Avoid Spun Content on Your Websites
By JDRucker Automotive Content, General, Uncategorized Nov 15, 2013
Content spinning is an unfortunate necessity in the automotive industry. It’s the practice of taking generic content and attempting to make it unique in the eyes of the search engines by changing portions of the content based upon the target website. For example, there might be a sentence that has all of the same words[…]