We are ecstatic to announce that we’re adding a new wrinkle to our offering. Our only regret is that we didn’t recognize our ability in this regard sooner. Today, we’re officially offering consultation to our clients!
Introducing the Newest Layer of Our Dealer Services: Consultation
By JDRucker Automotive Consultation, Dealer Authority, Dealer Tips, News, Our Services, Uncategorized Sep 21, 2015
Unorthodox Automotive Website Marketing Strategies Might Just Be the Eagle You Need
By JDRucker Automotive PPC, Automotive SEO, Automotive Social Media, Dealer Authority, Dealer Tips, General, Philosophy, Uncategorized Aug 11, 2015
Another dealership website analysis and digital marketing proposal went into the books yesterday. We looked at what a dealership was doing and made recommendations about what they should be doing in the near future. The response was similar to what we typically receive. “Nobody’s ever recommended that we do it like that,” they told us.
Strategy Evolution: Why We’re Shifting (and so should every dealer in the country)
By JDRucker Automotive Advertising, Automotive Consultation, Automotive Content, Automotive PPC, Automotive SEO, Automotive Social Media, Dealer Analytics, Dealer Authority, Dealer Tips, Dealer Websites, General, Increasing Sales, Philosophy, Uncategorized, VDP Marketing Jul 30, 2015
If there’s one thing that automotive digital marketing has taught us over the years, it’s that things change. This is a good thing for those who are keeping up with the changes and a bad things for those who languish in yesterday’s strategies. As I’ve said many times before, what worked yesterday might not work[…]
How the Automotive World Fell Behind on PPC
By JDRucker Automotive PPC, Dealer Tips, General, Uncategorized Jul 07, 2015
If you look back a couple of years, ours was the industry to catch. Many vendors really mastered what Google Adwords could deliver to dealers, building or integrating technology that allowed for an industry within an industry. In fact, 10 of the 28 Google premier SMB partners are automotive-specific. That was two years ago. Today,[…]
If You can’t Win with Money, You have to Fight with Messaging
By JDRucker Automotive Advertising, Automotive PPC, Automotive SEO, Automotive Social Media, Dealer Authority, Dealer Tips, General, Philosophy, Uncategorized Jul 02, 2015
The best part about the business history of America is free enterprise. Capitalism in its purest form works because it rewards innovation, creativity, hard work, and strong business practices. There are little guys and big guys in every industry and most have no excuse for not overcoming the roadblocks to success.
Why Making Search, Social, and Content a Singular Strategy is Ideal for Car Dealers
By JDRucker Automotive Advertising, Automotive PPC, Automotive SEO, Automotive Social Media, Dealer Authority, Dealer Tips, Dealer Websites, General, News, Our Services, Philosophy, Uncategorized, VDP Marketing Jun 17, 2015
When we first started our company in 2013, we had a vision of what our services would look like. We chose SEO, social media marketing, and content marketing as our core business because those three disciplines offered the greatest needs for car dealers. In other words, we knew would could have the biggest impact on[…]
How the Current SEO Ranking Factors are Applied to Car Dealers
By JDRucker Automotive SEO, Dealer Tips, Infographics, Philosophy, Uncategorized Jun 16, 2015
If there’s one characteristic that encapsulates the ranking factors used by the search engines to determine how dealers rank on searches, it’s change. The algorithm is constantly being reworked. Tests are ongoing and Google has the stated goal of making the best content for particular subjects rise to the top while keeping poor content down.[…]
Dealer Social Media is About Pushing it to the Edge Without Falling Over
By JDRucker Automotive Social Media, Dealer Tips, General, Uncategorized, Webinars Jun 13, 2015
Social media is amazing. Then again, it’s worthless. Those are the two general opinions of social media in the automotive industry. You would be hard pressed to find a dealer who didn’t have one of those opinions about social media. It’s a very polarizing marketing venue. One of the truths that we’ve found in our[…]
How Dealer Partnerships should Really Work
By JDRucker Automotive Content, Automotive PPC, Automotive SEO, Automotive Social Media, Dealer Authority, Dealer Tips, General, Uncategorized May 06, 2015
The vast majority of our clients hire us to do their content marketing for the sake of social media marketing and search engine optimization. That’s where our greatest strengths shine through for dealers; through content, we’re able to make a dramatic impact on the amount of cars they can sell. Last month, we initiated and[…]
Yes, We Do SEO for Car Dealers and it’s Amazing
By JDRucker Automotive SEO, Dealer Authority, Dealer Tips, General, Our Services, Uncategorized, VDP Marketing Apr 23, 2015
There is so much emphasis placed on innovation that sometimes the core concepts get lost in the minutia. When we started Dealer Authority in 2013, the goal was to create the premier content marketing agency that would help dealers with both social media marketing and search engine optimization as well as other aspects of their[…]