The year was 2009. We were working on building out website content for a client and we wanted to get to know the different departments in order to personalize the content to make the visitors more likely to do business with them. A savvy General Manager taught me a lesson that stuck with me throughout[…]
Dealers, It’s Time to Get ‘Touchy-Feely’ with Your Website Content
By JDRucker Automotive Content, Dealer Tips, Dealer Websites, General, Uncategorized Apr 28, 2016
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[…]
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[…]
Dealer Authority Reviews CarChat24: First Thoughts
By JDRucker Dealer Authority, Dealer Tips, Dealer Websites, General, TTAP, Uncategorized Mar 23, 2014
We tossed out the gauntlet two weeks ago when we posted an article saying that, for the most part, chat services on dealer websites were not working the way they should be working. One of the biggest complaints that we had was putting up a lead wall. In other words, we found several chat services[…]
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[…]
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.
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.