The most successful teams can look back on additions that make them think, “Damn, I’m glad we got her/him.” Starting 6th round draft pick Tom Brady. Rehiring Steve Jobs. Trying newcomer Al Pacino as Michael Corleone. For us, that addition was Subi Ghosh. When we first set out to build a digital marketing firm, our[…]
Taking a Shot that would Change the Direction of our Company
By JDRucker Dealer Authority, General, News, Philosophy, Uncategorized Mar 24, 2015
Christine Robertson Brings First-Hand Dealership Domination Experience to the Dealer Authority Team
By JDRucker Dealer Authority, General, News, Philosophy, Uncategorized Mar 18, 2015
The automotive digital marketing world just got better as Christine Robertson from Checkered Flag Auto Group fame brings her proven set of skills, philosophies, and domination strategies to Dealer Authority clients as our new Director of Dealer Strategy. She has been on the A-List of dealership leaders for several years now, building one of the[…]
Learning from Outside of Automotive Brings Innovations to Car Dealers
By JDRucker Automotive SEO, Automotive Social Media, Dealer Authority, General, Philosophy, Uncategorized Feb 18, 2015
Ours is such an isolated industry. There are many reasons for this – some good, some bad. Let’s take a look at what makes the car business so special and the things we all can do to make it better. First and foremost, there’s a reason that outside companies rarely succeed when they try to[…]
Take Us To Your 20 Group. We’ll Bring Croissants (and awesome marketing advice).
By JDRucker Automotive Conferences, Dealer Authority, General, Philosophy, Uncategorized Oct 24, 2014
Education. Analysis. Recommendations. At Dealer Authority, we’ve adopted an “EAR” approach to speaking to dealers in group setting such as 20 groups. We do this because it’s the right thing to do, but there’s another reason we do it which I’ll describe shortly. First, the pitch… Over the last year, we have been blessed with[…]
How We Deliver the Unfair Advantage to Our Social Media Clients – It’s the People
By JDRucker Automotive Social Media, Dealer Authority, Dealer Tips, General, Philosophy, Uncategorized Oct 09, 2014
When I was younger and dumber in my journey as an automotive digital marketer, I believed that a strong social media strategy combined with a decent budget and the occasional drop of a creative juice would be enough to build a killer product for car dealers. I was wrong. Ever since founding Dealer Authority last[…]
The Most Important Single Message Car Dealers Need to Hear About Social Media
By JDRucker Automotive Social Media, Dealer Authority, Dealer Tips, General, Philosophy, Uncategorized Oct 07, 2014
One of the benefits of doing what we do is that we get to see the automotive industry at both levels. We very involved in the trenches helping individual dealers find success by mastering their digital marketing. We’re constantly in the stratosphere talking to OEMs and vendors about the latest and greatest heading out to[…]
Don’t Fear Links. Fear Bad Links.
By JDRucker Automotive SEO, Dealer Authority, Dealer Tips, General, Philosophy, Uncategorized Sep 19, 2014
If there’s one thing about automotive SEO vendors that really chaps my khakis, it’s when they spread the disinformation that inbound links are bad. They’re not. In fact, they can be very, very good for rankings. It’s important to know the difference between good links and bad links. Here’s the backstory: the Google Penguin update[…]
Automotive Search and Social is Like Stand Hunting vs Still Hunting
By JDRucker Automotive SEO, Automotive Social Media, Dealer Authority, General, Philosophy, Uncategorized Sep 02, 2014
I am not an animal hunter. I’ve shot one animal in my life and that was plenty for me. With that said, I have gone hunting enough to understand that there’s a similarity between two of the major types of deer hunting styles and two of the biggest methods of digital marketing. Search engine marketing[…]
Automotive Vendors Should Be Educating First
By JDRucker Automotive Conferences, Dealer Authority, Philosophy, Uncategorized Aug 11, 2014
I’m not going to go into too much detail in this blog post. The video does all of the speaking that I need. Instead, I can sum it up very quickly: vendors should spend less time pitching their products and more time educating when on the various networking venues. Our industry is blessed with a[…]
Why We Switched to Completely Custom Reports – ‘Have It Your Way’
By JDRucker Dealer Authority, General, Philosophy, Uncategorized Aug 06, 2014
When something great dies off, it’s sad. For 40 years, Burger King has allowed people to “Have It Your Way”, but that ended earlier this year when they decided to go with “Be Your Way”. Not sure what that means, but they pay marketing minds millions to come up with this stuff, so I suppose[…]