TSLA354.080-22.285%
GM87.7600.54%
F14.6200.21%
RIVN15.740-0.17%
CYD37.430-0.24%
HMC32.670-0.37%
TM197.110-2.76%
CVNA74.5901.16%
PAG219.7700.15%
LAD386.8107.83%
AN212.3605.18%
GPI300.76016.43%
ABG217.2601.85%
SAH81.0001.58%
TSLA354.080-22.285%
GM87.7600.54%
F14.6200.21%
RIVN15.740-0.17%
CYD37.430-0.24%
HMC32.670-0.37%
TM197.110-2.76%
CVNA74.5901.16%
PAG219.7700.15%
LAD386.8107.83%
AN212.3605.18%
GPI300.76016.43%
ABG217.2601.85%
SAH81.0001.58%
TSLA354.080-22.285%
GM87.7600.54%
F14.6200.21%
RIVN15.740-0.17%
CYD37.430-0.24%
HMC32.670-0.37%
TM197.110-2.76%
CVNA74.5901.16%
PAG219.7700.15%
LAD386.8107.83%
AN212.3605.18%
GPI300.76016.43%
ABG217.2601.85%
SAH81.0001.58%


The Sales & Marketing category delivers actionable insights and strategic guidance for dealership professionals focused on boosting revenue and customer engagement. From lead generation and CRM strategies to advertising trends, digital retailing, branding, and showroom performance, explore the tools and tactics that drive sales growth and marketing success in today’s competitive automotive landscape.

Sales & Marketing

cars.com

Whatever Happened to Promotion?

- December 7, 2017
Cars.com recently published their Guide To The 4Ps of Automotive Marketing™ with product, price, place, and person representing four primary pillars of successful auto dealer marketing. In times past, the last...
Steve Greenfield

Steve Greenfield: How Dealers can Sell Cars with Digital Marketing

- December 6, 2017
Steve Greenfield, CEO and Founder of CompetitorPro and winner of the 2017 DrivingSales Innovation Cup for VinFactor, sits down with Joe Gumm of  CBT News to discuss how dealers can...
digital marketing

The Hardest Role to Hire and Retain: Why You Need a Digital Marketing Manager

- December 5, 2017
One of the hardest positions to hire for, train and keep in an automotive dealership is a digital marketing manager. Owners spend thousands and, in many cases, hundreds of thousands...
lagging inventory

Jason Ezell: How To Eliminate Lagging Inventory

- December 5, 2017
Don’t get stuck with last year’s inventory after the first of the New Year. In this interview, Joe Gumm of CBT News speaks with Jason Ezell, VP of Product with Force...
Automotive sales totals

Automotive Sales Totals for November 2017

- December 4, 2017
CBT News Anchor Joe Gumm reports on U.S. automotive sales totals for the month of November 2017 at dealerships around the U.S. The seasonally adjusted, annualized sales rate for the month was...
advertising

Advertising Violations: Easy To Find And Hard To Defend Against

- December 1, 2017
There’s no doubt that the right advertising program can make you plenty of money. But as they say, it’s not how much money you make but how much you get...
self-branding

Self-Branding for Car Salespeople

- November 30, 2017
Regardless of your profession, chances are that you’ve been working on expanding and improving your self-brand, especially self-branding for car salespeople. Self-branding, in simple terms, just revolves around how other...
customers

Bill Wittenmyer: What works best: Human connection or technology?

- November 30, 2017
There has always been a battle between what still works when it comes to the car buying process. Some say the way you greet customers makes a huge difference, as...
dealership competition

Three Ways to Stay Ahead of Your Competition

- November 29, 2017
Competition is the catalyst that makes the world go around. It promotes innovation, stifles complacency, and brings out the best in our businesses. However, competition can also be extremely stressful....
training

How to Perfect Your Training Techniques

- November 29, 2017
The old saying that “practice makes perfect” is often attributed to America’s second President, John Adams.  Whether or not he was the first to lay claim to this idea, it...


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