Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Car Dealer Marketing Tips - Top 10



Use social media to create a buzz

When you have a new model in stock you could create a buzz by running a competition on Twitter or Facebook to let people win the car for a day.

Use the power of YouTube

Uploading a video for your car dealership to YouTube is a good way to increase awareness of your business and drive more traffic to your website. Coming up with an innovative video is the key to success, for example you may want to do a spoof video of a stereotypical car sales person.

Put your thinking cap on

Whether it's for online or offline marketing, it pays to put your thinking cap on and come up with something a bit different to attract customers. For example why not hold a themed day to coincide with the launch of a new car from a particular country?

Use email marketing to promote special offers

Offline promotions such as running competitions in shopping malls are a great way to gather data for email or SMS marketing campaigns (provided you get the person's permission of course).

Email marketing is low cost, professional and fast which make it ideal for promoting special offers you may be running on a bank holiday weekend for example.

Personalise your approach to selling cars

People often have a stereotypical view of car dealers. One way to banish this is to put short staff videos on your website and let potential customers meet your sales team before they even come to the showroom.

Keep people on your website by making it interactive

Having a driving game or interactive options to watch videos or choose different colours of vehicles will help to keep people on your website for longer.

Get a test drive booking facility online

If people are on your website and want to book a test drive, you should make it as easy as possible for them. Having a quick online form to complete will be more convenient for a lot of people rather than calling up to talk to someone. You can of course have an option for them to specify a convenient time to call them back.

Offer exclusive online discounts

One way to keep people coming back to your website is to become known for running a strong promotion such as an 'offer of the week'. Making a discount exclusively available online will also enable you to track response rates to your promotion.

Kimberly have been writing articles for nearly 2 years. Come visit his blogs more often for tips and advice that helps people with the interest for Car Videos and great passion and knowledge for Muscle Car Videos and all the different options & providers available in the market today. Find out for more info also here CarVideoSpot.com

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