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Advertising budgets get inflated over time, especially in the automotive industry.
Fountain Forward takes an objective approach to managing our client’s marketing budgets to optimize a dealership’s advertising dollars and increase return on ad spend.
The world moves fast for automotive dealerships. Every month seems like a new year that brings about different challenges.
It’s common for dealerships to spend more on marketing, especially when having a slow month… It only takes a bad first week to have what we call, “SPAZ” moments of vulnerability and we do our best to prevent them.
Normally they go a little like this:
Repeat that a few times a year, and you have 10’s of thousands of dollars in miscellaneous spend that isn’t attributable due to the lack of planning and therefore tracking.
As a partner to our dealers, we want to prevent this.
The goal of your marketing budget is to find in-market consumers, convert them into leads, and give your dealership an opportunity to do business with said consumers.
It sounds so “standard”, but to do it well takes a lot of time and effort.
It’s ideal to have every single ad setup in a sequence based on triggers and events. It’s a contingency plan!
Humans are unique, so follow them!
As they don’t convert, hit them with something different, like increasing the urgency for example.
Another example is correctly using dynamic retargeting (where every ad is customized and unique to each individual at scale – and they see vehicles they personally looked at on the site and “like” vehicles but didn’t become a lead), and targeting based on different actions on the site as they hit time triggers, page triggers, and previous browsing triggers.
How about carousel based ads showing inventory based on what is currently available on the lot, and based on audiences they fall into (ex: if they shopped for a Ram 2500 on a different site, liked an image related to a Ram 2500, or if they match one of 17,000 different data points the Facebook targeting algorithm uses to identify audiences with the propensity to want to buy a Ram 2500 – then they will see a carousel ad of current Ram 2500 ads that are at your lot right now).
The final piece is how you’re measuring “Offline Events” from your ads.
Which ads are making you the most money and why?
If you don’t know, let’s find a way to get you in the know. Let’s figure out which ads are making you CASH MONEY.
Nearly every dealer I talk to is doing “SEO” and when I ask the GM what their strategy is the, answers are astonishing. “Increase my organic traffic” is the answer 95% of the time. Pardon me if I’m being too assertive, but I give a LOT OF SH*** about you getting a return on your money.
In addition to bringing in more users, visitors brought in through the SEO Program are much higher quality than paid.
For Bayshore CDJR, our SEO efforts resulted in increased organic traffic that converted into increased leads on our clients website.
I sound like a broken record, but it’s how you put all the tactics together, not that you’re doing them all. A basic SEO package that is available through website providers should be viewed as a bare minimum. You have it, the dealer down the road has it, and so do the surrounding dealers to them.
You need to be equating effort to cash in your pocket and you need to have these tactics tied into a strategy. Measure them OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER….
EXAMPLES OF REAL DEALERS THIS YEAR
When you cut a budget drastically, the only way it will be successful is if you can effectively cut your cost per car and continue to drive sales.
Our social media advertising and search engine optimization teams are able to better allocate your capital by cutting the cost per car and more efficiently reaching in-market consumers.
We are able to cut excess spend since we can consistently and effectively reach in-market consumers for a lower cost than other lead providers and agencies.
Between multiple different dealerships, our clients have averaged a cost per car of less than $200 with a comprehensive Social Media advertising campaign.
In addition, our clients have averaged a cost per car of $301 selling cars using search engine optimization.
This doesn’t take into account the numerous consumers that use SEO and do not convert in any of our tracking, which we know happens through not only sales, but service as well. These services allow us to sell vehicles at a fraction of the cost from other lead providers.
Similarly, our social media advertising strategy allows us to bring more, in market consumers to the website that are ready to convert at a fraction of the price other lead providers can.
Despite cutting their budget, our client saw a huge increase in website traffic, which in return, yielded a higher amount of quality leads and total opportunity for our client to do business.
The increased traffic resulted in more lead volume and opportunity for our client.
Can this really work for your dealership? Like seriously, it’s all the same right? All of you say you’re top of the line so what does it matter?
Once Fountain Forward does a deep dive of your dealership, we’ll confirm those results with your dealership and work towards a solution of better allocating your dollars.
What do you really have to lose? In fact, we would happily take the time to understand who your customer is, evaluate the competitive landscape, and audit your marketing budget for free. Our analytics department will provide you with a comprehensive dealership overview audit custom to your dealership.
Chances are, if you have made it this far in the article, you want and believe your dealership can grow. We want to grow WITH you. We can identify where those areas for growth are.
Fountain Forward can help optimize your budget, track your spends, and lower your cost per car to make sure your dollars are spent efficiently.
With a comprehensive plan, you can work on assuring you have the right inventory, pricing, and focus your attention on your sales process to close more business.
We want to grow with you so we can move FORWARD, together.
October 18, 2020 / 9 minutes of reading
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