Mar 29 2017
If you haven’t purchased your tickets for Digital Dealer 22 yet, you’re running out of time. In just a few weeks, hundreds of dealers, dealer solution providers, and allied industries will be meeting down in Tampa, FL for one of the top automotive conferences of the year. Whether your hand is in dealer management, sales, marketing, F&I, or fixed ops, you will find Digital Dealer to be a great learning experience and networking event.
In this post, we’ve highlighted 10 sessions from the Digital Marketing and related tracks that will be valuable for improving your dealership’s marketing efforts. Unfortunately, some of these sessions run at the same time, so you’ll have to choose your battles or split up your team and swap notes.
Speaker: Doug Van Sach, VP of Data Analytics at Autoloop
Successful marketing is personal, relevant, and timely. Therefore, data should be the driving force of your marketing strategy.
In this session, Doug Van Sach will be using data from a recent Automotive Digital Engagement (ADE) study to deliver new insights on how customers engage with dealers. He will be highlighting the different types of engagement and the key differences in how millennials and older generations engage with dealerships both online and in-store.
As a marketer, this session will be valuable in providing a new approach for customer segmentation based on digital engagement, as well as helping identify strategies to increase the engagement of your marketing efforts.
Speaker: Sean Stapleton, CEO & Co-Founder of Dealer Teamwork
Relevant content is essential to the success of your dealership’s digital marketing strategy. Today’s consumers are inundated with emails, social media, and advertising. If the content they receive isn’t highly relevant, they will not engage with your brand.
This session will help your dealership quickly identify dead-end marketing activities that don’t generate sales opportunities, understand the value of content that matches your shopper’s intent, and build an action plan that reduces the marketing budget while increasing efficiency and effectiveness.
Speaker: Andrew MacLeay, Director of Digital Marketing at Dealer.com
Purchasing vehicles online
Andrew MacLeay will discuss the value of digital retailing based on consumer trends, as well as emerging technologies and a proven framework that support a successful digital retailing approach for your dealership.
Speaker: Jeff Bounds, National Account Director at Dominion Dealer Solutions
Not familiar with equity mining? This software technology, also referred to as data mining, enables dealers to identify customers in their database who are in a good position to trade up for a new vehicle with roughly the same monthly payments. Learn more from this Automotive News article.
Why is this valuable for your marketing efforts?
Customer retention should be a major priority for your dealership given the lower acquisition costs, however, you don’t want to inundate your customers with various marketing campaigns. Equity mining tools are the perfect solution for remarketing to your existing customers with an extremely relevant and valuable offer. No more guessing when existing customers might be ready for a new vehicle or waiting until they’ve begun the online shopping process to start marketing.
Speaker: Ken Kolodziej, CEO of String Automotive
E-commerce giant, Amazon, and tech giants such as Google and Apple are working their way into the automotive space. And at the route of it all, there’s one major thing that will help them win over today’s tech-savvy consumers. Customer data.
This session will address how to sift through your own rich customer database to stay competitive and win sales with compelling marketing.
Speaker: Kerri Wise, VP of Dealer Marketing at TrueCar
One of the best ways to improve your marketing strategy is by learning from some of the industry leaders, some of which are your direct competitors.
Kerri Wise of TrueCar will be utilizing a study on top-performing dealers, as well as on car buyers nationwide, to provide insight on how to address major consumer pain points and drive more vehicle sales than your competition in today's transparent marketplace. Additionally, she will help identify the disconnect between the online and offline shopping process.
Speakers: Famous Rhodes, VP of Digital Marketing & Customer Experience, and Jennifer Bills, Head of SEM at AutoNation
The world of SEM, SEO, Display, and Paid Social is constantly evolving in the automotive industry. Dealers not only face the challenge of competing against other local
In this session, Famous Rhodes and Jennifer Bills of AutoNation will be highlighting some of the new trends and emerging tactics to be aware of in 2017, along with some practical applications of these tactics and effective SEM management tools to get the most out of your marketing budget.
Speakers: Gino
“Digital marketing has proven to be the best way to drive more customers to your website and into your showroom.” However, it’s essential that your dealership evolves with the current marketing trends and does not beat the same strategy to death.
Gino Cipperoni and Megan Glick from Dealer E-Process will help identify some of these bad habits that are potentially costing your dealership sales and
Speaker: Pete Petersen, CEO of Dealers United
There are 214 million Facebook users in the U.S. alone. So, you better believe that your potential customers are on Facebook. If you don’t have a Facebook marketing strategy in place, it’s not too late!
In this session, you will learn how to increase your dealership sales and service opportunities with three proven Facebook campaigns from Dealers United. Additionally, you will learn how to measure the ROI of Facebook-sponsored content and scale your budget to maximize the profitability of these campaigns.
Speaker: Shaun Raines, VP Business Development at DealerOn
Display ads and social ads and SEO, oh my! The truth is, there are many effective digital marketing channels to choose from. How do you prioritize your digital marketing efforts? Which channels generate the most qualified leads and drive the most sales for your dealership?
In this session, you will learn how the many digital marketing options fit into your strategy, which key performance indicators (KPIs) your dealership should focus on, and how to evaluate your own digital marketing strategy and prioritize channels based on the revenue they generate.
Many of us at DataOne will be attending Digital Dealer this year and would love to meet up with you to discuss vehicle research and shopping tools that will help improve the user experience of your website.
