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April Insights Bring May Opportunities

It’s no secret that market forecasts in the automotive industry continue to be in flux. And, with outside sources warning consumers of sky-high car prices with historic increases occurring over the summer months, those same watchdogs are advising buyers that Memorial Day is still among the best times to purchase a vehicle! Is your digital […]

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Maximize Automotive Marketing Efforts in 2023

Maximizing Your Automotive Marketing Efforts in 2023 and Beyond

It’s no secret that new car prices are at record highs with used car prices racing to catch up while Vehicle Affordability and Credit Availability Indexes at near record lows. So it only makes sense that consumer market searches continue to drop lower than previous months as a result of fast market changes, making it […]

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Facebook Marketplace Changed, Here Are 4 Things to Do About It

In September of 2021 Facebook sunset partner catalog feed capabilities for listing vehicles on Marketplace. What does this mean for dealers? It means vendors, like us here at Dealer Teamwork, can no longer bulk upload your inventory to create Marketplace vehicle listings on your behalf. Although this may frighten many in the industry, there are […]

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SEO Improvements for Short & Long Term Success

It’s a weird time to be a car dealer. Shutdowns, reopens, high demand, supply chain issues, low inventory, unprecedented used vehicle profits and competition, phew, that’s a lot to keep up with today! This change can give a dealer whiplash trying to race to keep up and predict what to do to get ahead of […]

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Best 6 Ways to Increase Vehicle Trade-ins & Fixed Ops Profit

As we approach the spring car buying season, the prices of used cars in the market are becoming more stable. There was a slight increase in wholesale prices in mid-March 2024, marking the first rise in several months. However, this pattern has been seen in previous years and will fluctuate in 2024. Given the volatility […]

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It’s Time to Get Creative with Used Car Acquisitions

Rapid change is a fact of doing business for car dealers right now. After chip shortages led to production delays, the demand for used vehicles spiked dramatically. This dramatic shift in demand has now led to massive price hikes for used vehicles. In fact, Consumer Reports cites the US Bureau of Labor Statistics’ research which […]

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How to Add Captions to Videos in 4 Easy Steps

“Many marketers think of captions simply as a nice-to-have . . . That’s a mistake.” – Google Why are video captions important? Before we jump into the “how” of video captions, let’s first explain why they are important. Video captions are important for car dealerships for 3 primary reasons: They make your video more accessible […]

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Dealer Teamwork’s 2021 Automotive Success Playbook vs Google’s Dealer Guidebook 2.5

Google recently released their Dealer Guidebook 2.5, about 1 month after we released our 2021 Automotive Success Playbook. The timing is perfect! Google’s Dealer Guidebook 2.5 is a standalone resource, but it’s also a great complement to the Dealer Teamwork 2021 Automotive Success Playbook. Our Playbook covers a wide swath of topics to help dealers […]

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5 Tips to Instantly Improve Website Navigation

In this week’s Thought Starter video, we highlight 5 quick tips for dealers to help them quickly improve website navigation. Check out the video here.  Video Transcript Hi, I’m Kayla from Dealer Teamwork bringing you a Thought Starter for the week. This week I want to start off with a question, when’s the last […]

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5 Automotive Marketing Tricks to Treat Your Dealership to More Leads

Finding new and effective ways to generate more marketing leads can be both challenging and frustrating. 

To help, this article highlights 5 lead generation tricks that can help dealerships treat themselves to more marketing leads. We’ll also offer solutions, recommendations and relevant resources along the way. Let’s get started. 

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