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  1. WilliamWalker

    People's Choice Awards for Best Vehicle Photos?

    If a store builds something like that I would recommend taking the approach similar to Carvana, where you take pictures of any small imperfections. This would add confidence that these are actual images. It is also surprising that some dealers are still paying for such a nice booth but not...
  2. WilliamWalker

    People's Choice Awards for Best Vehicle Photos?

    Here is some of our customers that I think turn out decent for shooting in a showroom or garage. https://www.maseratiofkirkland.com/inventory/used-2018-alfa-romeo-stelvio-ti-awd-4d-sport-utility-zasfaknn0j7b64646 https://mclarenbellevue.com/vehicles/2019-mclaren-720s-907654963/...
  3. WilliamWalker

    DealerScience - Lease and Finance Website Plugin

    I signed 2 highline stores up with them about a month ago. I had a Toyota store with them previously (trying Precise Price out). The calculator is getting a lot of play, walkin customers and form subs. But I am seeing the largest value from the 'Specials Page' feature. These stores have...
  4. WilliamWalker

    TAKE POLL Cars.com VS AutoTrader VS CarGurus

    If we are talking a $ to value rating, it has to be CarGurus. Just cost alone destroys the competition. Especially when you can reallocate the cost that goes into Cars.com/AT.com. I evaluate over 15 dealers monthly and CarGurus is constantly at the top of click to call leads and usually is...
  5. WilliamWalker

    Setting up a Photo Booth

    haha, so cheeky you are!
  7. WilliamWalker

    Setting up a Photo Booth

    You can see the booth and turntables in action at the 30 second mark on this video, They do not use any green screens. But for the interior it looks like they use a http://www.gigapan.com/ setup. I would presume they use something a long the lines of a Canon 5D Mark III for a camera. Looks like...
  8. WilliamWalker

    Looking for an extremely good SEM company

    Thank you Drew for jumping. I guess I'm looking more for what those idiosyncrasies are. I see what you are saying, but my mind tends to think of ppc/seo/sem, etc etc like the stock market. You are not going to give all of your investments to a broker that is really good at investing only in...
  9. WilliamWalker

    Looking for an extremely good SEM company

    Hey Joe, could you expand on this? What are your main concerns with using a non-auto specific company?
  10. WilliamWalker

    The Top Vehicle Listings Websites - Who's NEXT?

    I do like the idea of this. But the 2 vehicles I pointed out do not take you to their VDP's on their respective dealer sites. shouldn't it devert to landroverseattle.com or jaguarseattle.Com Rather than Washingtoncarsearch?
  11. WilliamWalker

    The Top Vehicle Listings Websites - Who's NEXT?

    @John Washam When I search for a vehicle on motominer.com why does it indicate the seller as Sunset Cars when it is actually a different dealer? The third and forth car down. Only connection I can make are these are not dealers that have signed up with you guys...
  13. WilliamWalker

    Technology Specialist: Your Next Hire

    @Stefan How many delivery specialist do you have at the 400 car per month store?
  14. WilliamWalker

    AutoTrader Trade-In Marketplace?

    Resurrecting an old post just to ad our experience with TIM. I work with 2 high-line stores that sell roughly 50-70 cars a month (70% used) that have TIM, they would average 4-8 TIM offers. The largest amount we received being 12 and the lowest 0. The dealer never kept track of the leads that...
  15. WilliamWalker

    Setting up a Photo Booth

    Just to continue the conversation I shot a vehicle today 1/28/15 and timed it. Went at a normal speed nothing different. I also timed the editing. I mainly wanted to do this as an example to just ad to the database we have here. My camera setup is about 2k with the lens purchased used as well as...
  16. WilliamWalker

    Setting up a Photo Booth

    Great post! I tend to hold a different opinion on quite a few pieces of that, but I think that is what this forum is for. To bring different minds and experience together. Interesting read for sure!
  17. WilliamWalker

    Setting up a Photo Booth

    Hey Joe, Thanks for the compliment. Adobe Lightroom. It has very good batch editing capabilities. Editing around 300 photos ends up taking roughly 30minutes
  19. WilliamWalker

    Setting up a Photo Booth

    From my experience photo booth setups are only as good as the person behind the camera... The early posts in this thread I believe really illustrate this. Especially Eley's post about the 4Runners. We shoot only outdoors currently and I believe our results are better than most if not all of the...
  20. WilliamWalker

    Why are Car Shoppers are so Damn Invisible?

  21. WilliamWalker

    TAKE POLL Texting with customers often?

    Our protocol with texting customers is a 1 to 1 response system. We only text the customer if they initiate the conversation. We also only text one time per one response by the customer. We do this because each text sent by the customer is effectively opting in to a single response. This is why...
  22. WilliamWalker

    Poll: Let's Talk Inventory Photos

    It really does vary just like you said. It depends completely on the dealers internal system that dictates that time. For example. A dealer in Seattle has put us above all other departments, and everyone knows it. So when the photo guy comes by and says he needs this car and that car, they...
  23. WilliamWalker

    Poll: Let's Talk Inventory Photos

    4hbh-Media. We are in the greater Seattle area Yes, out of the 4 dealers 3 use a different inventory tool. Autobase/FirstlookMAX/Homenet. We use those tools to know how we are doing with our missing photos percentages. Also we use them for lot auditing. Also nice to see if a specific vehicle is...
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