- Apr 6, 2009
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Communication between dealerships is always fun, internally isn't it great at a staff BBQ, Christmas party, or social committee bowling night, when the sales staff and service staff are like oil and vinegar? Now throw an auto group into the mix with 6 rooftops and hundreds of employees. What a friggen mess!
One step we've taken to start to bridge the gaps is to create our own social network on NING. Never heard of it? It's incredibly simple and if you can get the buy in of the upper crust it's easy to support. It's a free platform to share data, events, create your own dealership forum, post blog entries for employees to discuss, share videos, pass notes and what we've found it most useful for is sharing marketing ideas and planning subsequent events. GET YOUR NING NETWORK HERE IN T-2min AND TIMING p.s. It's 100% Free if you can put up with a few google ads hosted in the right hand column.
Within 2 minutes you can have your own dealer or dealer group's social network up and running... if you want I'll totally take your call and I'll time you with my cell phone stop watch! A few months ago there was also a pay-for service posted on dealer refresh called Dealer Flow. Check out the article here.
It's a long article but worth the read. I had a demo from their salesguy and had a few interactions with their sales staff and they all seemed level 10, a great bunch of folks. It was very reasonably priced and seemed like a great solution but I wasn't able to talk my GM into launching it over the auto group BUT when he had seen the NING network he was in - lock, stock and barrel. The DealerFlow network had very cool features and because its focused on the car business solved our types of communication issues so I can foresee us being assimilated into their solution.
Is there anyone using DealerFlow or a NING network out there wanting to share what it's like? Let's roll some q & a on what a social network could mean to a dealership/auto group.
One step we've taken to start to bridge the gaps is to create our own social network on NING. Never heard of it? It's incredibly simple and if you can get the buy in of the upper crust it's easy to support. It's a free platform to share data, events, create your own dealership forum, post blog entries for employees to discuss, share videos, pass notes and what we've found it most useful for is sharing marketing ideas and planning subsequent events. GET YOUR NING NETWORK HERE IN T-2min AND TIMING p.s. It's 100% Free if you can put up with a few google ads hosted in the right hand column.
Within 2 minutes you can have your own dealer or dealer group's social network up and running... if you want I'll totally take your call and I'll time you with my cell phone stop watch! A few months ago there was also a pay-for service posted on dealer refresh called Dealer Flow. Check out the article here.
It's a long article but worth the read. I had a demo from their salesguy and had a few interactions with their sales staff and they all seemed level 10, a great bunch of folks. It was very reasonably priced and seemed like a great solution but I wasn't able to talk my GM into launching it over the auto group BUT when he had seen the NING network he was in - lock, stock and barrel. The DealerFlow network had very cool features and because its focused on the car business solved our types of communication issues so I can foresee us being assimilated into their solution.
Is there anyone using DealerFlow or a NING network out there wanting to share what it's like? Let's roll some q & a on what a social network could mean to a dealership/auto group.
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