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    How can I email a unique list of vehicles to my clients?

    I would like to be able to send a customized list of vehicles including specs, link to photos to our wholesale clients each week. Does anyone on here know of a good way to accomplish this?
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    Continuous follow up with Wholesale Buyers

    Our company sells over 1000 vehicles to other dealers each month. Many of these are sold through Manheim and OVE while others are worked directly in person or via phone and email. I would like to come up with a system (similar to a retail CRM) that will allow me to email the specifics of many...
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    Online Pricing Myths Debunked

    Our dealership is on the edge of town 1.5 miles down a dead end road. We have almost zero drive-by traffic and almost zero lotups. While we only sell used vehicles, we would never get a shot at 90% of our customers if we didn't price our vehicles below the rest of the market. We rely on...
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    Cold Calling Craigslist

    Is anyone having success with calling or emailing people on craigslist who are selling their cars? How do the conversations go? What kind of appointment and closing ratios do you have?
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    No more IMG tag on Craigslist

    I always used the coded images from my carsforsale.com site and attached a photo of myself in front of the dealership so it would show up as having a photo.
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    3rd Party Lead Pricing

    I got flagged before so I'll keep the sales pitch completely out of this. I just want to know what dollar value you would put on the leads we create. I work for a company that uses software to find car buyers on various social networks. They contact those buyers, make sure that they are in...
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    Your Thoughts: Fake or Real?

    FAKE Everything seems real to me until I realized that the Camaro has 09' on the window. Also, there is a drink holder on the front vents for his can camera that isn't typically in them.
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    Used Car Leads

    I can only imagine that your carsforsale.com website is being managed by the same person or people who manage your other sites. They focus on the leads from your website, cars.com, autotrader and the occasional lead that comes in from carsforsale.com. Correct me if I'm wrong. carsforsale.com...
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    Used Car Leads

    We use cars.com and autotrader.com for our dealership. I use carsforsale.com and v12software to market our inventory personally. I you sell 1 car a year with a 450 car inventory, you are not using the site effectively. I would suggest letting 1 salesperson (not primary internet sales manager)...
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    Used Car Leads

    I use carsforsale.com and v12 software to market our vehicles and have my cell phone and email listed as contact info. They each cost me $100 a month and get me 4-5 sales a month each. I have an inventory of around 350 cars and use v12software to upload to craigslist for me automatically. Here...
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    share your videos here

    Here is our dealership's rendition of "We're on a boat" We made this video to celebrate our first 300 car month at an all used dealership.
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    Who has used Sendmeafriend.com? How does it work?

    My dealership has around 25% of our business is through repeats and referrals. I was browsing around online and found sendmeafriend.com which some dealers are using to increase and organize the referral process. I want to hear from dealers who are using it or have first hand knowledge about...
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    Facebook Likes for your dealership - How are you getting more?

    We have a facebook page for both of our locations... https://www.facebook.com/wholesaleinctn and https://www.facebook.com/wholesaleinc As customer service manager, I would deliver the vehicles to our customers and take a photo with them and their new car in our showroom in front of the logo...
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    Recording how our customers heard about us ACCURATELY

    We are really wanting to have an accurate picture of where our marketing dollars are being effective. We currently have our salespeople record the lead source on their worksheet but many are leaving it blank or not getting good info. How would you suggest extracting this information from the...
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    A Realistic Pay-plan/salary amount for lead handlers?

    I may be old school but I think that having a big portion of their pay dependent on sales is best. While they are not the ones selling, they should be incentivized to get traffic in the door. Pay per appointment set and higher pay on appointment show. The end goal is to sell cars so they...
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    Walk In Customers who leave and do their " Homework "

    I'm all for using a CRM system to ensure that customers stay with one salesperson and are followed up on but what happened to getting a commitment to buy TODAY before discussing figures? In a market this competitive, you are really doing yourself a disservice to discuss trade, rate, term...
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    Website revamp

    I currently work for a large wholesaler who sells retail as well. We wholesale around 1200 vehicles per month and retail 250-300. We have grown a lot in the last couple of years and our website is boring, hard to use and outdated. Wholesale Inc| Madison TN | Car Dealership Since we began our...
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    Terms/Phrases in Car Sales or Sales in General You Find Offensive

    We always refer to a junk trade in as a "Bucket"