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  1. Ryan Montville

    Montway Home delivery web page

    Only here to stir the pot: Yelp has a 2* rating on yelp (its own website) with 13k reviews Yelp has a 4.1* rating on google play with 497k reviews
  2. Ryan Montville

    Ninjas Why it is Time to Stop Ignoring Vendors

    All of this plus: Poking holes in our current product/partnership. If your cold call/email starts off with poking holes, you better be sure your current clients don't have these same problems. Most of the time they do, and most of the time I'll find it.
  3. Ryan Montville

    I've DuckDuckGone'd to Brave Browser

    The sun is the center of our solar system.
  4. Ryan Montville

    Avalanche of Lender-Specific "Digital Retailing" Website Buttons Coming in 2022?

    We took ours down after a few months of ok performance. The say it out loud test worked for me to get them down without much of a fight... "I have three different credit applications on my website."
  5. Ryan Montville

    New Hyundai & Amazon Partnership

    I experienced that too. For me, it had to be an exact match all the way down to interior/exterior colors.
  7. Ryan Montville

    New Hyundai & Amazon Partnership

    I agree it's impossible to find. We have not gotten more info beyond that letter, but a tier 1 ad campaign from Hyundai would be my guess (work out all the bugs in time for Super Bowl?). The fact that Amazon is giving the user an option to leave amazon.com and visit a dealer website is a big...
  8. Ryan Montville

    New Hyundai & Amazon Partnership

    Hyundai Dealers, We want to inform you that we will soon be announcing exciting new enhancements to our collaboration with Amazon. Since launching in 2018, our digital showroom at Amazon.com/Hyundai has been a custom landing page where car shoppers can learn more about the Hyundai brand and...
  9. Ryan Montville

    Is this the beginning of the end for Shift Digital?

    No doubt the responsibility is on us. Customers assume our website is 100% "ours." That's what is so frustrating. Our time is better spent creating better customer experiences instead of searching our sites (daily) for what new content was pushed without us knowing.
  10. Ryan Montville

    Is this the beginning of the end for Shift Digital?

    I'm happy someone is. On one of my websites, we had (at one time) 3 links to the same tire site, 2 links to the same service scheduler, and 3 links to the same service specials in the same nav dropdown. I've had 1 good shift rep between all our stores that use Shift. Shift pricing is higher for...
  11. Ryan Montville

    Is this the beginning of the end for Shift Digital?

    Has anyone seen this? What happens next? But more importantly, does the dealer have any power when it comes to Shift Digital's involvement in operations? I, for one, would welcome a very ugly divorce with Shift Digital :chainsaw: at all my stores that participate. "A memo to Volkswagen Group of...
  13. Ryan Montville

    Buying stock in CarGurus/Cars.Com

    Hey Dan, long time no talk! You were one of my contacts at DI back in the day! The biggest most recent one was their partnership with Carvana last year on vehicle acquisition. Their reps at NADA last year told us they were getting hammered by everyone. I think I remember them leaving NADA...
  14. Ryan Montville

    Buying stock in CarGurus/Cars.Com

    Everything Alex said plus: Car dealerships have egos. If your product provides value, but you do shady things, dealerships respond with cancelations. Cargurus may have the most traffic, but if their customers aren't happy (car dealers), how long will that last? The volatility of Cargurus'...
  15. Ryan Montville

    Facebook Disapproving All My Ads - Anyone Else?

    I was told that even linking your ads to a page where credit is discussed will flag it as a credit ad. With that said, have you tried linking these ads to your homepage (or another page where monthly payments/credit aren't mentioned). It's not ideal but worth a shot. If that doesn't work, I'm...
  16. Ryan Montville

    Is Wordpress better than the rest?

    My biggest gripe at the moment is 3rd parties who are snailing on their SSL migrations. I have so many tools that are essentially useless on my sites because they aren't secure.
  17. Ryan Montville

    Is Wordpress better than the rest?

    The only one I'm aware of is Jazel. The ones that don't offer it have similar reasons on why we don't need it as automotive websites. I've definitely been intrigued though.
  19. Ryan Montville

    Is Wordpress better than the rest?

    @Alex Snyder, I can't believe you left off Gary Stock! :rofl: DDC is a bit more user friendly imo with the drag and drop widgets (if they are working properly), but my creativity is limited by the widgets DDC has developed. There is more of a learning curve with Wordpress. Once you get past...
  20. Ryan Montville

    Website Vendors

    I don't remember where I heard it, but someone said "If everyone does business the same way, the one who spends the most money wins." With that said, I believe in a unique experience, as long as it's not SO off-the-wall that it's confusing to your customers (you can still get that experience...
  21. Ryan Montville

    Website Vendors

    Hey Rob, I'm sure everyone would have the same questions I do like: What kind of dealer is this (new/used)? If new, which franchise, and/or what OEM restrictions might there be? What DON'T you like about your current vendor? What DO you like? All vendors bring something different to the...
  22. Ryan Montville

    Use Pavlok SHOCK THERAPY to sell more cars!

    Who out there wants to work on CRM integration? Haven't made a phone call in 3 hours...ZAP! Lead has hit 15 minute response time...ZAP!
  23. Ryan Montville

    KBB Instant Cash Offer IS Trade-in Market Place (TIM) Repackaged

    We use TIM (now KBB) mostly in our showroom. We make two offers on trades - one the old fashioned way, and one through (now) KBB Instant Cash Offer. Since the UX is so terrible for instant cash offer, we only use the KBB Range Finder on our site (this too was converted from AutoTrader to KBB...
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