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Thanks for sharing this link. I registered my auto group today. Anyone know how long it generally takes for Google support to address these requests and set up feeds?
Google My Business adds inventory
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Do you all have any data sets to prove that you have value beyond in-house use and optimization of GMB posts, offers, inventory, services etc?
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Anthony, nothing wrong with saying "We" if you work for them. How about throwing out the process that a dealer would need to go through with you guys if they wanted to at least get started. Also, give your insight to the program and where it is going from a Vendor perspective?
Awkward! A new rep sent me a screen shot of one of our GMB Mobile listings with our inventory today. He literally claimed that his company posted our inventory on GMB not knowing we had set it up end of January. I won't say the company name but it starts with an "E", ends with an "s" and in the middle sounds like, "dmund".
"On another note, I'm not sure if you have been updated yet... E&%^#@$ has partnered with Google and your inventory now shows up on mobile devices under your Google Business Profile!
This is a prime example of why I joined this company! They are ahead of the game here."
What other vendors are you all using and what major companies are now wrapping this within their offering?
"On another note, I'm not sure if you have been updated yet... E&%^#@$ has partnered with Google and your inventory now shows up on mobile devices under your Google Business Profile!
This is a prime example of why I joined this company! They are ahead of the game here."
What other vendors are you all using and what major companies are now wrapping this within their offering?
UPDATE Edmunds did send an apology. They also clarified they've done this proactively for all dealers that didn't opt-out after an email communication earlier this month. I can appreciate a vendor that seeks me out to bring clarity and accepts responsibility. They did say it was sent out on the 12th. I think they misspoke and it went out on the 5th with a cut-off of the 12th (I found it in my spam). The roll-out on their end was not supposed to replace any prior feed that a dealer was already running. In our case, the Edmunds feed DID replace the ones we had set up with DBA Platform which isn't good and now adds work on our plate to fix.
For those of you that set up Cars for Sale early, and are also Edmunds dealers, check your listings to see if your UTM tags now contains campaign=edmunds_carsforsale. If you'd like to resolve and revert back to your other provider, you can reach out to (and he asked me to post):
Ian Isch - Edmunds
Senior Director, Sales Development
216.315.1222 mobile
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I’m kinda surprised you still have edmunds on as a vendor, given the ownership change.
@Rob As I've spent more time in this business, I realized that making changes on vendors based on emotions/relationships usually didn't pan out. That and we are grandfathered in at a pretty low rate LOL. Seriously though, if you look at some of my posts from 3 to 10 years ago, it was "that rep made me mad, fire 'em" or "I hate that company just because, fire 'em". Decisions are now, and will be, based on performance. I think our industry, actually I know our industry, is extremely emotional and relationship based. That isn't scalable (as a decision or sales model), for us or the vendors.
I mean I don’t see choosing not to give a major competitor money & data every month as emotional, but that’s just me.
I agree that changing vendors on a whim is generally a poor choice. But I don’t think it applies here at all. To each their own, eh?
