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I’ll teach you how! Wordpress - Generate SMS Leads when your dealership’s closed with on the lot car

kcar

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How many leads are you losing after-hours?

Depending on how much interest there is here, I’ll consider teaching some other dealers how to do this. Basically what I’m doing is putting a flyer inside of each car new or used, which lets the shopper send a text message to get vehicle info, sale price, etc. All of this is automated, track-able for future follow-up, super-easy to setup/mange with Wordpress, plus it costs around $70 total, one time for the online phone # and application plug-ins. You can change the SMS message the shopper gets via the posts section in Wordpress, they can be unique per each car as well. You can have them text things like “Auto1” or “Altima4”, etc.

Total time to setup: 10 min, Adding cars: 1 hour, depending on inventory size (3-sec per car).
 

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A dealer named kcar proposes teaching other dealership professionals how to set up an automated SMS lead generation system using WordPress and in-car flyers that allows customers to text for vehicle information after hours. The system costs approximately $70 one-time, takes 10 minutes to set up, and allows dealers to customize messages per vehicle and track leads for follow-up. The post generated immediate interest from multiple dealers requesting to participate in the training, though no actual lesson content or technical details were provided in the thread excerpt.

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