Is anyone out there using the advertising program on kbb.com? As ATC and Cars.com have been struggling I am have been looking at possibly trying something new.
I use KBB in a couple of different formats and have been pleased with the results. So if I understand the original post, traffic is down on ATC and Cars? Is this recent, or been a while now?
I worked for ATC for 2 years and my current company was one of my accounts. It's never been great here. I would invest in trying a partnership, but our dealership has such a mixed inventory, we don't necessarily have the product to make it work. It probably pays for itself, but I do wonder if we took our money and invested in SEM if we wouldn't see better results. Are your results strong?
I personally didn't have any luck with the KBB advertising program. I spent about $1200 and got a few clicks and around 5 leads a month. I do use their framed in appraisal tool which works great.
It' all in the tracking with some of these vendors, it took a while, but it was well worth the effort!