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#RefreshFriday Merchandizing - Someone is Launching a new Service | Joe Pistell

PSA: Adding "Sale in Progress" costs you nothing and helps you sell more cars.
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  • Add "Sale in Progress" Labels: Place a "Sale in Progress" label on the first image of a vehicle listing when a buyer commits to purchase.
  • Cost-Free Strategy: This simple tactic requires no additional investment to implement.
  • Your Inventory Moves!: Online car shoppers can't see the other car shoppers on your site.
  • Create Urgency and FOMO: Generates a sense of urgency and Fear of Missing Out among potential buyers.
  • Encourage Prompt Action: Motivates shoppers to act quickly, knowing that popular vehicles are in high demand and may soon be unavailable.
  • Increase Sales at No Extra Cost: Helps you sell more cars without incurring additional expenses.
 
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PSA: Adding "Sale in Progress" costs you nothing and helps you sell more cars.
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  • Add "Sale in Progress" Labels: Place a "Sale in Progress" label on the first image of a vehicle listing when a buyer commits to purchase.
  • Cost-Free Strategy: This simple tactic requires no additional investment to implement.
  • Your Inventory Moves!: Online car shoppers can't see the other car shoppers on your site.
  • Create Urgency and FOMO: Generates a sense of urgency and Fear of Missing Out among potential buyers.
  • Encourage Prompt Action: Motivates shoppers to act quickly, knowing that popular vehicles are in high demand and may soon be unavailable.
  • Increase Sales at No Extra Cost: Helps you sell more cars without incurring additional expenses.

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What a time to be alive...

AI Experiment Oct 2024. Upload one photo to Runway, then, using text prompts, create 3 different videos ***where the vehicle drives off the set and into the outdoors***.

Simply amazing. Clearly, it needs more time and support to make it better. That being said, what's coming is amazing.
 

✨ AI Highlights

Joe Pistell, a well-known automotive inventory expert in the DealerRefresh community, previews a new used car merchandising software company he's been building in stealth for five months, with a first beta launch approaching. The thread evolves into a broader discussion about AI-driven development, with Joe sharing his 'meta prompting' framework — including a custom quality-enforcement prompt called 'Joes Core' — and other members chipping in on agentic workflows and Claude Code. A standout data point Joe drops: buyer surveys at a mid-size Chevy store showed 60% of customers visited the dealership website three or more times, and 40% never shopped a competitor, underscoring how critical on-site merchandising quality really is.

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