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Uncle Joe's Makeover Diary 2.0

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Ryan Everson said:
No surprise, Carvana has it figured out. They continue to be way ahead of everyone else on vehicle merchandising.
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Ryan,
100% agreed. Carvana and CarMax enjoy an incredibly tight loop of business operations and engineering, where the platform leaders have their instant feedback right from the sales floor, right from the call center. They have full visibility into internal KPIs and can iterate at light speed.

Our incredibly fragmented, isolated cube-dwelling web vendors are still trying to figure out how to generate more leads.


Garcia, the CEO of Carvana, is 10q's talks about sales productivity as the hallmark of a great website: call counts going down, time on call going down, all the while sales are increasing 40% year-over-year and our incredibly fragmented, isolated cube-dwelling web vendors are still trying to figure out how to generate more leads.
 

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Joe Pistell, former Cars.com head of marketplace, returns to automotive digital retail strategy work and shares experimental ideas on vehicle merchandising, including AI-generated detailer imagery, richer safety feature data from build sheets (revealing hundreds of naming variants per feature), and mobile-first VDP design. The thread draws comparisons to Carvana and CarMax, with Pistell arguing their tightly integrated ops-and-engineering feedback loops allow them to iterate far faster than fragmented dealer website vendors, making sales productivity — not lead volume — the true measure of a great dealership website.

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