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How many of your BUYERS drove 45 minutes or longer to buy your car?

Selling cars is a team sport. Getting a long distance shopper to commit to the drive to your store needs great team work. 


Store: Reymore Chevrolet (90 days sales)

Map: BatchGeo.com creates 'miles between buyer and seller.  Rings on the map created by ChatGPT4. Rings represent drive time to the store.

  1. Casual Passerby Car Shoppers: 30.8%.
  2. Easy Planned Stop Car Shoppers: 17.9%
  3. Across Town Car Shoppers: 29.1%,
  4. I Drove a Long Way to Get Here: 22%,


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51% of all sales drove 45 mins or longer


Competition is thick.  There are 13 Chevy stores within a 45 min drive

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Your miles will vary ;-) Every store is different. Product mix, competition, topography.


Next question, "The long distance buyers don't know the dealer, how did they find the VIN?"  Probably the classified sites.  I'll map all sales from 3rd party leads.


p.s. Its free and easy.

• BatchGeo.com is free. DL your sales in a .csv, all you'll need is the address (I used the zip code).

• GPT3 is free, GPT4 is paid. I used GPT4.   If anyone wants the prompt, ask here.