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Greetings, we are a 100 vehicle used independent currently with dealer.com and looking to make a possible change. Appreciate any recommendations. Thank you.
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- Thread starter Burt Lewis
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- May 1, 2006
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What are you looking to get out of the next site? Dealer.com can do a lot, so is it a move due to something they lack?
- Aug 2, 2018
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We've had some disturbing ongoing technical issues lately that they recognize as issues but have been very slow to fix and communicate. It's a good time to see what else is out there. Looking for the next best of the best.
- May 1, 2006
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Oh yeah - that's a good reason to switch.
The next best of the best... hmmm...
Outside of the big DealerOns and Dealer Inspires, things have been up and down for the smaller players. Being a vendor in the dealer marketing game has been brutal since COVID struck. Remora seems to be hanging in there. I haven't heard much about NabThat in a while. Dealer Venom became something else. And there was one @BillKVMotorCo tried that may have some promise.
- Dec 19, 2018
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I would encourage you to look into Carbase.
Carbase was acquired by Carsforsale.com a couple years ago. Carsforsale was interested in getting into the Franchise space but more importantly they were interested in the Organic SEO that Carbase sites have. So, the understand the independent dealer pretty well...they are the number one website provider for Independent dealers in the US.
They can build whatever you want, but have enough websites that you can likely model yours after an existing site which will save you a ton of time and of course money. They are small enough that changes happen fast. I wanted to change my lead forms on my site and it was done in less than 2 hours.
You can look at my site www.clocktowerauto.com as one example.
Carbase was acquired by Carsforsale.com a couple years ago. Carsforsale was interested in getting into the Franchise space but more importantly they were interested in the Organic SEO that Carbase sites have. So, the understand the independent dealer pretty well...they are the number one website provider for Independent dealers in the US.
They can build whatever you want, but have enough websites that you can likely model yours after an existing site which will save you a ton of time and of course money. They are small enough that changes happen fast. I wanted to change my lead forms on my site and it was done in less than 2 hours.
You can look at my site www.clocktowerauto.com as one example.
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If I recall, they are very affordable, too. We used to use a Carbase site. Had good support back then.
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