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What Percentage Of Your Dealers Business Comes From The Internet?

Jeff Kershner

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What percentage of your business comes from the internet?

At my previous stores, we only counted an internet deal, if it was a confirmed appointment or if the customer asked for an ISM by name. Our ISMs worked cradle to grave and I was fortunate to have a dozen very talented ISMs.

A vendor, on another forum, said that dealerships should obtain 30% of their sales/business from the internet. He stated that any more than this would be the internet department converting floor ups to the internet.

This particular site is predominately vendors and they are eager to defend one another. DealerRefresh is mostly dealership personnel and I am convinced represent the brightest of the dealer community.

My previous stores did better that twice the 30% and I am sure that we were not alone.

I would like to see some of the percentages from this community. Please share...

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The thread debates what percentage of dealership sales should legitimately be attributed to the internet, sparked by a vendor's claim that 30% is the ideal benchmark and that higher figures suggest ISMs are poaching floor ups. Jeff Kershner challenges this by sharing how his previous stores counted internet deals strictly — confirmed appointments or customers asking for an ISM by name — raising questions about how dealers define and track internet-sourced business. The key tension is whether high internet attribution rates reflect genuine digital performance or inflated numbers caused by attribution gaming.

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