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Elevate Your Digital Marketing With Five Essential Insights From Cox Automotive’s Car Buyer Journey

Gaining insights into auto industry best practices is crucial. Understanding the car buyer’s journey is an essential step for automotive marketing professionals looking to drive engagement and boost s…

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What Shoppers Want: Convenience, Choice and Flexibility

As the digital age continues to advance at lightning speed, consumer preferences are evolving just as quickly. Understanding these shifts is crucial in providing an excellent customer experience while…

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Optimize your website to drive customer engagement and conversions

We are committed to partnering with our clients to provide a best-in-class website user experience and have created a comprehensive playbook sharing just how. Discover key metrics for website performance, learn how to assess your site’s status, and explore strategies to enhance user engagement.

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Dealer.com + ActivEngage Partnership

Integrated Messaging Software for Unparalleled Customer Experiences ActivEngage Messaging Software revolutionizes your website by effortlessly integrating live messaging, providing endless opportunities for customer engagement. This integration goes beyond the surface, as it is intricately woven into the entire Cox Automotive suite of web applications and services, ensuring a comprehensive approach to digital customer experiences. Imagine

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Enhance Your Digital Marketing Strategy: Key Insights from the 2023 Car Buyer Journey

The automotive industry is constantly evolving. To keep up with the changing demands of the industry, the annual Cox Automotive Car Buyer Journey (CBJ) allows dealers and OEMs to stay informed about the state of car buyer satisfaction with the overall vehicle shopping and buying experience. The 14th annual Car Buyer Journey study was

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Where Convenience Meets Choice: The Power of Flexibility

The online shopping landscape has changed. The era of flexible car buying options is here and dealerships must adapt to meet evolving consumer preferences. Across the internet, today’s online shopping experience allows consumers to effortlessly add groceries to their online carts and pick them up at the store or have them delivered. It’s all about

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NADA 2024: A Sneak Peek into Dealer.com’s Website Enhancements

At Dealer.com, we firmly believe the quality of your leads is directly tied to the effectiveness of your website. We are committed to continued enhancement our core solution, ensuring that your digital storefront is: Designed to deliver results. Personalized with elements that shoppers expect. Developed with a mobile-first mindset and optimized for any smart device.

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See What’s New for NADA 2024

To compete in today’s challenging automotive retail environment, you deserve a data-driven partner who helps create a successful digital marketing strategy with innovative tools and technology. With the NADA Show 2024 just around the corner, Dealer.com has been working hard to bring you new products and enhancements to the products you know and love. Bringing

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Where is Automotive Ecommerce Today?

Author: Paulo da Silva, VP of Ecommerce Operations The idea of consumers buying their vehicle completely online used to sound like a crazy idea, right? As the automotive industry has evolved—and quite frankly online shopping in general—the desire and capability to buy vehicles completely online has taken the automotive industry by storm. Let’s take Mark.

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Progress, not Perfection. How to Take Your Advertising Up a Notch.

Author: Shane Unrein Listen, I get it! Staying on top of all-things advertising can be a daunting task. This is a fast-moving space that seemingly evolves daily. From Google rolling out new campaign-types each quarter, like pMax+, to Meta offering verified business checkmarks that help customers feel confident they’re dealing with a legit brand, all

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Staying a Step Ahead in a Cookieless Future with First-Party Data

Autotrader, Dealer.com and ESNTIAL Teams As the majority of us know, there are really big benefits to both having and collecting first-party data for your business. Think of your contacts, your customers, your leads, your website, your insights, your predictions… Everything that you have been collecting since the day your doors first opened and website

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See What’s New for the NADA Show 2023

To compete in today’s challenging automotive retail environment, you deserve a data-driven partner who helps create a successful digital marketing strategy with innovative tools and technology. With the NADA Show 2023 just around the corner, Dealer.com has been working hard to bring you new products and enhancements to the products you know and love. Watch

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