It can be extremely difficult to retain customers who have leased a vehicle from your dealership. In many cases, once the lease ends, they return the car and you never see them again. They take their business to a different dealer. You lose out on a lease renewal or vehicle sale and all of the […]
There are compelling reasons why text messaging has become one of the main ways that people communicate. It is fast, convenient and can be done anytime and in just about any setting. Text messaging does not discriminate; people who are hearing or speech impaired or deaf can read and respond to a text without any […]
“Less is more” is a mantra many dealership service department managers have been forced to adopt as their mantra. You’ve likely been plagued by the following issues: increasing profit margins, understaffing, not enough hours in the day, recommended repair approvals that move at a snail’s pace, a lack of sufficient square footage in your repair shop […]
Dealerships using TEXT2DRIVE sent customers a total of 4.7M text messages – 76% were automated! Maintaining clear, productive communication with customers is tricky. The busy lives of many people make it challenging to deal with snail mail, clean out their email inboxes and take phone calls. Getting customers to respond, even if they do any […]
Clear communication is vital to the success of any business – and for automotive dealerships, it is the very lifeblood. Keeping customers informed about their repairs, eliciting responses from them when their vehicle is due for repair and keeping records of conversation are all critical indicators of success. This might sound like a tall order […]
When it comes to communicating with dealerships, these days customers want a hands-on digital customer service experience – but not necessarily in the sense you may think.
Dealerships are missing out on as much as $99 billion in annual service revenue due to lack of customer retention. Only about 30% of consumers take their vehicles to dealerships for repairs, while about 50% of consumers get repairs done at independent repair outlets, tire stores and quick-lube shops. The remaining 20% use the services […]
Keeping the lines of communication open with employees and customers at a busy automotive dealership is challenging when you have so many other areas to consider. While communication may seem like a minor issue, a gap in it can become extremely costly.
The best communications platform in the world will not work for your dealership if it is too complicated for some of your staff to learn or customers to respond. Time is money, and the more time they have to spend learning the system and asking questions about it, the more potential revenue goes down the […]
To serve as an effective dealership communication platform that meets today’s consumer standards and the unique needs of automotive dealerships, a communication platform must integrate seamlessly with your dealership management system (DMS) and business development center (BDC).