At Chumney & Associates, our Digital Solutions division constantly stays on top of trends that will improve your online presence and drive more traffic into your showroom. Check out two of our recent additions to our digital advertising and digital marketing product offerings. Give Shoppers an Immersive Shopping Experience with Facebook Collection Ads The Facebook Collection Ad is a mobile-exclusive …
Facebook Analytics: Understanding Basic Terms
Facebook provides numerous insights for your dealership’s page, and all those graphs and numbers can be a bit overwhelming. Fortunately, we’ve taken a few of the basic statistics and broken down what they mean. Impressions Impressions are the number of times that your post or ad appeared in someone’s timeline. Impression rates don’t reflect a unique number of users, as …
How You Can Inspire Customer Feedback
A happy customer leaves your dealership with the vehicle of their choice. Naturally, as a business owner, you want to understand why this person decided to buy from your store. You send them the usual request for customer feedback and anxiously await their response. But it never comes. Those who depend on customer feedback when it comes to solidifying future …
Four Reasons Why Radio Is Still Relevant
There’s no denying our digital footprint is taking up more and more space. Digital usage is integrated into all facets of life: social connections, financial/banking, news, streaming entertainment, shopping. It may seem as though the old school ways of doing business are not as relevant; however, traditional advertising, like radio, is still a viable part of the media mix. Year …
Key Characteristics of Positive Online Customer Interaction
Positive online customer interactions improve your dealership’s public image and ensure greater satisfaction with your services or products. Conversely, negative online customer interactions damage your company’s reputation and leave your customers feeling insignificant and dissatisfied. Think about the online exchanges you’ve had as a customer and remember the companies who excelled at handling your concerns. Our guess is that companies …
What You Need to Know About the Future of SEO
What we know about search engine optimization (SEO) changes frequently; therefore, keeping up with new information is the key to your success for targeting shoppers during online searches. Google and other search engines constantly tweak their methods of finding and displaying content to their users. These complex ranking systems will undoubtedly evolve and become more intuitive this year, so here …
3 Options to Ensure Your Campaign Reaches Cord Cutters
In recent years, new studies have regularly touted the increase in TV viewers switching from cable to cheaper streaming services. Last year, a study done by the Consumer Technology Association found that not only had the number of streaming service subscribers increased yet again, but the number had also matched the amount of paid TV viewers. Last month, results made …
Four Characteristics of Solid Email Responses
Your first online interaction with shoppers sometimes makes the difference between a sale made and a sale lost. That’s why Chumney & Associates’ digital marketers secretly shop our clients’ websites to survey their responses. Our team looks for key markers of exceptional customer service in each response. Good responses should be timely, sound professional, connect with the customer, and encourage …
Boost Business for Your Service Center with Retargeting
You want to move vehicles off your lot, but you also want those shoppers to become lifelong customers at your dealership. For many dealers, shoppers drive away in a new or used car but rarely or never return for vehicle service or repairs. The Cox Automotive 2016 Maintenance and Repair Study found that only 30% of total service visits take …
Video Everywhere: Get Ahead Of Your Competition and Reach Customers Wherever They Are!
Imagine reaching hundreds of thousands of potential car buyers for mere pennies per person. Video Everywhere from Chumney & Associates can do just that. Your TV commercials can now be delivered to an additional audience consuming TV content on non-traditional platforms via video on-demand and online streaming, thus creating an all-inclusive, multi-layered media TV saturation strategy. The name says it …