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‘Buccaneer Marketing’ No Longer Cuts It

Titan Machinery’s top marketing executive sets the table for much-higher level discussion on the role that marketing should play in dealerships, including owning all customer growth.
By Mike Lessiter posted on September 14, 2018 | Posted in Department Management, Dealership Marketing
Titan Machinery’s top marketing executive sets table for much-higher level discussion on the role that marketing should play in dealerships, including owning all customer growth.
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Good Data Takes Digital Marketing Further for Farm Equipment Dealerships

Dealerships need to be strategic with their marketing plan – sending the right message to the right people at the right time – knowing your data drives that process
By Jen Bradley posted on September 14, 2018 | Posted in Dealership Marketing
“Data is the currency of the internet,” says Tim Whitley, CEO of Team SI, a full-service marketing firm headquartered in Little Rock, Ark. “The smartphone to the person right or left of you is being served different ads all the time. No person’s ads are identical to their neighbor’s and data is leading that charge.”
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Getting Results with Do-It-Yourself Marketing

3 dealers share why they are bypassing marketing agencies and doing their own Facebook, Google ads and social media campaigns.
By Lynn Marcinkowski Woolf posted on September 14, 2018 | Posted in Best Practices, Dealership Marketing
Ditch the agency, do your own marketing campaigns, save money and get better results. You just need to get started. That’s the message from three dealers, Lee Parish, Ben Garton and Doug Vahrenberg, who shared do-it-yourself marketing strategies at Farm Equipment’s 2018 Dealership Minds Summit.
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Google AdWords, Website Design & Other Marketing Outsourcing Decisions Facing Dealerships

Dealership marketing managers encourage others to leverage their marketing strengths by outsourcing their weaker areas.
By James DeGraff posted on September 14, 2018 | Posted in Dealership Marketing
The “jack-of-all-trades” approach to operating a dealership is inevitable for most smaller-scale or single store entities, which puts more pressure on deciding what to outsource when the budget exists to do so.
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Challenge Your Parts & Service Team to Attract Multi-Colored Machinery Customers

Dealership management can develop and implement ways to lure customers of competitive brands by getting parts and service employees out of their ‘comfort zone.’
By Jack Zemlicka posted on September 12, 2018 | Posted in Best Practices, Department Management, Dealership Marketing
Dealership management can develop and implement ways to lure customers of competitive brands by getting parts and service employees out of their ‘comfort zone.’
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Leveraging Customer Engagement to Boost Your Social Media Profile

Collaborating and coordinating with farmers on incentive-based contests can be valuable brand-building efforts, requiring minor investments of staff time.
By Jack Zemlicka posted on September 11, 2018 | Posted in Best Practices, Dealership Marketing
While having a social media “point person” is a luxury for many farm equipment dealers, there are alternatives to investing endless hours in populating online feeds with newsworthy items that call attention to your products and services.
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U.S. Farm Equipment Dealership Marketing Expenditures Survey: 2018

First-Ever Farm Equipment Dealership Marketing Survey Finds Digital Practices Yield Best Returns on Investment

The most popular response was subscriptions and association memberships, followed by dealer peer groups. The least popular responses were vendor-supplier training and webinars. First of its kind Marketing Expenditures Survey reveals surprises, confirms suspicions for industry practices.
By Alex Zank posted on August 30, 2018 | Posted in Data & Forecasts, Operations & Finance, Dealership Marketing
Many ag equipment dealers have seized on digital marketing opportunities and found them to be very effective tools as part of their overall marketing efforts, according to the findings of a first of its kind marketing survey.
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