When it comes to social media advertising, Facebook reigns supreme with Instagram a close second. These are ideal platforms on which to raise brand awareness, bring customers down funnel and generate leads.

For dealers, a presence on Facebook and Instagram is essential, because quite simply, this is where your customers are spending their time.…

News for the Week of 1.13 

Twitter Conversational Ads 

Twitter recently introduced conversational ads to make it easier for consumers to engage with and spread brand messages.  Giving advertisers an even more powerful way to spread their influence across social media,…

Digital advertising may be a rage today but the imperativeness of Banner advertising or vehicle branding cannot be dis affirmed.

It’s a kind of long term investment for your business marketing. Due to its cost effectiveness and long term use it is capable of competing with digitalized…

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Here were the findings:

• 93 percent of viewers will talk about commercials with peers.
• One in four will likely post about Super Bowl ads on…

As a marketer, I’ve got my eye on two battles at this Sunday’s Super Bowl. Of course, there’s the action on the field - Super Bowl XLVII, a gladiatorial war waged between mountainous men in an arctic Jersey winter. A clash between Seattle’s young talent and Peyton Manning’s legacy. Many Americans care about this game, and they are called “gamblers.”

But…

Facebook has been trying to crack down on text within images for some time. They made a big deal out of it when they first rolled out Timeline but it was still possible to get by without getting noticed. Today, it's a lot harder.

While I've never been able to fully make sense of the rule, it's their site so we have…

Maybe it's just me, but it seemed like the Super Bowl ads were a little skimpy this year, and not as creative as years past. Less companies participated, and the ones who did seemed to have either put less thought into their commercials, or are possibly reading their audience incorrectly. I didn't feel particularly inspired to try a new product this year, as opposed to being pushed to think about products in a new light in Super Bowls of yore.

This makes me wonder: was this just an…

For better or for worse, Facebook made it easier for people to report or block page posts in September. Since then, the need to tread carefully with posts has increased dramatically; too many reports or blocks can hurt a page's performance dramatically. This is an important topic that will be covered more in-depth in a future…

Google’s online ventures are usually anything but under the radar. Yet recently, in what may be a game-changing play, the search engine giant quietly entered the third-party lead provider business for car dealerships.

The beta version of Google Comparison Ads for Autos (which is unofficially being referred to as “Google Cars” within the industry) was launched to very little fanfare a few weeks ago in the San…

Google has just announced that beginning March 1 2012, they will be "...getting rid of over 60 different privacy policies across Google and replacing them with one that's a lot shorter and easier to read."

The updated Google Privacy Policy can be found here http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/preview/.

Google has explained that it wants users to have an easier time of:

-Working across Google  (Youtube,…

While (I hope) most dealership websites won’t be affected by this, Google has recently announced they will begin penalizing websites that have too many ads at the top.  It's being called the "page layout algorithm" and affects sites that "don't have much content 'above-the-fold'", according to Google's Inside Search blog.

We've all clicked onto a site only to have to scroll down through the ads to actually find the content we are looking for.  This algorithm change will…

Automotive Dealers looking to connect with Car Buyers using Email Marketing or Social Media Marketing might want to take a look at Facebook’s "Modern

Messaging System." This new Messaging Platform uses @facebook.com

addresses to allow users to send messages to people using conventional

e-mail and Facebook urges that their new messaging system is…

ON FACEBOOK, NOTHING FOR YOU TO ATTEND....WATCH FOR THE DR I P DOLLAR MAIL PIECE COMING TO YOU THIS WEEK...THEN CONTACT US TO DISCUSS EXCLUSIVE ADS IN YOUR REGION WITH DOC DOLLAR AS YOUR SPOKESMAN…

My Commercial for GoDaddy.com "Who Be Lookin After yer Booty" (think Pirate...not Rap star) is currently in 6th place out of 1500+ entries!!

Hello dE Friends, for the 1st time, I…