The most common way a customer shops on your site is to look at your inventory, and view details (description and vehicle pictures) of your inventory. Take advantage of this predictable customer behavior, and promote your dealership while they are browsing your inventory. Using AutoXloo’s “Canned Images” tool, you can insert pictures among the vehicle pictures, conveying dealership information, along with vehicle information. Think about the possibilities –

“Largest Pre-Owned BMW dealership in New York”

“Top Customer Service Award for Last 5 Years”

“$1000 Instant Discount on This Car”

“Free Gas Card With Test Drive”

“Register to Win Weekly iPod Giveaway With Test Drive”

Here’s how one customer is using this fast and easy tool:

Or how about a customer testimonial inserted within the pictures? Or an introduction of your sales team? Or a map to your dealership?

From a dealers standpoint, advertising a certain image or message to your customer is key in expanding your business. The Canned Images can be strategically inserted with specific placement with each vehicle. And it’s easy! Set up this feature once, and you’re ready to go!  It’s a two-in-one promotional opportunity; the customer is looking at your vehicle and also at your key dealership messaging all in the same place!

Many dealer website vendors use templates to create your dealer’s website. You sign a contract, and pick from one of ten standard templates. Did you know that Autoxloo allows you to create custom templates, headers, and coupons from within the AutoXloo DMS? Our new Make-A-Banner feature, allows you to create and personalize banners for your dealer website. Keep your website fresh and interesting without having to pay graphic artists or wait for customizations!

This gives you control to advertise special sales and events and manage your online presence. Call us at 727.475.4455 for more information about this innovative product.

If search optimization is important to your dealerships (and increasingly, more and more dealers are paying attention to search), you will be interested in AutoXloo’s patented search technology.

Traditional SEO companies will focus on onsite optimization through content development, metatags, title tags, and website structure and offsite optimization through link exchange, blog contributions, RSS feeds, etc.

Our technology supplements/replaces many of the manual tactics used by other companies. Our structured technology provides detailed information to the search algorithms to optimize your site based on vehicle make and model and dealership location,.

AutoXloo dealer websites are powered by WebXloo's patented SEO Ranking Engine, which has proven to be one of the most reliable, cost effective methods for delivering systematic top search results for dealerships.  Call us today to find out more about this powerful technology. 727.475.4455.

Live Chat is one of the most underutilized features car dealers have at their disposal. Live chat has been used for years in other industries with great success and it is only recently that the automotive industry has begun to embrace this simple, yet very effective technology.

It’s important that dealers consider the communication methods that their customers are using today. If you only offer email and phone alternatives for customers to contact you, you may be missing the opportunity to spark a conversation with a customer who wants a quick answer to a question. Most dealers tell us their success rate is very high once they start the human-to-human conversation with a potential customer. Live Chat can be a great way to spark that initial conversation.

At the end of the day it still comes down to..... the dealership who gets the most leads will sell the most cars. You don’t have to be the other guy – look into upgrading your current system today.

Did you know that we have a blog on the AutoXloo site?It’s a project we’ve been building for the last several months.Please take a look – we discuss automotive industry trends and offer tips to more effectively leverage the Internet to sell cars. www.AutoXloo.com/home/blog

AutoXloo is the ONLY certified DMS that is authorized to supply vehicle pricing as Monthly Payments to AutoTrader.com and Cars.com. Our new Monthly Payment feature makes it easy for our dealerships to display monthly payments of vehicles on their website and to online listing sites effortlessly. Our system automatically calculates and manages the down payment, interest rate, and loan term generating the preferred calculations for the dealership.

Stop just for a minute and consider how people shop on AutoTrader. Their search is narrowed typically by make, model, and zip code, and by price (lowest to highest). When dealerships post MONTHLY PRICING, the customers’ natural tendency to sort and filter puts the dealership at the top of the customers’ search on AutoTrader. Our dealers have found this makes a huge difference in the AutoTrader leads they are getting online!

Call us today to activate this feature on your system. Available on v7 and v8.