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Digital Management

How to Set Up Your Google My Business Profile

December 18, 2019 by Cassie Ciopryna Leave a Comment

Learn why you need a Google My Business profile, and how to set up Google My Business for your company.

Google My Business, also referred to as GMB, is a must-have for any company, and is especially important for local businesses.

What is Google My Business?

Google My Business is a profile made on Google that makes it easy for people to find your business and details about it, such as name, location, hours, website, phone number, and reviews.

Google defines Google My Business as “a free and easy-to-use tool for businesses and organizations to manage their online presence across Google, including Search and maps. By verifying and editing your business information, you can both help customers find you and tell them the story of your business.”

Why do I need a Google My Business profile?

Having a GMB profile shows your business is reputable and trustworthy. It also makes it easier for people to find your business, whether they are aware of it or not.

For both small business owners and local businesses that care about their SEO efforts, having a Google My Business profile is a must. To show up in Google search results for local SEO, you must be present on Google.

If a potential customer was to type in “pest control near me,” your business will only show up as a suggestion if you have a properly set up Google My Business profile. Otherwise, the searcher will only see your competitors, and you are missing out on a possible new customer.

By having a GMB profile, you are in control of the message your business portrays and the information that users will find about it. You can also gain a review presence on Google My Business, and respond to reviews directly from the platform.

People can easily find your business and get directions to your business through your GMB profile. By ensuring you have the correct address in your profile, users can see where you are located and get directions straight from Google Maps with one click.

Lastly, having a GMB listing will give you insights such as what customers searched that brought them to your business, where they came from, and how many called you directly from your profile.

How do I Set Up a Google My Business profile?

Now let’s get down to the step-by-step to create a Google My Business profile.


1. Create a Google Account for Your Business.

To create a new Google account, go to your Google Account. If you are currently signed in to your personal account, click on your account icon, and add another account.
Google setup: Add Another Account
If you are already signed into the Google Account that you want to be associated with your GMB profile, skip to step 2.


2. Find or Add Your Business Name

Google My Business: Find & manage your business
To create your account, go to the Google Business webpage and click “Manage Now.” Search for your business to see if it already exists on Google, or click on “Add your business to Google” if it does not show up.

Note: If the name of your business is similar to another business nearby, make sure that you do not accidentally select their business name that may auto-populate.

Google My Business: What's the name of your business?

 

If your business does not have a profile yet, add the name of your business as it should appear in your Google My Business Profile.


Google My Business setup: What's the address?

3. Add Your Business Address

Click “yes” to add a location and enter your business address so that it can connect to Google Maps and Search results, ensuring your company will appear in local search results.


4. Add Your Service Area (Service-Based Businesses Only)

Google My Business setup: Do you also serve customers outside this location?If you deliver or bring services to your customers instead of them coming to your business for their needs, select “Yes” to add your service area.

Select “No” and skip this step if people come to your business location for their sales or service needs.

Google My Business setup: Add the areas you serveOnce you select “Yes,” you will have to add cities that are within your service area to make sure that people searching from there will discover your business. You can add as many areas as you’d like before clicking “Next.”


Google My Business setup: Choose the category that fits your business best

5. Choose Your Business Category

Add the category that you think best fits your business. You can search a few terms to see what’s available and discover which you think will work well for you. This affects search terms that your business can appear on Google for, so make sure that it is relevant. You can always update this later on, but it is best to choose the closest category to your business.


Google My Business setup: What contact details do you want to show to customers?

6. Add Your Business Contact Details

Although Google lists this step as optional, it is very important to enable customers to contact you and find your website. Add your main business phone number and website in this step.

Note: You will want to add a call tracking number to your Google My Business profile once your setup is complete.


Google My Business setup; Finish and manage this listing

7. Verify Your Google My Business Account

Congratulations – you can now finalize your Google My Business Account once you are finished!


Now, you have a few options when it comes to verifying your business:

• Verify by mail: Google will send you a postcard with a code you will input later to your address on file with the business.
• Verify by phone (available for select businesses): If you are eligible for phone verification, you can select this option which will call your phone number and give you your code to enter.
• Verify by email (available for select businesses): If you are able to verify by email, you can click this option to have Google send you an email with your code to verify.
• Instantly verify (available for select businesses): This option can only appear if you already have a GMB profile and are simply adding a new location.

No matter which option you choose, it is imperative that you finish the verification process for your Google My Business listing to be complete.

How do I optimize my Google My Business Profile?

Now that you’ve successfully set up your GMB profile, you don’t want to stop there. Next, you want to add additional details to make your business really stand out.

Here are a few best practices to do in order to make your GMB truly complete.

• Add photos and/or videos. Having visual aids for your business will make it stand out more and seem more legitimate to customers. You can add photos of the outside of your business, group employee shots, and any other relevant images.
• Add a description of your business. A few sentences should be enough to give consumers insight into what exactly your business does and how it can help them.
• Add your business logo. Make sure your brand stands out! Add your logo to appear on your profile.
• Add business details. Make sure to update your business hours, location, contact information, and description to be as precise as possible. To track the calls you receive from your GMB profile, you will want to add a tracking number. Find the step-by-step details to add a call tracking number to Google My Business here.
• Start requesting and managing your Google Reviews. Now that you have a GMB profile, customers can leave reviews to help you gain a great online reputation, which is vital to gain new customers and have more people that are searching for your services to choose you over a competitor. Make sure you respond not only to the positive reviews you receive, but especially the negative reviews. Here are 4 easy steps to respond to any negative review.

Discover more step-by-step tips to optimize your Google My Business Profile

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Filed Under: Reputation Management, CallTrack, LeadMetrix + DealSaver, Call Coaching, Digital Management, Telephone Performance Analysis Tagged With: Call Management, Performance Management, Digital Management, Reputation Management

How to Advertise Your Business on Facebook

December 4, 2019 by Kevin Dieny Leave a Comment

The key to running Facebook ads is matching the right audiences with the right creative to trust that your campaigns will generate profit.

If you are reading this, you likely own or work for a business that targets niche customers online. You want to know exactly how to find your ideal customers and you want to run profitable campaigns that don’t keep you up all night worrying if you’ve wasted your money.

“Facebook Advertising is Hard” – Vantage

If making a profit from Facebook ads sounds possible for you and your business, then this article can help. I think most business types can utilize Facebook ads profitably, but Facebook is just a channel – and not every channel will work for everyone. I’ve put together a list of some aspects of Facebook ads that I consider “challenging,” so if your business fits into any of the items in the list – save yourself some time and effort and quit. I’m kidding! But honestly, just be prepared to buckle your seat belt because businesses with items on this list just need to work a little harder than most:

  • You are B2B.
  • Your target audience is sub 25-years old.
  • You’ve never advertised before.
  • You have no way (or it’s too expensive/time consuming) to produce creative.
  • Your audiences are so niche that you cannot target them in Facebook (and you do not have a substantial marketable list of your target audience).
  • You do not have a website.
  • You cannot afford to achieve (50+ per week) of any Facebook result objective.

Great, now that we have that out of the way it’s worth noting that while most Facebook marketers have their own ‘best strategy’ and stories of incredible success, you are ultimately on your own with figuring out what will work best for your business. I recommend that even if you’ve considered hiring an agency or a consultant to run your ads for you that you give it a try yourself first. That way, you will understand what they are telling you and you can understand the gravity of what is required.

Be Specific, BobThe biggest and most important tip I can give you is to be specific. With Facebook ads, it is very tempting to generally target your audiences, to speak to them with general language that works for everyone, and to assume that if it doesn’t work on a broad scale it won’t work on a specific one. That’s all false. You’ll end up spending inefficiently before you really understand what is working and what is not.

Lastly, I’m not the authority on Facebook ads. The success is up to you. Facebook changes rapidly; the books are great until they aren’t, the guides are helpful until they aren’t, and it is not a one-and-done operation, so stay up to date.

Start with the ideal customer and work backwards

What makes up my ideal customer?

Your ideal customer is a combination of physical traits (demographics), actionable traits (behaviors), and perceptions (psychographics). If you are a barber for men’s haircuts your clients might look like this:

  • Has a need for men’s hair services.
  • Has hair or something to service.
  • Can afford your hair services.
  • Is near to your locations.
  • Regularly attends or intends to visit a barber.
  • Is available during the business hours of the barber shop.
  • Trusts someone else to perform barber services.
  • Has been to the barber shop already.
  • Has reviewed or is positively inclined towards the barber shop.
  • And so much more…

Think about your ideal customers: which pay the most, which are the easiest, which cost the least, which visit frequently, and which visit often? What attributes, characteristics, and interests does your ideal customer tend to have that makes them a better customer for you and a better experience for them?

If all of this is too high level, don’t get too stuck on it. You build out an ideal customer profile once or more every year and you move on. If you do not know who you are going to try to target with ads then you shouldn’t bother running ads.

After completing this exercise, you might even start to have some ideas. Before you jump the gun, it’s not enough to know who you are targeting as much as the specific problem you can solve for them. In our barber example, it’s not enough to advertise that you are a barber. Telling them who you are is all about you and does nothing for someone who sees your ad. You need to tell them what you can do for them – and be specific!

Breaking down your ideal customers into the three funnels so you can target their pain.

Difference in warm leads vs. cold leadsThere are three types of audiences: cold (usually the top of the funnel), warm (usually the middle of the funnel) and hot (usually the bottom of the funnel). A funnel is a simple way to visualize and map out your strategy of Facebook ads so that you can target your niche audience based on their receptiveness to your business.

A cold audience would be your ideal customers who: may be unaware of what you do, who you are, that you even exist, and that have a problem you can solve. They may have no idea that you exist (or that services like yours exist).

“Everyone knows that dealerships, plumbers, and doctors exist!”

Wrong. Sure, they know that those things exist, but they might think that all dealerships are frightening, all plumbers are scams, and all doctors are wastes of time. They might not be aware that you are different and offer something exclusive that goes against the industry. What sets you apart?

A warm audience would be your ideal customers who: are aware of what you do, that you exist, and who might even see you as a business that can solve a problem they may or may not yet have. They may know about you but they have not done business with you yet.

“Everyone knows that dentists pull teeth!”

Wrong again. They know that dentists have something to do with teeth or the mouth, but they might not realize that dentists should be cleaning your teeth at least every year. They may not know about x-rays and if they even have the right insurance for a dentist. Navigating everything as a customer can be frustrating and confusing. What can you do to help them?

A hot audience would be your ideal customers who: have visited your business or website and they have a need for your products or services right now. They may be ready to purchase but they could also be comparing you against your competition.

“Everyone knows to call an HVAC repair when their heater goes out in the winter!”

Do they? After winter ends they may just avoid the problem until next year. If they feel they can do without, they will not call someone. There might be someone they know who knows just enough to fiddle with the heater to try to get it working again. As a customer, they may not see their problems as a problem worth solving. How can you help them see the issues?

Finally, it’s worth considering your purchasers, your clients, and your current and existing patients. They know about you, you’ve helped them before, and they may use you again in the future. The questions are: did you earn their repeat business and how much of it did you earn?

“My customers know about all of my products and services!”

Probably not. Most customers have tunnel vision into the solutions that solve their immediate problems. They might not even need that much of a push to be a customer of yours. However, they may need a nudge towards your additional services if you could find out they have those problems as well. Why aren’t your customers talking about you to others and asking about your additional services?

The pain that your customers are feeling is very real to them. The severity of that problem for them will dictate how they react to that pain. A lot of pain usually means they are willing to pay more, want it solved faster, and do not want it to ever return. A little bit of pain means they can procrastinate finding the solution or someone else will take care of it. They think they can endure it, and they will ignore it.

Make a list of the pain your customers are experiencing but put it into a sentence such as: “If I could only find a (men’s barber) to (cut my hair) then I could (look great for my date this weekend).” This exercise will help you identify the pain but also the reasons behind it so you can create an effective ad that talks about them, on their terms, and with a relevant message. Finally, put them into the audience segments: cold, warm, hot, and your current clients. Within those groups, audiences with high behaviors are your standouts: more page views, more clicks, form fills, calls, and purchases will suggest the best of the best.

Creating relevant advertisements for your audiences that drive specific results.

Placement of ad copy and ad creativeFacebook Advertising is a tool to help you reach your audiences with a relevant advertisement. The most important elements of a Facebook advertisement are composed of two parts:

  1. The Ad Copy – the words you use in your advertisements.
  2. The Creative – the images, visuals, videos, and colors you use in your advertisements.

Tip: If your ads aren’t working, it’s likely not your audiences’ fault – it’s your ad copy and creative.

Remember from our audience explanation above, you need to be specific. This matters even more with advertisement designs. Don’t get caught up in how long your copy is, how many emojis you have, and how many images, buttons, or how few words you use. The importance of advertisement design is all about the specific message that your specific audiences are interpreting.

Relevance is second in importance to being specific. You need to use the words that your customers understand. Telling your customers that their condenser could be broken is one way to alienate customers who don’t understand what that is. You have to talk to them in a way they understand, and that might even mean being comical, self-deprecating, or being completely honest. It’s less about an elevator pitch and more about making sure you aren’t losing people too early.

Talk to your customers directly. Avoid talking about yourself and talk to them about them, focusing on the specific reasons they are experiencing something painful.

Warning: Facebook will disapprove advertisements that degrade, call out, and ‘assume a customer’s condition’ in a negative light – so frame your message around the positives and not the negatives.

Does your service solve a specific problem for this audience? You better mention that. You want to encircle your customers in your value proposition:

  • What do you do specifically?
  • Who do you help specifically?
  • What are your exclusive benefits (versus the competition)?

Look at the customers you’ve mapped, their pains, and how you could help them. What makes the pain they are experiencing more of an immediate need for them to solve? How can you enlarge the solution you have for them (in their eyes)? Often price discounts are not enough.

Balancing professional creative with content you made yourself.

There is a handyman that I started following that took pictures of every project that he worked on. He took pictures of what it looked like before and communicated the feelings and sentiment of the owners who wanted it fixed. After that, he takes multiple pictures along the journey until the project is completed. By following his feed, you can see home projects transformed by his work. I estimate that this takes him less than 30 minutes per project but it drives a ton of engagements on his posts. He does this… ad free.

Content is king. If you haven’t heard this yet or hear it and think, “That’s great but how could my business do that?” then start thinking harder. Every business can create value (profit, sales, revenue, etc.) using content. Part of the content that drives the most engagements is the creative.

Every creative should be framed around having:

  • A headline (either visually or with the copy) summing up one sentence that everything is about.
  • A visual that describes, illustrates, or highlights the message you are communicating.
  • Subtext that moves the person to a desired (specific) action to take.

Ask yourself, what is your purpose with this creative? If it’s, “well I want them to click it,” then ask yourself: will your targeted audience understand that is the clear next step? Imagine their boss, their spouse, or their kids are calling their name in the other room. Is your message compelling enough for them to click anyway, for them to save it for later, or to comment/engage with it?

The five second ruleUse the five second rule.

The five second rule means taking five seconds to look at your advertisement (its copy, the creative, everything) and then taking it away. Now, think for a second and answer the following (value proposition aligned) questions:

  • What does this company do?
  • Who does this company do it for?
  • Why should you use this company?

Sure, as the person who created the ads you might be able to answer all of those. But try to stand in the shoes of your target customers… could they answer those? Sometimes the best people to ask are your coworkers or someone who isn’t knowledgeable about your business at all (your ad Guinea pig).

There are various types of creatives with effort costs to customers:

  • Images (high cost to customer)
  • Videos (moderate cost to customer)
  • Gifs (low cost to customer)
  • Carousels (moderate cost to customer)

Every click, second, and time the customer has to think has a cost to the customer. An image might have a lot of cost because they have just one frame to understand everything you need to tell them. If it requires them to think critically… you probably lost them. Videos can be long, so while it helps them understand something it also might not be worth their time to sit through the whole thing. A gif (or animated images) are relatively low cost to a customer but have to be well designed. Carousels allow the customer to explore various images but it requires clicks… and most customers aren’t going to click around unless they’ve been persuaded to.

Lean towards user generated content (UGC).

User generated content memeDesigning an advertisement from the beginning that is a winner is not likely. You may get it by the 10th, 20th, or 1000th try… and that is part of what makes Facebook Ads hard. The hard part should not be spending $10,000 or more on a video or images. When starting out, use your phone, take pictures, keep it low budget, and test. You want to be spending your money on testing the audiences, testing some creative types, and tweaking your messages in this order:

  1. Testing Creative
  2. Tweaking Message
  3. Testing Audiences

Prioritize your efforts in getting the message and creative aligned until you get some wins. That might mean making content that doesn’t look like it was taken by a professional… and that’s perfectly okay!

Choosing the right Facebook ads objective for my campaigns.

Your budget should match your objective. You should be targeting (50) yes… fifty results of whatever objective you choose per week to unlock the optimization of Facebook fully. You can do less, especially at first, but have in mind the target of achieving whatever objective you select at least (50) times per week.

Assuming you have three options: engagements, clicks to website, and conversions, the costs of running those Facebook Advertisement campaigns will vary drastically:

  • Engagements – likes, shares, comments, plays (videos), and clicks.
  • Clicks to Website – clicks that go to your website where the pixel is installed that will fire a page view event (meaning they made it to your website and landed there).
  • Conversions – a specific event setup by you either on a thank you web page or from a conversion event (such as phone calls, form fills, chats, emails, etc.) where a lead is captured, an appointment is set, a purchase is made, or whatever else you deem to be a ‘conversion.’

Of those three, the least expensive is the Engagements. These are often best for your cold audiences and I would test lots of advertisement designs to see what resonates with each of your target audiences. Every campaign should have only 1 goal (1 objective) and if that’s engagements… that is all it should be doing. You can then build your audiences of people who engaged with you for the warm (middle of funnel) campaigns.

The second most expensive tends to be the clicks to website. These are often best for your retargeting audiences made up of people who have engaged with you already. You want to send these visitors to specific pages on your site that aim to solve their pains, educate them about you, and ultimately convert them into leads or possible customers.

The most expensive of these tends to be the conversions (and yet it’s the most popular choice). Who doesn’t want conversions? You don’t – when they are too expensive. This is why you want to use the audiences of people who have engaged with you and who have visited your high-value pages on your website (possibly 3rd party audiences from your CRM or database) so that you message resonates with people in the hot (bottom of funnel) segment. These people are ready to buy but aren’t sure about buying from you, buying right now, and you need to prove it to them. You want to convert these into purchasers.

At the end of the dayAt the end of the day:

  • Are you utilizing the audiences you’ve already spent resources on later down the funnel?
  • Are you achieving what you set out to do?
  • Are you helping people solve their problems?
  • Do your customers care about solving their problems?
  • Are you using Facebook Ads – and are you sleeping well at night?

Making a profit from Facebook Ads

Unfortunately, not everything is a science with Facebook advertising. I would like to tell you that if you followed a specific ‘recipe’ that you could be guaranteed incredible results but that’s not always the case. I absolutely believe that if you follow the guidance that I’ve laid out that you can make a profit but there are some ‘pro-tips’ that you should know if you want to scale that profit to 10x, 100x, or more.

“Facebook’s algorithm is flawed because the intelligence behind Facebook’s software is fundamentally human.” – Will Oremus (Slate Article)

There is a divide between what you can control that will impact your success: the creative, the message and copy, and the audiences… and what you cannot control. You cannot control the algorithm that serves the content in Facebook. You can target geographically, by interests, by custom and pixeled audiences, and by some proprietary tools within Facebook. Here is a handy article with an infographic of the things you can target. You get some control but you do not get enough to dictate the serving of your ads as much as you think.

When an advertisement has too much text, when ads start to perform poorly (or well), and who within your audiences will see your advertisements first… is somewhat dictated by the people who login but is fundamentally driven by the Facebook Feed Algorithms. Part of that is the reputation your advertisement account has with Facebook: based on how much you spend, how all your active ads have performed historically, and how you have performed from ads not even active but still in your account.

Not every conversion is the same.

When it comes to the most basic type of form conversions out there, everybody should understand that for every field on a form that you ask = there is a cost. A form with two fields is low cost while a form with eight fields is higher cost.

This extends beyond forms into phone calls, chats, emails, and in-person types of conversions. They all have a cost. Some are more scalable and less scalable to your business so they have an added cost. When you select your objectives you need to make sure you can (or in the future) achieve (50) of those results per campaign, per week.

We deal primarily with businesses who place a lot of value in a phone call. So for them a phone call has a high value to it. Conversely, a phone call might also mean a high cost because some website visitors and customers go out of their way to avoid a phone conversation. Businesses love phone calls because you are talking to a potential client live, you can hear them speak, and a lot of information is passed between the callers.


Map your business to metrics to achieve profit.

To achieve objective results in a campaign you have to measure each occurrence. If that’s phone calls you need to make sure that you are reporting the calls that came from those campaigns. You need to make sure that you are pushing that data (either by uploading the csv) or with a tool to push those conversion calls back into Facebook.

After you generate the result you need to be measuring the next pivotal step. In terms of calls, leads, prospects, form fills, chats, etc… that is usually an appointment, a demo, or a sale itself. Whatever the steps are you should map them.

Then ask yourself these questions:

  • What is my result (conversion) to lead ratio? How many conversions end up as leads?
  • What is my cost per lead?
  • What is my lead to opportunity ratio? How many leads end up as opportunities?
  • What is my cost per opportunity?
  • What is my opportunity to close (sale) ratio? How many opportunities are closing?
  • What is my cost per sale?

Revenue - Expenses = Net Profit

Take the initial sale revenue and subtract the cost to get a 1-month or 1-sale profit. If you sell a subscription, then take the lifetime value revenue and subtract the lifetime costs and the acquisition costs. Profit is what you make (revenue) minus what you spent (expenses). This should make sense to you and to your business so make sure it’s measured correctly and you’ve got profit.

Final Thoughts

If you read all this, you likely own a business or work for a business that targets niche customers online. You now have the direction you need to find your ideal customers within Facebook’s advertising platform. You want to run profitable campaigns that don’t keep you up all night worrying if you’ve wasted your money but you don’t want to die on the sword wasting money until you get profit. If you monetize your efforts around the most important elements of Facebook Advertising, you will find success:

  • The Creative
  • The Copy
  • The Audience

I’m not sure that Facebook Ads make sense for every business all the time but there are so many people on Facebook that it does represent a valid channel for acquisition. The biggest and most important tip I can give you is to be specific.

Have feedback, thoughts, or ideas to share? Leave a comment below.

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Why Appointment Setting Matters for Your Dealership

October 16, 2019 by Cassie Ciopryna Leave a Comment

Getting commitment from callers can be the difference between them choosing you or your competition.

Setting real appointments gets buyers through your doors and into the car they are looking for.

According to CallSource’s 2019 automotive inbound call data insights, 80% of inbound phone sales opportunities do not result in an appointment.

It is not enough to rely on walk-ins alone. Your phone is a lead-generator, you need to get serious about selling the appointment to sell the car.

Transferring calls to voicemail or answering a caller’s questions doesn’t get the appointment- every time a potential buyer hangs up the phone without the appointment, you’re losing income.

Why appointment setting matters for your dealership:

1. Gains a commitment from the caller to see you

If you are answering a caller’s questions without getting a firm, in-person commitment, you are creating a missed opportunity. You need to set a hard appointment, every time.

Since the average buyer will typically keep researching and calling until they are actually inside a dealership, you want them to give a commitment to your dealership before they have the opportunity to keep shopping around elsewhere.

The time-frame for this appointment matters, too. The sooner date and time that a call handler can set an appointment with the caller (for example, same-day appointments vs. next day), the more likely it is that your appointment will show and keep your dealership as their number one option. Otherwise, you are leaving the consumer to their own timeline, which may end up not including you in it at all.

2. Creates a sense of urgency for the consumer to come in

If you simply say “come in whenever you are ready,” you are inviting the caller to call your competitor. By setting a firm date and time, they are more likely to show up.

In today’s digital age, consumers can and will keep researching until they show up at your dealership.

Cox Automotive’s 2019 Car Buyer Journey shows that most of car-buyer’s time spent vehicle shopping is online (61%) – compared to 14% of their time at competitive dealers and only 20% of time spend at their purchase dealer. They also show that the average number of dealerships visited is now only 2.3.

Consumers don’t need to walk into a lot of dealerships to compare and shop around – they can do it right from their computer or mobile phone. Once they step foot into a dealership, it is most likely the one they are going to buy from, so get their commitment to make sure it is yours.

Overcoming caller objections at your dealership shows you are the best dealership to choose.

Learn 4 ways to improve call management at your dealership.

3. Gives a professional impression of your dealership

Callers want someone who is knowledgeable and an expert in the industry to speak to, so they know they called the right dealership. Buying a car is a big personal investment; by putting caller at ease they will want to do business with your dealership.

You aren’t just selling cars; you are selling yourself and your dealership over the phone.

J.D. Power shows that over half (59%) of consumers prefer to set an appointment over the phone; if you don’t provide a good experience or opportunity for them to do so, they can move on to your competition.

Download our free Automotive Phone Tips sheet to keep at your desk!

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Need help on the phone to start booking your warm inbound leads into real sales?

CallSource’s Own-Set-Close is a phrases and skills program that books more appointments and closes more deals. With Own-Set-Close, sales and call handlers get immediate proven results (based off of your own CRM data). CallSource is a top choice for automotive dealers to improve internal processes and sell more cars.

“I’m seeing an immediate impact. . .I’m very happy with [Own-Set-Close]. Thank you CallSource!”
– Jeremy Kilo, GM of New Smyrna Beach Chevrolet

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Filed Under: CallTrack, LeadMetrix + DealSaver, Call Coaching, Telephone Performance Analysis Tagged With: Call Management, Performance Management, Digital Management

Make Sure You Know Every Lead’s Complete Customer Journey with EveryLead

September 9, 2019 by Cassie Ciopryna Leave a Comment

Online-and-offline marketing attribution, tracking, plus analysis of prospect conversion-to-appointment ratios and online inventory search analysis for your dealership.

With today’s digital-savvy consumer, it is important to be able to track both online and offline interactions. To truly learn about your leads and how they are getting to your dealership, it is vital to track their complete customer journey.

With EveryLead, automotive dealerships can do just that. EveryLead reveals a customer’s entire online and offline journey in one easy-to-use dashboard and enhances your Google Analytics data by monitoring all of your organic and paid campaigns.

The most powerful automotive dashboard in the industry gives you the benefits of the most reliable call tracking company with dynamic number insertion, plus all your digital attribution (paid and unpaid) and reporting combined in one reliable dashboard.

EveryLead Includes:

Appointment Confirmation: Records and analyzes all inbound prospect calls to determine call outcomes, documenting which calls resulted in appointments.

CallTrack: Proves the effectiveness of your advertising by volume of calls per channel. Captures caller phone number, identifies the advertising source, and records each call. Includes local and toll-free numbers.

CallTrack Outbound: Tracks and reports outbound follow-up calls.

CS Text: Allows customers to communicate with you via text or voice with text-enabled lines, all while in compliance with TCPA requirements.

DealSaver Sales Express: Missed sales opportunity email notifications that include the call recording and caller information.

HotList Defection Alert: Receive an alert when a prospect of yours visits a competitor’s website. Includes the prospect’s contact information, shopping history, and prior interactions with your dealership.

Inventory Predictor: Report revealing which vehicles and trim packages are most searched in your market(s).

LeadScore: Identifies which calls are true prospects and determines the overall lead percentage of incoming calls.

Outbound Call Analysis: Records your outbound calls and analyzes the call outcome to manage your team’s productivity.

How Can EveryLead Help My Dealership?

Why is EveryLead the best solution for your dealership’s success? There are many reasons.

Recover lost leads

According to CallSource automotive data, 70% of interested inbound leads do not result in an appointment, and 80% of bookable calls are missed sales opportunities. You are missing sales opportunities by not managing your calls.

With DealSaver alerts, you will receive near-real-time alerts when a prospect is not booked into an opportunity for your dealership or is mishandled for any of the following reasons:

Sales Alerts
  • Disconnected: Sales calls disconnected in progress
  • Transfer: All sales calls transferred to voicemail, whether the caller leaves a message or hangs up
  • No Attempt: If no attempt is made to secure an appointment
  • Not Available: If a vehicle is not available and the rep does not suggest an alternative vehicle
  • Call Back: If the sales rep asks the caller to call back instead of offering to call them back
  • Buying/Leasing: If the caller asks about buying/leasing a car and sales is not available, and the caller is told to call back or receptionist takes a message
  • Caller Info: If no attempt is made to gain caller information
  • No Transfer: If a caller asks for sales hours and the receptionist does not offer to transfer the call to a rep
Fixed Ops Alerts
  • Disconnected: If a service or parts call is disconnected at any time
  • Question: If caller asks about service or parts and is transferred to voicemail or leaves a message with someone (doesn’t speak to a live person)
  • No Attempt: If no attempt is made to secure an appointment or order
  • Request: Any time the service or parts department does not carry the requested part or perform requested service
  • Call Back: If the rep asks the caller to call back instead of offering to call them back, is sent to voicemail, or leaves a message with someone
  • Doesn’t Apply: Any time the service or parts department refers the caller to another business/dealership, does not carry the requested part or perform the requested service

Note: No alerts are sent for car wash, emission tests, or any wholesale calls, dealership calls or auto shop calls. No alerts are sent for express service calls such as oil change, quick lube, tire rotation, or car care express.

Determine which calls are true leads

CallSource’s expert human analysts listen to your calls to see which are real prospects, and which aren’t worth your time.
Our analytics provide greater transparency and accuracy in terms of call attribution.

Let customers reach you how they want with text-enabled lines

Pew Research Center shows that 97% of Americans text at least once a day – consumers want the option to text your dealership. CallSource’s text-enabled numbers let you view an entire text conversation from your computer, making it easy to communicate with anyone via text.

One-click engagement makes text conversations easy, fast, accessible, and multi-functional.

Know where to find your future customers

By being able to see the keywords that customers use to bring them to your dealership and what they are searching for, as well as the vehicles they are looking at, you can ensure your dealership is prepared to serve your customers and win them over to find your dealership to do business with.

Get EveryLead for Your Dealership

CallSource has the most powerful automotive dashboard in the industry. Our robust, non-cookie based web analytics allows you to separately track sales, parts, and service calls also while correctly attributing your online and offline sources so you can spend your money efficiently on your best customers.

Schedule a time to talk to a specialist about EveryLead today, or give us a call at 833-EVERYLEAD.

Track the complete customer journey and follow consumers cross-domain and cross-device with the most robust multi-touch attribution solution out there.

Learn about all of your leads with EveryLead.

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Filed Under: Digital Management Tagged With: Digital Management

How to Track Social Media Visitors for ROI using Google Analytics

August 23, 2019 by Kevin Dieny Leave a Comment

Learn how to properly measure and report social media visitors using UTM parameters for Google Analytics.

What Sources does Google Analytics consider to be Social Media?

Way back in 2011 (so long ago…) Google announced a new initiative to improve Social Media reporting capabilities called the Social Data Hub. This hub was comprised of some of the most influential social networks and marked a change in considering all Social Media traffic as “referral” traffic and moved it into the Default Channel Group of Social. Times have changed, but these were the original social networks in the hub:

  • Delicious
  • Digg
  • Diigo
  • Gigya
  • Google+
  • Google Blogger
  • Google Groups
  • LiveFyre
  • ReadItLater
  • Vkontakte
  • Reddit
  • TypePad

Not long after there were a few more added:

  • Blogger
  • Digg
  • Disqus
  • Meetup

The shocker is that Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram, Snapchat, and many others were all missing. That meant some of the largest social media networks were left out as Google was trying to reposition its Google+ platform. And… we all know what happened to Google+. The social data hub has opened up, allowing us to accurately track virtually any social network that sends visitors to our site as long as we can add UTM parameters.

What do you consider to be the main Social Media platforms?

How about you?

The reason it’s important to define what Social means to your business is because a line needs to be drawn in the sand about the difference between Social and Referral traffic.

A referral channel traffic channel should be anything that you do not post, but that sends traffic to your website. It’s very similar actually to how Social sharing, re-tweeting, and re-posting work where someone still gives you the credit but they post on your behalf. So it’s important to define what sources, websites, etc. that you define are Social and what are Referral. A magazine, for example, might seem like it’s a Referral link, but it could be an affiliate or social media link to some businesses depending on the magazine.

You won’t be able to come up with a list of every single known Social or Referral link possible, but you can cover the basics or establish a standard so that going forward you will know what channel it needs.

Social – The Default Channel Grouping

By default, Google’s Default Channel Groupings can be found in your Google Analytics Admin settings under the View > Channel Settings > Channel Grouping. You’ll notice that the rule for social is a “System Defined Channel” that matches “Social” in the settings:

System Defined Channel - SocialYou can add rules here as one way to suggest websites will fall into the “Social” channel. However, you will still need parameters in the URL to suggest the right kind of traffic is coming from a social post versus any other post.

The problem is that for most social networks, the same post could be used for “Organic” social and “Paid Social” simultaneously. For example, you can post a video on Facebook and then promote that post with advertisement budgets. In addition, you could have a post that you publish on Twitter that only appears as a Paid post, so you want that traffic to be attributed to a “Paid Social” channel and not the “Social” channel. See the diagram below for a visual of what you are looking for:

Using Organic and Paid social simultaneously

Before we get started…

First, before you go tweaking the Social Default Channel Grouping or creating a whole new one called, “Paid Social” you need to determine your use-cases for the data. In some circumstances, a company might not care at all to separate Social from Paid campaigns because at the end of the day, it’s all being aggregated anyway. I wouldn’t advocate for that because you lose a lot of contexts but it is important to consider what your company cares about before you go down this rabbit hole. Most (if not all changes) you make to your Google Analytics setup are permanent so decide carefully.

Second, before you make any changes, you must make sure that you have already added domains to the Referral Exclusion List. That list will make sure that traffic isn’t ending up in the “Referral” channel. The order of the channels in the Channel Groupings settings will determine the order that Google will sort traffic.

Last, you need to be using UTM parameters. Just looking at the referral is not enough to determine what channel visitors should be placed into. It’s recommended that you utilize UTM parameters in every link placed on outside websites that drives traffic to your website. That includes emails, mailers, advertisements, etc. All traffic coming to your website should fall into categories that you are familiar with.

Paid Social vs. Display or Other Advertising Channels

There are many ways to define Social traffic, and that has typically fallen into grouping all Social traffic into “Social,” separating unpaid Social from Paid Social, putting Paid Social into “Display,” or letting the “Other Advertising” channel pick it up. The choice has 100% to do with how your company wants to analyze and interpret the data.

Here is one example from our reporting, where we have one social and one paid:

Separating unpaid Social from Paid SocialThe most robust way is to add a new Channel, call it “Paid Social” or something to describe it, and then set up the rules to read it that way. I think putting that traffic into “Display” or “Other Advertising” is a half-measure, and letting it all funnel into Social is the fully aggregate approach.

How granularly do you intend to measure your social media? (The more = more robust needed).

How much could advertising skew your social media results? (The more = more robust needed).

You decide, set it up, and then we will detail how to track those visitors into the right channels. The setup for his only requires that you have properly defined (by Source / Medium) what sources of traffic will fall into what Channel groupings.

How to track any Traffic using UTM Parameters

Whenever you post a link to your website into a social media post, advertisement, email, or put it on any material outside of your website, you should add the UTM parameters after the link in the URL. A UTM parameter is a set of data information that you tag onto links so that you know where you put it and why. It’s a way of keeping track of your links, so you know what sources of traffic are better than others.

Every link with UTM parameters must have the following:

  • The utm_campaign – naming the campaign.
  • The utm_source – defining the origin of the traffic.
  • The utm_medium – labeling the type of format the traffic is coming from.

You can also include the following UTM parameters, but they are optional:

  • The utm_content – specific details on the content (such as a/b test or grouping).
  • The utm_term – the keywords/terms that matched for this to display.

The beauty of UTM parameters is that they can be anything you want them to be. Sure, there are standards that most analysts abide by but feel free to break the rules if you need to. The most important tips are as follows:

  • √   You cannot have spaces in the values because this must work as a functioning URL.
  • √   You cannot use special characters unless you HTML encode them.
  • √   It’s recommended that all the values be lowercase.
  • √   Do not repeat information across the values.
  • √   KISS (keep it simple ‘silly’).

Here is a handy tool from Google to help you build out your UTMs.

You can go beyond the (5) UTM parameter fields above and create your own parameters and values (many marketing tools do this), but then you need to make sure that you clean up your URLs after.

For example, if a webpage loads as callsource.com/?id=123456 and the same page loads as callsource.com/?id=123457 then it will show as two row entries. Each row entry will say that only 1 user visited… even though we know that the page has two visitors. This mucks up your Google Analytics, so make sure you exclude or filter the extra parameters from your data to keep it clean.

How to track Social Traffic using UTM Parameters

When it comes to Social traffic, you simply need to pull out your handy list of Social Networks by the Source / Mediums that you setup in the steps above. Namely, anything you define as a “Social” channel by its Source / Medium you will use to label it in the utm_source and utm_medium UTM parameters.
Your utm_source UTM parameter should look like the following (depending on how you want to label it):

  • √   utm_source=facebook
  • √   utm_source=twitter
  • √   utm_source=linkedin
  • √   etc…

As for your utm_medium UTM parameter should look like the following (you define):

  • utm_medium=social

(Note: I’ve also seen Facebook as facebook.com and twitter as t.co, so make sure you’re accounting for the alternative possibilities!)

Here is an example of the completed UTM portion of the link:

{link/}?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=web-posts-2019

The link above would tell you in Google Analytics:

Your campaign, “web-posts-2019” from the source / medium of, “facebook / social” brought in a user to your website. Again, I would reference Google’s handy UTM builder tool to get the basics.

How to see my Social Traffic in Google Analytics?

(Note: You might need to set up a Goal in your Google Analytics to see some of the Social reports – and e-commerce goals might not count.)

In your Google Analytics navigate to your Social Reports: GA > Acquisition > Social….

There are (currently as of mid-2019) six reports in Google Analytics under the Social tab. The six Social reports in Google Analytics are:

Six reports in GA under the Social tab

  • Overview – Shows you the aggregate reporting tied to conversions (goals).
  • Network Referrals – Shows you the session-spanning reporting of Social Networks that brought visitor traffic to your website.
  • Landing Pages – Shows you the initial cookie’d webpage that someone from a Social Network first visited on your website.
  • Conversions – Shows you the quantity and value (if you set it in the goal) of different Social Networks based on the amount of goal completions.
  • Plugins – This shows you data from plugins that push social event data into Google Analytics (you must set this up with an integrated social sharing tool for your site).
  • Users Flow – Shows you a Sankey diagram of the flow of users who originated from a Social Network and what pages they visited during the available sessions.

In addition, you can also see your Social Traffic in the All Traffic reports since you have set up your source / medium, UTM parameters, and configured your Default Channel Settings. Those reports will have Social as the default channel grouping, but you can also look up the traffic by any specific source / medium or UTM parameter you have used.

You can use the advanced search to look for a specific social network:

Specific social network search

Or… you can look for any traffic visitors who came from the medium of social:

Advanced traffic visitors

How do I measure Social performance to ROI?

As you use the reports in Google Analytics you can start to tie the traffic to Goals. The goals are what you set up as “Conversion” points such as form fills, phone calls, chats, etc. In most reports, such as the All Traffic reports, you will have that broken down for social by the different goals and their values:

Measure social performance

Each traffic source will have the Goal Conversion Rate % (based on the users), the Goal Completions (based on the Goal rules), and the Goal Value (based on what you set in the goal summed up). If you have set up goals to have ROI values, then you can get your ROI there, but that is most often wishful thinking. Often a goal is simply a conversion earlier in the line like a form fill, a phone call, or a chat. It doesn’t always mean a purchase….

The beauty of having used UTM parameters, as shown above, is that you can actually track your form fills, your phone calls, and your chats (plus any other conversion type) along with the UTM parameters you’ve used. As long as that data is not destroyed, cookies not erased, or URL parameters deleted, then almost anyone can get this data at the point of conversion.

If you knew that person X, who called you last week, and became a customer today, came to your website because they saw post Y in LinkedIn, then you could put a dollar value on that campaign (even onto that post).

Not only that! If you knew that some posts generated higher value prospects for you, then you could learn which ones to boost with your advertisement budget. Plus you might learn that a social campaign is keeping customers from churning adding to retention value if there is a form fill, call, or chat along the way tying it back to users in your CRM.

How do we attribute conversions to Social campaigns?

At CallSource, we use our own product, EveryLead (it’s a Dynamic Number Insertion tool) to track visitors to our website, measure phone calls, push that data to Google Analytics, and attribute true ROI to Social media efforts. Phone calls are probably the most sophisticated conversion type to track, so if calls can be tracked, you can bet that forms, chats, and other forms are capable of tracking this as well.

With forms, you can use hidden fields that pull the UTM parameters right out of the URL and save them into your CRM when the form is submitted. For chats, they also can pick up the UTM parameters and save that when sync’d with your CRM.

The question then becomes… do we track the last-click attribution, the first-click attribution… etc. and at that point, you are way beyond this simple guide. I wish you the best in tracking your Social campaigns and efforts to ROI using Google Analytics. Please, if you have not already, I strongly urge you to start using UTM parameters as soon as possible.

If you have questions, ideas, or want to connect, feel free to reach out to us.

Filed Under: Digital Management Tagged With: Digital Management

Why Your Dealership Needs CallSource

August 14, 2019 by Cassie Ciopryna Leave a Comment

CallSource works closely with many automotive dealerships, and while we know how we can help your dealership improve your marketing, phone skills, and more – ultimately attaining more leads and getting more sales, maybe you need to know better how we can help you. Read on to learn why your dealership needs CallSource.

The Cost of Not Measuring Marketing Attribution

Do you know how much each call is costing your dealership?

Without accurately attributing your online and offline marketing sources, you can’t make data-driven decisions for your dealership.

It’s time to start attributing your phone calls from these advertising sources, especially since phone calls are the second-most-common form of consumer’ initial contact with a dealership.2

Measuring attribution means staying in front of competitors. It’s time to start gathering real attribution with reliable analytics.

How are you tracking attribution and success
from these advertising sources?

Dealerships spent almost $10 Billion in advertising in 2018, with Internet, TV, Radio, Newspaper, and Direct Mail coming in as the highest advertising expenses.1

“Knowing what influences a shopper to contact the dealership, regardless of method, can help dealers determine the value of their advertising and understand where to most successfully invest marketing dollars.”1

The Power of the Phone

One out of four consumers will call dealers as their initial point of contact with the dealership; this method of communication comes in second only to walk-ins.1

What does this mean for your dealership?

You can’t ignore the phone.

Your Dealership’s Experience

Customer service starts with recording your phone calls to ensure a great phone experience that gets leads coming in the door through effective advertising. Call tracking measures what’s driving calls, so your sales team can move more cars.

By not paying attention to the customer’s phone experience, you’ve lost that sale to your competitor before your team has a fighting chance to win the sales.

16% of buyers note that they did not purchase from the first dealership visited because of a poor sales experience.1 Don’t let this happen at your dealership.

Do You Know Your Customers’ Phone Experience?

Do you know what your customers’ phone experience with your dealership is like? Call tracking will show you how many verified leads that call your dealership result in:

  • Connected Calls
  • Hang Ups
  • Voicemail
  • Wrong Department

With inbound and outbound call tracking, you will never guess at call outcomes again.

Dynamic Number Insertion (DNI)

With DNI, you can track the entire customer journey online to offline with dynamic numbers that isolate specific customers and what they searched to bring them to your dealership. Every ad source that requires code, like your website, needs dynamic number insertion.

DNI uses a pool of toll-free numbers in the background. The volume of numbers provided is based on your website volume to ensure that each user or source gets assigned its own specific number to be tracked from digital to offline conversion. Some number pools (like ours) are managed automatically, so you do not need to know ahead of time how many visitors you are expecting.

Most other solutions require you to provision the exact amount of numbers in your pool ahead of time. A phone number from the pool will display after being dynamically switched based on the user or source. This ensures that each user or source gets its own unique number.

Text-Enabled Numbers

Calling isn’t the only way consumers will use the phone to contact your dealership. When 97% of Americans text at least once a day, you know that consumers will text your phone number instead of calling.4

With one-click engagement, CallSource’s text-enabled numbers are fast, accessible, and multi-functional to ensure that you’ll never miss a lead.

If you aren’t using text-enabled numbers, you aren’t responding to all of your leads. The customer is left hanging and thinks they are being ignored. This means your potential customer is going to someone who will respond.

Reliability

No other system is more reliable.

CallSource uses humans, not robots, to score calls with 95% accuracy. Our competitions’ AI software accuracy rates can’t even come close to that, as it’s reported that speech and voice-to-text analyses only reach an accuracy of 77%.5

With our 99.999% uptime, you won’t miss a single sales opportunity due to a missed call.

CallShield

Make sure the calls you’re getting are worth your time.

The number of fake calls blocked through CallShield has been as high as 5 to 6 million, or 35%, of fraudulent phone calls being blocked during times of nationwide spam call increases.

Don’t let spam calls take over your dealership’s phone lines. Shield your phone system with CallShield.

Our proprietary IVR solution was built to block spam calls, so your employees aren’t wasting time answering fake and spam calls.

CRM Integrations

CallSource integrates with the top Automotive CRMs – so you can see what’s going on without logging into too many places.

CallSource seamlessly integrates with:

  • ELEAD1ONE
  • DealerSocket
  • VinSolutions
  • Vistadash
  • DriveCentric
  • Momentum

Don’t see your CRM on the list? Ask us about how we can integrate with your system. Chances are we can.

Chat Integrations

CallSource has partnered with almost all the major chat providers so you can see your chat conversations in our EveryLead Dashboard.

We also work with chat providers who have co-managed chat services, providing them with text-enabled numbers so you won’t lose out on any type of communication.

CallSource integrates with the following chat providers:

  • ActivEngage
  • Gubagoo
  • CarNow
  • ContactAtOnce!

Missed Opportunities

Only about 20% of potential sales calls are converted to an appointment, according to a recent automotive study by CallSource.3

What is happening to the other 80% of leads? They are going to your competitor.

Missed a chance to get a lead to come into your dealership? We’ll let you know within 2 hours – usually as quickly as 30 minutes or less.

The other guys can take 10 hours or more to alert you – long enough so that missed opportunity has already gone to your competition.

3-screen-computer-alertsStop guessing at call outcomes. DealSaver alerts allow you the chance to recapture that lost lead and turn them into a fan of your dealership.

DealSaver will send you alerts when:

  • Disconnected: Sales calls disconnected in progress
  • Transfer: All Sales calls transferred to voicemail, where the caller leaves message or hangs up
  • Not Available: If the vehicle is not available and the rep does not suggest an alternative vehicle
  • Purchasing: Caller asks about buying/leasing car and is disconnected in progress
  • No Attempt: If no attempt is made to secure an appointment

CallSource analysts (real, trained, qualified people, not software, and not crowdsourced) listen to the entire call and alert management when an inbound opportunity wasn’t closed.

Calculate Your Loss

If an opportunity is worth $2,200, you lose $17,600 for every 10 calls you don’t convert.

But don’t believe vendors that promise you a 96% conversion rate – because converting every caller just isn’t possible. But there’s always room for improvement – we can help you with that.

Converting calls to appointments means you aren’t giving competition to your business.

Book more calls and recapture lost leads with DealSaver alerts.

Employee Performance

The battle of competition isn’t a game.

Missed a chance to get a lead to come into your dealership? Get your employees up-to-speed on best phone practices so they can start booking more appointments and getting more customers through your doors.

TPA - Four Core Principles

CallSource’s criterion for call-handler performance is based on over 25 years of analyzing and scoring phone calls. Call handlers are scored using a special scorecard developed by CallSource and honed over the years, called our Core Four Principles of a Phone Call.

The CallSource Difference

Attribution and closing deals isn’t a game.

Having tracked over 1 billion phone calls, CallSource is the industry expert in all things call performance. We have developed our products based on our clients’ feedback, wants, and needs.

Accuracy
Accurate and timely alerts

CallSource summarizes and contextualizes your data to help you make more informed decisions

Uptime
Reliability

Redundant servers with 99.999% uptime won’t leave you in the dark

Insights
Call processing and integration

Cut through the clutter and take control of your opportunities

EveryLead
CallSource’s premium automotive platform

Track your customer’s journey cross-channel and cross-domain while attributing every text, chat, and web form in real-time.

Support
Dedicated team

Our team has an average tenure of 10 years, delivering the expertise, training, and support you need.

Your Team

CallSource is much more than just a Saas call tracking company. With human-analyzed lead scoring, appointment confirmation, and employee performance overviews, as well as real call coaches and a reputation management system that responds to reviews for you, CallSource aims to help our clients improve in all aspects of their business.

Customer Service

Customer service is the number-one priority for CallSource, and every client receives a designated team of CallSource representatives. Your CallSource team will have an introductory call with you within days of signing up to guide you through any setup and walk you through our easy-to-use reporting platform.

Our continuing advisory services make sure you are not just getting data delivered to you, but that you know how to use this data and set goals.

Data-Driven Reporting

With customized and group reporting available, you can get your analytics the way you want them.

Reports aren’t helpful if you can’t use them. We make sure to deliver your data in the way that works best for your account, no matter how large or small.

Who We Do Business With

53 of the top 150 Dealer Groups partner with CallSource. Are you ready to partner with us too?

Contact us today and get started on your path to dealership improvement.

References:
1. https://www.nada.org/nadadata/
2. https://b2b.autotrader.com/oem/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/2018-Cox-Automotive-Car-Buyer-Journey-Brochure.pdf
3. https://www.callsource.com/automotive/data-insights/
4. https://www.pewinternet.org/2015/04/01/us-smartphone-use-in-2015/
5. http://www.leadscon.com/speech-analytics-meets-manual-human-review/

Filed Under: Reputation Management, CallTrack, LeadMetrix + DealSaver, Call Coaching, Digital Management, Telephone Performance Analysis Tagged With: Call Management, Performance Management, Digital Management, Reputation Management

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