Automotive & Dealerships

Your inventory moves. Your marketing should keep up with it.

Dealerships run their site on a vendor platform they do not control. The leverage is everywhere else. the media around the inventory, the way each vehicle is presented, and the attribution that tells you which salesperson and which car produced the deal.

What we bringMediaMiddleware & IntegrationsAIWebsites

The problem here

The platform is fixed. Almost nothing else is.

Dealer marketing gets sold as a website problem when the site is the one thing a store usually cannot change.

Inventory photography is inconsistent per unitWhat it costsThe same car looks worse than the competing listingWhat we changeA repeatable shoot standard, per vehicle
Salespeople market themselves, unmanagedWhat it costsBrand risk with no attribution upsideWhat we changeApproved assets and tracked destinations
Deal and loaner graphics are one-off requestsWhat it costsTurnaround measured in daysWhat we changeA template system the store can run
Leads cannot be traced to a vehicle or a personWhat it costsSpend defended on gut feelWhat we changePer-salesperson, per-vehicle attribution
Vendor platform limits get treated as dead endsWhat it costsWhole channels left unusedWhat we changeWe work the platform, and around it

We start with a lot walk and a look at what the vendor platform will and will not let you change. That determines everything after it.

What we build for them

What we actually run for a store.

This is a media, attribution and integration engagement. If you need a full site rebuild, that is a different conversation and often not the first one worth having.

01

Inventory photography

A repeatable per-vehicle standard shot on a schedule, so every unit reaches the listing looking like the same dealership photographed it.

Media
02

Deal and loaner graphics

A template system for offers, loaners and events that the store can run week to week without waiting on a design queue.

Media · Brand
03

Store-level social

Managed accounts with a real content calendar built from the inventory and the people on the floor, not stock manufacturer creative.

Media
04

Attribution

Per-salesperson and per-vehicle tracking, so a deal can be traced back to the post, the page and the person that produced it.

Middleware · AI
05

Inventory tooling

Feeds and internal tools where the vendor platform stops — the reporting and workflow the store needs but cannot buy.

Websites · Middleware

How it goes

Three steps, and you see each one.

The audit is a paid deliverable and a valid stopping point. Plenty of stores need one fix, not a retainer.

01

Audit the store

A lot walk, a look at current listings and creative, and what the vendor platform allows. You get a ranked list of what is costing you units.

Deliverable — store audit
02

Fix the highest-volume thing

Usually inventory photography and the deal-graphics turnaround, because both touch every unit on the lot.

Deliverable — first standard live
03

Run it and report it

Media, social and attribution on a monthly cadence, reported against units moved rather than impressions.

Deliverable — monthly operating report

Proof

The store we run this for.

A design, media, photography and social retainer. Their website runs on a vendor platform — we did not build it, and we will not tell you we did.

Mercedes-Benz of Ann ArborMedia · Photography · Social

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