Let Autoxloo Help You Enhance Your Dealer Website

Studies have shown that shoppers preemptively searching for a car can be turned off by an unprofessional or unorganized dealership website. When they’re shopping for a car, one of the first things they’ll do is do a localized Google search. As such, the way you present yourself online is often the first lasting impression potential customers will have of you – if that first impression isn’t a good one, odds are they will never visit your physical location.
With the addition of the internet as a shoppers too, dealer websites and online vehicle listing areas need to be snappy, informative and professional looking. Most buyers will want to be certain you carry the vehicle they want, in the price range they want and they’ll start their searches online. If your online storefront is using older or incomplete dealership software, you could inadvertently be sacrificing business.
In this day and age, with the way technological advances having put a computer in almost every home it doesn’t do your business any good at all if your dealership website is sub-par. Customers will look for you first online and what they see there will either encourage them to visit your dealership or visit someone else’s.
Here at Autoxloo we can help you with dealership software solutions that will put you a step ahead of your competitors and set you firmly ahead of the pack. We can help you streamline your online presence and make your site an attractive draw to automobile buyers. It is more important than ever to make sure you have a stable and savvy online foothold.
Build your online presence, make yourself interesting and attractive to online buyers and streamline your entire process by utilizing the streamlined dealership software solutions offered by Autoxloo. Feel free to contact our customer support team to find out what, exactly, we can do to improve your business.

What is the future of transportation?

January 29th 2010 marks the unofficial 124th birthday of the automobile. Karl Benz placed his paten for his vehicle, and that started the birth of what we now know as the car. Looking back and thinking about how far we have come in the industry excites me. In 124 years, the number of land speed records that have been set, racing, and transportation have all had major upgrades. In such a short amount of time no one can really know where we are going to be in another 124 years. There is a Swiss company that believes we will have a vacuum styled tube that will get you around the world in .0083 days, in other words you could travel around the world in a little under 2 hours. You might think that is impossible. Ask the creators of the automobile in 1886 if they thought that the vehicles of today would have 180-200mph on the dash and would have the safety features they have, I highly doubt they would believe you considering Karl Benz first vehicle had a top speed of 16km/h. Traveling at 12,500 mph is not going to be easy. The swiss company Acabion, invisions a elevated track that pulls in solar power and the vehicle will inductively pull its energy from the track and is foreseeing a vehicle that by 2100 will be helping people actively travel from place to place at rapid speeds making the world a much smaller place.The vehicle will be sold for $3 million in 2015 but says the price will go down with mass production. Although, I do not plan on jumping to the bank and purchasing one of these vehicles it is a possibility that this could be a brilliant investment. Depending on if this idea actually works or not, but that is part of the risk.

Is Your Website Navigation User Friendly?

Have you ever visited a site with a really bad navigation menu?  A site like this makes you lost and forces you to learn how to use it before focusing on the content.  Many website owners don’t know how important it is to have a good navigation menu on your website.  If someone is not comfortable with the navigation he can always click the back button and select the next site in the search results.  To take care of this problem we have developed a way for you to customize the navigation menu of your website.

Example of bad navigation

The Dynamic Menu module gives you control to display infinite combinations your navigation menu.  This includes pages with content, links to other sites or your standard menu selection.  The Dynamic Menu will come in handy when you need a link to third party credit apps, contact forms, IFrames or JSOP.  By activating this feature on your showroom enables you to showcase your inventory and specials in a unique display in helping buyers make the shopping experience more enjoyable. Dynamic Menu gives you control and clarity of navigation.

Don’t let bad website navigation scare away potential customers.  Explore the latest of what AutoXloo has to Offer by enabling you to be in the forefront of technology!

How to Successfully Post on Craigslist

Craigslist has become one of the biggest lead generators in the automotive industry.  Its very popular in the United States and can brings a lot of leads to your website.  As you may already know its also free!  So why is it so difficult to post an ad on their site?  If you have ever tried to post an ad and keep it live, then you know what I am talking about.  There are two things that can happen.  Your ad may go live and everything is good but then for some reason it gets flagged, now your ad is gone.  The ad may be flagged just because someone doesn’t like it.  The second scenario goes like this.  Everything is going well, you submitted your ad, now you go and try to find it but its nowhere to be found.  It even shows that the ad is live on your account page but in reality its not.  This is because your ad was ghosted.

Craigslist is constantly updating their ghosting protocol.  If your ad is similar to other ads or if you post too often then your ads may become ghosted.  This becomes very frustrating.  To find a successful formula for posting can take a lot of time.  Craigslist likes unique ads, but to create a unique ad for the same vehicle will also take time.  This is exactly why we created a solution for this problem.  Our solution allows you to successfully post your vehicles within craigslist terms of use.

Our new module allows you to post your vehicles directly from the DMS to craigslist.  There are also new features like Custom Random Text.

This feature stores a list of random phrases that you provide and then uses them randomly in the body of your ads.  This way your ads will always be different.

The random title phrases feature makes your titles different for each ad.  It stores phrases that you added and uses them randomly.  This will help make sure that your ads are always unique.

These are just a few of the features that are offered with this module.  You can fully customize your entire template.  This includes the title, body, different colors, different layouts, gallery and much more.  Our goal is to help you take advantage of craigslist’s massive traffic.  Just because its not easy to make your ads stay on craigslist doesn’t mean you cant do it.  Call AutoXloo today and get your ads to stay.

Are You Watching Your Rear View?

Driving a large SUV or Truck in America is very common. Unfortunately, so is injuring or even killing a child or elderly due to backing up such a large vehicle. These large vehicles have horrible blind spots that make small children far too easy to disappear behind the vehicle. Marketing safety and making sure that every family has this technology as soon as possible is something you may want to look into. Using Autoxloo’s “etch-a-word” technology you can make sure you can edit and showcase the features on the car that you want to highlight.

Over the last year the government has been working on changing a few laws to make automakers have a rear view camera on the vehicle. This is going to increase the cost of the vehicle in not only the SUV and Trucks but eventually all automobiles. Most people would say that this extra cost to save a life is well worth it. A few vehicles today have the option of the camera or even a back up detector to help with the issue but within the next few years it will have to be standard on all new vehicles. Over the next few years these cars are more than likely going to boom in sales because of the features that will be standard. Getting a jump on the market is always important. Using Autoxloo’s Market IQ , you can get ahead by using its information to make sure your price is set based on features, miles, and condition.

Are They Lending More Than A Hand?

A good sign that the auto market and the economy is back on the rise is the fact that loans are going out to non prime candidates. When the economy starts to fall and the recession is coming in like a title wave ready for destruction, the number of non prime candidates receiving loans drops drastically. A few years ago when the economy was booming prime candidates were at 51%. The economy is not there yet but it is getting closer.

The number of loans that go delinquent is also down which is also a better sign that the economy is improving and letting us now that we could be seeing ourselves out of this recession. With about 4% of the automakers selling to non prime candidates and this will hopefully rise a percent or two we may see more people buying new or used cars.