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.

How to Customize Your Website

In today’s market if you want to stay competitive in the automotive retail marketplace you will need a website/virtual showroom that will effectively market your brand, dealership and inventory to the world.

Until recently you either had to create a custom website from scratch which is both time consuming and expensive especially if you do not possess the necessary programming skills or you were forced choose from a library of pre-built cookie cutter designs (templates) that don’t offer the design flexibility needed to keep you ahead of the competition.

Autoxloo is proud to announce a new feature unique to the automotive industry that empowers the dealer to take control of the look, feel, content and layout of their website all without the need for any programming knowledge.

Its called Make-A-Page and it will give you full control of your website.

MAP (Make-A-Page) gives you the ability to design your website.  You can customize the layout of each page.  Choose what features you want to display like news, featured vehicles, different search variations and many more.  Now you can place these features in different areas of the page.  We have also created widgets that will make your website more user friendly.  If you ever run out of space for all your content just make a new page, in fact make as may as you  would like.

Everything in MAP is editable.  This means the sizes and colors can be adjusted to your needs.  You can change your websites look for any holiday or sale.

If you are thinking that this may be too difficult than you may be surprised.  MAP is designed to be very easy to use.  Anyone can use it with no experience necessary.  This means that you don’t need to wait for anyone to make changes to your website, since you can do it all.

If you want to see and try MAP, give us a call or contact AutoXloo today.

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The Web’s Growth and The Strain on Auto Dealers

Growing Internet traffic is straining dealers’ abilities to keep on top of it, and some experts advise dealers to establish a dedicated Internet sales staff. Since 2007, the percentage of dealerships with dedicated Internet sales staffs has stayed steady at just over half, says the National Automobile Dealer Association’s 2010 Dealership Internet Survey. Some dealers handle Internet leads with customer service employees who set up appointments for customers. Others may empower the entire sales force to field Web inquiries.

Autoxloo’s Dealer Management Systems simplifies these problems that dealers face in our constantly advancing technological world. With our services, dealers can have an interactive website that provides most of the required services to customers like inventory, credit requests, schedule test drive and sales, links to manufacturers’ Web sites, and contact information of every department. This greatly simplifies the work load on dealership staff and increases sales. In addition, our CRM provides the all the necessary tools to manage online leads, and our Live Help gives our clients the ability to contact Autoxloo’s support team any time of the day.

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!

Smart and Resourceful Dealers Sell More Cars!

A quick shout out to Mike at Park Auto Mall for his nice (and unsolicited) comments about AutoXloo on his blog, Show Room Logic.

Car dealerships have always prided themselves on being resourceful sales guys, always with new ideas on sales promotions to entice customers to their dealership.

Internet marketing offers endless opportunities for these smart and resourceful dealerships to stretch their sales skills online.  Low cost, immediate results, and measurable effects, and quality leads.  What could be more compelling? Every car guy’s dream.

Mike recognizes this utopic vision does require some nuts and bolts, roll up your sleeve work, determination, creativity, analysis and adjustment as he works to increase sales for ParkAutoMall.  AutoXloo is up to the challenge of going toe to toe with him and other dealers in helping them creatively leverage AutoXloo’s software solutions to support their local car sales.

ParkAutoMall.com does a great job of leveraging the AutoXloo technology to increase their local presence and connect with customers when they visit their website.  Look at the ParkAutoMall.com website and some of the proactive things they are doing:

• An active, engaging blog
• Pictures, video introductions, complete contact information of sales staff
• Detailed information about vehicles
• Customer testimonials
• Search friendly, relevant content
• Information to help car buyers make decisions

The time invested in their website pays off on a daily basis.  A large percentage of their floor traffic comes from their dealer website, and this number has been growing for several years.