On December 1, 2016, Craigslist, the 16th most popular website in the United States, changed how the boating industry listed ads by enacting a $5 charge/ad. Now, dealers have to allocate a budget and determine if there is an ROI for Craigslist. Prior to the market being paid, dealers could list as many ads as they wanted for free. A ...

Facebook has 1.23 billion monthly active users, 945 million mobile users and 757 million daily users. With traffic this high, it’s a no brainer that you should be optimizing your Facebook page as much as you would your website. You list your services on your website, right? Why aren’t you listing them on Facebook too? Consumers want convenience and adding ...

With a huge increase in digital marketing methods – social media, email marketing and search engine optimization – and a decrease in the effectiveness of traditional marketing, it’s time that we also re-evaluate methods of sales. What used to work in the “good old days” might just be a thing of the past. Why do people go online first? It’s ...

The parent company of Snapchat – Snap, Inc. – filed to go public with the Securities and Exchange Commission. It has an eye toward being valued at more than $30 billion. So if you thought Snapchat was just some silly trend for high schoolers, think again. As the social network continues to grow in immense popularity, it will become a ...

Consistency is important when it comes to advertising your dealership. You want to present a clear, consistent image and message to your customers. You also don’t want to put all your eggs in one basket – while it’s great to be super active on Facebook, for example, you also want to have a strong presence in your customers’ email inboxes. ...

Instagram is a wildly popular social media platform, and one that many of your customers and potentials often use – especially the younger people in your target audience, AKA those coming up in the new generation of buyers for your business. It’s important to have a presence on Instagram because there are a lot of people using it every day. ...

While filling my morning mug and scrolling through my Instagram feed recently, I happened to see a sponsored post from The New York Times advertising its new Crossword Puzzle app. Subscribers can access daily crossword puzzles on their mobile phone, tablet or desktop computer, as well as The Daily Mini and other bonus free puzzles. I was instantly struck by ...

The Boating Industry Top 100 dealers represent some of the best boat dealers in North America. In the Top 100 Spotlight, we share some of their best practices. It furthers the mission of the Top 100 program: to not only recognize the best dealers, but to share their knowledge and experience with the entire industry. This month, we share Lake ...

Entrepreneur posted an excellent article this week, “Why Digital Marketing is Traditional Marketing.” The articles asserts that what we have always considered "traditional marketing" is no longer traditional. Digital marketing is not a niche medium but a basic marketing practice, and employment trends and marketing strategies have shifted in a way to show that companies are making changes to reflect the ...

There is a big expansion happening with the Internet that you need to factor into your digital marketing plans. Do you remember when TV only had a few channels? Until recently, the Internet could be compared to that, because there were only a few applicable domain names: .com being the most common, but others include .net, .org, .co, .info, and ...