Dealer Elite: The Fastest Growing Forum for Car Dealers and Support Personnel
By: Fabiola Grosshan
Submitted: 2010-09-07 07:10:24 | Word Count: 557
If you do a basic internet search for Forum for Car Dealers, you don’t get an overwhelming amount of successful results. There are maybe 10 active forums and most of which have turned into a self-promotion or free marketing site. Dealer Elite is a newly launched and rapidly growing forum for car dealers, automotive service providers, auto manufacturers, vendors, trainers, and even the average car enthusiast to come together and share ideas and innovative techniques for success in the automotive business.
By signing up for a free membership at Dealer Elite, you’re gaining access to thousands of discussions, comments, suggestions, job opportunities, free offers, and that’s just on the surface. The more you put into Dealer Elite, the more discussions you join, the more connections you’ll make. An interesting feature that isn’t commonly found on the traditional automotive forums is the ability to keep a personal blog on the site where you can share your current thoughts, business updates, or pose an interactive question to which you’re sure to get replies.
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This past month, Dealer Elite had a monthly theme feature on the forum where members were encouraged to upload their best motivational video that would help to inspire and motivate dealers. Several great videos were submitted. In addition to the videos, there is a thread in the forum where everyone shares inspirational quotes, thoughts, and all-around feel good stuff that aims at helping you get through that horrible day/week/month that is pretty common in the automotive sector.
Excessive marketing of one’s self and company are highly frowned upon on Dealer Elite. The moderators are sure to monitor discussions and be sure that the majority of interaction is true, informative exchanges. Even so, there are in fact some amazing offers from automotive service providers. Eric Dean posed the question: “So you think you have a flashy website?” in which he gives some basic SEO tips. He also offers all readers of the Dealer Elite forum a 100% free market analysis. In a day in age where everyone has their own “best SEO method”, Eric promises that his has proven effective in the automotive business.
Another must-see feature this month on Dealer Elite is a case study hosted by a prominent member of the forum for car dealers. Shereef Moawad, CEO of CarChat24, a leading provider of dealer live chat service gave the generous offer to give 2 months of FREE dealer live chat service in exchange for real-time reports of conversion rates and overall thoughts of their service. Several dealers signed on to the amazing offer, and the case study began September 1st. Each week, participating dealers will report their changes in lead and conversion rates and Dealer Elite members can keep up with the real-time results of the dealer chat case study.
In a world of social media enthusiasm, there is a forum, message board, or blog for everything. Unfortunately, while the number of forums targeted to those in the automotive business is high; the number of quality forums is quite low and leaves a lot to be desired. Dealer Elite steps up their game and provides an innovative, interactive and truly remarkable forum for car dealers.
