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PROMOTING ALL PROFIT CENTERS WITH RESULTS. PERIOD.
If your dealership has a Web site, but it is not looking for a partner to aid your dealership in and to drive loyalty and frequency to sales
generating results—not building value and increasing leads, sales, profits and customer and service departments,” Decker said. He
increasing revenue in all the profit centers loyalty, you probably will look for a firm with shared the following key elements of the BZ
within your dealership—it’s probably time advanced technology capabilities in order to strategy.
to look for a professional online marketing use the Internet to grow your business. In
firm to customize a digital marketing strategy the highly competitive online automotive The Solution at a Glance
that’s right for you. If you’re like most industry, I have discovered that it takes more BZ Results realizes that buying a vehicle
dealers who are searching for a marketing than just technology to drive business to your is an emotional experience, and they have
partner, the choices can be overwhelming. dealership—It takes automotive marketing designed their digital marketing strategy
At the 2008 NADA Convention, held in San savvy. One such marketing firm that is around this truth. The BZ system WOWs
Francisco last month, I was astonished at the currently helping dealerships across the the customer by giving them more than
700 exhibiting companies showcasing the United States and Canada find, sell and keep just information and static text. Instead,
latest industry products and services. In more customers profitably is BZ Results, an they engage their customers by giving
our ongoing commitment at AutoSuccess to ADP Company. them a unique purchase experience through
assist dealerships by providing innovative, high-impact digital marketing tools like
solution-based resolutions to help them animation, 3D, Flash, video, eNewsletter
increase sales, profits and customer and Live Chat to capture prospects. In short,
satisfaction, I have many opportunities to the BZ solution builds value in the people,
engage with not only hundreds of dealers the product and the process, driving revenue
from across the country, but with many to all profit centers within the dealership.
digital marketing vendors as well, all who are
striving to successfully leverage the power I found that one of BZ Results’ core secrets is
of the Internet and capitalize on effective a comprehensive five-phase process to help
digital marketing initiatives to drive results dealers achieve their goals and complete their
for car dealers. mission: 1. Define, 2. Design, 3. Develop, 4.
Deliver, and 5. Measure and Improve.
Top-performing dealers have successfully
partnered with digital marketing firms, Comprehensive and Complete
harnessing their knowledge, experience Solution
and resources to achieve continued success. A recent acquisition by ADP has placed BZ So what makes BZ Results unique? I
Dealers who have implemented advanced Results in a new class with the ability to reach have found that BZ offers one of the
digital marketing platforms are generating dealers worldwide. I visited with Daymond most comprehensive and complete digital
substantial returns on their investments Decker, product marketing and development marketing systems available on the market.
and are promoting all profit centers—New, manager at BZ Results, to gain some insight Capitalizing on the power of the Internet
Used, F&I, Parts and Service—for less cost into the BZ processes and offerings that to market dealerships, their staffs and their
than traditional advertising media. top-performing dealers are using to increase products, BZ offers the following arsenal of
traffic and generate more revenue into all digital marketing solutions:
It may not be important to be the best departments of their dealership. “The goal
marketer; but it is important to hire one of of BZ Results Digital Marketing System BZ Custom Web Sites
the best. When selecting a marketing firm, is three-fold: to aid dealerships by creating The BZ Virtual Dealership promotes all of
keep in mind that you are establishing what more quality traffic while reducing costs; your dealership’s profit centers on the Web
should be a long-term business relationship, to increase sales by increasing closing 24 hours a day, seven days a week—New,
and these are always built on trust. When percentages, average gross profits and CSI; Used, F&I, Service and Parts. BZ’s Virtual
3. Dealership builds value in your dealership,
people and products. Skilled programmers
can take your site beyond the templates
offered with custom designs, splash pages,
animation, audio/video extras and more.
BZ’s award-winning sites feature high-end
graphics, animation and 2D and 3D graphics,
and many other interactive features like
online credit apps that create an incredibly
positive experience for the automotive
customer and a positive result for the dealer.
Each site comes with a Content Management
system which facilitates edits to your Web
site with an easy-to-use tool than anyone can
use to create and edit specials, dealership
information, inventory information and more.
A handy BZ Lost Customer Coupon System
captures customers’ contact information by
offering them a printable discount coupon. As a result, Tasca currently sells 100 online
units per month, and customer surveys
Bonjour! Hola! To accommodate their conducted by the dealership show that up Buzzlot module features a VIN decoder,
rapidly growing number of clients spanning to 80 percent of their customers say that the 15,000+ stock image library, and a Web-
North America, BZ Web sites are now Tasca.com Virtual Dealership influenced based management tool to edit information
offered in English, Spanish and French. their buying decision. from any location. BZ Automated Specials
Updater module automatically updates your
Bobby Tasca III of Tasca Auto Group shares BZ Virtual Salesperson specials and aging inventory to be displayed
in the excitement of the BZ Web site design. Delight your online shoppers with the BZ within your Virtual Dealership. The BZ
“Our Virtual Dealership is designed around Virtual Salesperson, a video tour guide that Automated Notification System will notify
our mission to serve our customers, and leads your customers through the Web site customers of any new vehicles that are a
in so doing, it generates massive amounts (available in English, Spanish and French). close match for what they want, and with the
of Internet leads and phone traffic,” said Many dealers have opted for tour guides BZ Inventory Leak Stopper module, you can
Tasca III, “Our customers rave about our presented by celebrity hosts like Ali Landry. capture customer’s e-mails when they leave
Web site because they can research, build your pre-owned inventory search without
and compare cars, view new or pre-owned BZ Online Inventory submitting a lead.
vehicles, buy parts, schedule service I am sure your dealership takes great care in
appointments and more.” assuring that the inventory on your lot is the BZ Credit Online
best it can be. Your online inventory is just as Today’s customers are demanding and
important. BZ has an entire suite that includes enjoy conveniences like being able to apply
solutions to help you manage your online for credit online from the privacy of their
inventory efficiently and professionally. own homes. Dealerships can increase their
The BZ Virtual Inventory module promotes finance lead conversion with Credit Online,
every model available and never tells your a step-based finance application plug-in
customers you do not have a vehicle in stock. with dealer-controlled pre-approval rules
This module moves each customer through based on real-time receipt of the Consumer
the steps of the sale including scheduling Credit Report. A Virtual Presenter
a test drive, applying for credit, getting guides customers through the process of
a trade evaluation and more. BZ Buzzlot completing an online application from
Inventory Manager module enables the the convenience of their home, utilizing a
posting and display of your actual inventory secure environment for sensitive customer
in your Virtual Dealership. This module data. A customer account saves the finance
automatically extracts inventory data from application for review, edit, or withdrawal.
your DMS and allows customers to submit This module allows your prospects to get
multiple inquiries for specific vehicles. BZ instant online approvals.
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can view the live inventory that matches with Marketing and Aftermarket BuzzMails.
the vehicle they built. Paragon Honda in New York has had
great success with BuzzMails, and e-mail
BZ Auction Manager marketing has been a critical component to
eBay is the world’s most popular online their success. Their BDC has had incredible
auction site, and BZ Auction Manager results from targeted bulk e-mail marketing,
provides your dealership with all the tools generating up to 40 extra units sold from a
needed to sell your new and used slow- single campaign without spending any extra
moving inventory on eBay. BZ Auction money on advertising. “We recently sent out
Manager not only puts your new and pre- an e-mail promotion to 80,000 addresses in
owned products up for sale, it does so with our database. It took our Internet Manager
advanced technologies that strengthen your 25 minutes to create and the cost was zero
presence while simplifying the process. dollars,” said Vice President Brian Benstock.
Add sales appeal with audio, video and “Other dealerships probably spend up to
slide shows. Save time with automated $10,000 to send out 15,000 pieces. We
inventory and photo integration with your sent out 80,000 BuzzMails and it took no
data provider. Take control by scheduling time, no additional money and it generated
outstanding results.”
BZ WebCrawler E-mail Append
BZ WebCrawler enables you to seamlessly
migrate your valuable offline customers
online. By matching an e-mail address to
your customer within your DMS or CRM
database, you ignite new possibilities for
more intimate, more profitable relationships.
The solution includes over 70 million e-mail
addresses, all of which are 100 percent opt-
in. Since BZ WebCrawler only compiles
those sources with opt-in permission, you
can immediately start an online dialog with
your customers. Decker reports that you
can expect match rates between 10 to 20
percent on average. BZ WebCrawler has
emerged as an industry leader in managing,
understanding and setting standards for
privacy within the e-mail channel.
“We sent out 80,000 BuzzMails and it took no time, no
additional money and it generated outstanding results.” -
Brian Benstock, Paragon Honda
or saving auctions for later listing. Keep BZ Multimedia BuzzMails
track of bids and bidder activity. Create and and E-mail Marketing
manage a professional Web presence and BZ offers the most comprehensive collection
maximize your auctioning ability with this of media-enriched mini-commercials called
robust technology. BuzzMails. Use these traffic generating
promotions campaigns for monthly, seasonal
BZ Virtual Sales Manager and sales events. A custom suite of animated
The BZ Virtual Sales Manager is a module BuzzMails include “Why Buy,” “Why
that helps salespeople and managers solve the Service,” “Certified Pre-Owned,” and many
most common challenges on the showroom more BuzzMails that automatically respond BZ Search Optimization
floor that hurt sales, profits and customer to all lead types. The BuzzMail library has a SEO is a fundamental element of every Web
satisfaction. The BZ Virtual Sales Manager full suite of promotional BuzzMails for every site designed by BZ Results with the goal
has multimedia presentations that build holiday and virtually any sales event you can of advancing the Web site by improving
value in all areas of your dealership. These imagine, such as an SUV Sales Event or Key the position of its organic search results for
presentations are made available for your for Key Sales Event, etc. a wide variety of relevant keywords. BZ
showroom customers via kiosks or plasma Search Engine Optimization submits your
screens strategically displayed in your sales, Drive business into your Service Department optimized site to a large number of search
finance, service or parts departments. with animated Sold Follow-up, Service engines to make your site more attractive
5. to search engines like Google, Yahoo and
MSN. Your search engine listings will
increase traffic to your Virtual Dealership,
showroom, phone and fixed operations by
jumpstarting your campaign with immediate
placement for key phrases on top-tier search
engines. BZ boasts that your dealership will
receive the absolute latest SEO strategy in
the automotive industry, extensive reporting
and constant improvement in both your
Web site performance and search engine
ranking. BZ Results’ success comes from
using cutting-edge optimization techniques
and sophisticated performance monitoring
with frequent adjustments for maximum
optimization. The results aid your dealership
in striving for leadership within your
geographic region.
Search Engine Certified
You can trust that all BZ Search Engine
professionals are Google AdWords certified
and highly trained to utilize the most
powerful techniques and technologies
for driving targeted traffic to a Web site.
These experts have passed a demanding
exam, as well as proven their proficiency
by managing Google AdWords campaigns
for clients for a minimum of three months.
Qualified Google AdWords professionals
can effectively design and manage the most “With BZ Buy Online, consumers have the option to complete
efficient solution for their clients. the transaction online, or visit the dealership for closing and
BZ Search Marketing delivery.” – Daymond Decker, BZ Results
BZ pioneered the technology of Search
Marketing in the automotive industry, and targeted consumers; search engine marketing vehicle-specific, keyword-rich micro sites
BZ professionals possess a vast working to deliver high-quality leads directly to your and landing pages to successfully drive
knowledge of the automotive industry and Web site; Pay-Per-Click advertising to reach a more targeted traffic through to the main
have a strong level of experience in contending broader audience searching for vehicles using dealer Web site. As a companion to digital
online for competitive automotive search specific key words, providing the best results marketing initiatives, BZ’s top quality
terms within different markets. Their basic at the lowest cost; and your own personal micro sites and landing pages are optimized
knowledge of trends, along with cutting- digital advertising consultant — someone for search engines and take on a presence
edge technological advances, drive the most who has years of experience in this discipline beyond your initial marketing campaign.
successful online automotive marketing — who will plan, execute and measure the Professionally designed creative builds
initiatives. Benefits include keyword phrase results on a monthly basis for you. brand, respect and trust, resulting in higher-
research — using sophisticated analysis quality conversions.
tools — BZ will develop the ideal set of BZ Online Advertising Network
code editing to promote your site, first page The power behind the BZ Digital Advertising Omniture Analytics
placements among the major search engines, solution is its premier Advertising Network, Dealerships are unique and, in many cases,
optimal keyword selection for your market, which includes hundreds of popular Web require customized reporting. BZ offers
and detailed ranking reports displaying your sites, provides maximum exposure for your Omniture Site Catalyst—an enterprise-class
results among engines like Google, Yahoo dealership, generates high lead conversion reporting system that is the most robust Web
and MSN. rates, and guarantees premium placement on analytics solution on the market. Standard
the sites your shoppers visit most frequently. reports include metrics on unique visitors,
BZ Digital Advertising Creative These sites are geographically and leads generated, and conversion rate. BZ
The BZ Digital Advertising solution is a demographically targeted to your dealership can also respond to your dealership’s
soup-to-nuts implementation of everything and include online local newspapers and specific needs with highly customized
dealers need to perform like a pro on the other popular sites where the customers in reports. Omniture Site Catalyst is used to
Internet to attract and engage more leads your area are visiting like ESPN, Martha track search marketing stats, impressions,
than ever thought possible. The solution Stewart, and Car & Driver. clicks and CTR, leads and conversion rate,
includes: the creation of high-end, media- ROI, visitor profiles, referring domains,
enriched graphic or video banner ads and BZ Micro Sites and Landing Pages popular pages and click paths, and annual
micro sites that highlight key “in market” BZ design teams capitalize on the selling trend reporting.
consumer buying behaviors to capture very opportunities the Web affords by developing
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BuzzTrak is a complete customer
relationship management and prospecting tool
that helps dealerships manage and measure
all of their Internet, phone and showroom
customers. The Virtual Business Development
Center Manager creates daily business plans,
generates letters, schedules activities, and
provides practical reports to help measure your
productivity. The Virtual BDC Manager creates
more quality traffic and sales by automating
your e-mail contacts, follow-up, correspondence
and reporting. The best part about BuzzTrak is
the automation that does the work of five to 10
full-time employees, thus freeing your staff to
make better use of their time interacting with
customers and selling more cars.
BZ AdTracker
With unique nationwide toll-free 800 numbers,
BZ AdTracker will track marketing mediums to “We have tons of contacts from our Live Chat button — service, parts and sales leads
enable you to monitor which are giving you the — probably about 500 to 600 clicks a month.” – Roy Reutter, Sheehy Automotive
greatest results. The system will automatically
e-mail you a report that lets you know where
your marketing money should be spent to more. Messages are automatically left on your new outsourced sales and marketing solutions
maximize your return. BZ AdTracker will customers’ voicemails on your behalf, and you can plan, execute and report on your customer
not only track your ads, but it will also track can use “ventriloquist” technology to have all communications with fully managed and
your people and the process they use to handle of the calls made in your voice. executed customer communications services
your valuable customer calls to ensure they are that generate a steady stream of revenue,
being handled properly. The best part is that The ultimate goal of the BZ Virtual Phone delighting your existing customers and creating
you can listen in on any call at any time to make Manager is to automatically execute extraordinary customer value.
sure your customers receive the experience thousands of daily calls to keep in contact
you want them to. BZ AdTracker maximizes with your customers, build relationships, set CustomerTouch services utilize four powerful
the effectiveness of your marketing spend by appointments, create quality appointments and communication methods — direct mail,
capturing more phone opportunities than ever to sell and service more vehicles profitably for e-mail, voice and mobile marketing to reach
before. If there is a missed call, BZ AdTracker less cost. your targeted customers. See maximum
will automatically forward the phone number results from integrated and effective customer
so you will not miss any opportunities. Virtual Marketing Representative (VMR) communications.
How would you like a personal consultant to
BZ Virtual Phone Manager manage all of your digital marketing initiatives? Outsourced Direct Mail Marketing
The BZ Virtual Phone Manager automates BZ Results’ VMRs are not only trained Direct mail is one of many channels BZ
thousands of calls for every aspect of your marketing professionals; they also know your has available to deliver revenue-generating
business, doing the work of 10 to 20 full- business. They will work with you to review campaigns to your target audience. Whether
time telemarketers without the overhead. your customer demographics and buying you want to drive business into the sales, service
These automated phone campaigns are used patterns, identify and evaluate tactics you have or F&I office, BZ can produce professional
for sold follow-up, service reminders and executed in the past and pull together a plan that campaigns in a multitude of print formats
makes sense for your market. From campaign including small and jumbo postcards, bi-fold
identification all the way through execution or tri-fold brochures, or self-mailers. The
and measurement, whether the campaign is sent campaigns are produced, printed and mailed for
through direct mail, e-mail, mobile marketing or you, and monthly ROI reports are provided so
Internet-focused, the VRM team has the tools, you know what is working and what’s not.
training and marketing savvy to deliver high-
quality marketing and advertising solutions that Outsourced Direct E-mail Marketing
will deliver results back to you. VMR activities If you prefer to reduce the cost of your marketing
include: market segmentation and prospect campaigns – or just want to reach your target
targeting, differentiation and positioning, audience directly through e-mail, BZ can do
marketing plan development and execution, that for you. Again, as with the direct mail
and measurement and metrics reporting. campaigns, BZ produces the piece and sends it
out for you, and reports back to you with the
Outsourced Sales and results at the end of the month.
Marketing Solutions
Outsourced Direct Voicemail Marketing
Capitalize on key sales and marketing
The CustomerTouch program also has
opportunities with high-impact direct mail
automated and live voice capabilities for
letters, voice and cost-effective e-mail
service reminders and service/sales surveys.
campaigns with CustomerTouch services. BZ’s
7. Many dealers are starting to warm up to the
idea of using chat or instant messaging on their
Web sites to communicate with their prospects,
gathering vital information without requiring
them to submit completed forms. “Chat is
a product that gets us extra contact with
customers. We look at it as a lead-generation
tool — another way to capture leads off our Web
site. It’s sort of like an add-on feature — like air
conditioning on a car,” Reutter said. “We have
tons of contacts from our Live Chat button —
service, parts and sales leads — probably about
500 to 600 clicks a month.”
BZ Training and Consulting
The BZ Digital Marketing Training Workshop
includes the BZ Strategy Boot Camp and the
BZ Internet Sales Training Workshop. BZ
Strategy Boot Camp is a two-day off-site event
that will prepare you with a custom business
plan and strategic blueprint for implementing
a successful digital marketing strategy within
your dealership. The BZ Internet Sales Training
Workshop gives your people the knowledge
and skills needed to get the results you want to
receive.
BZ will plan and execute the campaigns for produce the newsletter and send it to your list of
you, and report on the results at the end of the clients and prospects, and even provide you with Ongoing evaluation and consultation by
month. With the call “loopback” feature, your monthly reports on what articles your customers experienced automotive professionals is
customers will be directly connected to your liked best, open rates, and click-through activity. available with a performance-enhancing
dealership if they have any follow-up questions The information is used to continually improve workshop that begins with a detailed assessment
or actions based on an automated call they have newsletter effectiveness. and ends with the creation of an action plan for
received from your dealership. improvement, including Mystery Shop and Site
Vice President Bobby Tasca III reports that Analysis.
Outsourced Mobile Marketing Tasca Automotive Group, located in Rhode
It is projected that by the end of this year, Island, recently launched their first eNewsletter
43 percent of US marketers will be using the to over 12,000 customers with a remarkable
mobile channel as a direct line of marketing 27.2 percent total opening rate within the first
communication with their target audience. 24 hours. Roy Reutter, with Sheehy Auto Store,
That’s amazing, and it’s no surprise that BZ reports that their customers receive a digital
is announcing the addition of a brand new newsletter that can be measured, tracking every
customer communication channel – Mobile single person who reads it, what they read,
Marketing. This technology: and how much time they spend on the articles.
• produces higher response rates than even “New or used vehicle sales are our main
e-mail campaigns objective, but our biggest benefit has been in
• encourages the audience to take action the parts and service revenue that is generated
• facilitates an immediate granular as a result,” said Reutter.
response information
• reaches customers, anywhere they are Outsourced Live Chat
• complements other media - TV, radio and Every day, you make sure visitors to your
print dealership have a great customer experience.
• provides high speed to market Why not take the same care with your online
visitors? With BZ Live Chat solution, your Conclusion
Outsourced eNewsletter customers get the same experience as when they In addition to the many offerings outlined
My personal favorite in the BZ arsenal is the visit your dealership. BZ takes time to learn above, Decker is excited to report that BZ
eNewsletter. The BZ eNewsletter solution is a your dealership’s brands, personality, inventory Results continues to develop fresh and
fully managed monthly interactive eNewsletter and methods before their trained agents engage exhilarating products to help dealers sell and
product that is polished and professional, your customers. The new Live Chat service service customers more profitably. BZ Results’
complete with banner and graphics customized to is available for any type of dealer Web site to award-winning and result-oriented products and
reflect your brand identity, increasing customer professionally handle inquiries about inventory, solutions provide dealers across North America
awareness and loyalty by enhancing the brand vehicle price and service requests, turning them with practical marketing tools and strategies to
and image of your dealership. There is absolutely into “ups” and service appointments within help them promote all areas of their dealership
no work on your part. BZ will write the articles, minutes of opening a dialog. while achieving measurable results. Period.