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The Top 5 Methods to Increase Customer Retention

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Learning the top 5 methods to increase customer retention can be one of the smartest moves you make for your dealership. Customer retention is one of the pillars of any long-standing business and any successful dealership owner will tell you, repeat customers are the lifeblood of your organization.

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Topics: Lead Response & Management Customer Retention CRM

10 Benefits of Adding Live Chat to Your Website

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Is live chat software for boat dealers really important for your dealership? The answer is a resounding yes. Visitors invited to live chat are 6.3 times more likely to become customers compared to those who don’t offer the feature.

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Topics: Lead Response & Management Customer Retention Live Chat

5 Things Your Sales Team Should Be Doing During Downtime.

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 All sales dealerships go through down times, and boat dealerships are no exception. But that doesn’t mean that your sales team should be sitting at their desks waiting for their phones to ring. This is a great time to get plenty of other things done. 

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Topics: Call Campaigns Lead Response & Management Lead Generation Customer Retention CRM Marketing Tips & Tricks

Four Crucial Reasons to Call Your Customers

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 In the world of sales, regular communication is an essential part of the success of any company. It costs five times the amount to acquire a new customer, than to keep an existing customer. 

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Topics: Call Campaigns Lead Response & Management Customer Retention

5 Call Campaign Ideas to Increase Sales

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Successful business owners agree that staying in touch with customers is extremely important. However, finding a reason to call them without seeming bothersome can be challenging. The most important rule is NOT to call with a sales pitch every time. 

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Topics: Call Campaigns Lead Response & Management Lead Generation Boat Dealerships

4 Reasons Why Live Chat is Important for Boat Dealers

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One major challenge online shoppers face is that their questions are not always able to be answered immediately and/or correctly. A quick and easy solution is to integrate a live chat feature on the website. Live Chat allows the customer to shop and browse at their own pace, while still being able to receive answers to their individual questions. It helps potential customers as well as returning customers with any information they need. Simultaneously, Live Chat allows boat dealers to be more precise and specific towards the customer’s present and future needs.

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Topics: Lead Response & Management Lead Generation Customer Retention Live Chat

A testament to the importance of Lead Follow Up

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How are you following up with your leads? Are you calling the new leads that come in immediately or even in the same day? It can be hard to get in contact with these leads due to a dealerships busy schedule. Let's say you do call the lead within the same day, how is your follow up process? Do you call them back the next day? Or maybe next week? This is the conundrum for most dealerships. 

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Topics: Lead Response & Management Lead Generation CRM