Spotlight on MMS for Car Dealerships

An industry which been using SMS for quite some time is the automotive industry – and in particular car dealerships – as a means of helping them sell more cars, increase their lead databases, or for service reminders.

Here is an example from Tatango in the U.S. of a Chevrolet Dealership who used a radio campaign with an SMS call-to-action to increase their leads: https://www.tatango.com/blog/chevrolet-dealership-uses-sms-contests-to-generate-leads/

In this example, the dealership managed to build themselves a sizeable database of 4,000 leads which they could market back to.

In this Canadian automotive SMS case study, Prospect Expert – a bureau service for car dealerships uses SMS to decrease their appointment cancellations. (https://www.textmagic.com/customers/case-studies/prospectexpert/)

By extension MMS can also be used by car dealerships to drive car sales in particular. This Zupps dealership used MMS for their “biggest ever car sale event” to help build hype for their 4 day sales event:

Increase Traffic to Your Event Using MMS – Zupps Mt Gravatt Case Study

The Zupps event turned out to be the most successful event the dealer had hosted that year.

We would encourage more car dealers to use MMS to help promote their sales events. MMS marketing has proven successful for many car dealerships already. It makes sense – purchasing a new car is an emotive experience and imagery has been shown to stimulate areas of the brain which heighten our emotions.

This Lamborghini dealer used MMS too promote their launch event, which lead to the event being oversubscribed on the night:

Save the Date for your Next Event with MMS [Lamborghini Brisbane Case Study]

Other applications for MMS for car dealerships might be to setup an auto-responder in the car yard where potential buyers can text in a registration number and receive an MMS on their smart phone with a photo of the vehicle, key specs on the car and potentially a sales persons contact details – very useful for late night browsers. Or setup an alert service for used car sales, whereby potential buyers receive MMS alerts of cars that match their criteria.

If you are an agency or reseller wanting to send car dealership MMS campaigns please contact us for more information and rates. We offer the best MMS rates in Australia.

If you are an existing SMS provider looking for wholesale MMS capability to offer your own automotive customers then please get in touch via our contact form.

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If you have any other comments or questions, or would like to share your own successes with MMS in the automotive industry, then free to leave a reply in the comment box below.

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