Tag Archive for: Selling Auto Parts Online
6 Reasons Why Manufacturers Should Advertise on Google or Bing With Paid Search Ads
Automotive MarketingWhy advertise on Google: If you're in the automotive specialty equipment industry, learn about digital advertising for manufacturers. Here are 6 important reasons to advertise on Google or Bing right now. Paid search, or pay per click (PPC)…
What You Should Know About Google’s Quality Score (or, How to Save 50% on AdWords)
Automotive MarketingIf you're a Google AdWords advertiser selling car, truck, ATV or motorcycle parts and accessories, you may already know the importance of your Quality Score. You might not know how it affects your bid or how to improve it, so we thought this…
Auto Parts Customer Behavior in Google Analytics (or, Where the Heck Do My Customers Come From??)
Automotive Market Research, Automotive MarketingYou can improve automotive SEO and Google AdWords paid search results by understanding how automotive parts and accessory customers originally find your website, and how they return to make a purchase. You can discover a lot of information…
Increase Relevance (and Sales!) with Email Segmentation
Auto Aftermarket News & Trends, Automotive Marketing One of the most popular channels to reach consumers is through email marketing, yet countless marketing messages go ignored and unread. We're all bombarded with thousands of marketing messages throughout the day, and people run avoidance measures…
2 Things to Know About How Consumers Perceive Price
Auto Aftermarket News & Trends, Automotive Market Research, Automotive MarketingToday we'll give you a look at how consumers perceive prices when shopping according to Decode Implicit Marketing.How you present a price greatly affects if a consumer perceives the product as "expensive" or "cheap." Research shows that…
Grow Sales With New Products From the SEMA Show
Auto Aftermarket News & Trends, Automotive Market Research, Automotive MarketingWelcome back to the Hedges & Company blog, today we cover how to grow your sales with new products. We're introducing a new term for some of our readers, the New Product Ratio (NPR).The specialty auto parts industry thrives on new products…
Trend 18: Where Consumers Find Information on Engine Parts, by Age Group
Auto Aftermarket News & Trends, Automotive Market Research, Automotive MarketingToday we are going to look at some of our own research to give you an idea of where enthusiasts go to find information about engine parts. We will also look at how certain age groups tend to visit different outlets to find their answers.As…
Trend 22: The Importance of Email in Online Shopping
Auto Aftermarket News & Trends, Automotive Market Research, Automotive MarketingWelcome back to our blog! Today we will give you a look at how important email is when driving up sales during the holiday season.Email is an important tool for increasing your online traffic, as well as sales— especially on key promotional…
Amazon and 3 Predictions for the Automotive Aftermarket
Auto Aftermarket News & Trends, Automotive Market Research, Automotive MarketingOur series of automotive trends continues with our predictions on one of the automotive aftermarket's largest retailers, Amazon.Prediction 1: Amazon will start charging sales tax. More states are following suit in the bid to make Amazon charge…
eBay and 3 Predictions for the Automotive Aftermarket
Auto Aftermarket News & Trends, Automotive Market Research, Automotive MarketingThe online giant eBay is growing and evolving with both consumers and merchants in mind. It's now more than an online auction site and "the world's online marketplace." It has evolved into sales platforms and technologies, through its many subsidiaries,…
2 Things to Know About 2012 Auto Parts Sales
Auto Aftermarket News & Trends, Automotive Market ResearchToday we look at the aftermarket trend of retail sales of auto parts and accessories for the first half of 2012. Our preliminary 2011 forecast put the entire industry up 4.5% over 2010 and it came in at 5%. Here are two things you should know…
2012 Online Sales of Auto Parts Growing
Auto Aftermarket News & Trends, Automotive Market Research, Automotive MarketingNote: this article was originally published in April 2012, for an updated forecast, click here for a more current article.With the Catalyst 2012 conference this week -- ChannelAdvisor's annual ecommerce gathering -- we thought this…
