It’s been a very busy few months here at Spidersnet. We’ve been hard at work making improvements to the new version of Autopromotor that is NOW LIVE! We’ve also rolled out a handful of new features and products designed to make your life easier.
On top of all the things you may have already seen, we’ve also been developing a number of new products that will be released next quarter.
Take a look below for a full breakdown of what we’ve been up to during Quarter 2 of 2019…
Facebook Automotive feed
We will soon be rolling out a brand new stock feed to all of our dealers. We have integrated with FB Automotive to allow you to feed your stock to the Facebook Marketplace with ease. This is a fantastic opportunity for you to expose your vehicles to users on the world’s largest social network. You can now get your stock in front of a whole host of new potential customers who are based in your specific area.
We’ll be rolling these new feeds out very soon, so keep your eyes peeled for a Spidersnet update regarding this. In the meantime, if you want to chat further about the upcoming Facebook feeds, get in touch today and speak to our friendly and helpful Support Team.
AutoTrader profile feed
Any AutoTrader customers can now take advantage of our new ‘Profile Only’ feed. This new feed means you can broadcast any vehicles to AutoTrader that are not currently being advertised on the platform.
This means that if you aren’t currently broadcasting a car to the platform, you can now display it on your AutoTrader profile page. These vehicles won’t show up in searches on AutoTrader, but will still be displayed on your dealership’s AutoTrader profile. The huge benefit of this is that it’s free of charge, and means that you can pay to broadcast some of your stock as normal, whilst then displaying all of your other vehicles on your profile page for free.
Below is an example of a dealer making use of this feature…
Here’s a dealer appearing in search results showing that they have seven vehicles advertised…
Then here’s their profile on AutoTrader where they are listing a total of 14 vehicles.
The new Autopromotor – Ongoing improvements
After rolling out the brand new version of Autopromotor a few months ago, we’ve spent a lot of time and resources making improvements to the system based on your feedback. The all new Dealer Management System is going to revolutionise the way you manage your business, and our updates planned for the next quarter will take it to the next level. We hope you’re as excited as we are. In the meantime, take a look at the improvements we made last quarter:
- Media improvements: We’ve listened to feedback and have overhauled the media section to allow for quicker image uploads. We now process images much faster than before allowing you to add and edit vehicles quicker than ever. We’ve also addressed a critical bug which was causing certain images to not upload correctly.
- iOS improvements: We’ve squashed a number of iOS specific bugs which were mainly affecting iPhone users. If you haven’t already used Autopromotor on your mobile, what are you waiting for? Now’s the time to give it a go.
- Change default ‘My Stock’ view: You’re now able to change the default ’My Stock’ view within your profile settings. As standard the stock view will appear in the thumblisting view which shows all results against a thumbnail of the main image. The default view can now be changed between basic listing, thumblisting and grid view to suit your preference.
- Content Review: We’ve audited the content we use across Autopromotor and introduced friendlier, more helpful messaging across the application to make using it even easier.
Visitor Chat now available to Spidersnet dealers
We also recently teamed up with Visitor Chat to provide your website with the latest technology in customer interaction. Thanks to the new partnership between Spidersnet and Visitor Chat, all Spidersnet dealers are able to make use of their first month of Visitor Chat completely FREE!
Visitor Chat is a fast, simple and efficient way of connecting with your website visitors who are viewing your stock right now. Their instant chat box can be added to your website, to allow your customers to interact with your business 24 hours a day, every day of the week.
Click here for more information about Spidersnet’s partnership with Visitor Chat.
Climb the Google rankings!
This quarter also saw us help even more dealers rise through rankings with our Search Engine Optimisation Package. Our dedicated team of SEO professionals are on hand to offer a bespoke, fully tailored package that’s specifically designed to suit your dealership’s needs and budget.
All Spidersnet websites are designed and built with SEO in mind, meaning they’re already very capable of performing well on search engines such as Google.
However, with some extra work, carried out by skilled professionals, your website can appear in more prominent positions for specific search terms. Being visible is now more important than ever before. You can find out more about our SEO package here.
COMING SOON – 360 Promotor
We’ve also been working hard to develop our upcoming product – 360 Promotor. This brand new app will offer you the chance to create interactive 360 images of your vehicles so you can show off the interior and exteriors of your stock in detail. We will be in touch soon with more information about this innovative new product!