Going into the 2017 calendar year, AutoVisionTV (http://www.autovisiontv.com/) was experiencing a rapid growth trajectory with their custom TV channel solutions at interaction points in automotive dealerships around the United States. However, one unique opportunity came along, changing our focus for the long-term mission of the company.
“We recognized the ability of the dealership management team to communicate to their customers was important to the overall culture and environment in the dealership. They asked for a way to show the impact of our solution related to their customers” said Will Worosylla, VP and Managing Partner of AutoVisionTV. “We reached out through a partner of ours, Text2Drive (http://www.text2drive.com/), a vendor in a few of our existing stores. We built a campaign of exclusive advertisements on our custom channels which promote new opt-ins for the Text2Drive service, and the results could not have been better!”
“The benefit of controlling screen content has come more into focus this year, as more and more dealerships recognize the asset they have in their television screens. Playing slides that never change does not utilize those assets to their fullest. Our mission became how do we directly impact dealership operations, and revenues, all while creating an environment in these areas that is entertaining yet informative to the customers who are sitting there?”
With that mission, the AutoVisionTV content management team worked with the Text2Drive team to develop a series of advertisements promoting their service. These focued on its benefits and provided calls-to-action with promo codes unique to eachspecific benefit and could be acted upon by using the exclusive texting codes shown on the screens. The results were impressive!
“Immediately, each individual dealership saw a spike in new opt-ins to the Text2Drive service. With the data provided by Text2Drive metrics, we were able to demonstrate the opt-in revenue generated exclusively by our TV ads alone would pay for our screens for the next three years! We now have direct measurements not only of the value of our screens to convey dealership messages, but also a measurement of its value to the revenues of our dealership partners who utilize our custom content-managed channels.”
In the case of Hegg’s CJDR in Mesa, AZ, the AutoVisionTV lounge channel generated 31 new opt-ins during its initial two months. These customers returned sooner and more often resulting in future services generating additional revenue for that store.
"The AutoVisionTV product has shown to be an effective tool in communicating to customers in our dealership”, said Dave Bartlett, Service Director at Hegg’s CJDR. “They create, curate and manage the content for us, which in the case of the Text2Drive product helped us get more customers to opt-in to the service so they become return customers who see additional value in the product and services we offer."
According to Will Worosylla, this is only the beginning of customized in-store communications for the CJDR dealers and their vendors. “We will continue to work with all of our dealership partners on additional ways we can assist in promoting the products and services our clients offer. Our on-going effort is to provide valuable tools they can use to communicate to their customers and drive additional revenues in their service areas through our custom managed channels”.
AutoVisionTV is a division of Unified Brand Signs, Inc. (http://www.unifiedbrand.com/). It is razor focused on optimizing auto dealership communication to visitors and employees in their stores. For more information on AutoVisionTV and custom-managed TV channels at all dealership interaction points, please go to http://www.autovisiontv.com/ or contact Will Worosylla at wworosylla@unifiedbrand.com.
