Your Inventory is Just Stationary Objects

 Your vehicle inventory consists of stationary objects waiting for a buyer to move them.  As a dealer, you spend X amount on advertising your dealership and inventory.  You spend X amount having your vehicles listed on large third-party vehicle marketplace sites that suggest other dealers' vehicles to their audience, potentially flipping a buyer from your unit to another dealer. Hoping for a buyer to land on one of your vehicles is an expensive marketing strategy.

As a Lifted Truck Dealer Coalition member, once you have upfitted a vehicle with our package, it becomes very active virtually, and we put it in front of potential buyers.  You stock our Bear Lifted Trucks, and we'll get you the buyers!

Benefits of Being a Lifted Truck Coalition Dealer

▪Lower cost to stock new lifted trucks. You already have the chassis

▪Additional revenue streams for your dealership

▪Identify your dealership as a lifted truck dealer

▪Additional upfit opportunities for walk-ins, such as "I want my truck lifted!"

▪Additional visibility for your dealership

▪Additional opportunity to have buyers consider your non-lifted inventory

▪A third-party business that's actively driving buyers to your inventory

As a new lifted truck dealer, you have no competition!  

Consumer demand exceeds supply!

https://conversionsforsale.com/dealer-coalition

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