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Patrick

Downes

Director of Digital Marketing

Patrick spent many years on Madison Avenue before relocating to New York’s Hudson Valley and joining the car biz. After spells as a salesperson and early Internet manager, he joined Ruge’s Auto Group as Director of Marketing in 2012. He enjoys balancing AI and compliance with storytelling and relationship marketing for an almost 100-year-old family-owned dealer group.

speaker sessions

Expand Your Market: 4 Tenets of Marketing Strategy and Vendor Relationships for Dealership Profitability

Led by Wikimotive

What does expand your market mean? It means expanding it geographically and also by reaching new bottom-of-funnel consumers who are not yet exposed to your store(s). This panel will unpack marketing cost efficiencies, growing market share against competition, pitfalls and strategies for lacking vendor communication, and common misconceptions in automotive marketing.

10:15am

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Day 2

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Keynote

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Waterloo Ballroom

Marketing

Data

Sales

Beyond

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Waterloo Exhibit Hall

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