Force Marketing Alternative for Car Dealerships

Trade a media retainer for exclusive local leads that land in a CRM built to call, text and desk them, with the source on every record.

Force Marketing is an automotive digital advertising agency. Its public positioning centers on paid media for franchise dealerships and dealer groups: paid search, paid social, display, online video and streaming TV, along with participation in the digital advertising programs manufacturers run for their franchised stores. The shape of the purchase is agency execution. The agency plans the media, buys it, produces the creative and brings a performance report to a monthly review.

For a store without anyone in house who wants to think about media, that model has a real appeal. Somebody else owns the calendar and the spend, and the dealer principal gets a meeting instead of a project.

Services, packaging, management fees and terms change over time. Confirm current pricing and terms with the vendor directly, and ask to see the media spend and the management fee as separate lines so you know what each dollar buys.

A search for an agency alternative almost always starts after one specific frustration, and naming it first saves a lot of demo time.

Clicks are not customers. The report shows impressions, click through rates and cost per click, and the sales manager wants to know how many people he can call today. Stores start shopping when they want the output to be a name, a phone number and a vehicle of interest.

The response lands somewhere else. An ad drives a form fill or a call, and then it lands in a website inbox, a separate CRM or a call tracking dashboard that nobody on the floor opens. The agency did its part, and the lead still went cold.

Attribution arguments. Every vendor has a dashboard, every dashboard claims the same sale, and the month end meeting becomes a debate about whose number is real.

Terms. A long agreement or a retainer that renews on its own makes it hard to try something new on one rooftop.

LeadLocate is built for exactly those four problems. The output is a lead in your CRM with its source attached, the CRM starts working it the second it arrives, and the plan runs month to month.

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Leads, not only traffic. In Leads Manager your store draws its zone with the zone editor, checks zip stats and a market scan, picks the campaign type, writes the prescreening questions, sets Custom Offers and previews sample ads with See Samples. Our team builds and runs the campaigns from those selections on the webXintel Ads Network, which is included with every plan. Stores that also want campaigns under their own ad accounts can have our team set that up on request.

Exclusivity. Every lead in your zone is delivered to you and only you, prescreened at capture with the questions you choose, and backed by a replacement review, so a bad lead costs you nothing. Buyer leads are a mix of VIN specific shoppers and people describing what they want, and opt in seller leads come from local owners who asked for an offer on their vehicle.

The CRM in the same subscription. Leads always come with the platform, because the CRM is what receives, routes and works them. There is no separate tool to buy and no second login to chase.

One bill, month to month. CRM Only starts at $199 a month and lead plans start at $799, with no long term contract. Staying is your decision every month.

Features, packaging and pricing change. Confirm anything that drives your decision directly with each vendor before you sign.

Media only pays when somebody answers the response. LeadLocate starts working a lead the second it arrives. Automated Templates send the first text for each feed on arrival, Texting Chatbots handle the first reply, and Follow Up Processes carry a multi step drip per lead type so the fourth and fifth touches happen whether or not the rep remembers them. Round robin assignment and lead routing rules per rooftop put the lead in front of the right person, and Manager Lead Copies put a manager on any feed.

The conversation happens on one record. Texting with MMS and delivery status on every bubble, RCS with automatic SMS fallback, email from your own authenticated domain, the VoIP softphone with click to call, voicemail drops and scheduled sends all log to one communications timeline. The Phone Validator and Email Validator show a validity dot on the lead, so reps stop dialing dead numbers.

When the shopper is ready, DealTracker desking pencils cash, finance and lease with the fifty state tax matrix, the customer deal page carries the numbers to the shopper's phone for review and e-signature, and SecureWebX apply links collect the credit application. See the full CRM feature rundown for the rest.

Attribution arguments end when every lead carries its source from the moment it is created. In LeadLocate the Lead Feeds Manager gives each source its own feed, so leads from your zone campaigns, your website forms and your third party providers arrive labeled. Every source can have its own tracking phone number, and every call on it is recorded and transcribed on the lead.

Website forms connect through your form intake link, so a form on your dealer site or a landing page creates a lead in the CRM with its fields mapped and its source intact. Trackable short links with click stats show which texts drew a response. Visitor analytics inside the CRM show sources, top pages, sessions and devices for your lead pages and salesperson sites.

Reports then roll it up: activity reporting for each rep, company reporting for the rooftop and management reporting for the group. The sales manager reads results by source from the same system that worked the leads, rather than reconciling three dashboards. Our page on dealer marketing attribution goes deeper on setting it up.

Call Alerts with Alert Keywords add one more layer. Transcribed calls are checked for the words your store chooses, such as trade in, payment or cancel, so a manager hears about the calls that matter without listening to every recording.

Some stores move their lead supply to LeadLocate and keep an agency for brand media, a manufacturer program or a big seasonal event. That split works cleanly. Point every source the agency drives at its own feed in the Lead Feeds Manager, give each campaign its own tracking number, and every response lands in the same CRM beside your exclusive local leads, labeled by source.

Now both vendors are measured by the same yardstick: leads worked and appointments set, read from one set of reports. The agency's dashboard stops being the only record of what its media produced, and your store owns the conversation with every customer no matter which ad brought them in.

The other direction works too. A store that decides agency media is no longer earning its fee can phase it out one channel at a time as LeadLocate carries lead supply, so fresh calls keep arriving the whole way through. Our page on advertising agency alternatives lays out which pieces are separable.

1. List every source. Write down each campaign, landing page, form and phone number the current agency runs, and who owns the ad accounts and the creative.
2. Stand up the CRM first. Add users and roles, import contacts, set Follow Up Processes and Automated Templates, and connect your website forms through the form intake link.
3. Make your Leads Manager selections. Draw the zone, choose the campaign type, write prescreening questions and review sample ads with See Samples.
4. Overlap before you cancel. Run both for a few weeks so no response goes unanswered during the change.
5. Measure on your own numbers. Time to first response, touches per lead and appointments set, read from the CRM itself.

Training comes with every plan through the video training library, Live Training and Schedule Training on the top bar, and every account is set up for your market, usually the same day. An inventory feed and DMS access are not required to run the platform.

One more thing, stated plainly. We cannot guarantee lead counts, appointments, close rates or sold units, because those depend on your market, your inventory and your team, and no vendor can. What LeadLocate delivers is every lead in your zone, a CRM that works it from the first second, and reporting that shows you exactly what it produced. The demo shows it running on real lead flow.

Is LeadLocate an advertising agency?

LeadLocate is a lead generation platform with a full CRM built in. Your store makes its selections in Leads Manager, our team builds and runs the campaigns on the webXintel Ads Network, and the leads land in your CRM ready to work.

Can we keep our agency and use LeadLocate?

Yes. Give each agency campaign its own feed and tracking number, and every response lands in the LeadLocate CRM beside your exclusive local leads, so both are measured on the same reports.

Are the leads exclusive to our store?

Yes. Every lead in your zone is delivered to you and only you, prescreened at capture with the questions you choose, and backed by a replacement review.

Can campaigns run under our own ad accounts?

Yes, on request. The webXintel Ads Network is included with every plan, and stores that also want campaigns under their own ad accounts can have our team set that up for them.

How do we see which source sold the car?

Each source gets its own feed in the Lead Feeds Manager and can have its own tracking number, website forms keep their source through the form intake link, and Reports break results out by source.

What does it cost to try?

CRM Only starts at $199 a month. Inbound buyer lead plans start at $799, Marketplace Acquisitions seller lead plans at $999, and the Buyers & Sellers Hybrid Plan at $1,599, all month to month.

We will map a zone around your store, show you sample ads for your market, and walk your managers through the CRM working real lead flow. Month to month, so staying is your call every month.

Prefer to talk right now? Call or text 844-376-2274.