Forecasting Tool

No. You are buying a Marketing Effort Level: the advertising exposure and campaign work we put behind your settings. Lead estimates come from our software and are based on your settings and your effort level. They are estimates, not a guaranteed number of leads or a minimum, and actual results may be higher or lower. Your monthly price does not change with the number of leads, including in a month with few or no leads.

From what our campaigns produce at each effort level right now, applied to the real figures for your Market Area and your settings. We build the ads, we fund them, and your campaign stays active all period on a schedule we set and keep tuning. How many people in your town answer in a given month is up to your market, so the number is an estimate, and every level adds about the same exposure. Here's the part we control, and we stand behind every bit of it. Every lead lives in your area, has a working phone number and email, was shopping for a vehicle when they filled out the form, and belongs to you alone. If one of those doesn't hold up, we replace it.

No. An inventory feed is welcome and lets your ads show your live vehicles, but it is not required, which is why salespeople and brokers use LeadLocate too.

Population, households, income, vehicles per household, commute and language figures come from public and proprietary sources for every ZIP code inside your Market Area.

Because those are the three a lead company can truly verify, and we verify every one of them on every lead: the person lives in your Market Area, the phone and email work, and they were shopping for a vehicle when they filled out the form. Everything else on the form is what the customer told us, and you see it word for word, which is far more information than most shoppers ever hand over. Three things we check ourselves, backed by a replacement policy in writing, are worth more than a long list nobody stands behind.

We replace it. The path is simple and it's written down. Work the lead in the CRM so there's a record, which means at least five attempts by call, text and email on different days in the first seven days. Then pick Report to QC on that lead in the CRM within 10 days of delivery and say what happened. Our in house quality team takes it from there. Each lead gets one request, so report as you go instead of saving a batch for the end of the month. Report it the right way and a fresh lead takes its place. Replacement is always a lead, never a refund.

Yes, and you set it yourself in Leads Manager, right inside your account: the audience, the finance profile, and the vehicles that match what you can get bought, so the right shoppers see the right offer. One thing worth knowing, and it works in your favor: campaigns that involve vehicle financing run under fair lending rules, so the audience stays open to everyone in your area. You end up with your whole market instead of a thin slice of it, and plenty of stores find their best gross in deals a filter would have thrown away. Every lead comes to you and only you.

Completely normal, and it's good news. That shopper just told you the body style they want, that they're in the market right now, and roughly where their payment lives. That's a live customer with real information on the table, which is more than you get from most of the traffic that walks the lot on a Saturday. Almost everybody researches first and plans to negotiate. Your desk does this every day, and these are the conversations it was built for. There's more on it in what to expect from car sales leads.

Nope, and that's part of the appeal. This runs completely on its own and there's nothing to install. Your CRM login, phone number, and lead feeds arrive by email as soon as your account is live. Already love the CRM you have? We push every lead straight into it. Want your actual inventory advertised? Connect a feed and shoppers can ask about a specific unit, VIN and all. Both are easy, and both are yours to choose.

Plenty to work with. Name, phone number, and email. The vehicle they asked about, with the VIN when it came from your advertised inventory. Their answers to the prescreening questions you picked, like estimated credit, money down, trade in, and when they're looking to buy. The feed it came through, with a date and time stamp. It lands in your CRM the second it's captured and a text hits your phone with the details, so your rep can call while the customer is still sitting there with the phone in their hand.

Only for the better. Our leads come from our own ads and our own lead pages, so they add to your current sources instead of overlapping them. And anything you already use can feed into the same CRM by email or webhook. One screen, one follow up process, every lead your store gets in front of the same team.

You do. Leads, notes, call recordings, deals, and any contacts you bring in are yours to use for as long as your account is active. Your leads were generated for you and delivered only to you, and nothing in your account is ever handed to another customer. If an account ever closes, it's cleared within a day, so save anything you want to keep before your last day, or open a support ticket at my.leadlocate.com/request-support and we'll get it to you.

Either one, same service and same technology. A salesperson can open a one user account and start working leads this month, and a dealership can open one for the whole team. You don't need anybody's sign off to get started. Messages simply go out under the name of the store you work for.

All of it is a few clicks from inside your account: upgrade, downgrade, add users or Marketing Effort Levels, or adjust your targeting in Leads Manager once each billing period. Ask about Skip a Month if you ever want a breather. It keeps your CRM, your phone number, and your files live while you take a month off from new leads. Every plan and size is on the sign up page, and none of it needs a call.

Fast. The first ones usually land within about a day of your account going live, and they keep posting while your campaign stays active through the period. Nothing sits in a pile waiting to be handed out, which is exactly why these are worth calling: they reach you the second the customer hits submit, while they're still shopping.

That's where your team gets to shine. Every one of them is a brand new customer for your store: a real person in your area who saw our ad, filled out our form, gave a working phone number, and asked to hear from a dealer. Some buy this week, some buy in a couple of months, and the stores that jump on them fastest do the best with them. The hardest part of the job is handed to you: a fresh shopper, already interested, who belongs to you and nobody else. Closing is the part you're already good at.

The CRM lays it out for you in one place: leads in, contacted, appointments set, shows, sold, with every call, text and email logged automatically. The number most managers watch is cost per extra car sold. Take the monthly price, divide it by the extra units your team moved, and hold that up against your gross per copy. Give it a full cycle, because internet shoppers often sign weeks after the first hello, so the wins keep landing after the first two weeks.

It means yours, period. Every lead goes to one account, and that account is yours. Leads are never resold, never shared, and never sent to the store down the street. The customer even gets your contact information, so when your rep calls, they're expecting you. You get the first call, the first appointment, and the first shot at the deal. People still compare, they always have, and being the store they asked to hear from is the best seat in the house.

Your Market Area: the radius around your store you set in Leads Manager, the same one you set in the tool above, in one of five sizes, 10, 20, 30, 40 or 50 miles, for buyer and seller campaigns alike. Every lead has to live inside it to count, so you're always talking to people who can actually drive to you. How many leads you see depends on your settings, your Marketing Effort Level and your local market, and every lead is yours alone. Want more exposure? Add a Marketing Effort Level any time from inside your account.

Your leads stay your leads. Every account runs its own campaigns, and every lead is delivered to exactly one account. What comes to you never goes to them, and theirs never come to you. Nothing is shared, nothing is resold, and nobody else is putting their name on your customers. That's one of the big reasons stores stay with us.

Sure, we love showing them off. There are real examples on our car shopper leads and car seller leads pages. The demo video on this page shows leads landing in the CRM as they arrive.

We do, all of it. The ads, the landing pages, the platforms, and the budget behind them are ours. Your monthly plan buys a Marketing Effort Level: the ad exposure and campaign work behind your settings, plus the software to work every lead. If a platform cools off in your market, our software moves the money to one that's producing. The ad budget is ours, and the leads show up on your screen. You never fund an ad account, never pay ad spend on top, and never pay per lead.

Because we own the whole chain. We run our own ads, our own landing pages, and our own software, all in house. There's no traffic to buy from a middleman and no CRM to rent from anybody, so there's no markup stacked on every lead before it reaches you. You get a better process in one plan, which is a pretty good combination.

More than most people expect. Every plan covers the leads, the ads behind them, the full CRM, your own phone number, unlimited one on one calls, texts, and emails, live training, and support. Every account pays the same published price, listed on our pricing page, so nobody is getting a better deal than you. Want more users or more Marketing Effort Levels down the road? Add them from inside your account whenever you're ready.

It works in your favor. No term, no contract, and you decide every month whether to keep going. Your Market Area is set, your campaigns are built and funded, and your phone number, CRM, account manager, and a ticket system that takes requests at any hour are in place the day you go live, so a paid month is a month that gets fully used on your behalf. Auto billing is yours to switch off at my.leadlocate.com at least ten days before a renewal date, there's no cancellation fee, and every prepaid day is still yours to use. Dealers stay because it works, not because they're locked in.

Press Sign Up on this page. The sign up page opens with the plan and size you picked here already selected. It takes a few minutes, any hour of the day, and no call is needed. We build the account, and your login, PIN, and dedicated phone number come to you by email. If you want to see more of the software first, the demo video is on this page and the full interactive demo runs at demo.leadlocate.com. Your account build starts the moment you sign up.

A company that's been doing this for dealers and salespeople across the country for over a decade. Our pricing, Terms of Service, and Privacy Policy are all public. The demo runs at demo.leadlocate.com with no login. Our iPhone and Android apps are in the App Store and Google Play. A real person answers 844-376-2274 Monday through Saturday, 9 to 6 Pacific, and our offices are in Los Angeles and Sacramento.

A dedicated account manager for your software and account questions, with a direct line, a cell number, email, and chat, plus unlimited live training for you and your team. Requests go in writing through our ticket system, open at any hour, at my.leadlocate.com/request-support, so every one is on record and lands with the right person. Support is included with every account, and when you call, a real person picks up. Getting your team confident in the CRM is the whole job.

Your team does, and that's where your gross comes from. We run the ads and the lead pages, deliver every lead straight to your CRM, and support the software. Your salespeople make the contact, follow up, and sell the car, all inside the CRM, so every call, text, and email is on the record. That record is what backs a quality report, and it shows your account manager exactly where to help with the software.