At a time when Barrack Obama and company are searching for a way to save Detroit, a mid-sized dealership in Gainesville FL, is posting impressive numbers. A seo company in Florida has helped make this dream a reality at a time when many car dealers are closing up shop. This achievment proves that American franchised dealers can in fact become profitable.

In spite of the times, Santa Fe Ford’s used cars and trucks are selling faster than Girl Scout cookies at a milk parade. A marketing firm in Florida, MarketinginFlorida.com has directed the bulk of Santa Fe Ford’s internet marketing campaign toward ranking the dealership highly for used car Gainesville

“During the past 8 months I have gotten out of my entire stock of problem inventory, almost completely via retail sales, and for the first time in many years I have a used car department that is quite profitable. Marketing in Florida’s online marketing services and our competitive pricing strategies have been directly responsible for the upticks in my pre-owned sales department. We spend next to no money advertising our used inventory other than our online marketing efforts and currently, about 72% of our sales come directly from our web marketing.”    Greg Waitcus, VP, Santa Fe Ford.

Santa Fe Ford’s achievments prove that today’s local auto dealers can become profitable if they adapt their business model and online marketing to be in-line with what today’s customers expect. The days of dark shades and key flipping are over. Today’s car buyer knows the market value of vehicles and demands full disclosure before they visit or even call a dealer.

Overwhelmingly, the 20,000+ automotive dealers in America are locally owned businesses that are run by civic-minded businessmen who practice their faith, support their local charities and treat their customers extremely well. With a North Florida Ford dealership posting massive returns month after month, Barrack Obama and friends must discover a way for the Detroit auto makers to become sustainable. If GM is allowed to go up in smoke, the ripple effect will bankrupt America.

In a Detroit bankruptcy, it is the local dealers that will be asked to cover the loss on all of their new inventory. It is not the manufactures that are floating all that inventory, it is the local dealerships. With bankrupt automakers, all of the dealership’s existing new inventory would have to be instantly written down to auction levels as the vehicles all of a sudden become no different than used cars without solvent manufacture backing. For nearly all affected dealerships, those write downs would amount to placing them in an immediate default of their loan covenants with their floor planners. Without the cheap financing for their inventory, very few franchised auto dealers can survive.

Across the country domestic auto dealers directly and indirectly support an enormous workforce spanning many industries. They generate enormous amounts of state and local tax revenue and make a great span of political and charitable contributions. With unemployment over 8% and now talk of a jobless recovery, America would have a hard time recovering from loosing GM and Chrysler.

The loss of jobs and tax revenue at all levels would be {staggering|devestating}. Domestic auto dealers are the brute strength of their local economies. Collectively, domestic dealers are the backbone of America. Barack Obama and domestic auto makers must find a way to save Detroit or risk a very real failure of America.

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