What Motivates Consumers to Shop Locally

By RLD Staff posted on March 13, 2018 | Posted in Data & Forecasts, Dealership Marketing

G/O Digital, a marketing agency, recently conducted a survey of more than 1,700 people who had shopped locally to get their input on why they do so, what influences them, how they use social media and more.

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No Easy Way Out

By Lynn Marcinkowski Woolf posted on January 29, 2015 | Posted in Best Practices

Source: Lynn Woolf, Managing Editor of Rural Lifestyle Dealer

A recent editorial ("Your #1 Ally Against Big Boxes") shared research that says that customers want smaller, independent businesses to win over big box stores and I suggested strategies to take advantage of that.

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