Sample Car Dealer Websites

Small Used Car Dealers make up a large percentage of our website hosting customers because we have one of the only systems built for managing used car inventory online.

We almost have an exclusive on low cost website for car dealers since most companies that have developed the tools to manage car dealer galleries online are looking to cash in big and extract as much cash from each customer as possible.

But as a software company, we can make more money by selling it cheaper to more people than by charging more to less people. So we have included all of the car dealer tools right in the standard hosting system for our one low price of $20 a month.

With over 10 years working with thousands of car dealers, we have been able to give them simple tools and keep up with changes in technology. So we are heads above our competitors and a fraction of the cost.

But believe it or not, the hardest part of this whole process is getting the used car dealers to understand what we can give them, to understand the Internet and that our tools are just one component of a website.

As a host we struggle daily trying to make people realize, the website design is not a function of the hosting company! Any website host can host any website design.

Where we do stand out is with our programming and that is how we attract customers, because they can't get the tools we have anyplace else.

But while we spend thousands of hours developing tools like used car galleries, they are looking at the image size, the color of the text and the way the page is laid out.

So we are on different pages, we are in different worlds and to try to bring it all together we have created multiple samples to show them the range of possibilities with their own websites.

But we can only build so many used car dealer website samples and can only so so many designs. We have to build samples for ecommerce, service businesses, review websites and so on. So while we would love to have 100 used car dealer websites it is just not possible.

Car dealers will ask me to see sample websites, and when I show them I often hear moans and groans on their end of the conversation, because they want a website that is different than our samples.

"NO PROBLEM", I say. Show me the website you want yours to look like.

99% of the time it is a competitor down the street who is selling more than them, who they think has done it right no matter how good or bad I might think the design is. They believe that is what they need, and that is what we have to build them.

There are really no limits to the design of any website on pageBuzz.com.

As we say, the only limit is your imagination.

We put up a gallery of 30 plus sample websites not to show people they have to use one of 30 designs, but to show them that here are 30 completely different designs and all of these are possible as well as millions of other designs.

Now the Internet would be very boring if every host offered only 30 different websites to their millions of customers. In fact, you would never know what website you were on because they would all be exactly the same.

So I am not sure why used car dealers are so short sighted when it comes to their own website. They know the want spectacular and we can do that for them, but the trick is figuring out what their version of spectacular is.

Look, some people like the styling of a 1962 Rolls Royce and some like the styling of a 1972 Ford Pinto while others are avid fans of the F-Body Camaros.

Everyone has a different idea of what the term pretty, or special means to them.

So as we build our demo websites for car dealers we know:

• They will see a red website and think, hey, my colors are blue so I can't host my website here.

• The will see a photo of a 1957 Chevy and say, I only sell new cars, I can host my website here.

• They will see a gallery of new Chryslers and say, I only sell Fords, I cannot host my website here.

I am sure they deal with the same problems in their business every single day. Customers that don't want to buy a car because the interior is the wrong color or the ashtray is dirty.

A car could be a great deal, priced at 50% below market value and someone may turn their nose up at it because the hub caps don't match.

Now the dealer knows he can replace the hub caps for about $50 and he tells the customer that, but in the customers mind, that car just does not look right and they will go pay 2 times as much to another dealer that does have matching hub caps.

That is the same game we play with car dealer sample templates and sample websites.

We know we can change anything in just minutes, build any design or swap those hub caps for a set of 20" wheels. But the dealer sees a lemon if they don't see something that inspires them, something that makes them have a jaw dropping reaction.

I am not sure how we can really resolve that problem and consequently we end up losing many potential car dealers who go and pay 10 times as much for something we could have created in 30 minutes.

In many cases, they try systems that only have a few designs like "Car Dealer Search" who uses the same templates for every customer and gives the customer no ability to change, modify or customize it. They charge many times what we do and offer far less. They have no website building tools, slideshow builders or any of the cools car dealer features we offer. But, they get the customer because the website was the right color when they saw it.

But getting people to understand website design is like getting people to appreciate art. Some people like one thing and others like something else. They don't know why or how to make anything that looks like what they like, they just know one piece of art is better than another.

Unfortunately websites are art and people to have to like them to believe in a product.

So no matter how good our product is, no matter how good or network and technology are if there is a blemish in the paint, we can't sell it.

Now I appeal to all used car dealers, would you pass up a $200,000 Rolls Royce for $20,000 because it has a scratch in the paint? Or can you see the value and have the paint fixed and sell the car for a huge profit?

pageBuzz.com has more to offer the small used car dealer than any other website hosting company and you can't judge what your website will look like based on a few used car dealer sample websites.