TRADER commissioned research of Ontario dealership traffic reveals a 56 per cent increase in unique visitors and an 81 per cent increase in total visits month-over-month from May to June 2020 TORONTO, ON – July 16, 2020 – TRADER Corporation, Canada’s leading digital automotive solutions provider, continues to analyze consumer behaviour to provide
Our latest gotrader.ca user study dives into the minds of car shoppers, to provide our dealer partners with key considerations to make while reopening and retooling their dealership sales operations to align with the needs and desires of consumers. We surveyed roughly 600 Canadian car shoppers who are currently in-market to purchase a vehicle. The
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If you’ve attended a mere handful of automotive tradeshows and conferences over the past few years, you’ve likely heard at least a few industry experts sound the alarm bell regarding industry disruption. These pesky disruptive forces they most often touted were the Ubers, the Lyfts and the millennials of the modern world. You’ve been told
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As part of our pledge to help our dealer partners get past the current restrictive business conditions and come out stronger on the other end, we are continuing to analyze consumer behaviour on the marketplace and share that data with you, while providing guidance and tools to meet consumer expectations. Over a two-week period, in
Our recent consumer research study showed that dealership websites are one of the top three online sources used by car shoppers today. When they arrive to the dealer website, shoppers have already established the vehicle they want and are narrowing down which dealership they will be purchasing from. Due in part to physical distancing measures
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Over the past few weeks we have analyzed how COVID-19 has resulted in changes to consumer shopping trends on gotrader.ca. Thus far, traffic and vehicle detail page (VDP) views have remained steady, as consumers continue to use the marketplace to shop for their next vehicle, although 57% say that their time to purchase is over
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We are continuing to analyze the trends on the gotrader.ca marketplace with our Director of Marketing Intelligence, Baris Akyurek. Here are our finding’s from the week of April 6th, 2020. “Last week, the amount of visits and unique visitors to the marketplace remained stable in comparison to the prior week. What’s most interesting to note
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In order to build a sound business approach and strategy, given the current operational limitations posed by COVID-19, it’s crucial for automotive dealers to understand the present-day intentions of Canadian car buyers. As Canada’s leading digital automotive solutions provider, we commissioned the team at DIG Insights to survey 2,800 Canadians and focus in on those
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Week by week we continue to analyze the trends on the gotrader.ca marketplace with our Director of Marketing Intelligence, Baris Akyurek. “In the past week, interestingly, we saw about a 6% increase in visits while unique visitors maintained consistent with the previous week. VDP’s increased by approximately 12%. A very slight decrease in leads indicate
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It’s no surprise that COVID-19 has had an impact on the automotive market. While many expect car sales in the short term may be lower than usual, there are strong signals that buyers are still very much in market and doing research. For example, on the gotrader.ca marketplace during the week of Mar. 23, 2020,
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