CDK Elead will Help Your Company Make Money and Save Money!
February 14, 2022

CDK Elead will Help Your Company Make Money and Save Money!

Sherry Wood | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with CDK Elead

CDK Elead is the auto group's CRM. I use it to manage and market our customer base. I can send email blasts to the whole customer base or target niched-down markets. I can target people that haven't been in service for six months, a year, or never. I can win back market share in service, part, and new or used car departments. I can also keep the salespeople accountable on their own customer base, so they are productive and not just sitting at their desks and playing on their phones. I can keep track of who is coming due on their lease and establish contact with them way before another dealer may try to steal them away.

The reporting it offers is amazing. I can do my monthly reporting and see which lead sources brought in the most leads and which brought in the least amount of leads. This way, I can cut ad spending on the least productive sources and save the dealership a ton of cash. I can also see the BDC results across all the stores and see which department needs more training. This way, all employees from sales, BDC, and service can be much more productive.
  • Reporting
  • Email campaigns
  • Marketing campaigns
  • Studying opportunities for sales and service
  • The service is good, but their staff could use more training
  • Tech support is good, but could also use more training
  • Their visiting reps could also use more training
  • Reporting
  • List pulling
  • Marketing
  • Saved us over $34,000 in a 3 month period
  • Increased our email list by 500
  • Increased sales to service by 20%

Do you think CDK Elead delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with CDK Elead's feature set?

Yes

Did CDK Elead live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of CDK Elead go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy CDK Elead again?

Yes

In CDK Elead, I can search people who were looking for a specific vehicle. If we have a vehicle that comes in and is hard to sell (for some strange color or reason), I can search our database and find between 50-200 customers to sell that vehicle to, reducing our costs of having a low turnover. I can also search and create a list to sell services to customers who have bought a car from us but never serviced with us. For events at the dealership, I can email our whole customer base and send invitations to everyone.

Once, we had a vendor who kept telling us about all the cars they were selling for us. When I was doing the monthly reporting, I found that the company was selling no cars for us, and all the traffic they were driving was spending little time on site, causing a high bounce rate and selling zero cars for us. I was able to prove that they were selling no cars, so we were not going to pay them. It saved our dealerships over $34,000—a significant amount of money. CDK Elead does, will, and can pay for itself many times over. Get it - you won't be sorry.