Brickell Honda Buick GMC Marketing Success Story

1. 2
2011
APRIL

2. Intelligent Marketing Plan Helped Brickell Motors
Grow 1000%
Under the leadership of Mario Mur- media, publicity, niche marketing, and The basis of Brickell’s strategy begins
gado, President and CEO, Brickell reputation management. Murgado with market research. Brickell sought
Motors has sold more Honda and GM also felt strongly that pro-active in- to identify consumers with the highest
vehicles in the last 10 years than over volvement in the local community and statistical probability of doing business
the previous thirty years combined by effective advertising to the local Latino with their dealerships and to target
using intelligent, innovative and inte- population would be key to the success those customers and prospects with
grated marketing strategies that have of the Brickell organization. custom messaging based on the status
helped the organization grow over of their vehicle. “We use a combination
1000%. This Success Story highlights some of of manufacturer research, Polk mar-
the processes and practices that Brick- ket data and the dealer’s historic sales
To build a successful business, Mur- ell Motors has developed to grow its and service trends to map out which
gado knew he would need a highly- organization over 1000% by attracting, customers to target now and in the
effective marketing strategy to affect servicing and retaining more custom- future,” said Budd Blackburn, owner
multiple marketing mediums includ- ers profitably for less cost in a competi- of www.TeamVelocityMarketing, the
ing traditional, digital, targeted, social, tive metropolitan market. targeted marketing company that

3. Success Story
Brickell Motors uses. “With the market Additionally, Brickell incorporates bi- rived in this country. Partnering with
data and our state-of-the-art print tech- lingual messaging on all its marketing this organization was a way to tell the
nology Brickell not only targets the best given the large Latino population in community ‘we are here for you’, and
customers, but is also able to talk intelli- the Miami metropolitan area. With ap- we are still here for them today,” said
gently to their customers based on their proximately 50 million Hispanics living Murgado. With the continued growth
vehicle status,” Blackburn added. in the U.S. Latinos are the fastest grow- of the Hispanic and Latino population
ing demographic in the nation and nationwide it is essential for dealers to
Brickell’s marketing strategy consis- represent over half of Brickell’s market. understand how to market effectively to
tently communicates a cohesive mes- “For us to market successfully within this demographic and Murgado’s back-
sage throughout the five year life cycle the Hispanic community it is impor- ground gives him a natural sensibility
of the customer that begins by thank- tant to be in-touch with the emotional, that is authentic.
ing new customers, providing main- cultural and traditional values of the
tenance and service reminders, recall community,” said Murgado. “It is very easy to work with Mario to
notices, and extended service warranty market Brickell Motors because he is
information. Brickell also has sales re- Brickell has always been actively in- deeply involved and respected in the
tention campaigns that target off-lease volved in the community partner- community so he is very aware of what
and retail finance customers. All Brick- ing early on with Camillus House, a consumers want and what they will re-
ell’s customer communications are de- non-profit organization that provides spond to,” said Sean Wolfington, owner
livered with a message that is unique to humanitarian services to men, wom- of www.Tier10marketing.com, the
the customer’s status whether they are en and children who are poor and company that does all of Brickell Mo-
due for minor service or are eligible to homeless. “Camillus House extended tors’ marketing in both Spanish and
upgrade to a new vehicle. its hands to the first Cubans who ar- English. “There are more Latinos in the
In a Nutshell
Brickell Motors has sold more Honda and GM vehicles in the last 10 years than over the previous thirty
years by implementing an intelligent marketing strategy across all marketing mediums.
• Brickell Motors conducts in-depth market research to nd customers with the highest statistical probability of buying
or servicing a vehicle with their dealership.
• Brickell targets the best in-market customers and prospects with custom messaging specic to the customer’s
vehicle status.
• Brickell Motors uses Video Search Engine Optimization (VSEO) to appear on top of the search engines for the most
popular search phrases in their market.
• Brickell has a comprehensive bi-lingual marketing strategy that targets the growing Latino community.
• Brickell monitors all customer phone calls to ensure sales and service calls are being handled properly and alert
management so they can save a deal today and customers over the long term.
• The Brickell organization is deeply involved in the local community.

4. Success Story
Brickell Honda Promotional Materials

5. Success Story
U.S. than there are Spaniards in Spain Brickell is also a member of the Auto- ship is monitored 24/7 and we send real-
or Canadians in Canada, it is impera- motive Advertising Network (AAN), time alerts so the dealership can repair
tive to know how to market effectively the 3rd most popular lead generation broken relationships before it’s too late,”
to this population.” platform, after Auto Trader and Cars. said Chip King, owner of www.CallRevu.
com, which generates thousands of com, the company Brickell uses.
Always looking for opportunities to in-bound links that increase Brickell’s
reach out to the community, Brickell online ranking. “If you search google “This system also helps us track our ad-
also developed a special niche market- for “Miami Honda”, Brickell Honda vertising to see what marketing initiatives
ing program for local teachers with pops-up as the first Honda dealer for are generating the most response – it’s a
a “Back to School” promotion that the region and in a competitive online real eye-opener when you discover that
honored all Miami area public and market that’s where you want to be – calls you thought were simply coming in
private school teachers with an exclu- on top,” said David Boice, co-founder off our web site are actually initiating from
sive special of only $50.00 over Brickell of AAN (www.automomotiveadver- other campaigns that directed consumers
employee pricing on any new Honda tisingnetwork.com). to our web sites. It helps us prioritize our
in-stock, and the teachers kept all in- marketing dollars more efficiently,” Mur-
centives. “We consider today’s educa- Brickell also utilizes Video Search En- gado explained.
tors pillars of the community who gine Optimization (VSEO) to appear
continue to educate our youth during at the top of search engines for highly “We spend a lot of money to attract cus-
a time of unprecedented budget cuts competitive search phrases. Consum- tomers and we want to make sure we ex-
and economic adversity. We would ers in the Miami market who search ceed their expectations. My managers are
like to extend this special thank you for vehicles online immediately find alerted immediately whenever a potential
to them,” said Murgado. Their invest- positive videos about Brickell and the problem or concern arises so that we can
ment in the community is sincere, cars they sell because Google gives 55 quickly reach out to the customer and
whether through special teacher pro- times more authority to video than text hopefully fix whatever concerns they may
grams or charitable works the Brickell results, said Karry Moore, President have and create a customer for life,” said
organization is a true member of the of www.Car-mercial.com, the VSEO Murgado.
community. company that Brickell uses. “Video
combines the power of sight, sound
Brickell’s commitment to outstanding and motion that gets the customer
customer sales and service has made excited and drives them to Brickell,”
them a stand-out in the Miami area. added Moore.
They are rated the #1 Honda Dealer
in Miami by Google reviews so when Murgado has a passion for excellence
you google Brickell Honda every result and sets the bar high for his employ-
is positive which is not typical for most ees to make sure that every customer
dealers. “To make it easy for our cus- is handled with the utmost care, “We
tomers we built a web site, www.Brick- strive to clearly and honestly explain
ellMotorsReviews.com, that gives our the products and services that we offer.
customers step-by-step instructions Our customers want to be respected
on how to share their positive reviews,” and understood, and it’s up to us to
Murgado explained. make this happen,” said Murgado.
“Every call that comes into the dealer-
Teacher Appreciation Program