Gubagoo ChatSmart and Virtual Retailing win 2022 AWA Awards
BOCA RATON, Fla. – March 31, 2022 – Gubagoo, the leading provider of digital retailing and conversational commerce for automotive dealerships, announced today it’s been named a winner of a 2022 AWA Award for both Conversational Commerce and Digital Retailing.
Brian Pasch, author and industry leader in automotive marketing strategies, online dealer education, marketing analytics, and digital retailing, announced the awards. “I’m honored to recognize the efforts of many deserving companies who stand out in their areas of expertise and have proven to be thought leaders and innovators this past year,” said Pasch.
Gubagoo continues to exemplify these qualities with its Gubagoo ChatSmart service, which won a Conversational Commerce Award. “ChatSmart has deep integrations to all the touchpoints and messaging platforms that dealers would use,” explained Pasch. “This allows dealers using ChatSmart to have a unified messaging platform across all consumer touchpoints.”
Pasch also named Gubagoo Virtual Retailing as a winner in the Digital Retailing category. Gubagoo Virtual Retailing specializes in supporting all buyer types and expected buying experiences. With Virtual Retailing, a consumer can buy a car completely online, or complete some steps online, and pick-up their deal and transaction in-store exactly where they left off.
At any point of the Virtual Retailing experience, the dealership can see the online shopper’s progress and engage and communicate with them through Gubagoo’s messaging platform to provide a guided and personalized shopping experience.
“Gubagoo Virtual Retailing continues to show great improvements and innovations, especially with new data certifications for OEM programs and DMS integrations,” said Pasch. “This platform continues to be a dealer favorite and dealers who are trying to lean into conversational commerce know that the integration of their messaging and communication platform with their virtual retailing is what helps them stand apart from the competition.”
More than 7,000 dealerships worldwide, including 90% of the top 150 automotive dealer groups in the U.S., use Gubagoo’s chat, texting, behavioral marketing, and digital retailing tools to build trust with customers, generate higher quality opportunities, and sell more cars.
“It’s an honor to be recognized with two AWAs for ChatSmart and Virtual Retailing,” said Brad Title, president of Gubagoo. “We firmly believe it is critical to today’s dealerships to support all types of buyers, and these tools make it possible—and easy—for dealers to provide the kind of experience that the online, in-store, and blended buyer wants.”
The AWAs were created in 2008 to recognize the best vendors in automotive digital marketing. Since then, the AWAs have become a benchmark in the automotive industry for recognizing innovative products in digital retailing, marketing automation, sales process, dealer websites, digital marketing, fixed operations, F&I, training, website merchandising, conversational commerce, business intelligence tools, video technology, OTT, and reputation management.
According to Pasch, this year’s lineup of AWA winners included a number of exciting new products designed to create operational efficiencies for auto dealers, strengthen their brand, and grow their bottom line. In addition to creating new tools, the vendor community fully embraced the challenges and opportunities created by COVID and consumers’ rapid deviation from historical shopping habits. Likewise, companies showed their ability to quickly respond with dealer tools when faced with the anomaly of low/no inventory.
About Gubagoo
Gubagoo is the leading provider of conversational commerce and retail solutions for both automotive dealerships and OEMs. More than 7,000 dealerships worldwide partner with Gubagoo, including 90% of the top dealer groups in America. The company has offices in Boca Raton and Daytona Beach, Florida, and operates in the US, Canada, Mexico, Europe, and Australia. (www.gubagoo.com)
About Brian Pasch
Brian Pasch, Founder of PCG Companies and Brian Pasch Enterprises (BPE), has been actively involved with automotive franchise dealers since 2005. Brian has authored nine bestselling books for the automotive industry: “Remote Retailing Blueprint,” “Just Faster,” “Automotive Marketing Playbook,” “Who Sold It?,” “Swimming with Digital Sharks,” “Mastering Automotive Digital Marketing,” “Selling Cars in a Digital Age,” Unfair Advantage,” and “Hyper-Local Marketing for Automotive Retail.” Brian is an active conference speaker, 20 Group presenter, and coach to both dealers and members of the vendor community. He has presented workshops at NADA, Digital Dealer, DCDW, DrivingSales Executive Summit, Kain Automotive Workshops, Innovative Dealer Summit, Automotive Engagement Conferences, Automotive Boot Camp, AutoCon, VinWorx, TrueCar Dealer Summits, and the Digital Marketing Strategies Conference. Brian is Google Analytics certified and PCG is a Google Premium Partner company.
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