Auto Brand Podcast

Are you underfunding your brand growth with a lack of investment in marketing? How much exactly should automotive aftermarket brands be spending on marketing as it relates to the size of their business? Today on the podcast, we’re going to share the average marketing budget size and what one aftermarket brand did to win by far.

The Automotive Aftermarket is having a great year when it comes to sales and growth. However, with seasons of growth comes challenges you may not have faced before. With 2021 being a unique year for the Automotive Aftermarket, we spoke with Jeff Stacey of Aeromotive to get his thoughts on current challenges and get to know more about him and the Aeromotive brand.

We’re back and excited to announce that we have new content coming soon! Tune in for new interviews, new content, and a new host. Master the marketplace like a pro, navigate the intricacies of the automotive aftermarket with ease, grow your brand, increase your sales, and have the time of your life while doing it. Subscribe now and join us for down-to-earth wisdom delivered within an hour or less per episode.

One of the lynchpin activities for brand builders in the automotive aftermarket is launching new products. In this BONUS episode, we’ll walk through the 4-step process of successfully launching new products in the aftermarket. Download the FREE product launch template at https://autobrandpodcast.com/launch

What benefit does networking have on your career or on your brand? What’s it like to be a marketing manager for enthusiast brands, particularly in the off-road segment? Today on the podcast, Lee Riser from Truck Hero talks about her experiences on SEMA Councils, building enthusiast brands, and more on our finale episode for season one.

Have you struggled to effectively and efficiently manage your ACES and PIES product data? Do you find yourself still using spreadsheets or downstream systems like SEMA Data Coop or DCi to create and manage this information? The problem, for years, has been the lack of a great off-the-shelf solution that met all the needs of manufacturers and resellers alike.

Today on the podcast, we’re going to be discussing the challenges facing the aftermarket when creating and managing ACES and PIES data. We’ll also learn about how a new software called PartsHub is bridging the gap and making managing the product catalog easier for everyone.

What is the most important voice you should be listening to in your business, if you truly want to grow? Is it the sales team or engineering? Is it your distributor partners or jobbers? Is it the marketing guru, the CMO or Vice President of Marketing?

Today on the podcast, we’re going to talk to Jason Ehrlich, President of Yonder, a brand and product launch agency that specializes in the automotive aftermarket. We’ll discuss the importance of consumer-level market research and the impact it should have on your brand.

We’ve heard for years that young people are killing the automotive aftermarket. But is it true? Today on the podcast, we’re going to dive into the 2019 SEMA Market Report where Ryan will divulge the top ten learnings and what we can all do to move forward and continue to grow.

How do you come up with innovative ideas and bring them to market as products? How do you make sure you’re developing products that your customers actually want? Today on the podcast, we’re going to talk with Michael Hall about how he comes up with innovative ideas at Hall Labs, a modern day Edison Lab, with products in the automotive aftermarket.

Search engines are the number one way consumers will look for your brand, according to the latest SEMA Market Research report. What can we do as automotive aftermarket brands to maximize this opportunity and make sure that our websites are positioned to get the most traffic possible.

Today on the podcast, we’re going to discuss the top 3 things you should be doing to maximize search engine traffic.