--- title: The Future Of Automotive Digital Marketing Support description: An in-depth look at the future of automotive digital marketing and what automotive digital marketing support services can do to help your dealership. image: https://www.computan.com/hs-fs/hub/482618/file-2431835046.jpg --- [Skip to main content!](https://www.computan.com/blog/the-future-of-automotive-digital-marketing-support#main_content) [![Computan Logo](https://www.computan.com/hs-fs/hubfs/computan-site-logo.png?width=250&height=50&name=computan-site-logo.png) ](https://www.computan.com/) # The Future Of Automotive Digital Marketing Support 2 Minutes Read   |   February 9, 2015 - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share)   You don’t need a crystal ball or a 1985 DeLorean to see where the future of [automotive digital marketing](https://www.computan.com/5-good-practices-for-automotive-digital-marketing) is headed. Just look at another one of your business areas for insight: IT. Back in the day IT people at the dealership used to fix and troubleshoot printers, fax machines, devices and configure email accounts all day. While the IT person was fire-fighting While your IT person was too busy troubleshooting Outlook for you the IT industry exploded with an array of easy-to-use applications to make IT administration a breeze. Physical and remote support through apps like [LogMeIn](http://logmein.com), [TeamViewer](http://teamviewer.com), [Lync ](http://lync.com)and [GoToMeeting ](http://gotomeeting.com)made supporting and pro-actively monitoring technology from anywhere a breeze. IT support costs decreased and availability of IT support increased. ### Helpdesks are no longer - Outsourced technical help is in Most dealerships have done away with their in-house ‘help desk.’ They still keep a technical person on staff, but mainly because that person knows the organization. These techies cringe at your sales manager’s sticky notes to remind them of calls and suggests a CRM like [One Eighty](http://www.oneeightycorp.com/en/) or [DealerSocket](http://dealersocket.com/). These people act as the CIO now. Most dealerships outsource the IT support function of their business to [Managed Service Providers](http://www.mspalliance.com/blog/definition-of-managed-services/) (MSPs). It’s the MSP’s job to support, grow and maintain your technology on a fixed budget for the dealership. Training and providing technicians is on them. Not you. They have the people, technical knowledge and availability that one or two in-house IT help desk guys could never have.  ### The Automotive Digital Marketing Phenomenon The same phenomenon is happening in automotive digital marketing.  Your current ‘digital’ person may be the one uploading specials every month, managing search campaigns and responsible for getting leads. Their role will need to change to something more results-based than task-based for them to survive.  In reality they need to build a back-end digital marketing team, but probably don't have the money for it. The digital marketing director can then source the work to an [automotive digital marketing support agency](http://computan.com/automotive-digital-marketing-services/) on making sure that your digital needs are met. These are like the MSPs for your digital that can manage your websites, develop apps, SEO/PPC initiatives and creative design all under one roof. They’ll give you as much or as little support as you need and cost less than hiring in-house people or contractors to deliver.  ### Digital Tactics for Car Dealerships The amount of digital avenues, tactics and tools available to support car dealerships is exploding. Your digital marketing director needs to swim through those products and pick the right ones for your automotive digital marketing strategy. They knows automotive and digital marketing well. That’s their value. [Not in supporting websites](https://www.computan.com/does-my-website-suck-ask-yourself-these-questions). The digital marketing director needs to make you the map to get more leads and sales opportunities for your dealership, but they won’t make the DeLorean to get you there.    They’ll get the automotive digital marketing support services from Doc and Marty!   [![where do I get a free website assessment ](https://no-cache.hubspot.com/cta/default/482618/ef3c49b1-709f-4c23-af84-4dba23787656.png)](https://cta-redirect.hubspot.com/cta/redirect/482618/ef3c49b1-709f-4c23-af84-4dba23787656) ![Sajeel Qureshi](https://www.computan.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Images/Sajeel%20Qureshi%20headshot1.jpg?width=132&height=132&name=Sajeel%20Qureshi%20headshot1.jpg) ### About Author [Sajeel Qureshi](https://www.computan.com/blog/author/sajeel-qureshi) Hi, I'm Sajeel and I head up the day-to-day operations at Computan. 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