Your thoughts on our new online car marketplace?

[kennyNxtcar 0]

Hello all, just joined the forum as I'm after a bit of feedback.

We've just launched our new autos marketplace website, NXTCAR.  We plan to work with dealers to offer an alternative to AT and the like but with simple pricing plans and none of the money grabbing antics.  The idea is to bring dealer and buyer together, without all of the fuss and at a reasonable cost - we're currently offering an unlimited listing, early bird package for £100 a month to the first 50 dealers to come onboard.

It's still early days for us but we're busy working on new features which will streamline the process for both dealers and potential buyers.  We'll be introducing these gradually over the next few weeks and months.

I've been reading with interest about your experiences with the current online marketing options and would be very keen to hear your thoughts on NXTCAR.

You can see the website here >> nxtcar.co.uk

Thanks for any help in advance.

Cheers, Kenny

[David Ayers 171]

My first thought is get a new name.

Googling nxtcar brings up some car wash product from meguiars.

Secondly what secret do you know that Motonovo and their millions of £ don't?

[Nick M.K. 574]

Hi Kenny, 

Welcome to the forum. 

As David above pointed out no new platform irrespective of the amount of money put in it has been able to even come close to AT in terms of advert response. Even multi-award winning platforms bring only a handful of sales per month, even year and for your service to gain any kind of traction it needs to be provided FREE of charge to start and even then not everyone will be interested. 

I wish you and the platform every success though. 

Edited July 16, 2018 by Nick M.K.

[Rory RSC 596]

How much money do you have?

[Nick M.K. 574]

5 minutes ago, Rory RSC said:

How much money do you have?

 

[justina3 518]

Good luck, your asking us to take a punt at £100 a month, can you explain this new feature you have coming on line soon, also be good for you to explain what your going to do different to our current supplier, what sets you apart that kind of thing. 

You have to understand we have all been here many many times before with the new kid on the block promising the world and falling umm very short. 

but as everyone else mentioned good luck. 

 

[Arfur Dealy 823]

6 minutes ago, justina3 said:

Good luck, your asking us to take a punt at £100 a month, can you explain this new feature you have coming on line soon, also be good for you to explain what your going to do different to our current supplier, what sets you apart that kind of thing. 

You have to understand we have all been here many many times before with the new kid on the block promising the world and falling umm very short. 

but as everyone else mentioned good luck. 

 

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[SuperLease 13]

1 hour ago, kennyNxtcar said:

Hello all, just joined the forum as I'm after a bit of feedback.

We've just launched our new autos marketplace website, NXTCAR.  We plan to work with dealers to offer an alternative to AT and the like but with simple pricing plans and none of the money grabbing antics.  The idea is to bring dealer and buyer together, without all of the fuss and at a reasonable cost - we're currently offering an unlimited listing, early bird package for £100 a month to the first 50 dealers to come onboard.

It's still early days for us but we're busy working on new features which will streamline the process for both dealers and potential buyers.  We'll be introducing these gradually over the next few weeks and months.

I've been reading with interest about your experiences with the current online marketing options and would be very keen to hear your thoughts on NXTCAR.

You can see the website here >> nxtcar.co.uk

Thanks for any help in advance.

Cheers, Kenny

Kenny, 

How much traffic does your site get? 

Thanks 

SuperLease

 

 

[sparky 274]

1 hour ago, Rory RSC said:

How much money do you have?

Exactly. Nowhere near enough would be my guess.

[EPV 631]

Best of luck with this mate and I admire your ambition. Asking people to pony up £100 a month based on ambitions and desires is optimistic. As said, it ought to be a free trial at first to build up confidence. Plenty of sites out there offer some sort of free package be it one car free or whatever. 

[kennyNxtcar 0]

Thanks for all your feedback and good wishes, it's very much appreciated and I'm going to bring up all of your points with our team.  

 

If you wouldn't mind taking a few minutes to have a look around, it would be great to get some feedback on the site itself - look/feel etc.

 

Again, thanks in advance.

www.nxtcar.co.uk

[NOACROSS 414]

Hi Kenny. Where are you based?

As you know I’m sure, the difficulty is getting potential users to your website. 

This is where Autoraper’s established brand proves to be their secret weapon.

CarGurus have an interesting and somewhat mildly successful (hugely successful in the US) different angle of pop up and sponsored banners appearing everywhere on your desktop etc.

Motonovo’s Find and Fund is (doomed in my humble opinion) throwing loads of money at TV adverts when spending it pushing the site up the google rankings etc would be better I think, as you’ve got to metaphorically get ‘bums on seats’. 

What is your angle / game plan USP on drawing traffic to your site? You can have the best website in the world but it’s no good if no one lands on it. 

No offence as I couldn’t do better, but it looks a bit old fashioned and basic to me. 

As has been said, you need to offer a basic listing package free and try and grow it, then charge later. You’d draw some revenue from sponsored ads and banners etc maybe. 

Also, good luck with it. 

Edited July 16, 2018 by NOACROSS

[EPV 631]

Looks like an independent dealers website and a pretty basic one at that. To be frank if you're thinking of "offering an alternative to AT" you're all deluded, it looks like it's been put together very cheaply. There's no way of filtering down to a derivative. You can find an Audi A4 for example but no way of filtering on S-Line etc. There's shit loads of "white space" to either flank of the pages which makes it look sparse. It all just looks amateur. I don't want to sound like a prick but even my website is better (Click Dealer site) and I had minimum input into that and that's just for a small independent like me, never mind a mob that wants to rival AT.

Take it constructively, I'm not here to pick a fight but you asked.

 

[David Ayers 171]

No postcode input or distance search.

Choose a county. Seriously??

Sorry but I'm out.

[kennyNxtcar 0]

Again, thanks for your thoughts, all feedback is good feedback.  

 

When I say "offer an alternative to AT', we know not going to get near doing this overnight, it's a process for sure.

 

If anyone else fancies chipping in with their thoughts, then fire away. 

[SuperLease 13]

6 minutes ago, kennyNxtcar said:

Again, thanks for your thoughts, all feedback is good feedback.  

 

When I say "offer an alternative to AT', we know not going to get near doing this overnight, it's a process for sure.

 

If anyone else fancies chipping in with their thoughts, then fire away. 

Ok I have had a look at your site now....

 

Is this a wind up?

[Dave2302 387]

Out of 225 UK Cars, 217 are in Scotland

Big surprise are they getting freebies ??

[justina3 518]

I have looked at the site now as well, and to be frank you can not possibly expect anyone to buy into it will get better game plan, or a process for sure as you call it.

Fail to prepare then prepare to fail springs to mind.  

 

[Arfur Dealy 823]

16 minutes ago, justina3 said:

I have looked at the site now as well, and to be frank you can not possibly expect anyone to buy into it will get better game plan, or a process for sure as you call it.

Fail to prepare then prepare to fail springs to mind.  

 

Agreed. 

[trade vet 701]

Good Luck Kenny

Nice site,unless you have millions to invest in marketing,are you not better off keeping it local or specialised.I was just looking at Carwow results for instance,who are now getting awards for their apparent success.Last set of results show they lost £6m.Meanwhile AT are now valued at £4 billion and getting stronger.

[Row 71]

The site looks like a car dealers site

[c_cars 56]

6 hours ago, SuperLease said:

Ok I have had a look at your site now....

 

Is this a wind up?

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[whitestone679231 113]

Having looked at your site I would be willing to let you advertise my stock for a 12 month trial as long as my website provider was willing to feed your site, if after the 12 month trial I had any positive response then I would consider paying for any further advertising, obviously until then I wouldn’t pay anything but I am sure if all others on this site agreed similar terms you could have a reasonable start, it may take you many years to get noticed and cost tens of millions so unless you have serious backers tread with care.... but good luck

[justlooking 48]

2 hours ago, whitestone679231 said:

Having looked at your site I would be willing to let you advertise my stock for a 12 month trial as long as my website provider was willing to feed your site, if after the 12 month trial I had any positive response then I would consider paying for any further advertising, obviously until then I wouldn’t pay anything but I am sure if all others on this site agreed similar terms you could have a reasonable start, it may take you many years to get noticed and cost tens of millions so unless you have serious backers tread with care.... but good luck

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