Car dealer leads for marketing agencies

Build your own list of car dealers, fill in missing emails and offer your marketing, advertising and growth services to them in small, personal batches.

Public sources for car dealers
Fields that fit the industry
No credits, no rented data

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Campaign results in Riftjaw with sent, opened and clicked per contact

Selling marketing, advertising and growth services to car dealers

Car dealers range from independent used car lots to franchised dealerships with separate sales, service and parts teams. Independents decide quickly through the owner, while franchise groups often buy centrally and follow manufacturer rules.

Most marketing agencies win clients through referrals, a few directories and the odd cold email sent from a spreadsheet. A lead database of your own lets you build a list per niche and region, see who you already contacted and follow up without losing track.

Every month you do not reach car dealers with a clear offer, someone else does. A list you own lets you work the market in a steady rhythm instead of in bursts.

What marketing agencies run into with car dealers

Prospect lists for each niche end up in separate spreadsheets that nobody keeps up to date.

Import every list into one lead database, split it with segments per niche or region and keep one status per company.

Local businesses often show a website but no email address.

Email from domain derives role addresses such as info@ and hello@ from the website, with no credits to spend.

Independent lots and franchised dealers need very different offers.

Add a Franchised or independent field and save a filter for each group.

Dealer groups show up many times, once per site.

Keep a Dealer group field and tag head office contacts, so you know when to talk to the group instead of each site.

A week of prospecting in Riftjaw

Monday: collect

Export a batch of car dealers from public listings and import it. Duplicates are skipped.

List of imports and scrapes in Riftjaw — Every import stays on record with its lead file, date and status.

Tuesday: fill in

Derive missing emails with info@, sales@, enquiries@ and service@ and tag the records that look like a fit.

Contacts list in Riftjaw with company, phone, email, segment, campaigns and tags — Contacts in Riftjaw, one row per company with phone, email, segment and campaigns.

Wednesday: reach

Send one mail about your marketing, advertising and growth services to the new segment, in small batches.

Segments in Riftjaw, each with its own name and number of contacts — Segments such as property managers in London or roofers in the North, each ready to use in a campaign.

Friday: follow up

Opens and clicks show up on each record. Set the ones who answered to Replied or Customer, so the follow-ups of the campaign skip them.

Contact panel in Riftjaw with pipeline status, tags, details and campaign history — One record per company: New, Contacted, Replied or Customer, with tags and every campaign it got.

What to say to car dealers

Write one mail with placeholders and let the details change per record. These openings tend to work with car dealers.

Lead with selling stock faster, because every day a car sits on the forecourt costs money.
Talk about better photos and listings, which strongly affect how many buyers get in touch.
For dealers with a workshop, focus on service bookings and repeat business after the sale.

Campaign editor in Riftjaw: pick a segment, write the mail and set the button — A new campaign in Riftjaw, with segment, status and tag filters, a test send and a preview.

Fields worth recording for car dealers

Add these as fields in your lead file. Any column in your import can become a field.

Field	Why it helps
Company name	The key field. Duplicates are checked on it or on the website.
Website	Needed to derive an email when the export has none.
Franchised or independent	Franchise dealers often buy through a group or follow brand rules.
Brands sold	Shows which manufacturers they represent.
Stock size	A rough sense of stock tells you how much marketing they need.
Workshop on site	Dealers with a workshop also buy parts and service tools.
Dealer group	Tells you whether decisions are made at head office.

Questions people ask

Should I contact each dealership site or the group?

For group owned sites, decisions are often made centrally. Record the group in a field and put head office contacts in their own segment for those offers.

Can I record which brands a dealer sells?

Yes. Add a Brands sold field to your lead file and save filters on it.

How do I get email addresses for car dealers in your area?

If your file has an email column, that wins. If it only has websites, tick the prefixes you want, such as info@, sales@, enquiries@ and service@, and Riftjaw derives addresses from each domain. Derived addresses are good guesses, not verified, so start with small batches.

Is it free to start?

Yes. The Free plan runs the whole pipeline on one list with small campaigns, and you do not need a credit card. Move to Pro when you want more lists, segments and bigger campaigns.