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Car Dealers in Vancouver: build your lead list

Build your own list of car dealers in Vancouver, fill in the missing emails and reach them in small batches. No credits, no rented data.

  • Public sources for car dealers in Vancouver
  • Missing emails derived from websites
  • No credits, no rented data
Profile fields in Riftjaw with the number of contacts that have a value

Your own Vancouver list of 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.

Working car dealers in Vancouver goes faster with one clean file for the city and a segment per neighbourhood or nearby town such as Victoria, Calgary and Edmonton. Status and tags show who is new, contacted or already a customer.

Most sellers work from a bought list that everyone else has too. A list of car dealers in Vancouver that you built yourself is the one nobody else is emailing yet.

Build your Vancouver list of car dealers in four steps

Every import waits as a concept until you publish it, so nothing lands in your database by accident.

Collect car dealers in Vancouver

Export car dealers in Vancouver from Google Maps listings or motor trade association member lists as CSV, or paste the results page into paste and collect.

List of imports and scrapes in Riftjaw
Imports and scrapes in Riftjaw, each with its source, lead file, date and number of rows.

Import into one lead file

Drop the file into a lead file called Car Dealers Vancouver. Columns are matched for you and duplicates are flagged before anything is saved.

Import in Riftjaw: every column matched to a profile field, with all rows previewed
An import in Riftjaw: every column of the file gets a profile field, and nothing is imported until each one has a choice.

Fill in the missing emails

No email in the export? Tick info@, sales@, enquiries@ and service@ and addresses are derived from each website.

Contacts list in Riftjaw with company, phone, email, segment, campaigns and tags
The contacts list in Riftjaw: every company with its town, phone, email and segment.

Reach them in small batches

Pick the segment, keep only status New, write one mail with placeholders like {company|your team} and send it in small batches.

Segments in Riftjaw, each with its own name and number of contacts
Segments in Riftjaw, each with its own name and number of contacts.

Fields worth recording for car dealers in Vancouver

Any column in your import can become a field. These are the ones worth keeping for car dealers.

FieldWhy it helps
Company nameThe key field. Duplicates are checked on it or on the website.
WebsiteNeeded to derive an email when the export has none.
Franchised or independentFranchise dealers often buy through a group or follow brand rules.
Brands soldShows which manufacturers they represent.
Stock sizeA rough sense of stock tells you how much marketing they need.
Workshop on siteDealers with a workshop also buy parts and service tools.
Dealer groupTells you whether decisions are made at head office.

What slows down prospecting car dealers, and the fix

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.

Sales teams mail the same dealers from their own inboxes and lists.

One shared account with unlimited users gives everyone the same list, statuses and mail history.

What to say to car dealers in Vancouver

Pick one angle per campaign and write it once, with placeholders like {company|your team} for the details.

  • 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
The campaign editor in Riftjaw: pick a segment, write the mail and check the preview.

Emailing car dealers in Canada

In Canada, commercial email falls under Canada's Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL), which is stricter than most and generally requires express or implied consent before you send. Implied consent only applies in limited cases, for example when someone has conspicuously published their business email address without saying they do not want messages and your message is relevant to their role. Every message must identify you, include your contact details and offer an unsubscribe option that works. This is general information, not legal advice.

Weekday mornings are usually quieter than weekends, when many buyers visit. Month end can be busy for sales teams, so earlier in the month often works better. Read the deliverability guide before your first send.

Questions people ask

No. Riftjaw is not a data vendor. You collect the car dealers yourself from public sources or your own files and import them. That is why the list is yours and why there is no credit meter on it.

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.

Yes. Put Vancouver in its own segment, or keep a City field and save a filter such as city contains Vancouver. You always see which part of the market you already worked.

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.

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

Start your Vancouver list today

Create your account, import your first file of car dealers and see them as records you can work in a few minutes.

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