Welcome to Episode 19 of the MarketPunch Podcast! Today I’ll be joined by David Kain of Kain Automotive to talk about why having a solid automotive digital marketing education is the foundation to your, and your dealership’s, continued success.
If you’re not familiar with David, he’s a lifelong automotive industry enthusiast who along with his 8 brothers and sisters were raised at their family Ford Dealership where he remains a partner today.

During the Internet boom in 2000 David became a co-founder and COO of FordDirect.com and then started Kain Automotive in 2003 to provide education on all things Digital because he saw the need to assist dealerships with Internet and BDC Operations.
I’m thrilled that David was able to join me on this episode of the podcast as we’re both passionate about providing useful and relevant digital marketing information to those who work in the dealership.
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MarketPunch Podcast Tip of the Week
Today’s MarketPunch.auto tip of the week is a web app that I use whenever I’m investigating a reported decline in organic website traffic.
If you’ve ever been in your Google Analytics and noticed a steady or drastic decline in your organic traffic, your fist thought might be to PANIC! It’s a natural feeling to have, however you don’t need to panic just yet. The first thing you should do is start doing some research to look for signs that might tell you a bigger part of the overall story behind the decline in traffic.
I have a pretty solid process in place whenever I’m looking into a situation like this, and one of the tools I use is a nifty little web app call the Panguin Tool from Barracuda Digital.

Using the Panguin Tool is pretty straight forward. Connect the Google Analytics account that you’d like to inspect, and the app will plot a chart for you showing your organic web traffic over time. The best part though is that it will overlay on top of the chart when any major and minor updates to Google’s algorithm were made.
The result is an easy to digest visual that will allow you to see if your website may have been affected by a Penguin, Panda, Pigeon or other update to Google’s algorithm.
That being said, even if you see your organic web sessions have decreased around the time there was an update was made to the algorithm, that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s the direct cause. But it’s certainly a place you can center the next steps of your investigation around.
And if there’s nothing that visually suggests your website was penalized by our Google overlords, then you can move on to looking into other factors.
The State of Digital Marketing Education in the Dealership
For me, there’s a gaping hole when it comes to continuing education in the automotive retail industry. When I asked David what his take was on the issue he spoke about how there is indeed a gap, but the bigger problem is that there’s not a fluid path for those interested to follow.