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Driving Digital Excellence: Achieved 1.5X YoY bookings for Leading Automobile Brand | BMW Navnit Motors

About the Brand

BMW Navnit Motors Mumbai, established in 1994 as India’s oldest BMW dealership, has showrooms in Thane, Andheri, and Malad. Serving over 5,000 customers, their 300+ staff and certified trainers ensure personalized service and a seamless experience in sales and after-sales service of BMW Cars.

Objective

Increase Digital Car Sales

Category

Automobiles

Ingredients

Performance Marketing

Case study subject

Performance Marketing

Marketing Objective

  • Increase enquiries by 20% while maintaining the cost per enquiry below Rs 5,000.
  • Increase opportunities to 100 per month.
  • Increase and maintain an average of at least 10 bookings per month.

Audience Insights

Upon research of the historic data & sales team interaction we were able to drive the following insights:

  • Lead Intent: 68% conversions came in from action keywords related to price, on-road price. 
  • Lead qualification was poor due to the below 3 reasons:
    • A lot of disqualified leads were getting generated due to income criteria. People were just enquiring to understand more about the car
    • People inquiring about pricing. People just wanted to understand the pricing of some models
    • Did not pick up ratio was significantly high. 
  • Majority buyers chose to register their bookings under company names, leveraging business ownership benefits such as depreciation, easier financing, and optimized asset management.

Strategy & Approach

A detailed media strategy was implemented including:

  • We re-positioned the dealership around the values of trust & reliability, and rode the story of it being the first BMW dealership across India.
  • Deep dive into the keyword strategy to use more transactional keywords instead of informational or generic keywords. The search report was thoroughly analysed on a daily basis to weed out phrases which could be low purchase intent.
  • Improving lead numbers: 
    • Splitting campaigns based on keyword intent into 2 segments: research oriented keywords & action oriented keywords. For example Research: X1 specifications, X1 features, New X1 launch date,etc. Action: X1 price in mumbai, X1 test drive, X1 dealership near me. 
    • Top of the funnel building was done using multiple channels other than just search. We utilised platforms like Meta, Taboola, Twitter to reach out to a larger audience & create the awareness about the dealership.
  • We optimized the landing page and ad communication to highlight financial benefits such as tax rebates and business expense deductions, incorporating lead magnets like special offers, EMIs, and buy-back plans.

Beyond that a lot of tactical changes were implemented to improve lead quality which eventually converted:

  • Targeting audiences in the top 30% income bracket in Mumbai
  • Bid adjustments for 5KM radius around the showroom to capture all the leads from these areas
  • Removing age groups below 24 years to get leads from more relevant audiences
  • Adding all the relevant extensions to drive specific purpose in communication:
    • Sitelink Extensions like Test Drive Now, Check Current Offers, Check EMI, to drive intent oriented clicks
    • Call Out Extensions like: First BMW Dealership, Expert Professionals, Trained BMW Experts, etc to bring in more trust
    • Structured snippets to showcase the entire sales catalog.  
  • Implemented remarketing campaigns targeting audiences who had already filled lead forms (warm leads) to reinforce brand recall and significantly increase their likelihood picking calls & speaking with our sales representatives. 

Impact

  • Avg enquiries increased from 120 in first 6 months to 180 in the last 6 months
  • Average opportunities increased to 93 / month, with an increase of 42% in the H2 of 2024.  
  • Average bookings increased to 13 /mo in 2024.
  • Increased bookings by 1.5X YoY

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