{"id":2234,"date":"2014-08-07T03:06:27","date_gmt":"2014-08-07T07:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.carchat24.com\/?p=2234"},"modified":"2022-05-01T14:53:45","modified_gmt":"2022-05-01T18:53:45","slug":"great-automotive-chat-solution-will-increase-leads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carchat24.com\/blog\/chat-best-practices\/great-automotive-chat-solution-will-increase-leads\/","title":{"rendered":"A Great Automotive Chat Solution Will Increase Leads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are plenty of chat providers in the automotive industry that point to the number of leads they generate, but it&#8217;s important to ask a question about them: &#8220;Is this chat solution generating more leads or are they simply replacing what we would have received anyway?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>One of the most crucial components of our research and product development has been to identify ways to specifically <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carchat24.com\/approach\/\"><strong>increase leads<\/strong><\/a> rather than take them from other sources on the website. 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