STORY The brothers, both born on November 12th, attended St Xavier’s School, Jaipur, before joining IIT Delhi. They both had job stints in Texas, US—Amit in Austin and Anurag in Dallas— and worked in Bangalore in different companies. They returned home in 2006 after their father was detected with cancer. It was then that they thought of setting up a business in their hometown and turned serial entrepreneurs soon after . OLD LOGO NEW LOGO LEAD GENERATION GOOGLE AD-SENSE E-COMMERCE SPONSORED ADVERTISEMENTS THROUGH COMMISSIONS FROM MANUFACTURERS, SELLERS AND DEALERS PREMIUM LISTING IN USED CAR SECTION BY PROVIDING DIFFERENT TYPES OF LOANS THROUGH FINANCE COMPANIES ROADSIDE ASSISTANCE SCHEMES Lead generation describes the marketing process of encouraging and capturing interest in a product or service for the purpose of developing sales pipeline CARDEKHO earns by lead generation to dealers and OEM manufacturers (Mainly TATA) for further sales interaction and pitching . It also earns by earn from lead generation for new and used cars CarDekho has their own e-store for automobile
accessories as stickers, floor mats, scratch removers,
polish, mobile chargers, shampoo, navigator, seat covers, tyres , alloy wheels, car stereos, car perfumes, sun films, etc. Now a days many companies are giving them
advertisement on their website.
The company adopted several marketing technique since it is inception to promotes its business and promote sales and aware among the customers. Digital promotion has been on a large scale for increasing its reachability across the globe and to higher the engagement over the website. Car Dekho acquired Gaadi.com to increase their customer base and offer more refined option to its customer. Gaddi.com got acquired in late September 2014 for around $11 million The company is spending a lot on brand promotion through tv ads and print media advertisement. A regular advertisement promoting the brand can be seen on television and print media now a day. Mobile Marketing : Mobile friendly site was
launched keeping in view the excessive growth of
mobile and handheld devices in India . Other than the mobile optimized website, company also launched its mobile app which runs on several platforms like android, iOS and windows. Social media advertising : Using social media
integration in their business promoted its site well
among right audience and helped in gaining on name and fame. Cardekho effectively used Facebook and Twitter marketing. Email marketing : In order to increase its members
and make them visit again and again, CarDekho has
adopted a decent email marketing strategy in which they used to send company’s promotional emails every day to each of their registered members.