Facebook Integration

Moto Marine Digital + Facebook.

Your Inventory, Connected To Where Buyers Scroll.

Your next buyer is on the couch at 9 p.m. scrolling Facebook. The question is whether your boats are in that scroll, and whether what they see matches what’s on your lot. One catalog does two jobs. It puts your units in front of local buyers as free listings when they search, and it powers Meta ads when you want to push harder, with tracking that ties it all back to leads.

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The Catalog Is The Integration

The catalog does double duty, and most dealers only ever hear about half of it. Set up once, it can surface your units as free local listings, so a buyer searching for a pontoon or a center console near them sees your boat without you spending an ad dollar. The same catalog then powers inventory ads, Marketplace placements, and retargeting when you want real reach. Free gets you found. Paid gets you volume. Both run on the same feed, and ours builds itself from your website, which is already synced to your DMS.

  • New arrivals rotate in

    Units enter the catalog when they hit your site.

  • Prices follow the lot

    An ad never shows a number you moved off of.

  • Sold boats drop out same day

    No budget burns on units that left the lot.

  • Real photos, real descriptions

    Every unit gives the ad something worth stopping the scroll for.

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Your Site And Facebook,
Actually Talking

Every Moto Marine Digital build ships with the Meta Pixel wired in properly, which does two jobs. It builds your retargeting audiences automatically from the people who visit your listings. And it closes the loop on attribution, so when a lead comes in, you can see which ad and which unit started it instead of guessing where your budget went.

Most dealer sites either don’t have this or have it half-installed by a long-gone vendor. It’s boring plumbing, and it’s the difference between advertising and advertising blind.

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The Buyer Who Looked Once Sees That Boat Again

A shopper opens your pontoon listing, runs the payment calculator, and leaves without filling the form. Most dealers lose that person. With the connection in place, that exact unit follows them through their Facebook and Instagram feed for the next two weeks.

Nobody impulse-buys a $60,000 boat on the first visit. The cycle is weeks of looking, comparing, and convincing a spouse. Retargeting keeps your unit in that conversation while every other site they visited gets forgotten.

facebook ad campaign

Want The Campaigns Run For You? That’s On The Menu.

The team at Moto Marine Digital runs Meta ads for dealerships, one campaign reaching both Facebook and Instagram. Setup, budgets, audiences, and a straight monthly read on what’s working. Marine has its own rhythm, and it helps that the people managing spend know that March and November are different animals and that a bass boat and a pontoon want different audiences. Every form fill and phone call gets tracked back to the campaign and the unit that produced it, so the monthly report shows leads and deals, not clicks and impressions.

Already have an agency or an in-house marketer? Keep them. The catalog and tracking make their work better, and they’ll thank you for the first accurate feed they’ve ever been handed.

See Your Units Running As Real Meta Ads.

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Questions Dealers Ask Us

How do dealers sell boats on Facebook Marketplace?

Through the catalog, two ways at once. Free local listings put your units in front of buyers searching Facebook for boats near them, at no ad cost. Meta ads then push the same inventory across Facebook, Instagram, and Marketplace placements when you want volume. Both run on the catalog this integration builds from your website, and salespeople can still post individual units manually from their own profiles on top of it.

Can dealerships still list boats on Facebook Marketplace for free?

Yes. The catalog can surface your inventory as free local listings that show when buyers search, which is the route that replaced the old business-page posting Facebook ended in 2023. Personal profiles can still post individual units by hand too. What no longer exists is the old hands-off page listing, so the catalog is how a full lot gets free visibility now, and Meta ads are the layer on top for reach.

What are Meta ads?

The ads you used to call Facebook ads. Meta runs Facebook and Instagram, so one campaign in Meta Ads Manager reaches both, and inventory catalogs, retargeting, and lead tracking all live in that same system.

Do Meta ads actually work for boat dealers?

When they run on an accurate catalog, yes. The shopper sees a specific unit with a real price, and the buyer who visited your site sees that same boat follow them for weeks. Generic brand ads are where dealer budgets go to die.

How much do Meta ads cost for a boat dealership?

It scales with your inventory, market, and season, so the team sizes it on the demo call rather than off a rate card. Spend should flex through the year, heavier ahead of the season, lighter in the off months.

Do you run the ads or do we?

Either. The team runs full campaigns for dealers who want it handled, with every form fill and call tracked back to the campaign and unit. Dealers with their own agency just take the catalog and tracking, and their people run on better data.

See Your Inventory Connected

Book a 30-minute demo and the team will show your current units as a live Facebook catalog, walk through how retargeting follows your site visitors, and talk through whether managed campaigns make sense for your dealership.

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