Internet Director Scorecard and Core Responsibilities
An internet director scorecard tied to real responsibilities: coverage, speed, appointments, source hygiene, and inventory exposure — not a vanity title with no owner.
The business card said Internet Director. The org chart had no direct reports. The GM asked for "more internet deals." The director spent the month tweaking website banners and forwarding Marketplace screenshots into a group chat. Nobody could say whether first response had improved. The title had arrived. The job had not.
An internet director scorecard only works if the core responsibilities are written first. Otherwise you will grade a person on website opinions, vendor lunches, and whatever the loudest sales manager complained about this week. Used-car stores need a director who owns the path from listing and lead to shown appointment, then hands a live buyer to the floor with a clean record.
This guide is for GMs installing the role or cleaning up a title that already exists. It defines the job, the scorecard, the weekly rhythm, and the work that should stay off the card.
Core Responsibilities That Belong on the Internet Director Scorecard
Write the job as a coverage and conversion role, not as a creative department.
What the director owns
- Process: SLAs by channel, scripts, handoff rules, confirmation sequence, disposition codes.
- People: BDC or internet specialists, including backups when the floor still handles overflow. Hiring input, coaching cadence, schedule.
- Pipeline integrity: source names, required CRM fields, honest statuses, no duplicate working of the same buyer.
- Inventory exposure partnership: every retail unit that should be online is online, sold units are not, and aged units have a listing that is still accurate. The used-car manager still owns buy, price, and recon. The director owns whether the internet version of the board is true.
- Reporting: a GM-ready view of source, speed, set, show, and sold — short enough to read.
What the director does not own
- The used-car buy.
- Desk numbers on a live deal unless that is a separate, trained role.
- Agency-level brand campaigns that have no lead path.
- IT for the whole rooftop.
- "Make Facebook like us" as a deliverable. Distribution is not something a director can promise.
If Marketplace is part of the mix, the director's job is operational quality and pacing discipline, not a guarantee of reach. PostToMarket and similar tools are independent of Meta; the director should say so internally when people ask for ban-proofing.
Partner responsibilities, named
| Partner | They own | Director owns |
|---|---|---|
| Used-car manager | Price, recon, appraisals | Listing accuracy and sold-unit removal from internet channels |
| Sales manager | Floor greeting and close | Appointment quality, confirmation, handoff |
| Controller / GM | Budget and vendor contracts | Source performance story, not a 40-tab export |
| Individual reps | Their assigned follow-up | The rules those reps are graded on |
Ambiguous ownership is how internet appointments arrive to an empty tower. Put the floor side in writing using the same spirit as building an internet sales process around Marketplace.
An Internet Director Scorecard That Matches Real Responsibilities
Keep the card to metrics the director can influence in 30 days. Do not put "gross profit" as the only line unless they also desk deals.
The primary card
- First-attempt completion inside SLA, by channel (web, phone, Marketplace, chat).
- Appointment set rate from worked leads (define "worked").
- Show rate on internet-set appointments.
- Sold from shown — as a shared metric with the floor, never as a solo hanging.
- Unworked new leads at close — should trend toward zero on days they are staffed.
- Source hygiene — percent of new leads with a real source, not "internet" or "other."
- Exposure hygiene — units live that should be live; sold/recon not advertised.
Secondary diagnostics, not weekly hangings
- Average time to first human response by daypart.
- No-show reasons coded, not folklore.
- Coaching sessions completed against the BDC rubric.
- Aged-lead recycle completed per the rules, not a blast.
Do not invent benchmark percentages. Compare this month to last month on the same definitions. If definitions change, restart the trend.
Kill vanity lines
Website sessions, social followers, and "content pieces posted" do not belong on the primary card unless you have a separate marketing manager scorecard. An internet director at a used lot is not a media company. If you want posting volume discipline for Marketplace, put it in exposure hygiene and pacing, not as "posts per day" heroics. For the GM view of posting, see Marketplace posting KPIs for general managers.
Shared metrics need shared reviews
Sold-from-shown will punish the director when the floor no-shows the greeting. Review it in a room with the sales manager. If the floor wants the credit, they take the greeting standard. If the director wants the credit, they take confirmation quality. Split the argument weekly, not in a year-end fight.
The Weekly Rhythm That Makes the Scorecard True
A scorecard without a calendar is a poster.
Monday: coverage and SLA
Staffing for the week, known days off, who owns Saturday, overnight pile size, any channel down.
Midweek: pipeline truth
Sample ten new leads. Did the status match the notes? Was the appointment real? This is faster than waiting for the CRM dashboard to lie in aggregate.
Weekly meeting: conversion
Use a fixed agenda — the companion piece is the weekly internet lead review meeting. The director comes with exceptions, not with a tour of every chart.
Monthly with the GM: sources and cost
Which sources produced shown appointments, which produced junk, which are unworkable because of data quality. Cost conversations belong here, not in a panic after one expensive weekend.
Coaching block
If there is a BDC, the director listens to tape or reads threads on a published rubric. If the "BDC" is one specialist, this is still required. Titles do not replace coaching.
Pitfalls Unique to the Internet Director Title
Director without authority
If they cannot change a script, a schedule, or a required CRM field, they are a reporter. Give them authority inside the process, or do not hang them on the process.
Director as full-time poster
If the highest-paid internet person is still copy-pasting listings, you mis-leveled the role. Posting should be queued and paced. The director inspects exceptions.
Director as vendor concierge
A calendar full of aggregator reps is not a scorecard. Cap vendor time. New sources require a capacity check: can first attempts absorb the drop?
Compliance drift
The director must keep listing and messaging inside approved language on financing, as-is versus warranty, deposits, and out-of-state deals. That is operational control, not legal advice. Confirm gray areas with counsel and state regulators.
How PostToMarket Automates This
An internet director cannot run a scorecard on Marketplace if listings are unowned, sold units stay live, and "internet" is the only source name. The card then grades folklore. PostToMarket automates the exposure and ownership layer the director is accountable for, without pretending to be a CRM.
Exposure hygiene the director can inspect
- Inventory statuses: draft, posting, posted, sold, failed.
- Mark as sold and archive from inventory or the queue.
- Bulk import with row-level error logs so VIN, price, and mileage failures are visible.
- AI copy from specs and a photo picker so listings are unique enough to defend in a GM review.
Ownership and roles that match a director's team
- Admin, manager, sales rep, sales associate.
- Per-rep queues, manager assignment, rep self-queue, team queue view.
- Team analytics by rep and source — the closest product view to items 1, 6, and 7 on the card.
- Leads inbox for managers.
Pacing the director can defend
- AutoPost one at a time, human-like delays, server-enforced daily limits.
- Mobile dashboard so the director can see queue order without sitting at the tower PC.
PostToMarket is not affiliated with Meta. It does not guarantee distribution, leads, or sold units. It reduces the operational mistakes that make an internet director look ineffective when the real miss was the board.
Give the Title a Card or Stop Using the Title
Internet director scorecard and core responsibilities have to be the same document. Own process, people, pipeline truth, and listing hygiene. Grade SLA, set, show, source quality, and exposure. Leave the buy and the desk to the people who already own them.
PostToMarket is the Marketplace operations system under that card: unlimited vehicles, paced posting, queues, leads, and source analytics. Starter is $59 per month for a solo login. Dealership is $299 per month for up to 13 logins.
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