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AutoSmart (zip): AutoSmart is a customizable system designed to cater to the needs of virtually any auto dealership. This powerful, scaleable, and easy-to-use solution will help make every department of your dealership run more efficiently and more profitably. Version 1 offers additional functionality and updates like automatic invoice generation, user restrictions with...; Tags: Dealership, Techweavers IT Solutions, AutoSmart; Software downloads 2008-05-20
Leading Car Dealership Achieves Savings With Sales and Delivery Process Optimisation: Autodrome, one of the Netherlands' leading automotive dealers, wanted to automate expensive manual processes and streamline reporting. To achieve this, it deployed a comprehensive dealership reporting, analytics, and dash-boarding solution from Microsoft Certified Partner RPMcar. Based on the latest Microsoft technologies, this gives sales representatives a clear view of each...; Tags: Staffing, Dealership, Microsoft Corp., Car Dealership, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales; Case studies 2008-03-01
Hosted VoIP and Data for More Than 25 000 Dealerships in North America: ADP Network Solutions, part of ADP Dealer Services provides integrated voice and data computing solutions to more than 25,000 auto, truck, motorcycle, marine and recreational vehicle dealers throughout North America. The company wanted to fulfill network integration between Rodopi billing and provisioning system and ADP's existing service order and activation...; Tags: Dealership, Automatic Data Processing Inc., Taxes, Telephony, VOIP, Telecommunications, Financial Planning, Finance, Networking; Case studies 2007-10-03
Auto Group Improves Sales, Reduces Cost to Open New Dealership: Grindstaff Automotive Group wanted to enable information sharing among dealerships and reduce voice costs. The challenge was to increase sales. The group subscribed to managed Ethernet and managed LAN services, centralized applications and support functions and they adopted voice over IP. As a result it streamlined operations by centralizing business...; Tags: Dealership, Cisco Systems Inc., Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Ethernet, Networking, Sales; Case studies 2007-10-01
Photos: Unlikely dealers flip cult biodiesel cars: With greener diesel on tap, drivers in the market for an eco-friendly set of wheels are turning to niche dealerships that supply scarce models.; Tags: biodiesel, dealership, photograph; Image galleries 2007-05-04

Dave Winer gets naked: Dave Winer thinks hes found the future of advertising on the Internet. I hope hes wrong. Because if Daves vision ever becomes real, then media will become an endless commercial break of fast talking car salesmen stripping down to their underpants to sell us a Nissan. Dave links to a...; Tags: Uncategorized; Blog posts 2007-04-21
Wyoming Auto Dealers Boost Web Traffic 20 Percent With Integrated Web Site: Chuck Ruwart and his brother Bob operate auto dealerships in Wyoming. They wanted to integrate their marketing to look bigger than either dealership could look on its own. That required a way to get auto information from both dealerships onto a single Web site - and keep it current. Microsoft...; Tags: Web, Dealership, Microsoft Corp., Web Site, Web Site Development, Channel Management, Web Technology, Internet, Marketing; Case studies 2007-04-20
Online auto marketing set to shift gears: Online auto marketing set to shift gearsGetting to know a vehicle.Online it's possible to see reviews of and reactions to a vehicle and to select features and to determine a price. What's missing is sight of the product to be purchased.I wonder whether people would change their minds looking...; Tags: Marketing research, SEARCH, marketing, Autoxloo, showroom, dealership; Discussion threads 2007-03-19
Online auto marketing set to shift gears: Ive been working for the past couple months on a research report for The Kelsey Group, Car Classifieds Shift Gears as Online Auto Sites Transform Market, which was published Friday. It breaks a number of stories about what companies, such as AutoTrader.com, Autobytel, Yahoo and Vehix.com are planning and the...; Tags: dealership, marketing; Blog posts 2007-03-19
Rastar + HP: Changing the Way Dealerships Do Business: Rastar helps to drive a staggering ROI of $59 in revenue to every dollar a Lexus' dealership spends on the 1:1 program.; Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Dealership, Roi/Tco, Operational Accounting, Finance, Managerial Accounting; Webcasts 2007-01-01
Does your company need a Chief Web Officer?: One of this mornings headlines really stopped me in my tracks. Over on CNN.com, under the headline Real Cars drive into Second Life, Peter Valdes-Dapena reports:General Motors Pontiac division is spending thousands of dollars to create a make-believe dealership that will sell make-believe cars for as little as a...; Tags: General, IT Management, Web Technology, Entertainment, Berlind; Blog posts 2006-11-20
94% of car dealers have a Web site: The number of US auto dealerships with Web sites shot up between 1997 and 2004, according to the National Automobile Dealers Association NADA. Only 47% of dealers had Web sites in 1997, but by 1999, a high number of dealerships (74%) had Web sites, and by 2003, nearly all of...; Tags: dealership, WEB SITES; Blog posts 2004-12-21
94% of car dealers have a Web site: The number of US auto dealerships with Web sites shot up between 1997 and 2004, according to the National Automobile Dealers Association NADA. Only 47% of dealers had Web sites in 1997, but by 1999, a high number of dealerships (74%) had Web sites, and by 2003, nearly all of...; Tags: Web site development, Web technology, dealership, Web site, Web; Blog posts 2004-12-21
Hitchcock Automotive Resources Connects Dealerships With Partners Over Cisco Network: Hitchcock Automotive Resources comprises five automotive dealerships. Localized servers are very costly to manage and maintain, and required a support person at each location for troubleshooting. Because each server was isolated from the rest, it was difficult to share and consolidate business information. Hitchcock deployed an end-to-end Cisco network. The...; Tags: Partnership, Network, Dealership, Cisco Systems Inc., Hitchcock Automotive Resources, Hitchcock Dealership; Case studies
Rastar Digital Marketing Drives a Staggering ROI of $59 in Revenue to Every Dollar a Lexus' Dealership Spends on the 1:1 Program: The joint proposal between Rastar Digital Marketing and Auto Source Marketing was a dealership-focused customer relationship management CRM database solution to leverage intelligent one-to-one marketing capabilities to generate incremental sales and service business. Across the dealerships Rastar produces between 50,000 and 250,000 unique pieces in any one day. It has...; Tags: Revenue, Hewlett-Packard Co., Dealership, ROI, Marketing Research, Roi/Tco, Marketing, Finance, Managerial Accounting; Case studies
A Custom-Fit Dealership "Safeguards Rule" Solution: This Midwestern dealership faced a challenge all U.S. auto dealerships must tackle: complying with the Safeguards Rule of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act GLBA. Like many auto dealers, this dealership knew they didn't have a handle on what the Safeguards Rule really meant for their operations, but it was important to find...; Tags: Dealership, Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, Regulations, Government; Case studies
Dell Revs Up Automotive Sales at Ford: Ford Motor Company of Canada is one automotive company that is on the leading edge of DMS deployment. The i-Connect team planned to eliminate old hardware and supply each dealership with a minimum of one new desktop and server. Ford Canada sent a request for quote RFQ to hardware companies...; Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Dealership, Sales, Ford Motor Co., Manufacturing, Desktops, Hardware; Case studies
Wyoming Auto Dealers Boost Sales 33 Percent With Integrated Web Site: Chuck Ruwart and his brother Bob operate auto dealerships in Wyoming. They wanted to integrate their marketing to look bigger than either dealership could look on its own. That required a way to get auto information from both dealerships onto a single Web site - and keep it current. Microsoft...; Tags: Web, Dealership, Microsoft Corp., Web Site, Sales Strategy, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Channel Management, Sales Force Management, Sales, Internet, Marketing; Case studies

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300 Lithuanian sites hacked by Russian hackers: A recently accepted legislation in Lithuania banning communist symbols across Lithuania, has prompted Pro-Russian hackers to start defacing Lithuanian sites, an indication of the upcoming attack was detected last week with active discussions around Russian forums greatly reminding us of the Russia vs Estonia cyberattack sparkled due to the removal...; Tags: Web, Web Site, Hacker, Distributed Denial Of Service, Attack, Hacking, Security, Dancho Danchev; Blog posts 2008-07-02
Car crash on Wall Street: many injuries and heavy losses: Not since the financial industry did a header off the high board into a mortgage pool filled with bad paper. It's been literally weeks since an American-based business sector looked this sick. I've been trying to keep up with the bloody saga of the Detroit auto makers and...; Tags: Car, Stock, Chrysler LLC, General Motors Corp., Wall, Sales Strategy, Mortgages, Sales Force Management, Construction, Currency & Foreign Exchange, Investment, Sales, Finance, Capital Structures, Harry Fuller; Blog posts 2008-06-30