Earlier this week, Dealer Synergy — an automotive online sales training and consulting company — revealed its new president, appointing Karen Bradley to the role. Bradley has been with the company for five years, and her experience includes being a 20 Group speaker and moderator and membership in the Women’s Automotive Association International. Her background […] [Read More]

Jumpstart Automotive Group recently added a 15th member to its network of automotive website publishers, bringing EveryCarListed.com into the fold. EveryCarListed.com — an online portal for car shopping, reviews and ratings and more — joins Jumpstart members like Vehix, Car and Drive, Road & Track, TrueCar and CarGurus, just to name a few. Jumpstart’s latest […] [Read More]

Dealer Uplink, a company that provides dealerships with QR barcode and mobile marketing services, announced this week a $1 million capitalization by its members that it contends will accelerate growth in North America and the U.K. During the next three years, the company — which has been around nine months — plans to create more […] [Read More]

Automotive Resources International revealed Tuesday that it has opened up a sixth call center in North America, this time adding a location in Houston. ARI’s five other North American call centers are located in Maple Shade, N.J.; Grapevine, Texas; Mississauga, Ontario; Montreal and Mexico City. The opening of the Houston facility comes at a time when […] [Read More]

In today’s age of information being readily available at a consumer’s fingertips via the Web, the general manager of a dealership group in California believes consumers are going find everything they want and need to know on used-vehicle buying, so why not give it to them all in one place? This is something the founder […] [Read More]

KAR Auction Services revealed late last week that its AuctionTrac subsidiary — which uses GPS technology to pinpoint a vehicle’s location at an auction — has passed a significant milestone for tracking. The company has now used its GPS tracking system to find more than 1 million units. “This milestone is especially impressive considering we just […] [Read More]

The American International Automobile Dealers Association revealed Thursday an upcoming free Webinar that will highlight dealership employee benefit programs. In an effort to prepare dealers for “rising costs and government-mandated reforms,” the Webinar aims to help stores navigate what AIADA calls an increasingly complex environment for employee benefits. [Read More]

About four months after rolling out the first edition of its Facebook marketing tool for dealers, multimedia and video-marketing technology provider Liquidus has launched an enhanced version of Socialink that is designed to help dealers gain more control over their targeted marketing on the social networking site. Socialink 2.0 can allow dealers to prioritize vehicle video […] [Read More]

Cars.com’s iPhone app has landed the company a top accolade from the Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals. The company was recently chosen out of more than 6,000 entries as a recipient of a MarCom Platinum Award for its automotive shopping app. The MarCom awards are administered annually by the Association of Marketing and Communication […] [Read More]

Has your dealership been held hostage by a social media assassin? You know the kind I’m talking about.  For one reason or another, they’ve had a negative experience with your store, and now they’re using social media to destroy your reputation. You lay awake at night wondering how things got so out of control. What is […] [Read More]