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jeff.kershner MJMI – Dealer Website Vendor Profile

Posted by Jeff Kershner  |  Sunday, March 25, 2007  |  Posted in Dealer Website Design

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Company Name
: MJM Internet, LLC

URL
: www.MJMI.com
Phone: 1-888-532-3647

Online Since
: January 17th, 1998

Location
: Clark, NJ


Homepage Title
: Dealership Websites by M • J • M • I – "Building America’s Best
Dealership Websites"


Current Homepage PageRank
: 6/10


Message from MJMI
:

First of all, I’d like to thank Jeff Kershner, both for profiling MJMI here on DealerRefresh and for developing, and maintaining DealerRefresh.com. (thanks Jeff!!)

While we all have our challenges, problems and triumphs in this business, his blog provides substantial and welcome coverage of our industry. It is very well maintained by, obviously, a professional enthusiast of our business.

At MJMI our focus is on common sense, individualism and accommodation when it comes to our approach to building and maintaining our clients’ dealership websites.

Personally, I’ve been involved in retail dealership marketing for 25 years now (ouch), including 11 years in local television advertising, some years of full service ad agency work, and now 10+ years focused on dealership websites.

At MJMI we don’t build the most technologically elaborate website.  We build a dealership website that we believe is the best blending of individualized  presentation, dealership merchandising, content management convenience, and lower expense.

We strive to help our dealerships deal with the people and vendor challenges that come with managing a competent, contemporary website.

We also have a passion for innovation and love to invent new features that help save time and effort, elevate a dealership’s ability to differentiate themselves, and get the online upper hand. With these methods, MJMI elevates a website’s ability to produce more leads for a dealership.

We are also a company who maintains intimate  relationships with our customers. We firmly believe in giving customers personal customer care, several layers deep where your webmasters know you, know you site, and know how to make things happen fast when it comes to support.

Lately, and actually for more than a year, we’ve predicted the incorporation of internet video elements in a dealership site.  Both short term tactical video pieces and informative strategic video pieces are going to completely change the landscape of what makes up
the best dealership websites.  MJMI is uniquely positioned to provide the creative, technological and versatile video marketing elements that maximizes winning the day online.

Thanks!

Jeffrey Bonnell — Principal
MJM Internet, LLC
http://www.mjmi.com   
719 Raritan Road
Clark, NJ 07066 (732) 382-4000
Cell: (908) 693-3733

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jeff.kershner Higher Turnover – Dealer Website Vendor Profile

Posted by Jeff Kershner  |  Wednesday, March 14, 2007  |  Posted in Dealer Website Design

Higherturnover_logo Company Name: Higher Turnover, LLC
URL: www.higherturnover.com
Online Since: March 24th, 2005
Location: Portsmouth, Virginia 23701

Homepage Title: Auto Dealer Websites by Higher Turnover | Websites For Car Dealers | Online Marketing | Inventory Management

Current Homepage PageRank: 3/10

Message from Higher Turnover: 

Higher Turnover, LLC was started in early 2005 as an effort to provide the most useful internet marketing tools to a particular breed of auto dealer: the independent dealer.  We began with and continue to have three main objectives with our business model:

  1. To provide an effective solution for online marketing of vehicles.
  2. To make this solution affordable by small independent dealers.
  3. To present a back-end administration system that anyone is able to use, regardless of computer experience.

Our core products include custom web design, inventory and lead management, search engine marketing, and eBay listing management.  These products have been developed almost exclusively through independent dealer feedback.  Several companies provide excellent site designs, features, functionality, and total solutions.  We’ve made a conscious choice to focus on the features needed at the independent level, as well as take an educational approach with our dealers who require a little more attention.  We’re not the ideal solution for every dealership, however our rapid growth indicates we have carved out a much needed niche in the industry, and we vow to continue along that path. 

As co-founders, Ray Bonneau and I grew up together in small town, America (Burlington, VT).  Even as Higher Turnover has grown, we’ve been able to maintain our small-town style relationships with dealers – knowing their history, their families, etc.  “Making business personal” has really kept us grounded, and forces us to earn business instead of taking it for granted.  Our hopes moving forward are to continue to build relationships with independent dealers across the country, to continually improve our products without losing sight of our three original objectives, and to further elevate ourselves as the leader in our niche market.

Regards,

Robert "Jake" Jacobson
President
Higher Turnover, LLC
(800) 430-2119

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jeff.kershner izmocars – dealer website user review

Posted by Jeff Kershner  |  Wednesday, January 31, 2007  |  Posted in Dealer Website Design

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izmocars – User reviews

Company Name: izmocars
URL: www.izmocars.com
Online Since: November 6th, 2001
Location: San Francisco, CA

Current Homepage PageRank: 5/10

Homepage Title Tag: " izmocars : Custom Auto Dealer Websites and Internet Marketing for Auto Dealers”

Are you using (or have you used) Izmocars for your dealership website service? If so, please submit your opinions and feedback about their services. Keep your feedback professional!

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  1. How would you rate their customer service?
  2. Number and quality of leads generated from your izmo website?
  3. How well does your izmo website rank in the natural listings of the search engines?
  4. Overall layout and design of your izmo website?
  5. Ease of operating the admin utilities (adding specials, additional pages and such)?

READ USER REVIEWS BELOW and SUBMIT YOUR REVIEW

Example screen shots of some izmo dealer websites:

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SUBMIT YOUR REVIEW

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jeff.kershner DealerOn – Car Dealer Website Services Profile and Dealer Reviews

Posted by Jeff Kershner  |  Sunday, January 21, 2007  |  Posted in Dealer Website Design

Dealeron_logoDealerOn – Dealer Website Services and User Reviews

Website URL: www.dealeron.com

Location: Bethesda, MD

Phone: 1-800-381-6604

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Homepage Title Tag: “Automotive dealership website design for auto dealers. Increase car sales and web site leads through managed online advertising, SEM, SEO, PPC, and email marketing”

About: Since 2003, DealerOn, Inc. has been helping our customers gain the edge they need to drive success through online marketing channels. By leveraging DealerOn’s website design and hosting services, our suite of web tools and professional services, our customers produce higher online lead engagement and conversions. DealerOn was founded by auto industry veterans to provide expertise to automotive dealerships that empowers them to get closer to their customers by harnessing the Internet with the latest web technologies.

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jeff.kershner DEALERSKINS – Dealer Website Services Profile and Reviews

Posted by Jeff Kershner  |  Saturday, January 20, 2007  |  Posted in Dealer Website Design

dealerskins_logoDealerskins Profile and Reviews

Website URL: www.dealerskins.com

Location: Nashville, TN

Phone: 1-866-848-6480

Online Since: June 26th, 2000

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Homepage Title: “Dealerskins | Automotive Web Site Solutions | Auto Dealership Search Engine Optimization – Marketing”

About: Dealerskins provides automotive dealers beautiful AND powerful web solutions that help them sell more cars.  Our expertise comes from real-world dealership experience and a passion for listening and responding to our dealers’ needs. In fact, we designed, built, and used the first Dealerskins website while working at a top-50 dealership group.

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jeff.kershner Automotive dealer website providers

Posted by Jeff Kershner  |  Saturday, January 20, 2007  |  Posted in Dealer Website Design

I often get emails from readers asking me if I have a list of dealer website providers. I usually provide them with a list of the companies that I know and have worked with in the past. So..I thought I would start a new section “Dealer Website Providers”. Throughout the next couple of weeks I’ll be posting profiles on all the major players in this field.

I’ll include some general information like their URL, base out of location, how long they have been offering websites for car dealers. AND since Search Engine Optimization is such an important aspect of a dealers online marketing, I thought I would also include their current Page Rank and their Title Tag for their own website. Keep in mind that SEO is not the “be-all” but something you NEED to consider when deciding what provider to go with.

If I have experience with any of the providers, I’ll share a few brief thoughts for each. I’ll also provide an area for the CEO or a top level manager to write about their products and services if they so wish to.

As usual, I invite everyone to share their comments about each provider, thinking about administrative utilities, customer service, conversion, search engine indexing, overall satisfaction and whatever else you think is relevant.

If you have a suggestion or something additional you would like to see, let me know!!

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