Dallas, TX, June 15, 2010: Client~ConneXion, LLC has launched a new suite of Automotive Internet Marketing products and services that assists auto dealerships in capturing more business and customer interaction via online practices. Client~ConneXion’s base products include Chat~ConneXion – a Live Web Chat Application that assists sales and service departments with online interaction for internet customers as well as Response~ConneXion, an afterhours lead response management system for General Motors “Standards for Excellence” One Source leads.

The new market expansion includes the following:

• Constant~ConneXion – an eMarketing blitz program
• Social~ConneXion – Social Media Management Service
• Customer~ConneXion – Customer Survey and Rating Management
• SEO/SEM~ConneXion – an Internet Web Presence Consulting Service

This suite of products focuses on the online marketing aspect for auto dealerships in order to stay relevant in their local markets. Additionally, it maintains their social presence on popular media sites.

The Constant~ConneXion – an eMarketing Service includes monthly eNewsletters and an eMail marketing campaign that includes attention to both sales and service.
• Creates an ongoing dialogue with customers and prospects
• Drives customer loyalty and keeps your dealership top-of-mind
• Improves SEO driving traffic to your website
• Drives fixed ops revenue with coupons and promotions

Social~ConneXion offers a Social Media Management Service that maintains your social reputation while simultaneously interacting with fans, friends and customers.
• Customization of your Dealership Facebook Fan Page
• Assistance with Facebook postings
• Twitter Setup and Tweeting
• Contests and Promotions Management
• Blogging

Customer~ConneXion develops an auto dealership Survey and Testimonial Management system to capture reviews and ratings directly from satisfied customers.
• Pro-actively requests reviews and feedback from customers
• Directs customer feedback to viable sources, such as Yelp, Google Reviews, etc
• Increases Organic SEO presence

And lastly SEO/SEM~ConneXion is a consulting service that focuses on increased web presence for your auto dealerships.
• Target Information, shoppers, buyers differently using focused ads and keyword selection
• Dominate your local marketing on Google/Yahoo
• Linking Campaigns
• Social Bookmarking

Client~ConneXion’s introduction to these additional products and services offers a complete solution for Automotive Internet Marketing for auto dealerships nationwide. Brad Hornung of the Bob Moore Auto Group, a 10 store group with 17 brands, tells us that “Client~ConneXion is hands down the best vendor we’ve worked with. From the Chat~ConneXion to the SEO/SEM~ConneXion we’ve seen nothing but results. There are tons of other solutions out there but you get what you pay for and CCX is blowing the competition away. To sum it up: Client~ConneXion rocks!!!”

About: Client~ConneXion is a software solution firm based out of Dallas, TX that specializes in a Live Web Chat Application that pro-actively engages and “UP’s” every web visitor for auto dealerships throughout the country. For more information visit their website at www.ClientConneXion.com or call 877.888.5948.

CarChat24.com is the premier US based provider of 24/7 fully staffed professional automotive live chat services. The Florida Company is welcoming Automotive Dealers from the US and Canada to try the company’s highly beneficial dealer chat support service with a 30 day free trial. This service is specifically designed to help dealers reach a much higher conversion rate of automotive sales leads from their existing website traffic. CarChat24’s Management Team has over 40 years of automotive experience, and provides its dealers with the ability to increase the amount of their auto sales leads by 50 to 60% from their own website.

CarChat24 is launching their 2nd two month dealer chat case-study for its service on June 1st 2010. The four participants involved in the study benefit from free 24/7 fully staffed automotive live chat support and automotive sales leads. The CarChat24 case study will be for a period of two months. In order to keep the study completely public and to give the participants the opportunity to voice their opinions, CarChat24 has decided to present all the findings live on a forum for car dealers, DealerRefresh.

The four automotive dealers participating in the dealer chat case study are as follows; Toyota of Irving of the U.S. in Texas, and Barrie Ford, Toyota-Town, Richmond Hill Toyota of Ontario Canada. You can review the results posted by the four participants on the DealerRefresh forum. Automotivemarketing.ca will also be posting results for the Canadian Dealers on their site.

About the company: CarChat24.com is a Florida based company that offers 24/7 fully staffed automotive live chat services and software to automotive dealers throughout the United States and Canada. CarChat24 clients take advantage of their professional 24/7 dealer chat support and the high quality automotive sales leads created by the CarChat24 service.

For more information and details about CarChat24 and its case study, please visit: www.carchat24.com,
forum.dealerrefresh.com, or automotivemarketing.ca.

OAK BROOK, IL (May 21, 2010) – vAuto, Inc. announces its used car inventory management system is now available as an application for the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch.

“We recognize that our dealers need the ability to access our real-time market information wherever they are,” says Keith Jezek, president and CEO. “We decided to develop our mobile application initially for the Apple devices because they are the preferred mobile devices for web searching activities.”

Live market appraising is the first vAuto module developed as a mobile application for no additional monthly subscription charge for vAuto users. It is available for download from the App Store on iTunes.

All vAuto customers now have the opportunity to utilize the fully integrated market based appraising functionality from their Apple touch device. In addition to traditional third-party guidebooks and auction values, the application features vAuto’s exclusive rBook, which allows customers to appraise with the mindset of “how to get out of a car before you get in.” The mobile application functionality also includes the proprietary barcode VIN capture method that automatically decodes and uploads to vAuto.

“The vAuto mobile application saves me a tremendous amount of time while at auctions,” notes Bill Pearson, owner of Finishline Ford in Peoria, IL. “Its design is consistent with the Velocity Method of Management – access to live market data down to the level of trim and equipment combined with used car market days supply, allowing us to make the critical decisions on what to stock and how much to pay.”

Headquartered in the Chicago suburb of Oak Brook, IL., vAuto also maintains a research and development center in Austin, Texas. The company’s “Live Market View” technology currently allows more than 3,000 dealers to manage their used-car inventories based on comprehensive supply-and-demand information mined by vAuto for their specific market area. Details on millions of pre-owned vehicles are maintained and updated on a daily basis within vAuto’s database.

The nation’s five highest-volume franchised dealerships by brand currently use vAuto pricing, appraisal, stocking, and merchandising systems. vAuto was recently ranked number 22 in Inc. Magazine’s 2009 annual ranking of the fastest- growing, privately held companies in America. The company’s chairman and founder, Dale Pollak maintains a blog for the discussion of used-car trends at www.dalepollak.com. More information on vAuto is available at www.vAuto.com.

Orlando, Florida, February 17, 2010— ActivEngage, the automotive industry’s premium live dealer chat with business intelligence for dealer websites, today announced the release of ActivConnect, a new dealership website tool bar that lets consumers interact with the dealership via Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, DealerRater, live chat and more, all without leaving the dealership website. The new tool bar ushers in a new level of connectivity between auto dealers and consumers by solving the complex business challenge of leveraging social media, without pushing shoppers away from the dealership website.

In the past, consumers had to leave the dealership website to connect with dealers on major social media sites. While connecting shoppers with dealers through social media links was an important step forward, having consumers leave the dealership website decreases the chance that they will return to that website. Now with ActivConnect, dealers can leverage the power of social media and other interactive communication channels, while keeping consumers on the dealership website. The new tool bar sits at the bottom of the dealership’s website and contains links for chat and all major social media sites. When consumers click on the links, the information appears directly on the dealership website, rather than taking shoppers away from the dealer’s site. Further, the tool bar remains in place on all website pages.

“We are excited about the new ActivConnect tool bar’s ability to help us engage our live traffic,” commented Alex Snyder, Checkered Flag Motor Car Corp’s director of eCommerce. “Not only will it help us increase a consumer’s time spent on our website, which in turn establishes trust for better lead conversion, but it also creates a ‘be back factor.’ As ActivConnect does not move the customer away to a social media site, it makes it easier for them to join one of our social media efforts, and that helps us get an online ‘be back.’ Through chat solicitations, in the tool bar itself, we’ll also be able to get very targeted ad messages to our current browsers and that is where the rubber really meets the road. ActivConnect is pure conversion.”

ActivEngage’s new ActivConnect was developed over six months and allows more dealership/consumer interaction from within the dealership website. Existing ActivEngage customers will receive the new tool bar free of charge.

“ActivConnect makes it easier for consumers to connect with the dealership via all major social media sites including Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and more, all without leaving the dealer’s website,” commented Todd Smith, ActivEngage president. “We knew there had to be a better way to connect consumers with dealerships’ social media, without pushing them away from the dealership website. ActivConnect also creates a ‘wow factor’ that makes the dealership look more professional and can really set you apart from the competition.”

For a live demo of ActivConnect, visit http://www.activengage.com/demo1/.

About ActivEngage: (www.ActivEngage.com)

ActivEngage’s proprietary business intelligence helps automotive dealers meet the needs of shoppers by providing dealerships easy to use, powerful website tools. Advanced live chat services let dealers identify, initiate interaction and communicate with website visitors in real-time. The essential person-to-person Meet & Greet that dealers require at the physical showroom is now possible on the dealership website through ActivEngage. This proactive website engagement decreases abandonment rates and increases website lead generation with the thousands of visitors the average dealership receives each month. ActivEngage provides the edge that dealerships need to engage more customers who browse for information because it starts building a personal relationship with shoppers from the moment they hit the dealership website. ActivEngage offers three tiers of service to ensure that all website visitors’ experiences are enjoyable and uncomplicated, thereby increasing the value of dealership websites through better lead generation.

Los Angeles, California – February 10, 2010 – American Honda Motors has exclusively partnered with ClickMotive, a leading automotive software company based in Texas, to create and support Dealer Ad Association Websites on a nationwide basis for both Acura and Honda.

These groundbreaking websites will uniquely combine the most effective elements of Digital Marketing into a seamless geo-targeted website platform that will benefit local Consumers, Dealers and Ad Agencies.

Together, American Honda Motors and ClickMotive set out to build the automotive industry’s most complete Ad Association Websites by combining many on-line features for the first time into a single website solution that provides Consumers with everything they need to purchase or service a Honda or Acura with a Dealer in their area.