DealerRefresh Newswire – Page 7 – DealerRefresh

Montreal (QC) & Oak Brook, IL, April 5, 2011 – TRADER Corporation, Canada’s leading destination for new and used vehicles, has launched TOptimizer as part of an exclusive partnership with vAuto, the U.S. industry leader in used vehicle inventory management. Canadian automotive dealers can now benefit from vAuto’s award-winning online Live Market View, which provides …

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CarMax EasyShop Makes Car Buying Easier – Again RICHMOND, Va. (March 28, 2011) — CarMax, Inc., the nation’s largest retailer of used cars, has once again dramatically improved car buying with CarMax EasyShop at carmax.com. Launched exclusively in Raleigh and Fayetteville, the newly added functionality empowers customers to complete more of the car shopping process …

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Shopper Activity For Japanese Brands Starting Immediately After Quake And Continuing Downward Momentum Since Nashville, TN —03/29/2011— Dataium, LLC, today released additional data on online automotive shopper behavior of the American consumer that illustrates a downward shift, particularly for Japanese brands. The company utilized its ASI index which aggregates and weighs nearly a dozen different …

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Dataium, LLC, announced today that it has signed an agreement with Nissan North America to provide data collection, aggregation, and analysis of website performance and consumer activity on Nissan and Infiniti branded websites. Dataium will provide Nissan and Infiniti as well as their participating dealers its reporting platform which includes the industry leading business intelligence …

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DealerApp Vantage, a software development company that leads the industry in mobile application (apps) design and development for auto dealers, today announced its new mobile application, Dealer Appvantage Pro, (DAP) is now available for Blackberry and Droid devices as well as Apple. DAP is a new mobile app developed to help auto dealers better interact …

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ATLANTA – March 15, 2011 – AutoTrader.com has partnered with auto dealer chat software provider Contact At Once! to deliver chat functionality to dealers who list their cars for sale on the site. The integration of chat enables dealers to instantly connect with prospects via text-based conversations online. The dealer live chat feature is a …

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DATE (Ann Arbor, MI): HookLogic will host “Lead-to-Show: One Strategy That WILL Improve It,” a complimentary webinar featuring Jeff Kershner of DealerRefresh.com. The live event will be held at 1:00 p.m. ET, 10:00 a.m. PT on March 23, 2011. Interested marketing and sales professionals in the automotive industry can register online at: https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/827738446. Registration is …

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WALTHAM, MA & OAK BROOK, IL – March 14, 2011 – DealerRater and vAuto announced that eleven vAuto customers received DealerRater’s 2011 Dealer of the Year Awards. Of DealerRater’s total award recipients, vAuto customers represented one-third of the winners, which included the overall 2011 Dealer of the Year – Russell & Smith Honda of Houston, …

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Fairhope, AL, March 9, 2011 — ScreenCrafters, a top provider of First Party Leads for automotive dealers and many other industries, announced today that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) awarded the veteran, boutique technology firm a patent for their highly successful lead generation and delivery system. The system, sometimes called SiteEncore™ or …

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Hybrids gain share among online consumer auto shopping online as SUVs decline Nashville, TN —03/09/2011— Was $3.40 the magic gas price for Hybrids? Though gas prices have been increasing steadily over the past 6 months, hybrids until recently, have not benefited as consumers continued to shop for less fuel efficient cars, SUVs, and trucks. However, …

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