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DealerRater Expands Footprint into Canada

WALTHAM, MA – May 9, 2011 – DealerRater today announced that it will extend its reach into Canada, making the company the predominant car dealer review web site throughout North America. As part of its expansion initiative, DealerRater welcomed a new Regional Account Manager, who will work exclusively with car dealerships throughout Canada to manage their online reputation, reach in-market customers and promote quality customer service.

“We are excited to expand our community and reach out to more Canadian dealerships,” said Chip Grueter, President of DealerRater. “As auto consumers increasingly rely on online dealer reviews when selecting a car dealer, building third-party reviews and defining a proven strategy to manage these reviews is critical for today’s successful car dealerships.”

As the first review web site dedicated solely to automotive dealerships, DealerRater has demonstrated unprecedented growth in the past two years in both the number of user reviews and web site visitors. In addition, a record number of dealers have embraced DealerRater as a third-party review site that is critical to their online reputation management efforts. The company maintains over 3,500 dealer partners through its Certification Program.

The DealerRater Certified Dealer Program is a certification program and reputation management tool offered to qualified car dealers. The program is designed to help car dealerships reach DealerRater community members while demonstrating an utmost commitment to quality service.

About DealerRater

DealerRater was founded in 2002 as the first car dealer review website worldwide. With more than 400,000 people joining the DealerRater user community each month, DealerRater is fast becoming the world’s #1 online resource for anyone seeking third-party information on automobile dealerships. DealerRater features more than 38,000 U.S. and International car dealers, 300,000 user reviews and over 1,000,000 classified ads. DealerRater attracts more than 5 million consumers every year who visit the site to search for car dealerships, read current reviews, write their own descriptive reviews, and find car deals – all for free. Car dealers are rated on the criteria of customer service, quality of work, friendliness, price and overall experience. In addition, DealerRater offers qualified car dealers a Certified Dealer Program as a reputation management tool to help them grow their online presence and achieve higher SEO rankings across the Web. Today, over 3,500 dealers are members of DealerRater’s Certification Program. For more information, visit www.DealerRater.com or call 800-266-9455.

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    Mitch Gallant
  • May 11, 2011
Google has been incorporating them, we've had some issues too but Ryan at dealerRater was nice enough to jump in on a thread in the forums. http://bit.ly/kt2iaX

It can be frustrating as all hell but that's a different conversation.

Pumped to see more attention paid to us up here! Hope they roll out some DealerRater awards pretty soon... hopefully thats the announcement for next week...
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Thanks Mitch, I'll see if we can make it happen too!
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Have no fear Canadian friends. It can be done: http://www.google.com/search?q=destination%20mazda&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&source=hp&channel=np
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$#@&! Damn Destination Mazda... the have about a dozen more reviews then us.... not for long! Those flat landers won't know what rolled them over!

Thanks for a great example Ryan.
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    Jeff Kershner
  • May 12, 2011
Rock it Mitch!
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    Jeff Kershner
  • May 12, 2011
Rock it Mitch!
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