Used Cars Are the Last Remaining Untapped Market in the Auto Industry
(ContentDesk) November 1, 2005 -- Car Dealer Marketing announced the launch of The Used Car Sellution", an innovative, proprietary online marketing program for Internet-savvy auto dealers that drives pre-qualified used vehicle buyers directly to the inventory department on a dealer's own web site.
The Used Car Sellution" is being used by Asbury Automotive, the fifth largest mega-dealership group in the country, for its Crown Automotive subsidiary and two of its dealerships in North Carolina and one in Virginia.
The program delivered over 15,000 additional pre-qualified used vehicle buyers to Crown's web site in August and September, which averages around 40,000 visitors a month.
It resulted in the company selling 53 additional used vehicles, yielding profits in excess of $92,000, according to Alan Hack, president of Car Dealer Marketing.
That's right, $92,000 in profits, not sales.
We're pretty excited about this, as are the folks at Asbury and Crown, which stocks 700-800 used vehicles at all times. Crown management was sufficiently pleased with a test market conducted earlier in May.
It resulted in Car Dealer Marketing being granted a contract to implement The Used Car Sellution" in three of the cities in which it has dealerships:
Greensboro, Raleigh, and Richmond.
The Used Car Sellution" is specifically designed to maximize a dealer's investment in its own web site by increasing used cars sales. The program features:????Exclusivity - Only one dealership or dealership group is able to take advantage of the exclusive rights to this program in any given city or metropolitan area.????Market Reach - Locally focused in a city and surrounding areas to attract used car buyers in a specific market.????Market Share - Enables a dealer to sell a larger percentage of the available used car buyers in its market, used car buyers who might not otherwise become a dealer's customers.????Enhanced Demand - Positions a dealership as "The Premier Place" to buy used cars in its city.????Unique Domain Name - Uses the #1 Internet Address for used cars in a city.????Dealer Inventory Portal - Turnkey professional online Dealer Inventory Portal focused on driving targeted Internet traffic directly to the used car inventory on a dealer's own web site. ????Cost-Efficiency - One of the least expensive ways in the auto industry to increase used car sales.The company provides access to an online tracking system that displays the number of times the Dealer Inventory Portal is visited by prospective used car buyers accessing the program in each market.A dealership may, at its option, also use the campaigns unique domain name for offline advertising to produce additional traffic to the Dealer Inventory Portal.
Suitable for advertising in newspapers, magazines, television, radio, billboards, and other media.The Used Car Sellution" is most effective in markets with a population in excess of 500,000 adults.
With costs based on an areas population, a dealership or dealership group may request a price quotation from the company after submitting a detailed geographical description of each of the market areas from which it draws its customer base..
July 2006: The Descend of Volvo Cars in North America
Do you want to know the latest news from North America? In Irvine, California, last August 1, 2006, a report from LLC shows the sales report of Volvo Cars last July 2006. The report says that there are approximately 10,338 units of Volvo cars sold from the same period last year, July 2005 to July 2006. Sadly, it decreased 10% its sales compared to the sales on the previous years.
In North America, including the Mexico, Puerto Rico and Canada, 11,307 units of Volvo cars are sold. For that month, the sales went down with an enormous 12.2%.
In Canada and Mexico, 705 and 265 units of cars were sold.
Volvo started building quality and safety cars from 1927 to present. In 2006, they have made new models including the award winning S40 and V50, which is a wagon counterpart of S40. Some other award winning models were are the
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Rent One Online to Provide Avis and Budget Rental Cars to Vacation Rental Travelers
Scotts Valley, CA (ContentDesk) April 20 , 2006 -- Rent One Online is introducing the ability for travelers to vacation rental properties to get quotes and book Avis and Budget rental cars via Rent One Onlines rental property management and vacation travel software.
Rent One Onlines solution is used by vacation rental managers, destination area real estate offices, resorts and web sites that list vacation rental properties.Rent One Online is the first vacation rental company to directly integrate car rental booking within its web-based reservation and vacation property management software. Rent One Online, and its network of customers, can now offer quality Avis and Budget rental cars to vacation rental travelers from the initial point of booking through the point of stay . Rental managers win by providing better service and by sharing in the travel agency commission received by Rent One Online; the vacation rental traveler wins via the convenience of a one-stop shop ...
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Rent One Online to Provide Avis and Budget Rental Cars to Vacation Rental Travelers
Scotts Valley, CA (ContentDesk) April 20 , 2006 -- Rent One Online is introducing the ability for travelers to vacation rental properties to get quotes and book Avis and Budget rental cars via Rent One Onlines rental property management and vacation travel software.
Rent One Onlines solution is used by vacation rental managers, destination area real estate offices, resorts and web sites that list vacation rental properties.Rent One Online is the first vacation rental company to directly integrate car rental booking within its web-based reservation and vacation property management software. Rent One Online, and its network of customers, can now offer quality Avis and Budget rental cars to vacation rental travelers from the initial point of booking through the point of stay . Rental managers win by providing better service and by sharing in the travel agency commission received by Rent One Online; the vacation rental traveler wins via the convenience of a one-stop shop ...
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Hoodia Cactus
Most of the journalists used the name, "the African Hoodia Cactus" when they learned about the hunger-suppressing plant from South Africa. What they meant was "Hoodia Gordonii", found wild in the Kalahari Desert. It does not belong to the cactus genus.
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Dear Music Fans,Just have a few minutes to write... just wanted to share a little bit of information. I thought that music downloading were going to destroy sales of the regular compact disc. Wrong. Manufacturers are starting to add interesting tools like ringtone creators.
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European Union Risk Assessments Find No Concern For Current Uses of Three Phthalates
(ContentDesk) May 25, 2006 -- The European Union recently banned the use of a number of phthalates in children's toys (www.phthalates.org/toys-info-sheet.asp), including the most commonly used one, DINP. And the EU also banned the use of DBP and some other phthalates in cosmetics (www.phthalates.org/pcp_info_sheet.asp). The question is: "why?"Not...
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Great Gift Ideas for Women
Choosing gifts for women requires patience and care. Your choice of a gift for the women in your life should be guided by: the occasion (anniversary, birthday, new baby, graduation); your relationship to the woman (partner, parent, friend, boss, colleague, neighbor); the recipient herself (athletic, fashion-conscious, book lover, outgoing); and the price.
A teenaged woman, for example, might be overjoyed to receive a soft toy in a special case for her birthday, but women in their...
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Who Else Got a Bad Diamond Deal? Here's How YOU Prevent It
Diamonds are a girl's best friend. Well, they're also a jewelers best friend, because these little stones are the most valuable minerals in the world. Valuable, yet everyone has trouble when buying a diamond because it's so hard to get a good estimate of what a fair price would be. If that's you, then I'm here to tell you that judging the value of a diamond is actually as easy as looking for 4 easy characteristics. They are cut (the shape of your diamond), clarity (the amount of spots, cracks...
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