Space Auto, the new integrated software and marketing solution for auto dealerships, is excited to announce two new leadership hires, including a veteran of CarOffer. The company is also moving into a larger office space in Dallas to keep pace with its growing team and client base.

As Space Auto rapidly expands, it expects to hire at least 15 new employees in the first half of the year.

“We are excited to take…

Car dealerships can now meet their software and marketing needs all in one space. Space Auto is taking the auto industry by storm with its launch of innovative solutions that connect auto dealers with customers, drive sales, and grow their business — all in one unified system.

Space Auto is the brainchild of Nick Askew, who worked for more than seven years in auto dealership retail and then founded a technology agency. Through these…

By Shawn Morse

Lessons can be learned from the Smartphone industry on how automotive solution providers should be delivering modern, innovative and nimble products and services to our dealership business partners.  Having the tenacity to rapidly deliver imaginative development, meeting customers’ real-time needs, and more importantly,…

Just like a prized fighter who prepares for the next match, an athlete who prepares for years to compete in the international Olympics, or a war-fighter who is continually trained for various geographic missions throughout the globe, your sales team must continue to improve and refocus on the markets and customer base. This requires that the team conducts opportunity identification, develop needs and solutions, establish the value, proof and control of sales cycles, selection and…

Auto Dealer Chat Software is a Game Changer

Some technological advancements are designed to make life considerably easier.  Other technologies not only simplify life, but also serve to boost revenues for the companies that adopt them.  Quite often being first to implement a new technology comes with a myriad of significant benefits.  We see this…

Maximizing your Most Valuable Asset

Use the data you already own as your most valuable asset for producing maximum ROI

Use the data you already own in smarter and more efficient ways; decrease waste and increase revenue with an informed and targeted approach. Find out how modern dealership systems and best practices help you sell more cars for less money. What kind of data sells cars? How do I segment my data? What ROI should I expect from this approach?…

What More is your Website Hiding?

Technology exists today that reveals valuable market advantages and solves the issue of lost leads with traffic to an automotive dealership’s website. Start proving marketing ROI and take back control of your own data with proven best practices from the top OEM franchises in the country.

Learn what happens behind the scenes of a dealership website. Knowing what and how your consumers search will give you powerful insight to…

Turn your Dealership Upside Down! Create a Digital Dealership for Maximum Profit

Turn your dealership from a ‘traditional structure’ to a ‘digital structure’ to meet the demands of the changing customer and dealership landscape

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The Makings of a Great Internet Director

Lessons learned and tactics tried by top Internet directors to improve their own success

Moderator: Joe Webb

Panelists: Lisa Jo Swain, Director of e-Commerce Operations, SunStar Autos

Jon Berna, e-Commerce Director, Hubler Automotive Group

Richard Lucy, e-Marketing Director, Tim Dahle Nissan

One excellent leader can single-handedly transform the online profitability of your store. Dealer…

Innovative Dealer Summit invites Sean Stapleton, CSO and Kendall Billman, VP of Interactive Marketing to speak at the event hosted by the Colorado Automobile Dealers Association Event

Overland Park, KS – March 14, 2012- VinSolutions, an industry-leading developer of automotive Internet-based Customer Relations Management (CRM) and Internet Lead Management (ILM) software, is a sponsor at the Innovative Dealer Summit, organized…

The Seven Habits of Internet Buffoons

How to avoid the common mistakes that spell disaster for your 2012 e-commerce efforts

What can you learn from a pizza parlor, the Mercury-Gemini program, and a cat that will make you great at e-commerce? You will learn how in this entertaining and educational session that will show you that it is often not what you do that makes you great in your online efforts, but what you don’t do. Real-life examples,…

The CarChat24 beta test is almost ready to go and we would like to invite you to participate!

We are now looking for enthusiastic early adopters to participate in our beta to help us find bugs, give feedback and feature suggestions to improve our product.

What Are the CarChat24 Beta Program Details?

• Target beta start date is mid to late February.
• Beta testing period…

CarChat24 will provide hosted Free Advanced Auto Dealer Chat Software for (“All Car Dealer’s NEW or Used”) after final Beta testing. Expected release in late January to early February. Hosted Advanced Chat software designed for Car Dealers FREE!

Anyone interested in this always free version should go to the appropriate URL below to register. Once we launch we will send…

It is no secret that we are all experiencing some difficult times in our respective economies and that these times are causing many in the automobile industry to question their career paths. However, even in these challenging times, there are those that continue to flourish because they seem to know something that many or their counterparts do not.  These individuals continue to give themselves pay raises every month and every year.  They have figured out some time ago that they have to make…

It’s November and the weather is changing, so it’s time to get ready for our slow season. This is the time of year that many of us in the car business often dread because the days are long, quite boring and in the windy city where I live, you can actually feel your brain shrinking after one too many days of snow. However, this is the perfect time of year to do some housekeeping in preparation for spring, your true selling season. This is the perfect time to generate some momentum by taking…