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Dealer.com Wins Platinum Dealer’s Choice Award

BURLINGTON, Vt.--Dealer.com, a leading provider of online marketing solutions for the automotive industry, today announced it has been recognized by thousands of automotive dealers across the country for its innovative solution and unique approach to automotive web design. The company is the recipient of the Platinum Award in Web Site Design/Provider category of the Auto Dealer Monthly 2007 Dealers Choice Awards.

It is an honor to be rated by automotive dealers as an elite provider of website solutions, said Mark Bonfigli, president and CEO of Dealer.com. We strive to provide our customers with the most innovative solutions to streamline online marketing activities and the foundation for that success lies in a strategic website. We are certainly excited that the industry and the customers we serve chose Dealer.com to receive the Platinum Dealers Choice Award for Web Design.

This is the third year Auto Dealer Monthly, through surveying auto dealers across the country, has recognized the most highly regarded vendors, suppliers and finance companies in the retail automotive industry. The award is determined by a survey of dealers who are asked to provide their collective selection of the top providers to the retail auto industry. Overall, 40 companies, all chosen by dealers and dealership personnel, were named winners in 19 distinctive categories of products and services. Nearly 3,500 votes were cast per category and vendors were scored by performance, customer support and the overall value compared to cost to the dealership.

Dealer.com offers automotive dealers a suite of online marketing web based solutions and tools proven to strategically reach customers online. The company offers its customers the only fully-integrated web solution including web site development, search engine marketing, search engine optimization and lead management.

Dealer.coms award-winning products include SmartSites, professionally designed Web sites helping auto dealers reach their customers through inventory information, photos and online brochures; LeadMachineTM, a fully integrated lead management tool allowing auto dealers to track ROI, sales person success rates and generate detailed efficiency reports; and, PowerMailTM Pro, a broadcast email tool enabling dealers to communicate with customers regarding inventory, promotions and factory incentive emails. Dealer.coms DOMINATORTM, is a search engine marketing program designed to drive local, high quality traffic to dealership Web sites through carefully chosen keywords.

About Dealer.com:

Founded in Burlington, VT in 1997, Dealer.com is a leading provider of online marketing solutions for the automotive industry. The company offers the only fully-integrated web-based closed-loop marketing platform that measures the effectiveness of every marketing program while tracking responses, and respondents, from exposure to closure. The platform includes NADA award-winning automotive dealer websites, user-friendly lead management tools, the most proven local search engine advertising solutions available, and unparalleled metrics and web analytics. Dealer.com is the only company to truly revolutionize the online marketing and sales effectiveness for auto dealers with an unmatched level of speed, precision and ease-of-use. For more information, please visit www.dealer.com or call 888-894-8989.

About Auto Dealer Monthly

Auto Dealer Monthly is a publication of Agala Investment and is delivered to more than 35,000 subscribers nationwide. Auto Dealer Monthly is the day-to-day resource for automotive dealerships of all sizes. It is known for offering business solutions to automotive executives by providing information necessary to make wise decisions regarding products, services or process changes in daily operations.

Auto Dealer Monthly is edited for auto dealers. Publishing and editorial decisions are based on the editors judgment of the quality of writing, the timeliness of the article, and the potential interest to readers of Auto Dealer Monthly. For more information regarding Auto Dealer Monthly, call 888-300-8844 or go to http://www.AutoDealerMonthly.com.