Integrate.com Targets Automotive Markets as a Key Area for Growth
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DENVER--Integrate.com is targeting a variety of key areas within the automotive vertical to grow its performance-based customer generation platform. This focus will provide immense value for an industry in desperate need of revitalization.
The performance marketing solution provider, Integrate.com, will focus on serving automotive OEMs and their retail operations, along with finance and extended warranty providers and other top tier automotive-related suppliers and service support companies. Integrate will be establishing partnerships with key automotive lead suppliers and other vertical specific distribution sources. Spearheading the project is Tom Adams, new Vice President of Automotive Markets at Integrate.com.
"The automotive vertical provides huge potential for Integrate and is a perfect fit for our aggressive growth plans," states Integrate.com's co-founder Hart Cunningham. "Tom's 20-plus years of industry-focused experience working for and with automotive OEMs will be instrumental in developing mutually beneficial partnerships, allowing us to grow this sector of our business."
The timing for this new focus is perfect. Tom reports that, "Integrate's performance-based model, combined with its revolutionary technology, is truly a breath of fresh air for the entire automotive sector. The market has long needed a complete end-to-end customer generation solution. Integrate's comprehensive marketing platform will be instrumental in revitalizing this industry.
IRVINE, Calif.--Autobytel Inc. , a leading provider of online consumer purchase requests and marketing resources to the automotive industry, announced today it won a "Top Rated" New Car Leads award in the second annual DrivingSales Dealer Satisfaction Awards, presented at the 2011 NADA Convention and Expo.
"We are honored to receive this award from DrivingSales and more importantly from the dealers who voted," said Jeffrey H. Coats, Autobytel's President and Chief Executive Officer. "Autobytel is dedicated to providing our member dealers with quality purchase requests and this award and our four star rating validates our efforts."
Since launching the first car-buying website in 1995, Autobytel has helped millions of car shoppers and generated billions of dollars in sales for car dealers. The company's advanced web-based advertising and marketing programs help dealers and manufacturers build relationships with customers, as well as help them to efficiently manage and convert online business. Through Autobytel's marketing network of websites, the company connects dealerships with a steady, diverse stream of exceptionally motivated, serious shoppers, while providing both dealers and manufacturers with precision-targeted brand and product marketing opportunities.
The DrivingSales Dealer Satisfaction Awards measure satisfaction with services provided by vendors by allowing dealers to rate and review their vendors online at DrivingSales.com. Only vendors who achieved top rankings in dealer satisfaction in each category, as determined by the thousands of auto dealers who are part of the DrivingSales.com community, received awards.
"We are proud to present a DrivingSales Dealer Satisfaction "Top Rated" New Car Leads Award to Autobytel Inc.," said DrivingSales CEO and Founder Jared Hamilton. "This award is a reflection of the excellent results Autobytel Inc. has generated for dealerships across the nation, and we are proud to recognize their accomplishment."
Full award results are available online at www.DrivingSales.com/dealersatisfactionaward. Full broadcast coverage of the DrivingSales Dealer Satisfaction Awards ceremony is available at drivingsalestv.com.
About Autobytel Inc. (www.autobytel.com)
Autobytel Inc., an online leader offering consumer purchase requests and marketing resources to car dealers and manufacturers and providing consumers with the information they need to purchase new and used cars, pioneered the automotive Internet when it launched autobytel.com in 1995. Today, Autobytel is now the largest provider of U.S. automotive consumer purchase requests for new cars and continues to offer innovative products and services to help consumers buy, and auto dealers and manufacturers sell, more used and new cars. Autobytel has helped tens of millions of automotive consumers research vehicles; connected thousands of dealers nationwide with motivated car buyers; and helped every major automaker market its brand online. Through its flagship website Autobytel.com ®, its network of automotive sites, including Autotropolis.com ®, DealershipJobs.com, Autoweb.com ®, AutoSite.com ®, Car.comsm, CarSmart.com ®, CarTV.com ®, and MyRide.com ® and its respected online partners, Autobytel continues its dedication to innovating the industry's highest quality Internet programs to provide consumers with a comprehensive and positive automotive research and purchasing experience, and auto dealers, dealer groups and auto manufacturers with one of the industry's most productive and cost-effective customer referral and marketing programs.
About DrivingSales
DrivingSales is the auto industry's fastest-growing, most influential trade media property focused on delivering actionable profit-building information to auto retailers and industry professionals. DrivingSales, media network includes flagship property DrivingSales.com (www.drivingsales.com), the world's largest car dealer social network where thousands of dealership professionals collaborate and share best practices in a 20-group-style setting; DrivingSalesTV (www.drivingsalestv.com), an interactive web channel which helps car dealers and auto professionals keep tabs on their industry and emerging technologies 24/7; DrivingSales University, an on-demand training platform where dealerships learn the latest web strategies from top e-commerce experts; DrivingSales Executive Summit (DSES) the industry's leading conference where progressive dealers collaborate and learn from world renowned experts; and DrivingSales Dealership Innovation Guide, a free quarterly publication featuring case studies of the industry's most innovative dealerships, solutions and best practices.
DrivingSales encourages innovation and excellence in the industry with its annual Dealer Satisfaction and Innovation Cup Awards, whose winners are determined solely by the dealer community. Founded by Jared Hamilton, a third generation car dealer, DrivingSales was named one of ten social media gambits for 2009 by Automotive News and one of the Top 10 Companies to Watch by Auto Success Magazine.
Integrate.com is a performance-based customer generation platform that integrates virtually every type of media source, both online and offline, into one easy-to-use interface. Essentially any advertiser can use Integrate to capture new customers through billboards, newspapers, magazines, TV, radio, mobile devices, SEM sites, online contextual ads and more. The platform offers a one-stop shop that embraces all aspects of performance marketing, including Cost-per-Inbound-Call (CPIC), Cost-per-Lead (CPL), Cost-per-Acquisition (CPA) and Live Transfer (LT) campaign models.
Tom will be based in Southern California, and will also work out of Integrate's Scottsdale, Ariz., and Denver, Colo. offices. He can be reached at 866-478-0326 ext. 6049 or via email at tadams@integrate.com.