2014 Winner: Top Rated in Call Management

Reputation Management Award Received For: Slipstream

Slipstream Creative is an auto dealer focused digital marketing company that specializes in helping car dealerships grow their business through web-based initiatives. From an Ahead-of-the-curve Dealership Website Platform, to Advanced VIdeo SEO/Marketing, to Digital Ad Campaings and a Turnkey Reputation Management Solution – Slipstream prides itself on developing game-changing technology solutions that help your dealership dominate your market; generate more leads, close more sales, and build long-term customer loyalty in a changing dealer world. If you are looking for a “True” digital partner that will facilitate a successfull long-term growth strategy while driving short term goals, then Slipstream Creative is the answer.

2014 Winner: Top Rated in Reputation Management

Award Received For: AMPS

AMPS by Auto/Mate is the low-cost dealership management system (DMS) designed by car people for car people. Our installation and support team has clocked-in over 300 years of real car dealership experience. They are former office managers, F&I managers, sales managers, and service and parts managers. They have been in your seat and understand your job. They use this experience to help design our software, to make sure its easy to use and meets your needs. Visit www.automate.com for more information.

2014 Winner: Top Rated in Dealership Management Systems

Award Received  For:  CarChat24 – 24/7 Fully Staffed Chat

We provide 24/7 hosted Live Chat Support & Chat Software for new and used car dealership websites. CarChat24 helps dealers sell more vehicles by converting a higher percentage of their website visitors into quality leads. Our well trained friendly staff, using our state-of-the-art live chat software and our proven proactive chat process, creates a positive experience for dealership website visitors. Our mission is to empower car dealers with cutting edge live chat technology, and provide the professional staff and superior processes needed to obtain the best possible results. We are committed to helping our clients get the best return on investment from their websites. We strive to make our support service the very best and are always looking for innovative ways to give our dealers the edge over their competition.

2014 Winner: Top Rated in Chat

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Award Received For:  DealerOn – Flex Sites

DealerOn believes that auto dealership websites should increase traffic, leads, and sales. This is why we design our car dealer websites to maximize the number of people who visit your site and the percentage of those that convert to leads. At DealerOn, we also believe in accountability, so the DealerOn auto dealer website platform has extensive car dealership analytics to ensure that you can precisely measure the impact that your website and your online marketing activities are having on your dealership showroom traffic.

2014 Winner: Top Rated in Websites

Award Received For:  Online Reputation Management and eXtéresAUTO – SEO.

Founded in 2006 as an answer to Automotive Dealer’s needs for advanced SEO, eXteresAUTO is built on the premise that coming up first in search means market domination for their dealer clients

As consumer search habits change, so does eXteresAUTO. We added Search Asset Management, SAM, in 2009 to improve our clients’ Online Reputation Management and to bring piracy issues to their attention. 

eXteresAUTO SAM includes:

• eXclusive Market SEO
• Competitor Trak
• Online Reputation Management
• Piracy Alert
• Review Alert
• Dealer Training

All of our services are reported to our clients in an easy to use back office. The entire package increases 1st party leads, allows for reductions in expense and removes time-consuming tasks from the dealerships’ employees.

2014 Winner: Top Rated in Reputation Management

Award Received For: Sales Events

J&L Marketing has been providing consistent, tested results and success stories to the automotive industry since 1991. Our mission is to provide our clients with proven innovative marketing concepts to offset today’s challenging times. J&L has mastered the most critical part of direct response marketing- data analysis. Predictive models are created that forecast the propensity of customers’ behaviors, which are then used to select targets for communication. We handle the invitation design, printing, first-class postage and delivery for all sales events and service clinic direct mail campaigns. Our dynamic microsites allow every customer to have their own personalized microsite at their own web address that are used to collect customer information including email, service preferences, current vehicle, and mileage for the dealership’s database records. J&L uses targeted emails for both reminder and follow-up communications. Targeted emails offer another channel of communication with customers and increases response. ROI reporting breaks down investment made, and shows you where your profit came from.

2014 Winner: Top Rated in Owner Marketing

Awards Received For: NewLeadsPlus and Cars.com Online Advertising

Cars.com helps you reach car buyers by developing a website that makes it easy for them to find your new and used vehicles. We also reach car shoppers by advertising in all the right places and selecting the best partnerships for more exposure. We’re working the internet in every possible way to deliver the best-quality car shoppers, whenever and wherever. From there, it’s up to you to do what you do best: Sell cars.

2014 Winner: Top Rated in Used Car Advertising

Awards Received For: Dealix New Car Leads and UsedCars.com

Dealing, a division of Cobalt, is the world’s leading provider of quality leads for new and used cars for dealerships, dealer groups, and automotive manufacturers. Dealix is the only Internet marketing company that backs its new and used car leads with the Dealix Quality PledgeTM: a distinct set of criteria that defines a quality lead and an invitation to use Hassle Free Lead ReturnTM if a lead lacks any one of those criteria.

2014 Winner: Top Rated in New Car Leads

2014 Winner: Top Rated in Used Car Advertising

Award Received For: DealerTrack DMS

DealerTrack’s intuitive and high-value software solutions and services enhance efficiency and profitability for all major segments of the retail automotive industry, including dealers, lenders, OEMs, agents and aftermarket providers. For more information, visit www.dealertrack.com.

2014 Winner: Top Rated in Dealership Management Systems