Do you know the best cars to list on eBay? Do you have the time it takes to consistently input all the data to build and launch successful auctions? As a top eBay Partner with an 11 year healthy eBay relationship, eBizAutos has created a new service to help busy dealerships make the most out of eBay. It’s a low cost, no effort eBay solution for your dealership all in one simple package. We know what cars sell best, generate the most leads and will do the work to get your inventory on eBay with the optimal auction settings.

eBay is a proven lead-generator, but in order to keep the leads coming in, dedicated time to launch the right auctions is required. eBizAutos Account Managers can now take the guess-work out of eBay for your dealership and launch the auctions for you. Since 2001, over 3 million vehicles have been launched to eBay from the eBizAutos platform. Using that data (which is continuously being updated as vehicles are launched on a daily basis) we’ll tell you which cars have the best chance of success on eBay and will even launch the auctions for you.

Automated eBay Smart Listings

With our new service, Account Managers analyze your dealership’s vehicle inventory and select your best cars to launch on eBay. After the vehicles are selected the Account Manager creates the auction listings, completes a thorough quality review and launches the cars from your current inventory to eBay according to our proven best practices. Use that extra time saved for responding to the additional leads you’ll receive.

Your dealership saves time, labor and always gets the best results possible while just servicing the incoming leads!

eBizAutos is the only provider with this service, and we can seamlessly integrate it with your current account making it easy to add. Contact your Account Manager today to get started.

Try out our Automated eBay Smart Listings today. Have questions or need help? Contact your Account Manager today at (800) 987-3249 for quick assistance.

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eBizAutos was recognized with an Automotive Website Award for Peak Performance Websites. The Automotive Website Award is the highest recognition for companies that assist the automotive retail industry to operate more effectively. The honorees are selected after a rigorous testing and evaluation.

This award adds to the growing collection for 2012 as eBizAutos was also named the recipient of the Diamond Award earlier this year in two categories of the Auto Dealer Monthly 2012 Dealers’ Choice Awards: the Website Provider category and the Inventory Marketing category. This is the fifth year in a row that eBizAutos has won for Websites and Inventory Marketing.

The 2012 Automotive Website Award ceremony was held at the Aria Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. Over 600 automotive industry professionals attended this prestigious awards ceremony, which identifies the most innovative technology and software solutions for automotive retailers.

These all refer to the same essential programs:

• Cash Offers (a set $ allowance)
• Finance Offers (a low % APR)
• Lease Offers (a low rate or payment for X months)

Offers typically update at the beginning of each month. When a dealer upgrades to the Manufacturer Special Offers System, the Offers will automatically display in their gallery. Dealers will also have the ability to “turn off” any individual Offers they do not want to display.

In addition, if the dealer would like to have the data load automatically but choose which Special Offers they turn on, they can set this option in the Specials Settings, located under the Website Settings nav. On this screen the dealer can enter their own disclaimer and choose to have Graphic or Default System buttons display.

We’ve built this system so the dealer can choose where to place it in their navigation structure. The page can be entered as a Top-Level or Sub-Nav page. For dealers with a mobile site, the mobile Special Offers page is automatically added and visible, as placement in the menu structure is not a concern.

Manufacturer Special Offers System is currently available for the following Makes:

• Acura
• Audi
• Buick
• Cadillac
• Chevrolet
• Chrysler
• Dodge
• Fiat
• Ford
• GMC
• Honda
• Jaguar
• Jeep
• Kia
• Lincoln
• Land Rover
• Porsche
• Ram

(This list will be updated as it changes.)

Try out the Manufacturer Special Offers System today. Have questions or need help? Contact your Account Manager today at (800) 987-3249 for quick assistance.

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To activate the new option, log into your Control Panel and navigate to: Settings > Leads > Additional Settings. Here, you will be able to select a graphic button, or keep the existing “Request More Info” button. Custom buttons can be created by our Graphic Design Team in addition to the standard versions that are available to all accounts. Contact your Support Advisor today to get started. Please note that even if you choose to use a Graphic Button rather than the Standard button, that the “Custom Lead Name” will still be shown on the lead form, and in your Lead Manager- so be sure that the Lead Name matches the Graphic Button you’ve selected.

In addition to these Graphic Button Images, we have also added a new pricing display option that allows your prices to be shown with a “Strike Through.” Using this new setting, you can add a strike through for either the high price, the low price, or both. For example, you can emphasize the low price by adding a Strike-Through to the High Price.

This setting can be activated in the Pricing Display Settings in Control Panel, and is a third option in the “Display in Gallery?” drop-down for each the High and Low Price, for each New and Pre-Owned Vehicles. These settings are located in: Control Panel > Settings > Inventory > Price Display Settings> #1: Vehicle Pricing Display.

Try out the Call to Action buttons today. Have questions or need help? Contact your Account Manager today at (800) 987-3249 for quick assistance.

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This enhancement allows your selected slides (including images, overlay text and links) to be displayed without Flash. In order to deliver this functionality as quickly as possible, the between-slide transitions have been simplified.

The slideshow will be further enhanced to include additional features in the future.

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This new system is completely brand new from the top down, allowing us to incorporate the most current coding technologies and techniques keeping our clients at the top of the search engines.

We are not using any Flash to develop the home page controls and widgets. This means all elements of the home page are able to display and function as intended on the iPad and other devices that don’t support Flash anymore.

We will also be incorporating the “flick” gesture on the Home Page image viewer and other widgets for touch devices. We hope over time to continue incorporating basic gesture controls on the Home Page and throughout the gallery as it makes sense to do so.

Scheduled Release Date: Late Summer 2012

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There’s a quick and easy way to do get this information delivered to your email inbox, and it’s fully customizable allowing adjustments for every manager’s needs.

In your Control Panel, simply click: Tools > Contacts > User Subscriptions

There’s a variety of information available in three general areas: Account Performance, Rankings and Inventory. Each area offers a wide range of website performance metrics with over 20 various reports to choose from.

Every manager and sales person involved with the internet will have their own needs. For this reason we’ve designed the Report Subscriptions to allow every individual to subscribe or unsubscribe to the reports that best suit their needs. In addition, the frequency can be adjusted to Daily, Weekly or Monthly emails.

Managers can even select an option to receive a CSV file within the email, allowing the data to be opened in various database programs such as Excel. This can save hours of time when you want to use the information in any of your own custom reporting!

Turn on Report Subscriptions today and start tomorrow with valuable data in your email inbox.

Have questions or need help? Contact your Account Manager today at (800) 987-3249 for quick assistance.

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Does your dealership use Facebook?

Need a way to let clients browse your complete new, pre-owned and CPO inventory directly within your Facebook page? We’ve got the application you need.

eBizAutos has recently developed a new Facebook App for Dealers

This new application has been designed to display your current inventory within your dealership’s Facebook page with a Facebook-style look and feel. We have also developed the application to link directly to the vehicle detail pages on your eBizAutos website. This direct-linking capability will drive more site traffic and opportunities for leads, without losing that traffic to any third-party site.

Click here to see a live and working example on Facebook.

Contact us to get it for your dealership.

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Mobile usage statistics are no longer just projections, opinions or predictions about the future. Mobile website use has grown significantly over the past two years. While mobile visitor numbers will vary from dealership to dealership, the importance of having a mobile website is the same for every dealer. An effective and strong mobile presence should be your dealership’s top priority.

We’re beginning a new series of articles geared specifically towards this topic and all the things associated with mobile websites. We hope your dealership’s owners and management find this series to be interesting, timely and profitable.

An Ongoing Guide for Dealership Owners, GM’s & Internet Directors

We’re going to take a deep look into mobile websites, customer usage data, mobile platforms and much more in a new series of articles. Our goal is to provide you with valuable real data, statistics and information that you can actually use to make the best-informed decisions for your own dealership regarding mobile websites.

Actual Facts & Real-World Data. (No Theories or Random Thoughts.)

Our Elite Platform includes a fully customized mobile website for dealerships, so we’ll be using screen captures from our client’s REAL mobile websites as well as ACTUAL real-time data from a combination of many dealers who have reaped the benefits of having our Elite Platform mobile website (one of the many items included in our Elite Platform).

View Our Mobile Solutions for Yourself LIVE on Your Cell Phone

Visit any (or all) of the links below ON YOUR CELL PHONE to see our Elite Platform mobile websites –

BMW North Scottsdale: www.BMWNorthScottsdale.com

Terry Labonte Chevrolet: www.TerryLabonteChevy.com

Land Rover Las Vegas: www.LRLV.com

Hendrick Motors of Charlotte (Mercedes-Benz): www.hendrickmotorsofcharlotte.com

Next: The Rapid Growth of Mobile Websites: Usage Data, Statistics & Numbers

Since you already know that having a mobile website for your dealership is important, we’ll start with an area that we think may be the most important to dealerships: Seeing actual numbers and usage data from mobile sites that illustrate the rapid growth and acceleration of mobile website usage. This article (The Rapid Growth of Mobile Websites: Usage Data, Statistics & Numbers) is coming soon…

Let eBizAutos Create Your Mobile Website for You

eBizAutos knows how to design, develop and maintain mobile websites, and a complete mobile website is just one of the benefits of having our Elite Platform. We’ve learned effective design though years of ongoing experiments, testing, gathering data and constant refinements. Our concentrated and ongoing efforts results in dealerships from California to New York benefiting (and profiting) from this new and growing platform. Let us prove it to you. Try our Elite Platform today, and begin seeing results almost immediately.

Learn How an Elite Platform Mobile Website Can Increase Your Online Visibility

Once your mobile site is complete, you WILL see an increase in your overall traffic and website numbers. Call us today and we’ll be happy to talk with you more about the steps we’ll take to make sure your dealership has an excellent appearance on mobile devices and cell phones. Contact an eBiz Advisor at 888-892-1275. Thank you.

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Having a website that’s optimized for keywords allows more customers to find your dealership quickly and easily, which leads to more business for your sales, service and parts departments. There are 1,000’s of keywords and sets of keyword combinations that people use when searching for new cars, used cars, service and parts.

Keywords Defined

Just in case you were wondering what keywords are: Keywords are the words people type into search engines when searching for specific items online. For example, someone in San Francisco looking for a new Porsche would probably type something such as: “San Francisco 2012 Porsche 911”

When Your Website is Properly Managed for Keywords

The better your dealership’s website is optimized for keywords, the higher your site shows up within Google, Yahoo or Bing Search Engine results. The higher your website is, the more it is seen and clicked, leading to more online success for your dealership.

When Your Website is Poorly Managed for Keywords – the Opposite Effect

Unfortunately, the inverse of the above is true. If your dealership’s website is not optimized for keywords or poorly optimized for keywords, the lower your site shows up within Google, Yahoo or Bing Search Engine results – or worse, not at all. The lower your website is, the less it is seen and clicked, leading to unsatisfactory online performance for your dealership. There are some studies that show that less than 12% of people doing a search on Google, Yahoo and Bing ever even go to page two of the search results.

The Keyword Goal for Dealerships

It’s simple. Your dealership should strive to show up in 1ST, 2ND or 3RD place on the top of Page One of Google, Yahoo or Bing for as many keywords and sets of keyword combinations as possible.

How Does Your Dealership Know Where It Stands?

Knowing how to measure and monitor your dealership’s website keyword performance can be difficult for a dealership to do by itself. We know this from years of experience. eBizAutos has expensive, time-consuming and elaborate systems in place with an entire department full of specialists to measure your dealership’s keywords on a consistent and ongoing basis. This is one of the top advantages our Elite Platform customers receive.

How Well Are Your Competitors Doing with Keywords?

In addition to adjusting your dealership’s website to achieve optimal performance levels with keywords, our Elite Platform keyword specialists can monitor and measure your direct competitor’s keyword performance to let you know a comprehensive picture of not only how your dealership is performing, but HOW WELL YOU ARE PERFORMING IN COMPARISON TO YOUR COMPETITION.

What’s Effective Today May Change Tomorrow

Using keywords optimally is a constantly changing process with factors changing several times a year. Google, Yahoo and Bing are constantly changing algorithms which has a critical effect on keywords. You can read more about that here:

Let eBizAutos Do the Keyword Work for You

eBizAutos knows how to optimize dealership websites for keywords, sets of keyword combinations and all the variations that customers use when searching for your dealership’s sales, service and parts departments. Let us prove it to you. Try our Elite Platform today, and begin seeing results almost immediately. Read more about the results we’ve achieved for other dealerships here:

FACT: Dealerships Using Our Elite Platform Achieve TOP Search Engine Results

Learn How Our Elite Platform Can Take Your Dealership to the Top

See how far up the search results our Elite Platform can can move your dealership. Call us today and we’ll be happy to talk with you more about the steps we’ll take to make sure your dealership shows up on top of Google when customers type in their keywords. Contact an eBiz Advisor at 888-892-1275. Thank you.

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