DealerOn, a premier car dealer website and digital marketing provider in the United States and Mitsubishi Motors North America, Inc. (MMNA) jointly announced that DealerOn has officially joined the Mitsubishi Diamond Digital Solutions (“DDS”) Website Program, becoming the fourth website provider in the program.
DealerOn, the leading website provider to car dealers, adds Shaun Raines as their new Vice President of Marketing.
March 19, 2014, Derwood, MD: Today, DealerOn, the leading website provider to car dealers, announces the hiring of Shaun Raines as their new Vice President of Marketing. Since 1998, Raines has held leadership roles with Reynolds and Reynolds, DealerAdvisor LLC, ReachLocal and most recently, DrivingSales.
“Shaun is such a talented and well respected individual,” said Ali Amirrezvani, DealerOn’s CEO, “that we couldn’t be more excited to have him as a part of our Management Team. At DealerOn, our goal is to add team members that improve all facets of our business. Shaun’s experience and energy compliments our culture of high performance. His automotive digital marketing knowledge is freely shared and it’s one of the reasons why he is so highly regarded in the industry. The DealerOn family has known Shaun personally and professionally for several years and we couldn’t be happier to welcome him to the team.”
DealerOn’s new responsive website platform, just released at NADA 2014, was a huge success among dealers at the show. The platform automatically optimizes itself for any form factor or screen regardless of device. This platform provides a necessary solution for car dealers, given that the average dealer’s site receives traffic from nearly 1,000 unique screen resolutions each month. DealerOn’s new platform is currently in Beta, with its full release scheduled for May 1, 2014.
Said Raines, “I’m truly honored and excited to join one of the most amazingly competent and capable teams in the automotive industry. In the early part of my career with Reynolds Web Solutions, I discovered how much I loved working with dealer websites. Now, I get to be a part of a company with the most impressive website platform I’ve seen and digital marketing services for dealers that cover Search, Social and Reputation, and I couldn’t be happier.”
Before joining DealerOn, Raines worked at DrivingSales alongside Jared Hamilton and Kevin Root to plan, develop and build the automotive industries most trusted source for online education. With flexible learning options, DrivingSales University serves as a valuable knowledge and training platform for industry associations, dealer groups, OEM’s, single point dealers and individuals. Raines concluded, “I joined the DealerOn team to share every bit of my experience and ability in the effort to provide dealers with the best performing websites and complimentary digital marketing services in the industry. The opportunity is incredible and I’m so happy to be working with such a dealer focused team.”
DealerOn, the leading website provider to car dealers, adds Jason Ezell as their new Vice President of Sales.
March 11, 2014, Derwood, MD: Today, DealerOn, the leading website provider to car dealers, announces the hiring of Jason Ezell as their new Vice President of Sales. Recently, Ezell resigned his role as President and active partner of Dataium, LLC, the largest aggregator of auto shopper behavioral data in the industry. Jason had previously founded and led another automotive website provider, Dealerskins, through and following its purchase by Dominion Enterprises in 2005.
Ali Amirrezvani, DealerOn’s CEO, said, “We are honored to be able to add such an amazing individual to our Management Team. Jason is often recognized throughout the industry as one of the leading experts in Automotive Consumer shopping and website optimization. While he is known as one of the smartest, most accomplished people in our industry, he is universally regarded as an even better person. That’s why we are so excited to welcome him to our team, given the explosive growth we’re experiencing with our new Responsive Design website platform.”
DealerOn’s new Responsive website platform, just released at NADA 2014, was a huge success among dealers at the show. The platform automatically optimizes itself for any form factor or screen regardless of device. This platform provides a necessary solution for car dealers, given that the average dealer’s site receives traffic from nearly 1,000 unique screen resolutions each month. DealerOn’s new platform is currently in Beta, with its full release scheduled for May 1, 2014.
Said Ezell, “After 24 years in our industry, I am not just honored and thrilled to join this amazing company, but I get to return to my first and true passion — dealer websites. Since the early years of my first company, Dealerskins, DealerOn has grown and evolved into the company I had always dreamed of creating. Now, 10 years later, I get to fulfill that dream, selling what I feel is the most dynamic, powerful and revolutionary website platform in the industry. I also get to work alongside the most passionate and professional team of people I’ve seen assembled. This is literally a dream come true.”
At Dataium, Ezell worked alongside Founder Eric Brown and their teams to start, develop, and build the first completely independent, non-biased data aggregation platform in the automotive industry. Dataium was the first to aggregate real-time shopper behavior across multiple website platforms, and normalize that data to observe the exact path to purchase for 34 million unique shoppers every month. This data has, and is, making huge positive impacts in our industry on every level.
Ezell concluded, “I want to help DealerOn incorporate everything I’ve learned over the last decade into the very epicenter of the dealer internet strategy; the dealer website. DealerOn is building a world-class sales team around a world class product, so I couldn’t ask for more. It’s what I’ve been looking for — the perfect place to utilize all of my experience and knowledge for the direct benefit of the dealer. It’s just what I know and love.”
DealerOn receives a “Top Rated” Award for Dealer Satisfaction in the Websites Category
Derwood, MD– January 24, 2014 – DealerOn is the recipient of a “Top Rated” Website award in the fifth annual DrivingSales Dealer Satisfaction Awards, presented at a special event today in conjunction with the 2014 National Automobile Dealers Association (NADA) Convention & Expo.
“DealerOn works every day to be a true partner to our dealership customers, and winning this award three years in a row confirms that our customers agree that we are delivering on our goal”, said Ali Amirrezvani, CEO and Co-Founder of DealerOn. “Because this recognition is based completely on the reviews and ratings from DealerOn customers, we take extra pride in bringing the Top-Rated Website Provider Award home. In 2014 we are even more committed to providing exceptional customer service, working closely with our dealers to help them sell more cars, and making sure every one of our customers has a remarkable customer experience.”
DealerOn has become noted for delivering (as documented through Google Analytics and 3rd party CRM reports) an average increase of over 200% in website leads for their dealers. They proudly offer their new customers a Lead Volume Increase, Money-back GUARANTEE. DealerOn has just released their responsive website platform and remains the sole dealer website provider to utilize an A/B Split Testing platform for dealership customers.
“We congratulate DealerOn on winning a ‘Top Rated’ Website Award and for being recognized by its dealer customers for high levels of excellence and customer satisfaction,” said DrivingSales CEO and Founder Jared Hamilton. “In our fifth year of presenting these awards, we feel especially proud that DrivingSales Vendor Ratings continues to help dealers make smart and informed decisions through thousands of peer reviews that lead them to service providers such as DealerOn. We congratulate DealerOn on being recognized for top notch performance by the people to whom their services count the most: the dealer community.”
The DrivingSales Dealer Satisfaction Awards measure dealer satisfaction with vendor products and services, and are based on cumulative ratings tallied and verified over the calendar year (January – December) at DrivingSales.com Vendor Ratings. DrivingSales.com Vendor Ratings is the industry’s only neutral, comprehensive vendor rating forum featuring real-time peer reviews and honest competitor comparisons, and provides dealerships with important information from actual customers who have hands-on experience using vendor products / solutions in their stores. Each rating is verified as coming from an actual dealership employee.
Full award results are available online at https://dealersatisfactionawards.com/. Award winners are showcased in the Q1 2014 issue of the DrivingSales Dealership Innovation Guide which, in addition to being distributed at the 2014 NADA Convention and Expo, is delivered to every new car dealership nationwide, as well as to the top 100 used car dealerships. For more information on the Dealership Innovation Guide, please visit: https://drivingsalesinnovationguide.com/.
About DealerOn
DealerOn is an award-winning website company & digital agency best-known for our Search Engine Optimization, Customer Service & award-winning Websites. The company documents a staggering increase of 200%+ in lead volume for dealership clients & are the only company in the industry offering a money-back Lead Guarantee Program. With 100% customer recommendation rating & awards too numerous to mention, DealerOn is the undisputed leader in online marketing in the automotive industry.
About DrivingSales
DrivingSales is a professional network serving the auto industry with dealer-driven news and information, online training, and performance data, all to enable dealers to make critical business decisions at their dealerships. DrivingSales’ mission is to connect progressive dealership professionals to the people and information they need to maximize their success. Founded by a third-generation car dealer, and opened up to the industry in 2008, today DrivingSales has registered users in over 50% of new car dealerships in the US and is active in several other countries around the globe. To learn more about the DrivingSales community, training or performance analytics visit DrivingSales.com, DrivingSalesUniversity.com and DrivingSalesData.com
DealerOn Media Relations:
Chris Deringer (chris@dealeron.com), Chief Marketing Officer, 877.543.4200
DrivingSales Media Relations:
Melanie Webber (melanie@mwebbcom.com), mWEBB Communications, 949.307.1723
DealerOn, the premier car dealer website company, announces that two of their automotive dealer website customers have been awarded Dataium Website Performance Awards for April 2013. Dataium uses various performance metrics collected from participating dealership websites to recognize auto dealerships and their website providers for their online performance. Ron Carter Hyundai was awarded the Auto Shopper Intensity (ASI) Award and Antwerpen Hyundai Catonsville received the Best Performance: Leads per Auto Shopper Award.
The ASI Award is Dataium’s proprietary index used to measure auto shopper engagement, enthusiasm, and intensity by tracking the lead to visitor, returning visitors, lead to auto shopper, lead to search, and visitor to auto shopper ratios. Ron Carter Hyundai was given this award for April, showing that they were ranked in the top ten/five in each of the measured categories.
Antwerpen Hyundai Catonsville was awarded the Best Performance: Leads per Auto Shopper Award. This award is given to the auto dealer website that has the highest percentage of car shoppers submit a lead among those that use Dataium’s tracking code. Car dealership websites that are able to convert a high percentage of site traffic into leads have a better chance of selling cars to those that visit their dealership website.
DealerOn, Inc., the leading online marketing company serving the retail automotive industry, provides online marketing solutions to auto dealer customers including car dealer websites, SEO, social media and online reputation management (including managed blogs, Facebook, Twitter, and press releases), paid search, and lead nurturing tools.
DealerOn has become noted for documenting (through Google Analytics and 3rd party CRM reports) an average increase of over 200% in lead volume for their car dealership clients. They proudly offer their new customers a Lead Volume Increase, Money-back GUARANTEE. DealerOn has just announced that they are the first dealer website provider to roll out an A/B Split Testing platform, currently in limited Beta testing, and available to all DealerOn customers by the end of the second quarter.
These awards are based upon independent, unbiased analytics of dealers’ websites performed by Dataium, LLC. Dataium is the largest aggregator of auto shopper behavior and provides OEMs and thousands of dealers advanced website analytics. Dataium is the only company providing multi-make/model data collection, analysis, and benchmarking.
By providing common, independent web metrics for all websites, Dataium is the first company to collect, translate, research, analyze, and report on shopper behavior across multiple automotive website platforms. Dataium provides critical business intelligence and insight for their customers through the aggregation and analysis of consumer activity from across the Internet.