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  1. Jason Walter

    Business Development Manager Needed-Louisiana

    Company - Ross Downing Chevrolet Location - Hammond Job Title - Business Development Manager Description: Ross Downing Chevrolet is looking for a Business Development Manager for our dealership. You will be actively managing an automotive sales staff and ensuring that our proven strategies...
  2. Jason Walter

    GM Dealers - Is your Cobalt Site Linked to Your Places Page?

    Noticed it as well and sent an email to Google. They fixed it within a week. Spoke to Cobalt about it and they sent me some PDF on how to get it reversed but had better luck with Google.
  3. Jason Walter

    Converting to Apple

    Same here....I use a macbook Pro and use my virtual machine for ADP only. Everything else including Vin Solutions runs great on Lion...
  4. Jason Walter

    Really debating running my own managed dealer website. Who's running their own dealer website or con

    Hey Joe, No I am not on the limited release...looking forward to getting the new IOL though! I am assuming you are beta testing it? If so...how do you like it?
  5. Jason Walter

    Really debating running my own managed dealer website. Who's running their own dealer website or con

    We manage our own in house. We use Click here publishing to host but only have them as a back up. We have complete access to the code and do it all in house. We use Homenet hosting 2.0 inventory so we have an inventory solution that is not framed in and other plugins from ADP for credit...
  6. Jason Walter

    share your videos here

    Hey Joe, Thank you for the comments however I think you missed the point of the videos...the series about a project for us modifying the Z06. The first videos is just us explaining the project so there is nothing really to show. If you watch the other videos you will see more on what we did...
  7. Jason Walter

    share your videos here

    We just started getting into the video arena...here is a 3 part series we did in house on a Corvette mod project. We plan on adding quite a few how to videos, walkarounds, testimonials and more...
  8. Jason Walter

    Cost Per Internet Sale

    Many years ago we decided to track the internet as an advertising source. We wanted to know how many walkins, phone calls and web leads we received and all the statistics including cost of sale etc...So we can look at the numbers from all angles we do break each down and then total them up. So...
  9. Jason Walter

    "Get your ePrice" for new car inventory?

    We use MSRP and a "Get a Quote" button...Works great for us. We use ADP's Quotes Online tool which lets us deploy the product on all of our website no extra charge. Even on our mobile site. We get a lot of leads and they close a pretty high rate. We did a lot of A/B testing on the verbage and...
  10. Jason Walter

    Just launched Vin Solutions CRM/ILM-My opinion

    Hello everyone, When we started looking to replace our CRM several months ago, we spent a good while comparing solutions out on the market. I narrowed our search to VS and Dealer Socket but must admit that I was worried about the level of support I would get with Vin. I had heard some bad...
  11. Jason Walter

    Javascript Changing phone #

    Thank you guys...gonna see what we can put together and will let you know....
  12. Jason Walter

    Javascript Changing phone #

    Hey Jeff, What I was thinking was that I would give for example a Google referral a different call tracking number than my regular phone number. I am mainly wanting to be able to track phone conversions for my SEM/SEO campaigns. I as most people do, have conversion code to track submits and...
  13. Jason Walter

    Javascript Changing phone #

    Hey Guys & Gals, Anyone know of some javascript code that will dynamically change the phone number on your website based upon the referring domain. ie: if someone comes from Google your number would display differently than if they type in the web address. Thanks...
  14. Jason Walter

    CRM question for everyone...opinions needed...

    Thanks again for all those that gave me feedback. We decided to go with Vin Solutions for our new CRM provider. There are a lot of good products out there but felt like they offered us the best and most comprehensive product for what we are looking to do. On to a lovely data merge and...
  15. Jason Walter

    CRM question for everyone...opinions needed...

    Thank you guys...I appreciate the feedback...
  16. Jason Walter

    CRM question for everyone...opinions needed...

    Hello Everyone, Same old question that has been ask a bunch of times but I am looking for the latest information/opinions on choosing a CRM. Since Cobalt is now running the show at BZ we have made the decision to switch companies for everything. I am primarily interested in information on...
  17. Jason Walter

    Bogus Website Riding Our Coat Tales

    Had the same issue about 60 days ago....it eventually just disappeared. Only difference was that it was search result 7 or 8 and was towards the bottom of the page. Not sure what happened but glad it went away!
  18. Jason Walter

    Vauto cheese: Is it to cheesy

    We used to use the Autowriter tool and eventually moved to just custom writing all comments on both new and used. When we did use the Autowriter tool I would use the low fat cheese! I would even customize that with some of our own. Hence the reason why we just started writing our own. I...
  19. Jason Walter

    AutoTrader Trade-In Marketplace?

    Thats a good point that I left out. We are also using it from the desk. It is not a silver bullet but has helped us make a few deals. Because it has helped us make several deals we are using it on almost every appraisal. Off the top of my head...we havd two specialty cars. a VW Bug Turbo and...
  20. Jason Walter

    AutoTrader Trade-In Marketplace?

    *UPDATE* We get about 6-7k unique visitors a mo...in 30 days got about 90 leads...Close rate is pretty low but we did manage to trade for 3 units and make 2 deals. I would say about 15-20% of the trade values are real. I do wish that they values would be more realistic but it is bringing in...