DealerRefresh is 19 years old! - where were you?

[Alex Snyder]

Happy Birthday DealerRefresh! What were you doing 19 years ago?

 

[Alex Snyder]

In May of 2005, I was the Director of Ecommerce at Checkered Flag living in Virginia Beach.

 

[Dan Sayer]

I was the cradle-to-grave "Internet Sales Manager" at Williamson Honda in Lincoln, NE. I carried three phones. My cordless office phone on one hip, my personal Razr in my pocket, and a Palm phone on the other hip that was tied to the phone number on all my AutoTrader and Cars.com listings. I'm totally getting cancer somewhere in that region soon SMH.

 

[joe.pistell]

Back in the day, I had left Bresee Chevrolet and moved to Sun Auto Group as marketing dir.
Here's the home page I inherited

https://web.archive.org/web/20050209124636/http://www.usedcarking.com/

I helped Homenet improve the platform so much, Jesse Biter, Homenet CEO gave me a dev team to build UsedCarKing from my photoshop mocks. (be nice, I'm not an artist!

https://web.archive.org/web/20110808060847/http://www.usedcarking.com/

 

[joe.pistell]

May of 2005, I was the Director of Ecommerce at Checkered Flag

haha, alex, I was hunting thru Archive.org to find CF's "buy your car in your PJ's" and found this old school avatar
https://web.archive.org/web/20060713150122/http://www.checkeredflag.com/

 

[Alex Snyder]

haha, alex, I was hunting thru Archive.org to find CF's "buy your car in your PJ's" and found this old school avatar
https://web.archive.org/web/20060713150122/http://www.checkeredflag.com/

Wow! Our DealerOn site prior to moving to Dealer.com (when the pajamas stuff came out). This was the time when you were not cool unless you had a talking lady on your website

 

[Dan Sayer]

Happy Birthday DealerRefresh! What were you doing 19 years ago?

We have two salespeople that are the same age as DealerRefresh...

 

[Ryan Everson]

Happy Birthday DealerRefresh! What were you doing 19 years ago?

I was in middle school...


*working at my family's car lot in the summers though!

 

[Ryan Everson]

My first automotive website circa 2003, at the ripe age of 13 years old.

Created in Adobe Dreamweaver with "live" inventory from a csv inventory file managed in Microsoft Excel.

 

[Jeff Kershner]

Oddly enough, I'm back at the dealership I was at when I started DealerRefresh.

19 YEARS!! Wow.