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  1. CameronDV

    Deals4Dealers DDC Promotion

    Tired of your DDC site constantly going down? Setup a demo with Dealer Venom and check out our one of a kind Platform. We offer Global Updates to our platform - if one dealer asks for it, we build it, and make it available to everyone. . This has many advantages - customizations, support times...
  2. CameronDV

    Advertising Management. The Hunt for ROI

    Tough part about calculating ROI and Analyzing Reporting is about having so many channels to monitor: Site analytics, rankings, SEO, rep. mgmt, Social, E-mail marketing, SEM, Call Tracking, and so on. Each channel has dozens of metrics to analyze to calculate ROI for your ad spends: Spend...
  3. CameronDV

    Dealer.com Sites are Down!!!

    Well said! :thumbup: You are right Craig, an experienced QA Dept/process is going to be needed in any case. I'll look into this and talk to our developers since I am not 100% sure, but I believe our Infrastructure provider doesn't run all of our VMs on the same host...I know Docker has been...
  4. CameronDV

    Dealer.com Sites are Down!!!

    Ah yes, I should clarify and be careful with the 'server' term -- but yes, VMs for us.
  5. CameronDV

    Dealer.com Sites are Down!!!

    Ouch....I agree with Alex - you would think if they cared about their clients, they would spend some cheddar on security /backup option. If only there was a site provider that hosted every site on its own server.:hello:
  6. CameronDV

    Leaving Dealer.com in 2018....where did you go next?

    We have our differentiation. And we have others being worked on that will be revealed in the future. (If they prove as valuable tools to solve the problems dealers are expressing.) Our bells and whistles sound pretty good too, though. Hey, that's why the OEMs have car trims with all the various...
  7. CameronDV

    Leaving Dealer.com in 2018....where did you go next?

    Are you referencing site examples from our website? Our older platform, which we shared with Alex and Jeff - and the current site examples you see on our site do not reflect our security changes and functionality- they are on our old platform. New stuff is being buttoned up, old migrating to...
  8. CameronDV

    Leaving Dealer.com in 2018....where did you go next?

    100% agree with @craigh. Our latest build is on our own "Lite" version of WP and those types of security exposures were addressed from Day 1. WordPress as a downloadable platform is very code heavy, slow, and insecure - as has been mentioned a few times here. We made modifications to offer...
  9. CameronDV

    Leaving Dealer.com in 2018....where did you go next?

    Thanks for the shoutout @Alex Snyder. We have been quite busy here at Dealer Venom - we have added many new features and enhancements to our platform since we met with Alex and @Jeff Kershner back in March, as well as prepping to scale - with recent volume of new clients. We have made...
  10. CameronDV

    Who's sending your marketing email campaigns (blasts?)

    For starters, we don't sell or re-sell any e-mail packages to our clients. We also recommend NOT spamming out to giant lists from the CRM-for reasons that I am sure 99% of members here understand. We include the service to all of our clients if they would like it. A dealer is better off using...
  11. CameronDV

    Who's sending your marketing email campaigns (blasts?)

    This is a service we offer for free. What e-mail package are you referring to?
  12. CameronDV

    Who's sending your marketing email campaigns (blasts?)

    Our goal was not to say we have 're-invented the wheel of email marketing' - but simply to describe the success we have seen in dealers using 3rd party over a CRM - and the advantages it presents when doing so - the campaigns are simply better. Also, to shed light on how we get there.. Sorry...
  13. CameronDV

    What's Your Mobile Page Speed? It's Now Becoming an Official Google Ranking Factor

    https://searchengineland.com/google-begins-rolling-out-mobile-first-index-to-more-sites-295095?utm_source=marketo&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter&utm_content=scap&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTVdNeFkyUTBPR0ptTW1aaCIsInQiOiJcL1Rqb0J2U05hVlRkdVRnVDYrb3Y3Q2NnM3Y1ZEJLR0FIQ2RIY3U1NURvb01qcVhEbHdpWWkwRkRhU...
  14. CameronDV

    Customer data from dealer websites and 3rd party vendors being sold??

    :iagree: These data companies put it all in the fine print..and they have no limits, if they can get their hands on the data, they will...and they will turn it for profit. This data is also cross referenced with other data lists that exchange hands to build profiles on consumers, making it more...
  15. CameronDV

    Who's sending your marketing email campaigns (blasts?)

    Here is a screenshot of a recent campaign ran thru our Dashboard service. Obviously, we encourage our clients to use best practices, which this one group in particular does well with not blasting anyone and everyone- segmenting the lists, hyper-targeting your offers, etc... but this is a pretty...
  16. CameronDV

    What's Your Mobile Page Speed? It's Now Becoming an Official Google Ranking Factor

    Yea, we are seeing the technical speed as the metric used. With the load speed reported as being the time when the entire site loads, rather than the time it takes for the user to visually see what they would consider a "fully loaded" page.
  17. CameronDV

    Who's sending your marketing email campaigns (blasts?)

    Who would you rather have as your email provider for marketing campaigns... A. Your CRM provider? B. Website provider? C. Some 3rd Party (newsletter, mailchimp like provider?) What unique features/benefits/capabilities do you look for when making this decision?
  18. CameronDV

    What's Your Mobile Page Speed? It's Now Becoming an Official Google Ranking Factor

    Our team here at Dealer Venom is currently planning on developing AMP VDPs. Project team is targeted to finish our first round of AMP capabilities mid-Q2. We feel AMPs will have a great impact on the mobile e-commerce landscape in the near future, and with Google changing their SEO algorithms...
  19. CameronDV

    Deals4Dealers Time to take off the handcuffs - $500 off initial setup fee with new dealer site

    With all the frustrations using OEM dealer sites - lack of customization, SEO leashes, dimming the light of your local brand, entrepreneurship being cut off at the knees, plus all the well known technical and service issues -- Dealer Venom is here to work with the "Modern Automotive Dealer" to...
  20. CameronDV

    Listing of all the Dealership Website Hosting Companies

    Thanks Alex, yes, we are based in Pittsburgh. Looking forward to being a part of the community here!