Go For Quality! Manage Your Media Files With Autoxloo Showcase Tools!

Are you happy with your website? Is it generating the results you were promised? Is it flexible enough to let you showcase your inventory?
If you answered NO to any of these questions, then you need to give AutoXloo a chance to show you it is possible to have the best of all the worlds. You can have a high quality Dealer Management System and a professional looking website with AutoXloo.
AutoXloo Showcase tools can save you time and money as you create your online videos to enhance your online presence when utilizing the Make-A-Show video generation feature or when using many of the patented tools to create coupons and professional templates directly on your browser.
And the best part is that you can store video, audio, flash and images media right on your DMS. With Back links, custom HTML code and embedded videos you can transpose your media onto any website. We offer the best solutions to give our Automobile dealerships the competitive advantage. Call us today at 727-475-4455 Ext 2001 to speak to one of our consultants or visit us at www.autoxloo.com to register for a webinar of how we can help you improve your online presence.

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It’ s hard to imagine how life was before the digital age. Similar to a carpenter or mechanic we utilize Laptops, tablets and smart phones daily to improve our technological advantage as we manage our day to day tasks in building our online presence.

The AutoXloo QR Module is a tool in helping the customer instantly register and bookmark the Virtual showroom on their mobile device. Your information is stored and delivered to the buyer and can even be interactive with installation of the mobile app prompted by the QR code. Only AutoXloo is able to gather information from your buyer and send it directly to your CRM or leads storage system using a patented pull technology.

You can deliver specific information such as URL, text content, email, SMS, MMS, phone numbers and store location with a single scan to the buyer when registered on the Autoxloo DMS system.

Contact us today at 727-475-4455 Ext 2500 or visit us on the website at www.autoxloo.com to get more information about innovative feature.

How to Customize Your Website

In today’s market if you want to stay competitive in the automotive retail marketplace you will need a website/virtual showroom that will effectively market your brand, dealership and inventory to the world.

Until recently you either had to create a custom website from scratch which is both time consuming and expensive especially if you do not possess the necessary programming skills or you were forced choose from a library of pre-built cookie cutter designs (templates) that don’t offer the design flexibility needed to keep you ahead of the competition.

Autoxloo is proud to announce a new feature unique to the automotive industry that empowers the dealer to take control of the look, feel, content and layout of their website all without the need for any programming knowledge.

Its called Make-A-Page and it will give you full control of your website.

MAP (Make-A-Page) gives you the ability to design your website.  You can customize the layout of each page.  Choose what features you want to display like news, featured vehicles, different search variations and many more.  Now you can place these features in different areas of the page.  We have also created widgets that will make your website more user friendly.  If you ever run out of space for all your content just make a new page, in fact make as may as you  would like.

Everything in MAP is editable.  This means the sizes and colors can be adjusted to your needs.  You can change your websites look for any holiday or sale.

If you are thinking that this may be too difficult than you may be surprised.  MAP is designed to be very easy to use.  Anyone can use it with no experience necessary.  This means that you don’t need to wait for anyone to make changes to your website, since you can do it all.

If you want to see and try MAP, give us a call or contact AutoXloo today.

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The Web’s Growth and The Strain on Auto Dealers

Growing Internet traffic is straining dealers’ abilities to keep on top of it, and some experts advise dealers to establish a dedicated Internet sales staff. Since 2007, the percentage of dealerships with dedicated Internet sales staffs has stayed steady at just over half, says the National Automobile Dealer Association’s 2010 Dealership Internet Survey. Some dealers handle Internet leads with customer service employees who set up appointments for customers. Others may empower the entire sales force to field Web inquiries.

Autoxloo’s Dealer Management Systems simplifies these problems that dealers face in our constantly advancing technological world. With our services, dealers can have an interactive website that provides most of the required services to customers like inventory, credit requests, schedule test drive and sales, links to manufacturers’ Web sites, and contact information of every department. This greatly simplifies the work load on dealership staff and increases sales. In addition, our CRM provides the all the necessary tools to manage online leads, and our Live Help gives our clients the ability to contact Autoxloo’s support team any time of the day.

What is the future of transportation?

January 29th 2010 marks the unofficial 124th birthday of the automobile. Karl Benz placed his paten for his vehicle, and that started the birth of what we now know as the car. Looking back and thinking about how far we have come in the industry excites me. In 124 years, the number of land speed records that have been set, racing, and transportation have all had major upgrades. In such a short amount of time no one can really know where we are going to be in another 124 years. There is a Swiss company that believes we will have a vacuum styled tube that will get you around the world in .0083 days, in other words you could travel around the world in a little under 2 hours. You might think that is impossible. Ask the creators of the automobile in 1886 if they thought that the vehicles of today would have 180-200mph on the dash and would have the safety features they have, I highly doubt they would believe you considering Karl Benz first vehicle had a top speed of 16km/h. Traveling at 12,500 mph is not going to be easy. The swiss company Acabion, invisions a elevated track that pulls in solar power and the vehicle will inductively pull its energy from the track and is foreseeing a vehicle that by 2100 will be helping people actively travel from place to place at rapid speeds making the world a much smaller place.The vehicle will be sold for $3 million in 2015 but says the price will go down with mass production. Although, I do not plan on jumping to the bank and purchasing one of these vehicles it is a possibility that this could be a brilliant investment. Depending on if this idea actually works or not, but that is part of the risk.

Is Your Website Navigation User Friendly?

Have you ever visited a site with a really bad navigation menu?  A site like this makes you lost and forces you to learn how to use it before focusing on the content.  Many website owners don’t know how important it is to have a good navigation menu on your website.  If someone is not comfortable with the navigation he can always click the back button and select the next site in the search results.  To take care of this problem we have developed a way for you to customize the navigation menu of your website.

Example of bad navigation

The Dynamic Menu module gives you control to display infinite combinations your navigation menu.  This includes pages with content, links to other sites or your standard menu selection.  The Dynamic Menu will come in handy when you need a link to third party credit apps, contact forms, IFrames or JSOP.  By activating this feature on your showroom enables you to showcase your inventory and specials in a unique display in helping buyers make the shopping experience more enjoyable. Dynamic Menu gives you control and clarity of navigation.

Don’t let bad website navigation scare away potential customers.  Explore the latest of what AutoXloo has to Offer by enabling you to be in the forefront of technology!

How to Successfully Post on Craigslist

Craigslist has become one of the biggest lead generators in the automotive industry.  Its very popular in the United States and can brings a lot of leads to your website.  As you may already know its also free!  So why is it so difficult to post an ad on their site?  If you have ever tried to post an ad and keep it live, then you know what I am talking about.  There are two things that can happen.  Your ad may go live and everything is good but then for some reason it gets flagged, now your ad is gone.  The ad may be flagged just because someone doesn’t like it.  The second scenario goes like this.  Everything is going well, you submitted your ad, now you go and try to find it but its nowhere to be found.  It even shows that the ad is live on your account page but in reality its not.  This is because your ad was ghosted.

Craigslist is constantly updating their ghosting protocol.  If your ad is similar to other ads or if you post too often then your ads may become ghosted.  This becomes very frustrating.  To find a successful formula for posting can take a lot of time.  Craigslist likes unique ads, but to create a unique ad for the same vehicle will also take time.  This is exactly why we created a solution for this problem.  Our solution allows you to successfully post your vehicles within craigslist terms of use.

Our new module allows you to post your vehicles directly from the DMS to craigslist.  There are also new features like Custom Random Text.

This feature stores a list of random phrases that you provide and then uses them randomly in the body of your ads.  This way your ads will always be different.

The random title phrases feature makes your titles different for each ad.  It stores phrases that you added and uses them randomly.  This will help make sure that your ads are always unique.

These are just a few of the features that are offered with this module.  You can fully customize your entire template.  This includes the title, body, different colors, different layouts, gallery and much more.  Our goal is to help you take advantage of craigslist’s massive traffic.  Just because its not easy to make your ads stay on craigslist doesn’t mean you cant do it.  Call AutoXloo today and get your ads to stay.

Are You Watching Your Rear View?

Driving a large SUV or Truck in America is very common. Unfortunately, so is injuring or even killing a child or elderly due to backing up such a large vehicle. These large vehicles have horrible blind spots that make small children far too easy to disappear behind the vehicle. Marketing safety and making sure that every family has this technology as soon as possible is something you may want to look into. Using Autoxloo’s “etch-a-word” technology you can make sure you can edit and showcase the features on the car that you want to highlight.

Over the last year the government has been working on changing a few laws to make automakers have a rear view camera on the vehicle. This is going to increase the cost of the vehicle in not only the SUV and Trucks but eventually all automobiles. Most people would say that this extra cost to save a life is well worth it. A few vehicles today have the option of the camera or even a back up detector to help with the issue but within the next few years it will have to be standard on all new vehicles. Over the next few years these cars are more than likely going to boom in sales because of the features that will be standard. Getting a jump on the market is always important. Using Autoxloo’s Market IQ , you can get ahead by using its information to make sure your price is set based on features, miles, and condition.

Are They Lending More Than A Hand?

A good sign that the auto market and the economy is back on the rise is the fact that loans are going out to non prime candidates. When the economy starts to fall and the recession is coming in like a title wave ready for destruction, the number of non prime candidates receiving loans drops drastically. A few years ago when the economy was booming prime candidates were at 51%. The economy is not there yet but it is getting closer.

The number of loans that go delinquent is also down which is also a better sign that the economy is improving and letting us now that we could be seeing ourselves out of this recession. With about 4% of the automakers selling to non prime candidates and this will hopefully rise a percent or two we may see more people buying new or used cars.

What Are The Hybrids Of Tomorrow?

Today’s market place has started to open up its doors, or maybe just a window to the hybrid market. It seems that even though the only one most bought or talked about hybrid is the Toyota Prius but it seems that a lot of other car makers are really trying to compete. Mercedes, BMW and Lexus all have a hybrid model. Even Porsche has a hybrid SUV. Using Autoxloo’s Automatic Templates you will have a vast amount of templates to help you with your online sales and make sure that your products are constantly being looked at. To help you be more green and sell more of your hybrid inventory.

Chevrolet and Nissan are working on the first electric factory vehicle. The Chevrolet Volt and the Nissan Leaf will be released in a few states around the country. Testing the market and seeing if these compact hybrid and electric cars remains to be seen. These companies are really trying to receive some of the bliss that Toyota has received from the Prius. Having an understanding of what cars are being bought and sold, and knowing what prices they are being sold at is an important tool in the auto business. Using Autoxloo’s SEO campaign you can make sure your customer always find the right car at your dealership.