Cincinnatti, OH – Dealer Specialties, a division of Dominion Enterprises and the nation’s leading provider of data and photo collection, inventory management and data distribution services, today announced it has expanded its partnership agreement with ListedLocal.com to provide the nationwide consumer lead generation site with automobile dealer vehicle listings. Under the exclusive agreement, ListedLocal.com will display inventory for all Dealer Specialties’ customers and the site will process multiple daily inventory updates to provide the most accurate and up-to-date information possible. Dealer Specialties’ customers are automatically included in this new distribution channel at no incremental fee to the dealer.
“Our exclusive partnership with ListedLocal.com reflects Dealer Specialties ongoing commitment to ensure our clients’ inventory is viewed by the broadest possible audience of in-market consumers,” said Glen Garvin, general manager of Dealer Specialties. “By continuing to increase our distribution network, we’re giving dealers more opportunities to generate free leads and get their vehicles sold.”
Dealer Specialties has the largest online vehicle distribution channel in the industry, with more than 1,600 partners including GetAuto.com, Cars.com, eBay Motors, Overstock.com, Google Base, AutoTrader.com, The Cobalt Group, and Manheim.
“We have been working with Dealer Specialties for three years now, and when we decided it was time to expand our vehicle section nationwide we called on the leader. Dealer Specialties offers a great solution for dealerships and ListedLocal.com,” says Jeff Hazuga, partner at ListedLocal.com.
Detailed vehicle listings will include an unlimited number of photos, VeVos (vehicle videos), and more. Updates to the ListedLocal.com site will be automated through Dealer Specialties’ Inventory Manager (IVM) inventory marketing and management solution.
IVM is an Internet-based application that provides dealers with a comprehensive assortment of tools to effectively manage, market and distribute their vehicle inventory online. It allows dealers to add, update and remove inventory at any time, and vehicle listing sites such as ListedLocal.com are automatically updated when any inventory changes are made from this one stop inventory update location.
About Dealer Specialties
Dealer Specialties, a division of Dominion Enterprises, is the nation’s leading provider of vehicle data collection, image generation, window labeling services and inventory management and marketing. Providing both on-the-lot services and in-house solutions, Dealer Specialties’ has the industry’s largest Internet distribution channel with more than 1,600 partners including GetAuto.com, Cars.com, eBay Motors, Overstock.com, Google Base, AutoTrader.com, The Cobalt Group, Manheim and more.
Nearly 10,000 dealerships rely on Dealer Specialties to help manage and market their vehicle inventory. Dealer Specialties is a designated supplier of certified window stickers for General Motors, Acura, Honda, Toyota and Lexus; is a Value Added Reseller for the National Automotive Dealers Association; and has built a network of more than 800 of the most knowledgeable and responsive service representatives in the USA. Dealer Specialties partners with sister companies Applied Virtual Vision (AVV), Autobase, @utoRevenue, DataCube, DataOne Software, Dealerskins, Interactive Financial Marketing Group, SelectQu and XIGroup to provide dealerships with a more comprehensive and complete solution.
GetAuto.com is the most frequently updated free leads online consumer resource in the industry with access to high quality photos, videos and accurate vehicle information provided by one resource.
About Dominion Enterprises
Dominion Enterprises, a division of Landmark Communications, is a leading marketing services company serving the automotive, real estate, apartment, recruitment, and marine markets. The company operates a variety of businesses that offer Internet marketing, Web site design and hosting, lead generation, CRM, and data capture and distribution services. The company has more than 40 market-leading Web sites reaching more than 12.5 million unique monthly visitors, and more than 500 magazines with a weekly circulation of over 5 million. Headquartered in Norfolk, Va., the company has nearly 6,000 employees nationwide and annualized revenue of more than $946 million.
