AutoTrader.com Launches New Site for its Dealer Customers.Site Provides Inventory Management Solutions and Advanced Options for Dealers to Merchandise Dealerships, Research the Market and Their Competition ATLANTA -- AutoTrader.com, the ultimate automotive marketplace, today unveiled a redesign re·de·sign tr.v. re·de·signed, re·de·sign·ing, re·de·signs To make a revision in the appearance or function of. re in look and functionality of "AutoTrader.com for Dealers," the website dealer customers use to manage their inventory and AutoTrader.com account. The new and innovative dealer system allows dealers to efficiently and effectively merchandise their dealership, manage their inventory and research the market and their competition. Here are the highlights of several of the new features: * Dashboard (1) See Mac Dashboard. (2) A software-based control panel for one or more applications, network devices or industrial machines. Dashboards display simulated gauges and dials that look somewhat like an automobile dashboard. - A visual inventory overview, consisting of tools and performance metrics Performance metrics are measures of an organizations activities and performance. Performance metrics should support a range of stakeholder needs from customers, shareholders to employees [1]. for vehicles. Provides an immediate, up-to-date snapshot (1) A saved copy of memory including the contents of all memory bytes, hardware registers and status indicators. It is periodically taken in order to restore the system in the event of failure. (2) A saved copy of a file before it is updated. of dealer's inventory, leads, most-searched vehicles and also alerts dealers to critical areas requiring their attention. * Inventory List - Includes vehicle thumbnail A miniature representation of a page or image that is used to identify a file by its contents. Clicking the thumbnail opens the file. Thumbnails are an option in file managers, such as Windows Explorer, and they are found in photo editing and graphics program to quickly browse multiple photos and new dynamic filters which quickly allow dealers to find the vehicles they're looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. in their inventory. * Vehicles - Access, add or update vehicle listings almost anywhere on the site. Vehicle details can be edited in a simple, single page view. * Market Comparison - Dealers can define their marketplace by radius and research and compare their competition's vehicles to their own. * Multimedia - Dealers can upload photos into a staging area staging area n. A place where troops or equipment in transit are assembled and processed, as before a military operation. Noun 1. and may later connect the photos to their vehicles. * Photo Management System - Vehicle photos can be batch or individually uploaded from the user's computer or multimedia section and may be rearranged with a simple drag and drop A graphical user interface (GUI) capability that lets you perform operations by moving the icon of an object with the mouse into another window or onto another icon. For example, files can be copied or moved by dragging them from one folder to another. function. * Advertising Products - Can manage dealership merchandising, including dealership messaging, graphics and photos. * Prospects - Places leads closer to the dealer, by category, allowing users to quickly identify and act on valuable AutoTrader.com generated leads. "We placed ourselves in the shoes of our dealer customers as we designed the new AutoTrader.com for Dealers site," said Jim Franchi, vice president of product management, AutoTrader.com. "Our primary objective was to create an intuitive structure that set our dealer customers up for success by offering more flexibility and more resources to produce quality listings and set competitive prices." The new and improved capabilities of AutoTrader.com for Dealers are available to all new and current subscription dealer customers at dealers.AutoTrader.com. About AutoTrader.com AutoTrader.com, created in 1997 and headquartered in Atlanta, Ga., is the Internet's leading auto classifieds marketplace and consumer information website. AutoTrader.com aggregates in a single location more than 3 million vehicle listings from 40,000 dealers and 250,000 private owners, which provide the largest selection of vehicles attracting more than 13 million qualified buyers each month. Through innovative merchandising products such as multiple photos and comprehensive search functionality, AutoTrader.com unites buyer and seller online -- dramatically improving the way people research, locate and advertise vehicles. AutoTrader.com is a majority-owned subsidiary majority-owned subsidiary A firm in which more than 50% of outstanding voting stock is owned by the parent company. of Cox Enterprises Cox Enterprises is the successor to the publishing company founded in Dayton, Ohio, by James Middleton Cox, who began with the Dayton Daily News. The company is private, 98% controlled by the octogenarian daughter of Cox, Anne Cox Chambers, and the two children of her late . The venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers is also an investor. |
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