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Hamid Named vAuto's Senior Director of Digital Marketing Services.


CHICAGO -- In the Contact section of the release, the phone number for Steve Chastain should read: +1 877-988-7648 (sted +1 877-629-7648).

The corrected release reads:

HAMID NAMED VAUTO'S SENIOR DIRECTOR OF DIGITAL MARKETING SERVICES

Rafi Hamid, an award-winning Internet marketing See Internet advertising.  executive and e-commerce e-commerce, commerce conducted over the Internet, most often via the World Wide Web. E-commerce can apply to purchases made through the Web or to business-to-business activities such as inventory transfers.  sales professional, has been named senior director of digital marketing services at vAuto, a high-tech provider of used-car inventory management systems for the nation's 70,000 franchised and independent car dealers.

Hamid previously was director of eCommerce for the Napleton Dealership Groups, where he was responsible for the organization's Internet marketing, including branding, market analysis, brand perception improvement and lead generation. Napleton's three automotive groups have 27 dealership locations with 57 franchises in five states.

Keith Jezek, vAuto's president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , pointed out that Hamid is considered to be one of the nation's foremost retail automotive Internet marketing practitioners.

"It has become increasingly difficult for automotive dealerships to realize their full used-car sales potential without Internet marketing and process expertise," Jezek said. "Hamid's addition to our leadership team will give vAuto clients an extraordinary competitive advantage.

"He was responsible for the development of Napleton's successful Internet marketing processes which were tremendously successful for seven consecutive years on individual, dealership and enterprise levels. He will be much sought after by our rapidly growing customer group."

Featured in "The Master Series - Automotive eCommerce," a series of documentaries on Internet best practices, Hamid is a recent winner of the Association of Automotive Internet Sales Professionals (AAISP) Digital Dealer "Hardest Working Internet Sales Professional" and AAISP Professional Excellence awards.

Prior to his work at Napleton Dealership Groups, he served as group director of e-commerce for the Bob Rohrman Automotive Group with 30 dealership locations and 40 franchises in two states.

Hamid is a graduate of the University of Karachi History
It was chartered by the Majlis ash-Shura in September 1950 via an Act of Parliament. The university was established in June 1951, the fourth oldest university in Pakistan and the first in Karachi.
 in Karachi, Pakistan, and attended the MBA MBA
abbr.
Master of Business Administration

Noun 1. MBA - a master's degree in business
Master in Business, Master in Business Administration
 program at Keller Graduate School of Management in Chicago. He is married and lives in Lombard, Illinois Lombard, "The Lilac Village", is a suburb of Chicago in DuPage County, Illinois. The population was 42,322 at the 2000 census. The United States Census Bureau estimated the population in 2004 to be 42,975.  

Headquartered in the Chicago suburb suburb, a community in an outlying section of a city or, more commonly, a nearby, politically separate municipality with social and economic ties to the central city. In the 20th cent.  of Oak Brook, Ill., vAuto maintains a research and development center in Austin, Texas. The company provides the auto industry's only "live, real time" analysis of used-car markets with up-to-the-minute information about used-vehicle supply, demand and pricing tailored to specific dealership market areas.

All six of the nation's highest-volume franchised dealerships by brand, including Chevrolet, Ford, Honda, Nissan, Lincoln-Mercury and Toyota, use stocking, pricing and appraisal strategies supported by vAuto software solutions. Virtually every imported and domestic vehicle brand is represented on the company's customer list, including Acura, Audi, BMW BMW
 in full Bayerische Motoren Werke AG

German automaker. Founded as an aircraft engine manufacturer in 1916, the company assumed the name Bayerische Motoren Werke and became known for its high-speed motorcycles in the 1920s.
, Hyundai, Infinity infinity, in mathematics, that which is not finite. A sequence of numbers, a1, a2, a3, … , is said to "approach infinity" if the numbers eventually become arbitrarily large, i.e. , Kia, Lexus, Mercedes and Porsche, as well as all Chrysler and General Motors brands.

More information on vAuto is available on the Internet at www.vAuto.com.
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