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Back in 2003, while attending NADA's Dealer Candidate Academy, Jared Hamilton built a private website so his class could better collaborate and share best practices outside the classroom. The website, DrivingSales.com, was designed to function like a free online 20 group for dealership professionals.
Over the last six years, the site has evolved. In June 2008, DrivingSales.com opened its doors to the entire automotive community. Dealers who learned of it shared it with their managers, who shared it with their peers, and word spread. The community has grown from a small Academy class to one of the largest sources of unbiased, vendor-neutral information in the industry. DrivingSales now serves tens of thousands of industry professionals with dealership-focused, proven best practices.
DrivingSales invented the industry's first and only Vendor Ratings Platform, designed to help dealers find and select the best vendor partners while holding vendors accountable to deliver better products for the dealers. Vendor Ratings allow dealership employees to rate and review their vendors anonymously and leave detailed feedback for all the community to see!
In addition to the Vendor Ratings, DrivingSales.com is similar to other social networks such as Facebook, but rather than focusing on the sharing of social information, it was built exclusively for dealership professionals to share and discuss best practices, tips, and strategies. You will find blogs by industry experts, videos, and a discussion section where anyone can post a question and get answers from their peers nationwide. You can easily find exactly what your dealership needs because all of the content on the site can be filtered by an "activity" in a specific "department". For example, you can view information to "Grow Sales" in "Used Vehicles" or "Cut Costs" in "Fixed Operations."
In September 2009, DrivingSales launched its completely redesigned, proprietary architecture, built entirely from the ground up to help dealers stay on top of industry trends. In December 2009, DrivingSales was the only non-OEM to be named one of the notable automotive social-media gambits of 2009 by Automotive News. DrivingSales was also recently named as one of the "Top 10 companies to watch in 2010" by AutoSuccess.
Over the last six years, the site has evolved. In June 2008, DrivingSales.com opened its doors to the entire automotive community. Dealers who learned of it shared it with their managers, who shared it with their peers, and word spread. The community has grown from a small Academy class to one of the largest sources of unbiased, vendor-neutral information in the industry. DrivingSales now serves tens of thousands of industry professionals with dealership-focused, proven best practices.
DrivingSales invented the industry's first and only Vendor Ratings Platform, designed to help dealers find and select the best vendor partners while holding vendors accountable to deliver better products for the dealers. Vendor Ratings allow dealership employees to rate and review their vendors anonymously and leave detailed feedback for all the community to see!
In addition to the Vendor Ratings, DrivingSales.com is similar to other social networks such as Facebook, but rather than focusing on the sharing of social information, it was built exclusively for dealership professionals to share and discuss best practices, tips, and strategies. You will find blogs by industry experts, videos, and a discussion section where anyone can post a question and get answers from their peers nationwide. You can easily find exactly what your dealership needs because all of the content on the site can be filtered by an "activity" in a specific "department". For example, you can view information to "Grow Sales" in "Used Vehicles" or "Cut Costs" in "Fixed Operations."
In September 2009, DrivingSales launched its completely redesigned, proprietary architecture, built entirely from the ground up to help dealers stay on top of industry trends. In December 2009, DrivingSales was the only non-OEM to be named one of the notable automotive social-media gambits of 2009 by Automotive News. DrivingSales was also recently named as one of the "Top 10 companies to watch in 2010" by AutoSuccess.
