Our Story

DrivingSales started out as a class project by founder Jared Hamilton, while a student at NADA's Dealer Candidate Academy. A third generation dealer, Jared grew up in the business, working in virtually every facet of a dealership with a strong tutoring in leadership and financial management. While at the Academy, Jared saw a need for his classmates to easily stay in touch and maintain their valuable idea exchange once they returned to their stores.

As a result, Jared created the DrivingSales platform, an Internet-based, Wiki-enabled, social networking platform for his classmates. The network was small and private, and features were added as needed. Due to the innate enthusiasm of dealers to be more successful, learn, and connect, combined with the truly viral nature of the Internet, the DrivingSales community began to grow. And just as any of us would do if we had the opportunity to take a high performance sports car out of the garage and onto the open highway, Jared opened it up, full throttle - welcoming all of us in the auto industry along for the ride. Join us!