AutoRevo Mobile is now officially available in the App Store in iTunes… Download it today and start using it – you won’t believe the difference it will make!
We heard an amazing story from one of our dealers: Last week, he posted a truck on his site just after he bought it at auction in Mississippi (with VIN decoded info and pics uploaded from his iPhone). The truck sold the next day! It never even made it back to his lot before they shipped it off to the buyer…
AutoRevo Recognized by SMU Cox at the 19th Annual Dallas 100™ Awards
The Dallas 100™ Awards, presented by the Southern Methodist University, recognized the top 100 fastest growing, privately held companies in the North Texas area. AutoRevo received recognition of their 52nd place ranking.
DALLAS, TX – November 5, 2009 – In its 19th year, the Dallas 100™ Awards, presented by Southern Methodist University’s Cox Caruth Institute for Entrepreneurship, recognized the top 100 fastest growing, privately held companies in the North Texas area. AutoRevo received recognition of their 52nd place ranking at an awards ceremony at the Meyerson Symphony Center on November 4th, 2009.
In order to qualify for the Dallas 100™, a company must be an independent, privately held corporation, proprietorship, or partnership (not a subsidiary of a parent company) as of May 1, 2009; be headquartered in the Dallas area; have had sales of more than $500,000 in fiscal year 2005; have had sales of less than $75 million in fiscal year 2005; have a three-year sales history reflecting growth; and, have a credit report and character satisfactory to the Dallas 100™, determined at the sole discretion of the Dallas 100™. The award winners are selected based on increased growth in sales.
“In this tough economy, especially in the auto industry, it’s a challenging task to grow a business. We’re extremely proud to be one of the companies honored with this award,” said Chad Polk, CEO of AutoRevo. “We couldn’t have won this award without our team’s fierce dedication and continued hard work.”
If anyone has been hunting the technology to collect and manage dealer inventory for the last decade it has been us at AutoRevo. We have all seen the contraptions with some combination of: digital cameras, Socket barcode scanners, tablet PCs, proprietary hardware with a swivel video camera to double as a camera, iPaq hand-helds, Bluetooth, Wi-fi cameras, flash card cameras to insert into a hand-held, and on and on.
Thanks to Apple the technology is now here:
Best of all you already have the device in your pocket! What can you do while picturing and loading a car? Respond to leads in AutoRevo, update prices anytime, listen to your favorite tunes, check your sports scores, check your email, send and receive text messages, and 100,000 other possible apps in the iTunes App Store.
Need any more reasons to go get an iPhone?
Apple® today announced that developers have created over 100,000 apps for the revolutionary App Store, the largest applications store in the world. iPhone® and iPod touch® customers in 77 countries can choose from an incredible range of apps in 20 categories, including games, business, news, sports, health, reference and travel. App Store users have downloaded well over two billion apps, continuing to make it the world’s most popular applications store.
So what are just some of the useful apps for auto dealers?
This Apple iPhone is only getting more useful by the day. What are you waiting for? Go get one!
Show me the CARFAX….at the auction. 
Time and time again we’ve seen hoards of dealers crawling the auction lanes on their cell phones to get a vehicle history report check on cars. Not only does it take 2 people to accomplish this (1 at the auction and 1 back at the office), but more importantly it puts your dealership at a disadvantage not being fully informed of a cars history prior to bidding without a VHR.
AutoRevo and CARFAX are here to change just that. To highlight the situation I’ve compared Old School vs. New School. Check it out.
Old School:
You’re a dealer standing at the auction in a lane looking over a car 5 minutes before it runs. You make some frantic and stressful calls back to the office (not to mention they didn’t answer the first 2 times you called) providing a VIN to your partner on the other end of the phone. By the end of the call you have repeated the VIN 3 times just to find out this car does not have a clean CARFAX record. Now you have numerous other cars to go through the same drill with.
New School:
You’re relaxed standing at the auction in a lane looking over multiple cars 5 minutes before they run. You have taken pictures of their VIN, decoded them, and run CARFAXs on each. The full history of this car is now known before you bid and in fact you know this car is a One Owner.
The stress of the auction is enough to work with. Make your life easier by running a CARFAX easily prior to bidding.
For more information on AutoRevo Mobile visit http://www.AutoRevo.com/mobile or call 888.311.7386.
To learn more about CARFAX Unlimited accounts visit http://www.carfaxonline.com/
AutoRevo Releases Auto Industry’s First iPhone Inventory Management Application Integrated with Carfax
DALLAS, TX – October 29, 2009 – AutoRevo, the premier provider of auto dealer websites and on-demand software for automotive dealerships marketing and selling cars online, today announced the release of AutoRevo Mobile, an application that allows dealers to manage their inventory on their iPhone.
“The technical barriers to a true mobile solution for dealers have now been removed with the latest iPhone. This is a great opportunity for our industry to flourish with a drastically increased speed of business,” said Chad Polk, CEO of AutoRevo.
AutoRevo Mobile allows dealers to decode a VIN from a photo of the VIN barcode, edit vehicle information, update prices, shoot and upload unlimited photos, run Carfax Vehicle History Reports™, and manage leads, giving dealers the ability to manage their inventory from anywhere, at any time.
“We had several dealers buy out their existing contract and upgrade to the iPhone in order to be an early adopter of AutoRevo Mobile,” continued Polk. “That tells me we have a game changing product that will move the industry forward. You can literally have a car advertised on your site before the ink dries on the bank draft.”
AutoRevo mobile dealer has a car for sale online before he got back to the office.
As you know our team here at AutoRevo has been working tirelessly on the new dealer mobile solutions. Since we are the first in the industry to release an iPhone product for dealers inventory management, we are charting new territories… So when we got an excited dealer on the phone telling us his iPhone story, we had to share.
An AutoRevo Mobile early adoptor program dealer was in a customer’s dealership working to buy several trade-ins when a new car trade in arrived. They asked him to price it for them. The AutoRevo dealer went to the car, took a photo of the VIN which was automatically read and decoded, checked the CARFAX Vehicle History Report from his iPhone through AutoRevo, and made an offer on the vehicle. Minutes later at 5:36pm, our dealer was given the keys to the car that he now owned. He returned to the vehicle, took additional photos, and saved it into AutoRevo. It was on his website & eBay Motors at 5:45pm.
Do you realize what just happened? The ink on the bank draft hadn’t even dried yet and he already had the car online being advertised!!! We probably need instant replay:
AutoRevo Mobile is a game changer for auto dealers selling cars online! Find out more at http://www.AutoRevo.com/mobile or call 888.311.7386 today.
Here’s a quick runthrough of our product updates that were released last week:
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In case you didn’t get our October Newsletter today, here are a few of the highlights:
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This week’s tip is a quick walkthrough of creating a bookmark to the application login page so you can log in quickly and easily
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