DrivingSales Announces Most Innovative Dealership Solution of 2010: eCarList True Target Mobile Wins Innovation Cup Award

LAS VEGAS, Oct. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- DrivingSales (www.drivingsales.com), the auto industry's largest car dealer social network, presented eCarList True Target Mobile with the DrivingSales Innovation Cup Award for Most Innovative Dealership Solution of 2010 at the Second Annual DrivingSales Executive Summit in Las Vegas.

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The First Annual DrivingSales Innovation Cup Awards were created to recognize solutions introduced in 2010 whose innovative approaches have produced significant results for dealers.  Dealership solution-providers submitted applications online (most also received nominations from dealer customers), vendor names were blanked out, and a panel of dealers assessed each application.  Six were selected from dozens of online applicants to present onstage at the Second Annual DrivingSales Executive Summit, where dealers scored each solution.  

eCarList True Target Mobile received the highest score.  Cobalt Digital Advertising Package, GOSO - Social Media Dashboard, ResponseLogix SmartQuote, VinSolutions VinLens and VinSolutions Website Dashboard were named as finalists.  

"Our mission was to uncover the most innovative vendor solutions for dealerships for 2010 -- and we were literally wowed by each and every dealer-nominated application," said DrivingSales Founder and CEO Jared Hamilton.  "eCarList stood out in a remarkable field of competitors, each of which is set to create real world benefits to help dealerships thrive in the rebounding auto market. As one of our dealer judges put it: 'I am two thirds of my way through the applications and I want almost all these products at my store!'" 

Each dealer-nominated solution will be profiled at DrivingSales.com, and in the DrivingSales newsletter. For more information about the First Annual DrivingSales Innovation Cup Awards, go to:  www.drivingsales.com/innovationcup.

About DrivingSales.com

DrivingSales.com is the largest car dealer social network where thousands of dealership professionals collaborate and share best practices in a 20-group style setting. The site is the industry's largest source of free dealership best practices information.

At DrivingSales, members create profiles, network with each other and share best practices. Dealership managers are allowed to rate and review their dealership vendors (http://www.drivingsales.com/ratings) in a verified setting. DrivingSales hosts the largest retail focused community of automotive blogs (http://www.drivingsales.com/blogs/), videos, interviews, social automotive news feeds and more.

DrivingSales was created and built from the ground up in 2003 by Jared Hamilton, a third generation auto dealer, as a private automotive business community to network his NADA Dealer Candidate Academy class. The site opened nationally in 2008 and is the industry's leading automotive social media custom platform. DrivingSales was named one of ten social media gambits for 2009 by Automotive News and one of the Top 10 Companies to Watch by Auto Success Magazine.

DrivingSales Media Relations:

Melanie Webber ([email protected]), mWEBB Communications, 424.603.4340

Angela Jacobson ([email protected]), mWEBB Communications, 714.454.8776

SOURCE DrivingSales.com