Study Finds Speed to be Critical to Consumer Purchase Intent
Internet auto sales and marketing firm, Outsell, releases the third installment in a series of iBase research studies into consumer car purchasing habits.
Minneapolis, MN, March 29, 2007 – http://www.outsell.com – Outsell LLC, the fastest growing Internet auto sales and marketing company in America, has released the latest results in its series of iBase research studies on consumer car purchasing habits – “The Importance of Speed.”
The third study in this series reveals that the speed of a dealer’s response to consumer requests plays a crucial role in a consumer’s initial perception of a dealership. 91% of car buyers will search for a vehicle online, and 80% will submit a request for more information via phone or email to multiple dealers before visiting the physical dealership. Since consumers contact multiple dealerships during their search, the initial perception of a dealership is extremely important.
“In today’s “data on-demand” climate, it’s all about who can provide consumers with the fastest response to their information requests,” said Mike Wethington, CEO of Outsell LLC. “Dealers who stall in responding to these requests are missing out on a lot of business.”
Watermark Learning Principals Elizabeth Larson, CBAP, PMP, & Richard Larson, PMP, will be in Toronto, Ontario all this week to present “Influencing Without Authority: Rev Up Your Internal Consulting Skills” at Project World/Business Analyst World: Toronto. They will also be conducting a 2-Day Use Case Modeling Workshop.
Minneapolis, MN (PRWeb) March 28, 2007 — http://www.watermarklearning.com Watermark Learning, a globally recognized provider of business requirements analysis & project management training, will be in Toronto, Ontario all this week for Project World Business Analyst World: Toronto 2007.
Principals, Elizabeth Larson, PMP, CBAP, and Richard Larson, PMP, will be co-presenting their popular presentation “Influencing Without Authority: Rev Up Your Internal Consulting Skills” to a mix of business analysis and project management professionals on Wednesday and conducting a 2-Day Use Case Modeling Workshop Thursday and Friday.
“Richard & I are thrilled with the opportunity to present at Project World: Toronto,” states Elizabeth Larson, PMP, CBAP. Larson adds, “Influencing Without Authority: Rev Up Your Internal Consulting Skills,” is designed to help project managers and business analysts of all skill levels understand why building a solution without determining the business need leads to project failure. It’s already helped hundreds of teams get to the root cause of business problems and through this event we hope to help hundreds more.”
Richard Nacht & Paul Chaney, well-known for making blogs accessible, start a new venture to help organizations leverage Web 2.0 tools effectively.
Princeton Junction, NJ — March 22, 2007 — Richard Nacht and Paul Chaney, founder and VP of Marketing for Blogging Systems respectively, are collaborating in a new way to help organizations learn how to engage and benefit from the consumer-driven Internet.
“Organizations who do not realize the potential of Internet Marketing and leverage Web 2.0 tools such as blogs, wikis, social networks and podcasts are dramatically reducing the impact they can have on their target market,” said Richard Nacht.
In a recent study of online users,
–100% use email
–88% use text messaging and SMS
–71% use message boards and forums
–63% use blogs
–36% use podcasting
–28% subscribe to RSS feeds
“The Internet has given consumers a platform from which to share their thoughts, ideas and opinions about companies, products and brands,” said Paul Chaney. “Increasingly, the consumer is in control. People are talking. Other people are listening. We teach companies how to listen as well and use the feedback to adapt the current marketing strategy.”
The International Speakers Blog will serve as one-stop destination to glean insights, content and advice from some of today’s foremost public speakers.
Princeton Junction, NJ — March 20, 2007 — www.bloggingsystems.com - Blogging Systems Group, leading provider of blog technology and Ralph R. Roberts, named Time Magazine’s REALTOR of the Year, have joined forces to develop the International Speakers Blog.
“Ralph Roberts acting on his idea and starting a virtual community for international speakers is absolutely brilliant, I can’t believe someone else hadn’t already done this,” said Ed Primeau, Owner of Primeau Productions, multi-media expert and contributor to the International Speakers Blog.
The International Speakers Blog will be a compilation of work, wisdom and inspiration from the greatest speakers, across multiple subject matters, from around the world.
“My goal is to change the world a million people at a time and by having the best speakers, authors and writers from around the world join me, I know this goal can be accomplished,” said Ralph R. Roberts, official spokesperson for Gunthy-Renker Home. “This is an opportunity to collect pearls of wisdom for today’s generation and future generations to come.”
MINNEAPOLIS, MN, March 22, 2007 - http://www.evolvingsol.com - Evolving Solutions, a leading data on demand and storage/server virtualization expert, is proud to announce that Mike Keeler, Senior Storage Consultant, is approved to teach the IBM authorized content material for the TotalStorage Productivity Center (TPC) class.
As an Authorized Independent Training Provider (AITP) for IBM Systems, Evolving Solutions is now offering IBM users, and prospective users, expanded opportunities to meet their technical IBM hardware training needs for technology solutions including:
• AIX 5L
• System p, LPAR and Virtualization
• TotalStorage Productivity Center
Evolving Solutions is now offering:
- Technical TotalStorage training from an instructor with extensive hands-on IBM System experience, and
- Authorized IBM courses taught at the Evolving Solutions Hamel, MN, state of the art, training facility
“Evolving Solutions is limiting attendance of the TotalStorage Productivity training courses to an intimate group of 7 in order to provide highly individualized IBM product instruction,” said Keeler.
Blogging Systems creates blogging component to augment AgencyLogic’s individual listing Websites.
Princeton Junction, NJ — March 8, 2007 — www.bloggingsystems.com — Blogging Systems Group, the leading real estate blog provider, and AgencyLogic, the leading single property Website provider team up to revolutionize the real estate industry by providing blogs on single property Websites.
AgencyLogic’s PowerSite is a Website devoted to showcasing a single property. With easily customizable formats, it contains all information about a house that a buyer and seller need; including large photos, unlimited text, powerful SEO & marketing tools, unlimited pages and links, free pre-listing feature, and now, a blog.
“AgencyLogic realizes that blogs are a new medium in the real estate industry and that our product needs to incorporate them to continually offer cutting-edge products to our clients,” said Stephen Fells, CEO of Agency Logic. “Blogging Systems was chosen as the blog provider because when we think blogs, we think Blogging Systems.”
Once a site is registered, it keeps the domain for a full year. With thousands of PowerSites representing more than $5 billion in combined property value, Blogging Systems’ blogs will help AgencyLogic further differentiate its service.
Boca Raton, FL, March 8, 2007 – http://www.voicethread.com – Voicethread.com, a website that captures the voices that surround shared media, is introducing Group Audio Blogging (GAB) to the Internet.
Voicethread is enabling users to create “voicebooks” much the same way a blogger would create a post or a page on a social networking site. While a blog is mostly written, a voicebook gives the distinct benefit of recorded group conversation.
“We’ve taken the ‘instant’ out of Instant Messaging, and replaced it with the voices that surround evocative media,” said Steve Muth, Co-Founder of Voicethread. “Text is wonderful, but a human voice has an undeniable power.”
Group Audio Blogging adds audio to an arena that has been heavily text focused up until this point. Bloggers can easily add a voicebook to their blog and encourage an audio debate among readers.
Voicebooks are in no way limited to blogs and can be used by all Internet users for an array of purposes, from personal stories to educational projects and marketing tools.
• Students can record their friends’ voices in an audio yearbook
• MySpace users can enhance their profiles and use voicebooks to leave recorded messages for their friends
• Service men and women deployed abroad can read a bed-time story to their children
Internet auto sales and marketing firm, Outsell, launches the second in a series of iBase Insights into consumer car purchasing habits and works with top auto dealers to present value of leveraging the Internet.
Minneapolis, MN, March 2, 2007 – http://www.outsell.com – Outsell LLC, the fastest growing Internet auto sales and marketing company, is releasing the second insight from a pair of research studies involving the application of intensive consumer surveys aimed at collecting data on consumer psychographics.
The Decision Matrix is part of a series of consumer-centric insights designed to help automotive leaders make decisions that will attract, develop, close and grow more business. Focusing on the various factors that directly impact automotive consumer’s purchase decisions, the insight reveals the great importance of high levels of customer service, as well as the interplay between price, consumer satisfaction and the relative values of various other factors in the vehicle purchase process.
“With tight margins, best of class automotive organizations optimizing customer experience, especially online. By offering great value and great service, these organizations are offering the level of service that customers want and are willing to pay for”, said Mike Wethington, CEO of Outsell LLC. “This study is reinforcing the fact that for automotive purchases consumers are willing to travel further to get the price and level of service they expect.”
Blogging Systems’ Career Connection enables top companies to build a destination for top talent and brand their company as a leading employer with Web 2.0 technology.
Princeton Junction, NJ — March 1, 2007 — www.bloggingsystems.com — Blogging Systems Group, the leading provider of blogs to the real estate industry, augments offerings to leverage its blog technology and help employers reach and hire hard-to-find talent via its new service, Career Connection.
Career Connection is an online, customized career community that gives companies a personal voice on the web and an avenue with which to communicate with tough-to-reach talent.
“Fortune 1000 companies face an enormous hurdle in attracting top-tier talent, especially those not actively seeking a new position,” said Richard Nacht, Founder of Blogging Systems. “The Blogging Systems’ Career Connection builds a talent pool of highly sought after candidates leveraging Web 2.0 technology and enabling candidates to advance their careers by fostering peer networking.”
The company sponsoring the Career Connection site is able to overcome hurdles associated with finding industry talent including:
1. Finding Passive Talent - Those individuals who excel at their position, but who are not actively seeking a new job
