Yago Paramo

Automotive Entrepreneur

Month: August 2017

Should auto dealers use upcoming app Letgo?

I had my first introduction to Letgo about a year ago thanks to Seattle’s special finance dealer Curt Bush and it came again in my radar in a recent article in Mashable.com “Marketplace app Letgo raises $175 million in quest to take on Craigslist” by Patrick Kulp. You can use the website https://us.letgo.com in a similar fashion to CraigsList but…

BZ Results Websites – remember them?

Remember those BZ Results websites (they were acquired by ADP in 2006)? If you don’t I’ll tell you: Those looked good. Mainly flash based, they appealed to the most dangerous word in the automotive industry: “I like that” (rather than “the data shows we should use this one instead”). Those guys made money. They are long gone but flash survived…

New Inventory Search Features

We added two new search fields to every website inventory; search by package and search by features. The data is dependent on what the VIN decoder provides which nowadays is pretty accurate. Check it for example at www.larsondodge.com The idea is three fold: 1) It was added as one of the several refine search options. Non intrusive but available for customers…