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Autotrader.com Annual Sales Meeting 2009 - Another Side of AutoTrader?

The simple answer to your question is yes. If you look at the numbers, our ROI on our $'s invested in Autotrader.com has never been better. Our account management is at its highest level in the history of our relationship and we just met with them to discuss some enhanced reporting.

So, I guess I am still drinking the kool aid. It's a lot easier to afford the kool aid when you are selling a bunch of used cars and growing market share.
 

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A dealer guest post praising AutoTrader.com's 2009 national sales meeting quickly devolves into a heated debate between apparent AutoTrader insiders and skeptics over traffic figures, ROI claims, and whether dealers truly need both AutoTrader and Cars.com. A notable side conversation questions whether dealers should even maintain separate internet budgets, with one commenter arguing that siloed internet departments encourage dishonest lead sourcing. The thread ends on a cynical note, with an accusation that AutoTrader itself runs internal scraping operations to inflate its own traffic metrics.

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