dmBiz Jan 11: Happy New Year!

Happy New Year! Welcome to the first dmBiz of 2011. In this issue: read all about why eComponents 2.0 is great news for dmClub dealership site designers and marketers, plus how to get a private view – AND a roundup of what else is in store this year.

eCom 2.0: dmClub dealerships are evolving

Last year our headline release was a suite of new sales and marketing widgets for dealers. eComponents, as they became known, were designed to help dealers

• Move beyond standard sales content on the Affiliate dmABS site 
• Enable better customisation than the Adapted dmABS site

Dealer previews told us we were on the right track. But our eagle-eyed testers spotted some room for improvement. So we went back to the drawing board: and based on the feedback we received, we’re now delighted to announce that eComponents 2.0 is now ready for alpha (non-commercial) preview.

We're pretty excited about eComponents 2.0, and would like to invite you to join a private view at this alpha stage.

Read on for the skinny on why you should be excited too...

eCom 2.0: great news for SEOs and site designers

The biggest news for dealership sales site designers is that eComponent integration is now much slicker. This means you can:

• Include multiple eComponents on the same page
• Create a site with eComponents on more than one page.
• Build a customised, self-contained sales site with your own branding
• Simply add in the number chooser and checkout components.

There’s more great news in the way eComponents are configured. In the space of 30 seconds, you can:

• Configure eComponents to your needs using the wizard – no more hand coding
• Copy and paste the code from the wizard into your site
• Customise the CSS for extra styling flexibility.

And because eComponents are hosted on our server, changes and upgrades can take place without laborious changes to your webserver.

eCom 2.0: great news for marketing

As well as making life easier for dealer sales site designers, eComponents 2.0 is great news for marketers as well.

• Boost for local number sales: we’ve upgraded the code
    search in the Number Chooser
• Upping your commission with Gold number sales is now much easier: several great new Gold sales features
• Create self-contained sales sites: let your brand shine
• Easy and quick to create tailored microsites for targeted campaigns
• Easy to track campaigns from first click to sale

So how do you get to see eComponents 2.0?

Join the eComponents 2.0 private view

Joining the private view is simple

Just contact dealersupport@dmclub.net!

Roadmap roundup: what’s coming in 2011

After eComponents 2.0, there’s lots more to come in 2011.

First, there’ll be an upgrade to the payments system, that willstreamline the process and extend customer options for payment frequency and method.

There’ll also be improvements to the way we sell Gold numbers, and we’ll be expanding our number ranges internationally. And there’s more. But we can’t tell you everything yet…

Stay tuned – it’s going to be an exciting year!