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UK Car Industry News
British Motor Industry
Social Media
Motor Trade Solutions
Social Media Management






Today the TimesOnline website reported today on the £2.6Billion of investment that is coming to the UK car industry.

"The re-emergence of the British motor industry is shifting up a gear, with £2.6 billion worth of investment flowing into the UK, safeguarding or creating thousands of jobs.

Nissan is to start mass-production of electric vehicles in Sunderland; Ford plants in Dagenham, Southampton and Bridgend will build the next generation of cleaner diesel and petrol engines for its cars around the world; and the Formula One team McLaren is to build supercars in Woking to rival Ferrari and Lamborghini in the retail market..."

To read more of this great news please follow this link to the article>>>>

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Government backs Ford green engine plan
Eco Friendly cars
Eco Cars
Motor Trader Website
Eco Friendly Ford
Low co2 cars
Ford ECOnetic
Motor Dealer Website





The re-emergence of the British motor industry shifted up a gear today after the Government said that it would financially back a £1.5 billion investment by Ford in producing cleaner engines in the UK.
The American motor company said that it was injecting the money into four sites in the UK to develop low-carbon vehicles.
The Government, which wants the UK to be a global hub of green motoring development, said that it would back the programme with £360 million of loan guarantees.
The news follows government grants to Nissan to build electric cars in the UK and a £270 million loan guarantee for Vauxhall to invest in greener cars at its Ellesmere Port factory.
To read the rest of this article by Robert Lea, Industrial Editor from Times Online please follow this link>>>

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Facebook and Twitter Management
Facebook and Twitter Marketing
Social Networking Service
Automotive Social Networking
Social Media Virtual Assistant
Motor Trade Social Media

motortradesolutions.net specialises in social advertising, social marketing and social website management for UK Motor Industry. Social advertising and networking is growing fast and is a very cost effective marketing strategy. Creating a Facebook page or Twitter account is the first step to starting a social network that can benefit your business needs.

A Facebook page is a great way of getting a product or entity published to thousands of potential clients and is a great way to gain conquest business. This gives you the opportunity of reaching hundreds if not thousands of new clientele which will increase with proper management.

Let motortradesolutions.net do the job for you while you reap the benefits and focus on running your business. We have various packages and forms of car dealer marketing that can provide powerful social networking support that will benefit your business. motortradesolutions.net specialises in auto dealer social media and we are able to accommodate and provide marketing for any motor trader website.

Interested? For more details of what we provide please visit the Motor Trade Solutions dedicated Car Dealer Social Media page featuring Blogger, YouTube, Facebook and Twitter here>>> Or call us on 0845 658 6880

You can view our Twitter backgrounds by following this link>>>

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Email Marketing Campaign
Barretts Honda New & Used Secret Event
Honda Sales Event
Honda Jazz 0% Finance
Honda Civic 0% Finance
Honda CR-V 0% Finance
Used Honda Cars

Barretts Honda - part of the Barretts Kent Motor Group with dealerships in Canterbury and Ashford have commissioned motortradesolutions.net again to run the email campaign alongside their New and Used Honda Event being held from 11th - 14th March 2010.




Working alongside the management and marketing team for the Barretts Group, motortradesolutions.net provided the following services:

• Email Design and Production
• Broadcasting of over 10,000 emails
• Social Media Networking Management and Promotion
  
• Production of Landing Page and Registration Form
• Autoresponder to all recipients
• Customer Contact Data returned 'live' to Barretts Honda
  

Following the campaign Motor Trade Solutions will provide email data statistics allowing the management of Barretts Honda to measure effectiveness which will show the subject matter that was most popular and the path the customer followed. The data provided will include open rate, bounced (poor data), unopened and forwarded emails.

This just a small part of the marketing services and motor trade social media management that motortradesolutions.net are involved with. To see more of our work or to find out more visit these pages:

Motor Trade Marketing Services>>>

Email Client Examples>>>

Social Media Management and Integration for the Motor Industry>>>

Twitter background Motor Trade examples>>>

Motor Trade Website Examples>>>

You can contact Motor Trade Solutions for an initial chat on 0845 658 6880 or email us here>>>

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Do you Profit from Parts Sales?
Online Parts and Accessories Shop
Obsolete Parts Stock
Parts Turnover Bonus
Car Parts and Accessories Market
eCommerce Online Parts Shop

Today MotorTrader.com reported on the announcement from the Lookers Group that its "Parts Arm helps Lookers double profits in 2009".

The article reports that the Independent Parts Division saw a 34% increase in pre-tax profit to £11.2m. Whilst this is a fantastic result it highlights again that whilst there is a lot of focus on vehicle sales, the entrepreneurial motor dealer owner or dealership manager can still realise strong profits by looking at all aspects of their business.




At a dealership level there is still massive opportunity to be exploited in the sale of parts and genuine accessories, but even in today's purpose built showcase dealerships the parts department is often hidden away out the back or display space is very limited. It is even difficult to get the vehicle sales teams enthused about selling accessories.

The shame of it is that the Car Parts and Accessories Market is huge and the main dealers are (for the most part) missing out. Particularly when it comes to achieving parts volume bonuses and targets.

Which is why at motortradesolutions.net we have developed the Online Dealer Parts and Accessories shop.

The online Parts and Accessories shop is set up by motortradesolutions.net to meet with manufacturer corporate identity standards and completely web based allowing you to market your stock. You can also highlight special offers and push obsolete parts stock.

The package includes:

• Full e-Commerce automation and we even help you set up your merchant account.
• motortradesolutions.net provide full training on how to content manage (CMS) your website.
• Individual products are Google indexed and so are searchable on the search engines.

All you have to do is post the items (or arrange collection) as they get sold and paid for. View more details about the Motor Trade Solutions Online Parts and Accessory Shop here>>>

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World Car of the Year Awards Announcement
Mercedes Benz E Class
Volkswagen Polo
Toyota Prius
New York Auto Show 2010

More important than the Oscars, the 3 finalists for World Car of the Year Award has been announced. From a list of 30 cars around the world, the WCOTY committee has created a shortlist of three vehicles – the Mercedes Benz E Class, Toyota Prius and Volkswagen Polo.

The awards ceremony will take place on the 1st April in time for the opening of the 2010 New York Auto Show.

In addition to the announcement of the last three cars vying for the World Car of the Year Award, the other finalists from different categories, including one for performance vehicle and another for design, were also announced.

The Green finalists include the aforementioned Toyota Prius, the Honda Insight and the Volkswagen`s BlueMotion diesel range.

The Audi R8 V10, the Porsche 911 GT3 and the Ferrari California will compete for the performance vehicle category while the Citroen C3 Picasso, the Kia Soul and the Chevrolet Camaro are finalists for the design category.

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