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Interactive Financial Marketing Group Processes Five Millionth Auto Loan Application — Milestone Marks Eight Years of Growth in Auto Finance Lead Generation

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Richmond, VA (PRWEB) February 1, 2011

Interactive Financial Marketing Group (IFMG), a division of Dominion Enterprises, today announced it has distributed 5,000,000 online auto finance loan applications to its Carloan.com dealer network.

The key to achieving this significant accomplishment is the diverse network of auto finance web sites and partnerships that IFMG manages, combined with a proprietary lead routing system. Given the efficiency of its robust routing engine technology, IFMG has validated, screened and distributed an average of 625,000 car loan applications per year since the launch of the system. It achieved this historic level despite the recent economic downturn that has adversely impacted both the automotive and finance industries.

Prior to building the online marketing systems it currently uses for lead generation, IFMG kicked off its operations in 1989 using vanity phone numbers. Customized 800 numbers like 1-800-CAR-LOAN and 1-800-AUTO-LOAN generated auto finance applications that were then delivered to its dealer partners. The 5,000,000 application mark does not include applications that were received and processed before IFMG made the leap to the Internet in 2002.

“This is a landmark event in the history of IFMG,” said Tom Feary, General Manager of IFMG. “It reflects the trust that car buyers have in our auto finance websites such as Carloan.com, and the level of service our dealer network provides to those seeking a vehicle through financing. We’re looking forward to many more strong years connecting dealers to car buyers ready to be financed.”

IFMG invites auto dealers to visit Carloan.com at booth #2046S at the NADA Convention and Expo, February 5-7, 2011 in San Francisco to learn how they can join the Carloan.com dealer network.

About Interactive Financial Marketing Group:

Interactive Financial Marketing Group (IFMG) is a pioneer in lead generation, validation and management services for the automotive industry. By focusing on innovative approaches to lead generation since its inception in 1989, IFMG has developed a family of brands that includes hundreds of the most recognized Internet addresses and vanity phone numbers such as Carloan.com, Autoloan.com, 1-800-CAR-LOAN

As of December 2004, the Volkswagen AG sold more than five million units with a worldwide market share of 11.5%

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Dublin (PRWEB) September 14, 2005

Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c24044) has announced the addition of Volkswagen AG 2005 Company Profile Edition 2 to their offering

Headquartered at Wolfsburg, Germany, Volkswagen Group is one of the leading automobile manufacturers in the world, and is the largest carmaker in Europe. The Group is primarily engaged in the manufacture of passenger cars and commercial vehicles. In addition, the Group has a foothold in the financial services business, which includes dealer and customer financing, insurance, leasing, fleet operation and a car rental business called Europcar. Volkswagen Groups passenger car division manufactures cars under two major brand groups, namely, Volkswagen and Audi. The Volkswagen brand group includes the Volkswagen Passenger Cars, Bentley,

CouponShare.com Celebrates Five Years of Providing Online Shoppers With Coupons and Deals at Over 3,500 Popular Stores.

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Manhattan Beach, CA (PRWEB) November 3, 2008

At CouponShare.com find all the top stores, giving the greatest discounts, for the biggest shopping days of the year, including Black Friday on November 28 and Cyber Monday on December 1, 2008. To simplify your holiday shopping needs CouponShare.com provides the latest offers from leading online stores, like Best Buy or Circuit City for the newest electronics, Musician’s Friend or Guitar City for the widest selection of musical instruments, and Shoebuy or Zappos for over 3 million shoes. CouponShare.com lays out an easy-to-maneuver website providing straightforward navigation between categories ranging from apparel to travel, special offers, and hot coupons.

Gear up for the holiday season with coupons for free shipping, percentages off, dollars off, clearance items, and bargains at your favorite online stores. At CouponShare.com it is easy to shop online and make the most of your consumer dollar. CouponShare.com categorizes the top selling children’s Christmas toys from ToysRUs.com. Find great department store coupons for Kohls, Macys, Target, Sears, Home Depot, HSN, Old Navy and Babies R Us. They also provide huge savings for great outlet stores like Overstock, Kohls, eBay, Smart Bargains, and Walmart. Each store’s page on CouponShare.com provides the latest coupons, the most recently expired coupons, and upcoming coupons and codes.

CouponShare.com has many consumer friendly features to help you choose the best store and coupons. Once you’ve found an incredible deal, follow what smart shoppers do at CouponShare.com and ‘Share’ it with others! Pass along online coupons and deals to friends and family through their simple-to-use ‘Share’ coupon option. CouponShare.com allows users to vote on stores and rank them through their five star ranking system and leave comments to share with other online users. CouponShare.com also gives consumers the opportunity to submit coupons and deals that they have found themselves. This feature helps consumers take advantage of all the possible savings available on the web.

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CouponShare.com makes seasonal shopping easy with their holiday pages, including New Years Day, Valentine’s Day, Easter, Mother’s Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Halloween, Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and Christmas. CouponShare.com is your best source for current, up-to-date coupons, deals, sales, and free shipping promotions online. With more than 150 new coupons published daily, CouponShare.com has a coupon for every online shopper’s needs.

CouponShare.com is one of four coupons websites under the parent organization of CouponsLtd.com. CouponsLtd.com includes CouponShare.com, couponSeven.com, SkinDeals.com, and PlainCoupons.com. PlainCoupons.com is the newest coupon site, which was recently launched in July 2008. couponSeven.com is your lucky source for online coupons and discounts 7 days a week, while PlainCoupons.com is the simplified version of a coupon directory. PlainCoupons.com provides consumers a straightforward, uncomplicated way to look for the most popular coupons online. SkinDeals.com always has current coupons and deals for club wear, lingerie, and adult gifts. CouponsLtd.com has a coupon website tailored for every online shopper.

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Avis Middle East to Double Fleet Size to 20,000 Cars In Five Years

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Sumner, MI (PRWEB) May 4, 2006

Avis Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA) announced that the company would more than double its fleet size in the Middle East to reach 20,000 cars in five years.

The world’s leading car rental brand, Avis provides business and leisure customers with a wide range of services around the Middle East through operations in nine countries in the Middle East including the GCC as well as Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon.

Speaking along the sidelines of the Arabian Travel Market (ATM), Thierry Domballe, Avis Regional Director for the Mediterranean & Middle East said: “As part of our commitment to expand into local markets region-wide, we foresee the Middle East market as one that offers tremendous potential for growth and are confident of increasing our fleet size by 100% to over 20,000 cars over the next five years.”

Mr. Domballe noted that senior officials from Avis in the Middle East are currently in Dubai to use the platform of ATM and meet with regional partners and promote the Avis network among travel agents and tour operators. “Intra-regional travel in the Middle East has been identified as an area of strong growth and our expansion in this market will ensure that Avis is conveniently positioned to capitalise on the intra-regional travel. We are expecting a year-on-year double digit-growth in our lease and rent a car business in the Middle East,” he remarked.

Avis country managers from nine countries are in the emirate to look at ways of further developing the already successful outbound business from the Middle East to all countries within the Avis network alongside developing inbound business to the region.

Mr. Domballe along with other senior Avis officials also used the Dubai visit to renew their agreement with their local partners Mohamed Hareb Al Otaiba for Avis UAE. “We are delighted to renew our commitment with Avis after over three decades of representing them in the country as we work to bring our customers the best on offer in the rent a car business,” said Avis UAE Chairman, Mohamed Hareb Al Otaiba.

Avis is recognized as the industry leader in applying new technologies to grow its business and is one of the world’s top brands for customer loyalty. Avis Europe is a leading car rental company in Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Asia. The Avis brand operates via a network of over 3,100 locations in 108 countries, through wholly owned subsidiaries in 14 countries complemented by licence arrangements in a further 94 countries.

For further information please contact:

BIZ COM – For PRoactive Communications

P.O. Box 48889; Dubai – UAE

Tel: +971 4 332-0888

Fax: +971 4 332-0999

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Marcus Motorsports Debuts Factory Five Cobra Racing Team at VIR Stock Car Spectacular Sept. 3-5

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Richmond, VA (PRWEB) September 2, 2004

Marcus Motorsports, a respected name in professional road racing, will debut three of their six Factory Five Cobras this weekend at the inaugural Virginia International Raceway Stock Car Spectacular.

Marcus Motorsports drivers Brian Cunningham, Hugh Plumb and Spencer Pumpelly will compete in the Factory Five Racing Series throughout the weekend at Virginia International Raceway. Cunningham, Plumb and Pumpelly are familiar names to road racing fans, competing in the Grand American Road Racing Association and the American Le Mans Series.

British Holidaymakers Could Be Paying More Than Five Times Over The Odds For Car Hire Excess Insurance That May Not Even Provide Full Cover

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(PRWEB UK) 8 June 2011

Thousands of Brits planning to hire a car this summer could be paying significantly over the odds for excess insurance because they take it out when they pick up their rental, rather than pre-buying online, according to research carried out by insurer Protectyourbubble.com.

Unsuspecting holidaymakers could end up paying over five times more for excess insurance on their vehicle by only purchasing cover when they are at the rental desk, through the car hire company, rather than shopping around and buying through a specialist online insurer.

Excess insurance is offered by car hire firms as a top-up insurance to reduce the customer’s liability on the rental in the event of a crash or damage. In some cases the excess is reduced to zero, but some companies still charge an excess even with the top-up cover.

Protectyourbubble.com carried out phone research into the six major UK car hire firms; Hertz, Avis, Europcar, Enterprise, National and Alamo and found that all six companies charged substantially more for excess insurance taken out by customers at the point when they picked up their car, than it would have cost pre-buying through a specialist online insurer.

Two of the largest car hire companies in the UK, Hertz and Avis, charged more than

Rent One Online Offers Flexible Membership Options to Vacation Property Managers; Platinum Members of Vacation Rental Travel Network Can Earn 375% Return on Investment Over Five Years

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Scotts Valley, CA (PRWEB) May 31, 2006

Rent One Online, provider of innovative rental property management and vacation travel solutions, has created a more flexible membership program and announced the results of some recent investment analysis of their revenue sharing business model. Rent One Online now offers two membership levels:


The “Platinum” (revenue sharing) Membership – where vacation property managers, resorts and real estate offices pay a nominal subscription fee of just $ 1 per property per month to use the powerful reservation and property management software. For membership at this level, Rent One Online customers agree to market a range of complementary insurance and travel services to vacation travelers; In turn, Rent One Online shares the referral fees and commissions with its customers. These services include travel insurance, damage deposit waivers, car rentals, airline tickets and activities.

The “Gold” (software only) Membership – where Rent One Online customers pay a substantially higher upfront license fee to use the software and then pay an annual support fee for continued use of the software. In this model, much like the traditional software industry, they have access to world class software, but don’t share in the travel service revenues.

Based on existing customer performance, a five year investment analysis of participation in the Platinum Membership demonstrates that a rental manager with 50 properties would end up only investing $ 8,500 in Rent One Online services over five years while getting actual monetary returns of over $ 40,350, or a net return on investment of 375%. In other words, not only will Rent One Online literally be paying its customers to use its software, but also enable them to provide a level of service to vacation rental travelers that has never been seen in the industry before.

Not surprisingly, the vast majority of Rent One Online customers are opting for the Platinum level, revenue sharing membership. Kris Powers, owner of The Village Realtors in Carlsbad, CA (http://www.villagerealtors.net) is one such customer that sees tremendous value in the partnership with Rent One Online. “I recently left my previous vendor to join Rent One Online’s vacation rental travel network and in an extremely short amount of time they have provided me the opportunity of a lifetime. The web-based software not only satisfies my accounting needs, it has transformed my website into a real time booking portal where I am now able to serve my clients in a manner they were not accustomed to, but I desired.

Rent One Online has also transformed Kris’ business from rental property management to being a full service vacation travel provider. According to Kris, “With relatively little training, I am now able to help my clients’ travel needs by offering travel insurance and rental cars, and in the near future, even more vacation related services. There is no other choice for vacation rental managers as far as I am concerned. The Rent One Online vision is unsurpassed, not to mention that they are very helpful and friendly. I am literally making money using their software and they make me look fantastic from my clients’ point of view.”

About Rent One Online

Rent One Online provides rental property management and vacation travel solutions to vacation rental managers, real estate offices and resorts. Rent One Online’s web-based solution makes them more productive, better connected, and highly profitable. The Rent One Online mission is to create a partnership-based vacation rental travel network by bridging the gaps that exist between the vacation rental property market and the broader travel services industry. Rent One Online is a California Licensed Travel Agent: CST# 2076314-40. For more information visit http://www.RentOneOnline.com or call toll free – 888.879.8820.

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Five Errors You?re Probably Making when Buying Travel Insurance, Warns Squaremouth

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St. Pete Beach, FL (PRWEB) August 23, 2011

Understanding the critical mistakes many travelers make while purchasing travel insurance can prevent over spending and over insuring. ?Many people over insure without even knowing,? says Sarah Byrne, Marketing Manager at Squaremouth.com, a site for comparing and purchasing travel insurance. ?To avoid it, travelers should make themselves aware of what coverage they already have and what coverage they need to buy.?

Cancel for Any Reason

According to Squaremouth, cancel for any reason is one travel insurance benefit most travelers do not need. Cancel for any reason allows someone to cancel without explanation, benefiting those who must cancel a trip for a non-covered reason. Since trip cancellation covers travelers to cancel their trip and receive reimbursement in the event of illness, injury, inclement weather or terrorism, Squaremouth usually does not recommend upgrading a travel insurance policy to include the benefit.

?In almost all cases, people want to take their trip, and the reasons they would need to cancel are already covered under trip cancellation,? explains Byrne.

Before purchasing a travel insurance policy, travelers should review the covered reasons under the trip cancellation benefit. If a potential reason for cancelling is not listed, they should then consider upgrading the travel insurance policy to include cancel for any reason.

Too Much Evacuation Coverage

Most travelers are unaware of how much medical evacuation coverage is needed while traveling. Squaremouth recommends choosing the amount of medical evacuation insurance based on the destination. For example, $ 100,000 in evacuation coverage should be enough protection for visiting Europe, however, travelers visiting Asia or Africa may want to consider a travel insurance policy with at least $ 250,000 in evacuation coverage.

?Some travel insurance policies offer several million dollars of evacuation coverage, however, it is rare for an evacuation to cost more than $ 100,000,? advises Chris Harvey, CEO of Squaremouth. ?Don?t spend more for a travel insurance policy thinking multi-million dollar coverage is necessary.?

Buying From the Travel Supplier

Buying travel insurance from your airline, cruise line or tour company could result in purchasing a travel insurance policy for a higher premium with lower benefits. This is a common mistake many travelers make and can be the result of the lack of travel insurance options provided by the travel supplier. Squaremouth recommends searching for travel insurance on a comparison engine. This will provide more options with better travel insurance policies for less money.

Rental Car Coverage

Since many car insurance companies and credit card providers offer protection while driving a rental car, most travelers do not need to buy travel insurance to cover a rental car. Car insurance companies, including State Farm, Allstate and Progressive offer protection, however, not all policies will cover ?loss of use? fees if the rental car requires repairs. Most American Express, MasterCard and Visa cards provide a collision damage waiver, but travelers must purchase the rental car on the card for coverage to be available.

If travelers do not have the option to receive coverage from their car insurance or credit card provider, and do not have the need for a comprehensive travel insurance policy, rental car protection is available from Travel Guard or American Express. Both travel insurance companies offer rental car collision insurance ranging from $ 7 to $ 9 a day.

Frequent Flier Miles

Since travel insurance only lets travelers recoup non-refundable cash losses, travelers should not include intangibles like frequent flier miles.

?Adding those values to a travel insurance policy will increase the cost of your premium without adding additional coverage,? warns Byrne.

Some travel insurance policies, however, will reimburse the cost of a reissue fee, as well as fees to re-bank the miles.

About Squaremouth

Squaremouth is America’s fastest growing travel insurance comparison site, helping customers instantly quote, compare and buy policies from every major carrier. Squaremouth has web sites in the US and UK, and an extensive network of partner sites worldwide. The company is headquartered in St Pete Beach, FL., with offices in Fort Wayne, IN. Visit Squaremouth.com or Squaremouth.co.uk.

About our Zero Complaint Guarantee

The cornerstone of our commitment to customers is Squaremouth’s guarantee to remove any company from our website if there is a customer complaint that cannot be resolved to our satisfaction. Squaremouth offers the broadest selection of insurance with an emphasis on quality and follow-up care in companies featured. We also factor in independent evaluation from the insurance industry watchdog AM Best.

Squaremouth offers products from the following travel insurance carriers:

Air Ambulance Card, CSA Travel Protection, Global Alert Admin, Global Rescue, Global Underwriters, HCC, HTH Worldwide, IMG, ITravelInsured, Medex, Medjet Assist, MH Ross, On Call International, Seven Corners, Travel Guard, Travel Insurance Services, Travel Insured, Travelers Liberty, Travelex, TravelSafe and USA Assist.

AVAILABLE TOPIC EXPERT:

Sarah Byrne

sbyrne(at)squaremouth(dot)com

Toll-free (800) 240-0369

Direct (727) 498-2866

Chris Harvey

charvey(at)squaremouth(dot)com

Toll-free (800) 240-0369

Direct (727) 490-5802

U.S. travel insurance – http://www.squaremouth.com

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