(Cookeville, TN, 06-22-10) TCS, a TN based software and web products provider, and Social Butterfly.Pro have initiated a collaborative effort to produce a new brand of Social Media websites for tire dealers. The importance of Social Media for brand recognition and visibility has mushroomed in the past 12 months, and this new cooperative effort is a powerful enhancement to TCS’ burgeoning array of products and services for the Tire and Automotive Services industry.
“We’ve been helping dealers utilize Social Media over the past two years now and it has become obvious to us that the websites in use today fall short in the tools necessary to fully take advantage of their internet presence,” stated Shawn McKenzie, President of Social Butterfly.Pro, a NH based Social Media support site for Tire dealers. “TCS already has a strong web product mix in place, we had the Social Media expertise, it made sense to work together.”
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Show your TCS appreciation this month with a Firefox persona! Wait … what is a persona, or Firefox for that matter? Well the answer to both is quite pleasing. Firefox is a free web browser alternative to Internet Explorer. It has outperformed Internet Explorer in all testing, including speed and security. For more information and a link to download the latest version of Firefox, click here.
Now on to a persona. Personas are free, easy-to-install, easy-to-use themes which change the look of your Firefox web browser. No more boring gray windows to look at … unless that is your thing. More importantly, if you are a fan of TCS, show it with your browser in style. Click here to use the TCS persona for Firefox inside your current or newly installed version of Firefox. We want this to eventually be a fan created theme so if you ...[more]
If selling tires is your job, then ‘Tire Estimator’ is the tool for you! ‘Tire Estimator’ was developed to allow the user to quickly scroll through data and check package pricing for tires without having to jump in and out of a quote for each price.
In Tire Power’s Front Counter, go to ‘Search Inventory’ and search for a tire. Then on the toolbar click the ‘Tire Estimator’ button and you will see the total “4 and out-the-door” package price for the tires. From inside ‘Tire Estimator’ you can also change the quantity, price class, tax group and included package to alter the price. So at this point you are thinking “ok this is nice”, but wait there is more! This window is designed like a toolbar, so you have the ability to go back to the search window in the background and select another tire without closing the ‘Tire Estimator’ window. This is a big time saver! Just move the ‘Tire Estimator’ window off to the side and continue searchin ...[more]
One of the most commonly used windows, and most powerful in Tire Power, is the ‘Search Inventory’ window. But do you truly know all of the things this window can do for you? Did you know you can…
16 Million Consumers shopped for tires in the month of Feb on Google Alone!
Each day, more and more people search for tires online. If they can’t find your website easily, you are missing out on revenue. According to broad match, Google’s AdWords tool, over 16 million consumers searched tires in the month of February – That’s just on Google! Did they find you? If so, did they actually shop your virtual store enough to request a quote or make a purchase? It’s not enough to simply expose to the virtual shopper you exist – you have to allow them to shop.
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