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DrivingSales Announces Innovation Cup Award Finalists

October 2, 2012
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Salt Lake City, Utah – DrivingSales announced the finalists for the third annual DrivingSales Innovation Cup Award, which recognizes the most innovative dealership solutions of 2012. The Innovation Cup Award will be presented at the 2012 DrivingSales Executive Summit (DSES), which will be held Sunday, October 21st through Tuesday, October 23rd, 2012 at the Bellagio Las Vegas.


The 2012 Innovation Cup Award finalists are: CallSource’s DealSaver with Mobile App; cDemo’s Mi VIDEO; DMEautomotive’s DriverConnect Mobile App; HookLogic’s Lead2Show, and J&L Marketing bLinked®.


“So many amazing dealership solution were submitted for the Innovation Cup Awards, it made the job of our dealer judges, who were charged with selecting the finalists, very difficult, but exciting! We all came away from the selection process inspired by the level of innovation in our industry,” said DrivingSales CEO and Founder Jared Hamilton. “The task of choosing the Innovation Cup Award winner will, no doubt, be just as challenging. We are thrilled that our attendees will have a chance to see these remarkable solutions first hand and presented by their ‘inventors’ at the DrivingSales Executive Summit. Congratulations to all the finalists!”


The finalists will present their solution onstage at the DrivingSales Executive Summit on Monday, October 22nd. A panel of dealer judges will then ask questions of the presenter and score each product. The solution with the highest score will win the Innovation Cup Award for “Most Innovative Solution of 2012.”

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