Martin L D'Amato's ADM Profile page

And just like that... all your emails fall into the "promotions" box. 

That's right... the promotion box. The same box that will soon land all your email blast, your special offers, and anything else sales related that you wanted…

Hello everyone. I was recently approached by a cars.com rep who had a new feature in a form of an email blast. They told me for a certain price, they can contact 10,000 customers that were interested in a manufacturer I selected.

I had a question at first that went unanswered...

Where are you getting these customers and email addresses?

My initial thought was that cars.com is pulling every prospect that submitted a lead on their website and basically charging me to send…

Being in the automotive industry for some time now, nearly 8 years, I remembered back to the days when I first started. I was 20 years old, fresh out of college, trying to take over the world - one phone call at a time. The company I was with at the time, didn't have the luxury of having the finer things that other automotive companies had. We had a pad, paper, and IF our website company offered a FREE CRM, we had that too.   A few years went by, I saw myself begin to progressive and…