Traverse City Record Eagle Wins Web Award

San Francisco – July, 2007 – izmoMedia, (www.izmomedia.com), the smart portal solution for a wide array of media partners, today announced that The Traverse City Record-Eagle's Automotive Website was awarded first-place in the Suburban Newspapers of America's Website Contest. Judges said The Record-Eagle's web pages assisted both automobile buyers and sellers with a do-it-yourself classified ad feature, a research section and search tools to help buyers find specific makes and models. The award covered all four circulation classes in the SNA contest.

"The content, features, customer support and ease of use of izmoMedia's product along with the flexibility of design has allowed our webmaster, working with IzmoMedia's technical staff, to create an automotive vertical that has met all of our needs locally and encouraged every major dealer in the county to advertise on our site," said Dan Roach, The Record-Eagle's Special Advertising Project Manager

"The thousands of users who visit our auto site every month can vouch for its usefulness in researching new and used vehicles as well as finding incentives, calculating costs and learning about our dealers," Roach added.

The award covered all four circulation classes in the SNA contest.

izmoMedia, (izmoMedia.com), develops products and solutions for newspapers, television, cable, and radio. The company bridges the digital divide by combining traditional products with the flexibility and interactivity of the New Media. With minimal costs, media partners can now increase revenues and growth while building brand identity. izmoMedia offers custom designed portals along with “out of the box” presence.

"We’re very excited for The Traverse City Record Eagle as Dan and his team has put a big effort into making the program and website a success. izmoMedia’s CarSite.com product allows media companies to fully customize their automotive portal. Our team of automotive professionals works with media companies to develop a successful, profitable product. Plus, our team actually travels to the media company's local market to train their sales team on how to effectively sell the product to car dealers," said Tej Soni, CEO of izmoMedia.

"Whether the media company is a conglomerate or a single property publication we are committed to each one of our customers and work closely with them to make sure their individual needs are met," Soni added.

"Through our intensive sales training program and the other products our newspaper clients utilize, we offer innovative ideas to increase readership, lineage, advertising dollars and results. This is the perfect combination for newspapers and dealers," Soni said.


About izmoMedia.com
izmoMedia is the sister company to izmocars. izmocars is a San Francisco based industry leader providing interactive media solutions, eCommerce websites, dealer sales training and online marketing to the retail automotive industry. izmoRainmaker, izmoConcierge, and the company’s newest addition to its product base, The Hybrid Internet Sales System, (THISS), are only three of the premier products utilized by successful auto dealerships to increase leads, sales, conversions and profits.