Web-Est recently published an article regarding the effectiveness of Search Engine Local Listings with specific emphasis on Google Places. "Google Places gives businesses a chance to connect with consumers in a specified location by listing the business online in a Yellow Pages-like directory that appears to a consumer every time they search particular terms in Google's search engine," said JR Seidel, Director of Internet Marketing at Web-Est. Google Places is a highly effective tool for auto body shops and comes free of charge. View the Auto Body Marketing Blog to see the full post.

August 13: Web-Est Posts New Article on Ways an Auto Body Shop Can Use Facebook.

Web-est released an article giving auto body shops a strategy to effectively use Facebook for marketing their business. Web-Est suggests that Facebook is an excellent new platform for shops to generate referrals from old customers. "With over 500 million users and 50% of those users using it per day, Facebook has the ability to make body shops more accessible to potential customers that old customers have referred them to," said JR Seidel, Director of Internet Marketing at Web-Est. "If you're customers are willing to recommend your business online, then you can assume that they'll do it online. Facebook is the online community space where they're most most likely to do that." Visit the Auto Body Marketing Blog to see the full post.

Web-Est, LLC

4033 Tampa Road, Ste 100
Oldsmar, FL 34677

Toll Free: (888) Web-Est-0 or (888) 932-3780
Technical Support, Sales: Ext. 112
Fax: (813) 854-9051

About Us

Web-Est provides a logic-based collision repair estimating program for $99 per month. Web-Est offers a full database of labor times, OEM and Aftermarket parts, and is provided by Mitchell International through a special data agreement with Web-Est, allowing users to easily estimate collision repair damages. Their online platform is issued to licensed auto body shop customers and others in the collision repair community, such as auto adjusters and insurance companies.

Web-Est services cater to the small- to mid-size auto body shop market by providing low-cost, logic based collision repair estimating software. Because they use Mitchell parts prices, every estimate provided by Web-Est is accepted by major insurance companies. In addition to their estimating capabilities, they include frame dimensions and marketing products to their auto body shop customers.

Privately held and based in the Tampa Bay, Florida Area, Web-Est is located in the community of Oldsmar. The company also maintains a satellite office in Columbus, OH.

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