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Car Rental Q&A: How to Harness Social Media, Prevent Customer Profiling and Deal with Floods of New Applicants

Auto Rental News and industry professionals answer your questions about car rental trends, techniques and other current issues.

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Facebook Used to Recover Stolen Rental Vehicle

An Affordable Rent-A-Car employee used Facebook to track down a rental car stolen by one of its clients by simply making a request to “Add Friend.”

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Enterprise Rent-A-Car Launches Social Media Contest for Charities

Employees nominated 10 charities they are actively involved in to receive donations based on votes through Enterprise’s Facebook page.

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How Avis Budget Is Using Social Media

In the U.K., a service rewards users when they check into locations by linking their Topguest account to their Facebook Places and Foursquare accounts.

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12 Low or No-Cost Ideas to Market Your Business

From sponsoring community events and generating press releases to creating email coupons and a social network page, effective marketing and sales don’t have to cost a fortune.

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UK Carrentals.com Works the Social Media

Price aggregator starts online competition to find the best video clip about cars.

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Discount Car and Truck Rentals Offers eConcierge Program

eConcierge will create a personalized Web site for Discount customers, who make online reservations, based upon their trip itinerary. The eConcierge platform, which is available online or as a simple desktop shortcut, provides essential destination information, virtual tours, driving and weather reports.

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Protecting Your Business Reputation Online

Are you monitoring the Web for negative opinions of your company? Here’s how to control online complaints before they damage your reputation.

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Smarter Hiring: Reducing the Insider Threat

To ensure a thorough background screening process, consider these five points.

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Which Hybrids Pay Back the Quickest?

After five years and 15,000 miles of driving per year, are there any hybrids that actually have a lower cost of ownership than their gas-engine counterparts? One unexpected vehicle takes the prize.

How Far Will Cell Phone Bans Go?

The federal government means business with its new law banning cell phone use while driving commercial vehicles. Can the laws go even further, and how should fleets react?

Righting a Wrong in Arizona

Arizona is one of a super minority of states in which auto rental companies are required by statute to pay for the negligent acts of their renters. Look for new legislation in the coming weeks that proposes to change that.

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