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AdAgencyOnline.Net, a nationally recognized automotive advertising resource / networking portal, announced that they will reviewing a respected auto industry focused Internet marketing platform, AutoRevo, on their blog talk radio station WAAOL, All Automotive Advertising News All The Time.  Philip Zelinger, the President of Ad Agency Online, L.L.C. and the host of WAAOL, will be interviewing the President/CEO of AutoRevo, Chad Polk, on his blog talk radio show Lunch With Phil Discussing Automotive Advertising.  The show is scheduled to air live on Wednesday, December 01st, 2010 from 12:00 Noon to 12:30 PM EST.

The pair of automotive advertising experts will be sharing best practices with automotive advertising agencies anxious to help their auto dealer clients to maximize their R.O.I. from the virtual showrooms they are building on the Internet Super Highway to compliment their brick and mortar facilities on their local car row.  Consumers have clearly chosen the Internet as their media of choice to gather the information that they need to purchase a new or pre-owned vehicle. AutoRevo has an earned reputation as an automotive advertising vendor able to build a website that is consumer centric while providing applications that promise to increase site traffic and improve conversion rates for their auto dealer clients.

Philip Zelinger has recently reviewed several website providers with expanding marketing platforms for his affiliated automotive advertising agencies.  These competing automotive advertising vendors are being considered as preferred automotive advertising vendors to be featured on AdAgencyOnline.Net.  Philip explained why he decided to included AutoRevo in his vendor review for his affiliated automotive advertising agencies. “Every auto dealer has their own unique personality and needs and it is unlikely that I will find any single website provider that can service them all.  AutoRevo attracted my attention based on some positive feedback that I heard about them from their existing auto dealer clients and I decided to learn more about them for mine. I was impressed by the diversity of their Internet marketing platform that included applications focused on the mobile market as well as the expanding value of integrating social media and reputation management into the auto dealer’s online marketing plans.  After all, what are friends for!”

About Chad Polk

Chad Polk is the President/Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Co-founder of AutoRevo that was established in December 2003. Prior to his technology career, Chad was an NCAA student-athlete at Baylor University, where he played baseball.  After college, he finished his baseball career with the Toronto Blue Jays in their minor league system.  While at Baylor, he earned a degree in Management Information Systems, which became a springboard to his technology career.  Chad began his technology career at a large consulting firm in Dallas, Texas, where he consulted on various offerings, from Microsoft technologies to web development. Polk then moved on to start a full-service listing management company called eGiantAuctions. Seeing a need for auto dealers to manage all Internet marketing channels from a single application, he started AutoRevo.

About AutoRevo

AutoRevo now services dealers across all 50 states and Canada with its robust Internet marketing platform, combining custom dealer websites, market pricing comparisons, mobile inventory management, SEO services, social media, email marketing, reputation management, and online inventory distribution.  After 7 years of triple-digit growth, AutoRevo placed in the top 1000 on the Inc. 5000 list, as well as being named for the second year in a row to the Dallas 100.  Today, AutoRevo is highly focused on rapid expansion of its current product suite and professional services.  For more information, visit http://www.autorevo.com or call 888-577-9229. Read the rest of this entry »

AdAgencyOnline.Net is a networking / resource portal where automotive advertising agencies are able to review cutting edge automotive advertising vendors and their applications.  Philip Zelinger, the President of Ad Agency Online, L.L.C. and host of the blog talk radio station WAAOL, All Automotive Advertising News All The Time featured on AdAgencyOnline.Net, reviewed CarFolks.Com in an interview with  Mark Dubis.  The interview was conducted on the Auto Industry Insiders blog talk radio show that aired on Thursday, November 18th. , 2011 between 12:00 Noon EST and 12:30 PM EST.  Philip Zelinger announced that an encore presentation of the show is scheduled to replace the Lunch With Phil Discussing Automotive Advertising show on Monday, November 22nd., 2010 during the same mid-day time slot. 

Philip explained his reason for the unusual repeat airing of the CarFolks.Com updated review. “CarFolks.Com was one of the first preferred automotive advertising vendors to be featured on AdAgencyOnline.Net and I was surprised to discover some of the new applications that have been added to their already comprehensive reputation management platform.  Social media has matured as the media of choice for consumers anxious to gather information about not only the vehicles that they want to purchase but the auto dealership they want to do business with.  Mark explained that they have included several integrated solutions to CarFolks.Com that allow the auto dealer to promote comments about them on this consumer centric site to their own websites and other social media including Facebook and Twitter.  The market is a conversation between consumers that exists before, during and after their shopping/buying cycle.  CarFolks.Com has come up with a consumer focused platform that allows auto dealers to participate in the dialogue from the inside out vs. from the outside in with their customers providing the content.  After all, what are friends — and now Carfolks.Com — for!”

About Mark Dubis

Mark R. Dubis has over 26 years in the automotive and transportation fields. He has worked in executive, management, and sales roles, developing marketing and e-Commerce strategies, web development projects, and other business development strategies.  He was the first full time editor of Digital Dealer magazine and continues to write for industry publications.

About CarFolks.Com

CarFolks.Com is a free, reputation management resource for automotive sales and service professionals to help build, protect and enhance their online reputation. They highlight neighbor approved dealers as an online marketing platform for dealers to help them offer the public an accurate picture of how they and their teams take care of their customers. They now integrate with Facebook, Twitter and the dealers own website. Read the rest of this entry »

AdAgencyOnline.Net, an automotive advertising resource / networking portal supported by a national network of independent automotive advertising agencies, will be reviewing TK Carsites on their blog talk radio station WAAOL, All Automotive Advertising News All The Time.  Philip Zelinger, the President of Ad Agency Online, L.L.C. and host of WAAOL, will be interviewing the President and founder of TK Carsites, James A. Bradford, on his Lunch With Phil Discussing Automotive Advertising show today, Tuesday November 09th, 2010 between 12:00 Noon EST and 12:30 PM EST.

The pair of automotive advertising experts share a common vision for the retail auto industry which has shifted its focus from brick and mortar dealerships to the new virtual showrooms being built on the Internet Super Highway.  Philip summarized his reason for inviting James to review TK Carsites for consideration as a preferred automotive advertising vendor on AdAgencyOnline.Net. “The consolidation of the auto industry with the resulting reduced sales volume and profit margins has forced automotive advertising agencies to deliver more for less for their auto dealer clients and the Internet has provided the perfect solution.  Consumers have learned to place the glass wall of their computer between them and the auto dealership who used to control the information that they needed to shop for a new or pre-owned vehicle.  The Internet Super Highway has many lanes for the online shopper to bypass the auto dealer and automotive advertising agencies are challenged to deliver their dealer’s message without diverting traffic away from them.”

“Website developers like TK Carsites have adapted to consumer demands by providing them the information that they need in a relevant and transparent manner while still crediting the auto dealership as the source.  Integrating social media into a dealer’s website is just one example of how TK Carsites differentiates itself from other website developers.  The market is a conversation between customers before, during and after their buying decision and TK Carsites recognizes their need to allow their dealer clients to join the conversation from the inside out as a friend vs. from the outside in as a car dealer with a self serving agenda.  I am looking forward to listening and learning from James during our on air interview so I can share some of the best practices that he builds into his TK CarSites with our affiliated automotive advertising agencies and our growing following of automotive advertising decision makers and auto dealers that follow our blog talk radio shows and support AdAgencyOnline.Net with our shared philosophy that a rising tide floats all boats.  After all, what are friends and AdAgencyOnline.Net for!”  

About James Bradford

James A. Bradford is the President and founder of TK Carsites responsible for the overall sales performance of the company, strategic planning and large accounts. He has spent the last 10 years guiding TK Carsites to national recognition as an award-winning automotive Internet marketing provider, specializing in website technology, SEO and social media.

James has over 15 years of experience as an investment strategist and an entrepreneur. Prior to TK Carsites, James served as Vice President of Sales at the Manufacturers Asset Group, where he was responsible for managing a team of 25 Investment brokers before earning his own franchised office. James was also Regional Sales Manager at John James Investment Group, where he was consistently a top producer for the company. In 1994, 1995, and 1996, James was awarded “Top Sales Broker of the Year” as a Commodities Broker with the Hampton Group.

James presently resides in Huntington Beach with his wife Cynthia and their four children: Caylee, Brionni, little Joey and baby Gianna. Jim takes great joy in being home with his family, just being part of the day-to-day chaos that comes with raising three girls (help me, Lord) and a little boy!

About TK CarSites

TK Carsites is an online marketing company specializing in website design, automotive Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and social media for auto dealers in the U.S. and Canada.

With their Power Suite of products, TK Carsites uses the Internet to boost car dealerships’ sales by driving thousands of visitors to their websites, then converting them to high-quality leads through tools like search-optimized video and inventory pages. They also use their social media expertise to help dealers engage effectively with their local communities.TK Carsites has won the prestigious Auto Dealer Monthly’s Dealer’s Choice awards 6 years in a row, in addition to receiving two awards in 2009 from the Automotive Search Marketing Association (ASMA), and two awards for search marketing in 2010 from the AWA (Automotive Website Awards). Visit TK Carsites’ communities on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.

For more information, call (800) 899-7791, or visit www.tkcarsites.com.

About Philip Zelinger

Philip Zelinger is the President of Ad Agency Online, L.L.C. and host of a nationally respected automotive advertising social networking portal, AdAgencyOnline.Net.  Philip invested 25 years as a General Manager and Dealer Principal followed by his last ten years in the automotive advertising industry representing auto dealers and technology vendors focused on the automotive advertising industry.

His role as a “Dealer Coach” is enhanced by his hosting a nationally recognized blog talk radio station – WAAOL, All Automotive Advertising News All The Time.  As the author of two books on the auto industry, including “How To Sell A Car – a Career Guide to The Automobile Industry,” he is a recognized authority on market trends and developing technologies with the responsibility of selecting key vendors and applications for his dealer clients as well as forming strategic partnerships for his vendor clients to leverage their shared resources to help them bring their products and services to market.

About AdAgencyOnline.Net and Ad Agency Online, L.L.C.

AdAgencyOnline.Net reviews automotive advertising vendors and new technologies on several blog talk radio shows including Lunch With Phil Discussing Automotive Advertising, Auto Industry Insiders and  their most listened to program Automotive Advertising Experts.  The shows attract automotive advertising agencies, auto dealers, auto industry vendors and O.E.M. representatives that listen to the blog talk radio station WAAOL to find vendors, applications and technologies to maximize the R.O.I. for their automotive advertising dollars.

AAOL is a national network of independent affiliated automotive advertising agencies linked by an online communication / distribution system developed by Philip Zelinger.  The proprietary operating system that powers AAOL was designed to reduce fixed and semi-variable expenses for full service automotive advertising agencies.  The developing technologies that enhanced the performance of the independent automotive advertising agencies linked by AAOL has served as the role model for the solutions suggested on AdAgencyOnline.Net and represented by AAOL to their affiliated automotive advertising agencies when serving their auto dealer clients.

Ad Agency Online L.L.C is focused on discovering and representing new automotive advertising vendors not yet recognized by the mainstream automotive advertising industry. Automotive advertising vendors represented by AAOL include; ronsmap.com, DealerMouth, TeleTextSolutions, GetAutoAppraise, Argistics – AutoTransaXion, DealMaker.Com, CityTwist.Com, Bulldog Marketing Technologies, Kihon Media, CarFolks.Com, Ai Dealer, Laser Stream Video, SiSTeR Technologies – Video CarLot and IntellaCar; to name a few.

For more information on Philip Zelinger, Ad Agency Online, L.L.C., TK CarSites or any of the vendor clients represented by Ad Agency Online contact Philip at 888-796-2228 or email him at pzads@bellsouth.net.  Automotive advertising vendors, automotive advertising agencies and auto dealers that would like to be considered as a “preferred automotive advertising vendor” on AdAgencyOnline.Net and/or to hire/join Ad Agency Online, L.L.C. to represent them can contact Philip Zelinger at http://adagencyonline.net.  To quote Philip Zelinger, “Help is only a click away!  After all, what are friends for!” ###

Philip Zelinger, the President of Ad Agency Online, L.L.C. and the host of the automotive advertising resource / networking portal http://AdAgencyOnline.Net, will be reviewing WomenCertified® on the portal’s blog talk radio station — WAAOL, All Automotive Advertising News All The Time.  Philip will be interviewing the President/C.E.O. of WomenCertified®, Delia Passi, on his Automotive Advertising Experts blog talk radio show scheduled to air on Friday, November 12th., 2010 from 12:00 Noon EST to 12:30 PM EST.      

Philip supported claims by WomenCertified® that women hold the keys to the modern marketplace, purchasing over 83% of all consumer products and services. With competition ever increasing, consumers’ demands for quality products and services continue to rise, leaving businesses anxious to create a competitive edge by differentiating themselves.

Automotive advertising agencies are capitalizing on the fact that consumers trust The WomenCertified Seal of Approval, indicating that their auto dealer clients are committed to (and held to) a higher quality of overall service that exceeds expectations – both of women and of men (who may be easier to satisfy – but are often less loyal!) With the WomenCertified Seal, auto dealers have a unique opportunity to gain her attention and her trust before she even walks through their door

About Delia Passi

Delia Passi is CEO of Medelia, Inc. and Founder of WomenCertified®.  As the nation’s leading consumer advocate for women, Delia Passi empowers women worldwide to be savvier, more informed and more confident consumers.  As the Founder of WomenCertified® Delia’s message is based on years of experience and thousands of conversations with women shoppers.  She is the leading authority on selling to women.  Her expertise is in how women shop and buy, what motivates them to select one provider over another, and how sales and service professionals can provide the best experience to women.  Delia is a prominent consumer advocate and consultant to major corporations.  She is also the former Group Publisher of Working Woman and Working Mother magazines.

About WomenCertified® 

Delia provided the following information on WomenCertified® in advance of her interview with Philip Zelinger to share with his affiliated automotive advertising agencies:

9 out of 10 women trust a company more if they earned the WomenCertified Seal, signifying that they met higher standards of customer service.  WomenCertified boosts customer satisfaction and retention by maximizing what she cares about the most – the customer experience.

The Process:  Earn the WomenCertified Seal of Approval by completing our live training program (or interactive online program), packed with ground-breaking sales closing skills and gender communication knowledge for tapping into the mindset of women decision makers. 

The Result:  Increased sales in your internet department, greater customer loyalty and a steady stream of new referrals thanks to exceptional customer experience you’ll be specially equipped to provide. Plus, the WomenCertified Seal creates an instant bond of trust among women.

What will you learn?

  • Understanding the avoidance factor

  • Making and maintaining a great first impression

  • Decoding her language to hear what she’s really saying

  • Mastering each phase of the 7 Step Sales Process

  • Maximizing customer loyalty and turning on the referral machine

  • Providing the customer experience she expects and deserves

WomenCertified’s Ongoing Member Benefits

WomenCertified is more than a training program, going beyond the classroom and providing a host of reinforcement resources, marketing tools, competitive differentiation & more, including:

  • Listing in the WomenCertified Locator, the online directory where

     women search for companies they can trust for better service

  • Completion certificates and WomenCertified lapel pins

  • Monthly training tools and tips delivered to your e-mail

  • Turnkey marketing tools and PR templates

  • Customized training and reinforcement materials

Compound Your Efforts

Like interest on your money, efforts also compound over time. Our reinforcement tools are designed to help you compound your efforts into exponential sales growth. Any actions, repeated over an extended period of time (typically 90 days or more) become habit forming. By applying our award winning WomenCertified training with a repetitive WomenFriendly™ message, then adding the ongoing reinforcement tips and tools on top, you have a recipe for success!

The WomenCertified Seal is your differentiator in a cluttered marketplace, where women are seeking better buying experiences from sales and service providers they can trust. That is why we’ve created a series of reinforcement resources to help businesses and professionals maintain the WomenCertified standard of excellence.

WomenCertified Reinforcement Tool

• Monthly e-Newsletter: Arrives in your e-mail every month, delivering tips, tools, strategies & important reminders to update your selling to women skills and knowledge.
• Bi-monthly Booster Shots: Teleconferences for a quick pick-me-up
• Power Selling and Business Building tools: Host of videos, audio clips, interviews and articles on womencertified.com to help you dig deeper in the WomenCertified principles.
• Unlimited Access to the Online Training: for convenient refreshment.
• Recruiting & Retaining Women & Diverse Candidates Training Program: enables you to equip your management and recruitment officers with the insight and tools needed to accelerate recruitment among women and implement successful retention programs.
• Customer Feedback Tools: Customer Satisfaction Surveys to monitor customer satisfaction and feedback at the store level; Mystery Shoppers to visit your store reporting their experiences and place customer service calls to your call centers and service desks.
• WomenCertified Coaching: is a one-on-one coaching with a WomenCertified Expert Trainer, who will work with individual sales and service professionals to perfect their pitch and build their selling skills and confidence.
• Additional Reinforcement Tools: (cost items) include books, wallet cards & laminated tips sheet, audio CD’s and One-on-One Coaching. Read the rest of this entry »

AdAgencyOnline.Net is an automotive advertising resource / networking portal that finds and reviews cutting edge automotive advertising applications for automotive advertising agencies.  Philip Zelinger, the President of Ad Agency Online, L.L.C. and host of the blog talk radio station – WAAOL, All Automotive Advertising News All The Time – featured on AdAgencyOnline.Net, will be reviewing DealerFire in an interview with their founder Eric Hoopman on the Automotive Advertising Experts show airing Friday, November 05th., 2010.  The show is scheduled from 12:00 Noon EST to 12:30 PM EST.  It promises to provide valued insights into the unique features and benefits that earned DeaklerFire their recent AWA award presented in a private ceremony preceding The 9th Digital Dealer Conference & Exposition in Las Vegas. 

Philip Zelinger explained his reasons for selecting DealerFire to review on the Automotive Advertising Experts show which is often a prelude to being featured as a preferred automotive advertising vendor for the automotive advertising agencies that support the online networking portal. “I was surprised when DealerFire received their AWA award presented by Brian Pasch at his recent ceremony preceding The 9th Digital Dealer Conference & Exposition.  Brian is a nationally respected S.E.O. expert who is also a contributor to our shared network of networkers featured in a special section on AdAgencyOnline.net titled Auto Industry Insiders.  I figured that if DealerFire was good enough for Brian it was good enough for me.  Frankly, I was embarrassed by the fact that I didn’t know anything about them.  This Friday’s interview with their founder Eric Hoopman should fix that oversight for me and mine to learn about him and his.  After all, what are friends, and WAAOL for!” 

About Eric Hoopman

Eric Hoopman, graduated from the University of San Diego in the late 90s and has been in the technology sector ever since. Founding an internet marketing firm, may seem like an unorthodox path for a USD grad who majored in French, however,  Eric was already envisioning how the Internet could shape business.

In 1999, Eric launched Neleven, a company dedicated to providing quality custom websites.  After Neleven helped their first automobile dealership create a successful online presence, Eric launched DealerFire in 2004. Today, Eric’s passion for eCommerce motivates the award-winning DealerFire group to take inspiration from and to integrate with the best practices from web platforms both automotive and beyond.

About DealerFire

Through its flagship Engine 5 Custom Automotive Website Platform, DealerFire is connecting thousands of internet car shoppers every day with car dealerships throughout the US and Canada.

Founded in 1999, DealerFire is leading the industry in innovative and award winning custom automotive websites. With a complete suite of cutting edge user friendly website features, along with advanced SEO, SEM and analytic tools, DealerFire is paving the way for automotive dealerships to sell more cars. Based in Oshkosh, WI DealerFire’s commitment to unparalleled customer service and good old fashioned values has placed them as a forerunner in today’s highly competitive website design commerce currently serving hundreds of dealerships nationwide who have turned to DealerFire as their solution for their online marketing needs.

For more information visit http://www.dealerfire.com or call 877.828.9719. Read the rest of this entry »