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AdAgencyOnline.Net shares an agenda with DealerRefresh.Com in discussing “best practices” for the automotive advertising industry. Philip Zelinger is the President of Ad Agency Online, L.L.C and host of the blog talk radio station featured on AdAgencyOnline.Net – WAAOL, All Automotive Advertising News All The Time. Jeff Kershner is the ecommerce director for the Mile One Automotive Group and host of DealerRefresh.Com. The two automotive advertising experts shared their philosophies regarding “reputation management” as an integral part of any successful online automotive advertising strategy on the “Lunch With Phil Discussing Automotive Advertising” blog talk radio show that aired today, Monday, September 15^th 2008, on WAAOL.

Jeff Kershner started work as a detailer in a small Honda store in Hagerstown, MD in 1994. It wasn’t long before those around him realized he had a talent for working with customers and made him a service and parts adviser. Within a few years, he had transitioned to selling cars with a rival dealer group and introduced them to the world of online retailing, which then propelled him to revamping the internet departments for a BMW dealer in Baltimore and Mercedes-Benz of Hagerstown.

While working the World Wide Web, Jeff realized there was no forum for people like him – people trying to sell cars over the internet and therefore he started DealerRefresh.com in 2004. Since then, the site has become a must-read for internet professionals, dealership decision makers and automotive vendors around the country. One of those decision makers was David Metter of MileOne Automotive, who promptly recruited Jeff to be the group’s eCommerce Manager in the fall of 2007. Since joining MileOne, Jeff has been integral in their online reputation management strategy, website transition and video SEO.

Philip Zelinger has a similar background drawn from his roots in the auto industry as a General Manager and Dealer Principal. His successful twenty five plus year career in the retail auto industry started in 1976 as a salesperson in a Honda dealership followed by a promotion after only one year to General Manager for the same organization. After ten years as a General Manager within the same organization he continued his career with expanded opportunities offered as the General Manager for two Toyota Dealerships in the same market before earning a position as an Executive Dealer for a large domestic auto mall. He subsequently became the dealer principal at his own facility in Pensacola Fl and he authored two books on the auto industry including a career training guide titled, “How To Sell A Car.”

Mr. Zelinger shifted his focus to the automotive advertising industry in 1998 as the C.O.O. of a nationally recognized automotive advertising agency focused on Tier II and Tier III advertising. Ad Agency Online, L.L.C. was founded by Mr. Zelinger in December of 2001 built on a proprietary operation system that provided an online communication and distribution system that now links a national network of independent affiliated automotive advertising agencies, production partners and automotive advertising vendors. AdAgencyOnline.Net is an extension of Ad Agency Online formed in February 2008 as a free automotive advertising resource / networking portal to promote shared best practices to the automotive advertising industry.

Today’s show was a repeat of a subject that was discussed with Jeff Kershner last week on “Reputation Management.” The show was scheduled to answer questions that surfaced in the live chats from last week that were not answered because they ran out of time. AdAgencyOnline.Net has an earned reputation in the automotive advertising industry as “The One Stop Site For All Of Your Automotive Advertising Needs.” The program is broadcast live with questions called in by the online audience that are addressed in a problem / solution format. To listen and learn from these two automotive advertising experts visit www.blogtalkradio.com/adagencyonline or www.adagencyonline.net and download both shows at your convenience.

Jeff Kershner and Philip Zelinger share many experiences in the retail auto industry with even more developing through their automotive advertising social networking sites. Their common focus on the Internet and review of automotive advertising applications developed for the World Wide Web are designed to help struggling automotive advertising agencies and auto dealers who frequent the online automotive advertising social networking communities that they have developed.

WAAOL has several shows that offer similar value with select automotive advertising insiders contributing to the programming. Ralph Paglia, National Director of Digital Marketing for ADP and host of his own auto industry social networking forum – Automotive Digital Marketing, (ADM), hosts the “Lunch With Ralph Discussing Automotive Advertising” show that runs every Thursday between 12:00 Noon EST and 12:30 PM EST on AdAgencyOnline.Net.

Friday offers the “Automotive Advertising Experts” show sharing the noon starting time. This week’s show has Philip Zelinger in another repeat performance with an interesting prior guest, Dale Pollak, Founder and C.E.O. of vAuto. vAuto offers an application that helps auto dealers value their trade-ins and pre-owned inventory based on data drawn from posted inventories on almost 40,000 websites.

A variety of products and services have been represented by well known automotive advertising experts on AdAgencyOnline.Net included Don Crawford from EBay Motors, Mark Boyd from CarFolks.Com, Jared Hamilton from DrivingSales.Com, Tomer Alpert from SiSTeR Technologies Video CarLot, Dale Pollak from vAuto, David Wassmann from NeoSynergy, Jerry Daniels from Automotive Broadcasting Network, (ABN), Spencer Sterling and Brian Dillon from DealMaker.Com, Shuki Lehavi and Richard Abronson from Gumiyo, Terry Alling from Kihon Media, David Marod from LeadConverter, Mike Parson from Laser Stream Video, Brian Hoecht from Ai Dealer, Jim Ziegler a renowned expert on automotive advertising and an Internationally recognized motivational speaker and most recently Dale Boone and Darrell Campbell from EveryCarListed.Com.

AdAgencyOnline.Net features automotive advertising applications that integrate established real world best practices with new world Internet based technology and applications. AdAgencyOnline.Net is reviewing applications from automotive advertising agencies who want to join their network of affiliated independent automotive advertising agencies, production partners and automotive advertising vendors. Automotive advertising vendors who want to qualify as “preferred vendors” on the automotive advertising networking community are anxious to present their products/services to the site’s audience of automotive advertising decision makers.

For additional information on AdAgencyOnline.Net automotive advertising agencies, auto industry vendors and auto dealers can visit the site at www.adagencyonline.net or they can contact Philip Zelinger directly at 888-796-2228. To quote Philip Zelinger, “Help s only a click away!”

Automotive advertising agencies are often lacking when it comes to practicing what they preach but affiliated automotive advertising agencies and their auto dealer clients linked through AdAgencyOnline.Net aren’t amongst them. Philip Zelinger, President of AdAgencyOnline.net and host of their FREE automotive advertising networking resource portal, has been directing his affiliated independent automotive advertising agencies to use the technologies and applications recommended on their site by their preferred auto industry vendors to improve R.O.I. for their auto dealer clients. Read the rest of this entry »

Automotive advertising agencies, auto industry vendors and auto dealer clients don’t know what they don’t know, unless they are listening to blog talk radio station “WAAOL, All Automotive Advertising News All The time” that is. Philip Zelinger, President of AdAgencyOnline.Net, initially established the FREE Automotive Advertising Networking Portal to share cutting edge automotive advertising applications with his affiliated independent automotive advertising agencies and auto dealer clients. Auto industry vendors quickly recognized the online automotive advertising resource portal as the “One Stop Site For All Of Your Automotive Advertising Needs” and the place to catch up and keep up with developing trends in the automotive advertising world.

Auto industry insiders representing new automotive advertising technologies and applications have been interviewed on the site’s resident blog talk radio station on shows including “Lunch With Phil – Discussing Automotive Advertising”, “Lunch With Ralph – Discussing Automotive Advertising” and the must listen show “Automotive Advertising Experts.” The shows air M-F from 12:00 noon to 12:30 EST on the portal, www.adagencyonline.net . The online programs have featured decision makers from established auto industry insiders like Don Crawford from EBay Motors with pending shows with senior management from Cars.Com, R.L.Polk and several O.E.M’s that plan to use the show as an “open business meeting” to pass on developing issues to their auto dealer clients. Read the rest of this entry »

Automotive advertising agencies have been relying on AdAgencyOnline.Net to research new automotive advertising applications and online resources to maintain their auto dealer’s messages limited by their reduced automotive advertising budgets capped by a down market. CarFolks.Com is a social networking site featured on AdAgencyOnline.Net’s FREE automotive advertising resource portal that promises to deliver an auto dealer’s message directly to consumers where they are; online!

Social networking sites attract shoppers to their site to share their experiences at auto dealerships in sales and service in a consumer friendly environment. CarFolks.Com joins many other developing platforms for consumers but their unique business plan invites auto dealers and their sales staff to participate, minus any sales hype or self serving messages. Automotive advertising agencies have already recognized the value of branding an auto dealer and his staff with a personality and people message over price and product and AdAgencyOnline.Net has selected CarFolks.Com as the perfect online community to do it on. Read the rest of this entry »

Automotive advertising has changed dramatically and AdAgencyOnline.Net’s FREE Automotive Advertising Networking Portal is a prime example of how. Today’s “Lunch With Ralph” show airing on WAAOL – blog talk radio – “All Automotive Advertising News All The Time” promises to share the secrets of the auto industry’s top insiders. A lively conversation between the show’s co-hosts, Philip Zelinger, President of AdAgencyOnline.Net, and of course the star of the segment, Ralph Paglia, National Director of Digital Marketing for ADP, has been drawing an ever increasing audience of automotive advertising agencies, auto industry vendors and auto dealers anxious to learn how they can leverage their limited automotive advertising budgets to sell more cars and service in a down market.

AdAgencyOnline.Net has become widely known in the auto industry as “The One Stop Site For All Of Your Automotive Advertising Needs.” Regularly scheduled programs on their blog talk radio station WAAOL include “Lunch With Phil” – M-W 12 noon to 12:30 PM EST, “Lunch With Ralph” – Thu. 12 noon to 12:30 PM EST and “Automotive Advertising Experts” – Fri. 12 noon to 12:30 PM EST. All broadcasts are aired live online, as well as in a downloadable podcast after the show, at www.adagencyonline.net . Additional paid programming is now being offered to auto industry vendors and auto dealers with shows like “Dealer Spotlight” that can even be posted on an auto dealer’s own website or emailed as a podcast to their data base of customers to develop a branding identity not available through conventional media. Read the rest of this entry »