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AdAgencyOnline.Net was introduced during the 2008 NADA Convention as a free automotive advertising resource / networking portal to share best practices with automotive advertising agencies, auto dealers and automotive advertising vendors. Philip Zelinger, the President of Ad Agency Online, L.L.C. and the host of the blog talk radio show “Lunch With Phil Discussing Automotive Advertising” featured on the portal’s blog talk radio station WAAOL – All Automotive Advertising News All The Time , will interview Gary May, the President of Interactive Marketing and Consulting Services, IMACS, on the show today, January 21st , 2009 between 12:00 Noon EST and 12:30 PM EST. The discussion will focus on digital marketing and Internet based applications that promise to “blur the line between the virtual and the real world” for auto dealers anxious to listen and learn from these two nationally recognized automotive advertising experts.

Both Philip and Gary will also be discussing their agendas at the 2009 NADA Convention to be held January 24th 2009 through January 27th 2009 in New Orleans to coordinate meetings with auto dealer clients and to review new automotive advertising vendors exhibiting at the event. AdAgencyOnline.Net will be celebrating their anniversary during the convention and they are using the occasion to introduce a new social networking portal – Auto Industry Insights, (AII), – that is being constructed as a “network of networkers.” Gary May will be serving on the “Advisory Panel” for AII along with Philip Zelinger and a group of equally respected automotive advertising insiders and their respective auto industry online networks.

About Gary May and IMACS

Gary May is President of Interactive Marketing and Consulting Services, where his chief responsibility is to benefit dealership, manufacturer, portal, and third-party clients with best practices in the online/eCommerce automotive segment. IMACS tailors solutions specifically to each client rather than a ‘one size fits all’ approach. If it has to do with online branding, sales process, engagement, team mentoring, vendor recommendations or other critical aspects, Gary’s company focuses on providing clients with the tools necessary to grow their business via the web, consumer communication and sounds fundamentals.

Previously, Mr. May was the Director of Business Development at izmocars, Manager of Business Development at Edmunds.com, Account Director at eVox Productions and Sales Manager with CarsDirect.com. He has 18 years of consultative sales experience in the B-to-B and B-to-C arenas in both the automotive and sporting goods industries.

About Philip Zelinger

Philip Zelinger invested twenty five plus years in the retail auto industry as a general manager and dealer principal before shifting his focus to automotive advertising when he accepted a position as the C.O.O. of a national automotive advertising agency in 1998 before leaving to found Ad Agency Online, L.L.C. in December of 2001. Ad Agency Online L.L.C. is a national network of independent affiliated automotive advertising agencies, production partners and preferred automotive advertising vendors linked by the online communication / distribution system developed by Mr. Zelinger. As the author of two books on the auto industry, including a career training guide titled “How To Sell A Car,” Philip is a nationally recognized authority on automotive advertising and a respected speaker invited to conduct seminars and Dealer 20 Group meetings throughout the United States.

About AdAgencyOnline.Net

AdAgencyOnline.Net started reviewing automotive advertising vendors and new technologies after their introduction during the 2008 NADA Convention in San Francisco. In addition to providing free creative, hosting online Dealer 20+ Groups and providing links to “preferred automotive advertising vendors” the site also hosts several blog talk radio shows in addition to the “Lunch With Phil Discussing Automotive Advertising” including the “Lunch With Ralph Discussing Automotive Advertising” and “Automotive Advertising Experts.”

AdAgencyOnline.Net is supported by automotive advertising agencies, auto dealers, auto industry vendors and a growing number of O.E.M. representatives that rely on the site to find and review vendors, applications and new technologies to maximize their R.O.I. in a shrinking auto industry. The site features applications used in both virtual and real world selling processes including DMS and CRM applications provided by established auto industry vendors such as ADP and BZ Results. Ad Agency Online L.L.C has been engaged by a number of new automotive advertising vendors not yet recognized by the mainstream automotive advertising industry that have been featured on WAAOL including Argistics – AutoTransaXion, SiSTeR Technologies - Video CarLot, EveryCarListed.Com, DealMaker.Com, CityTwist.Com, Bulldog Marketing Technologies, LeadConverter, Gumiyo, Kihon Media, CarFolks.Com,Ai Dealer, NeoSynergy and Laser Stream Video.

About Auto Industry Insights

Auto Industry Insights will be an open forum for the auto industry headed by an advisory panel made up of established automotive advertising insiders and supported by their existing auto industry social networking/blogging sites. The panel and contributing online communities includes; ADM – hosted by Ralph Paglia, www.DealerRefresh.Com – hosted by Jeff Kershner, www.DrivingsSales.Com – hosted by Jared Hamilton, http://imacsweb.typepad.com/ – hosted by Gary May, http://www.scottmonty.com/ – hosted by Scott Monty, www.askpatty.com – hosted by Jody Devere and www.adagencyonline.net hosted by Philip Zelinger.

The portal is being developed as a consumer/dealer/consultant facing social networking site supported by – www.everycarlisted.com (ECL) – an auto industry inventory website that will be driving traffic to the networking community through existing strategic partnerships as well as both conventional and online marketing investments. The concept is to establish a “network of networkers” with a priority on content sourced from auto industry consultants, auto dealers that have their own blogging forums and even consumers that have registered with ECL. The site will be promoted to share “best practices” and real world experiences.

Gary May is joining a respected group of automotive advertising experts previously interviewed on AdAgencyOnline.Net including; Clayton Stanfield from EBay Motors, Mark Boyd and Mark Dubis from CarFolks.Com, Jared Hamilton from DrivingSales.Com, Dale Pollak from vAuto, David Wassmann from NeoSynergy, Jerry Daniels from Automotive Broadcasting Network, (ABN), Terry Alling from Kihon Media, David Marod from LeadConverter, Mike Parsons from Laser Stream Video, Brian Hoecht from Ai Dealer, Ralph Paglia from ADP and host to the auto industry social networking community ADM, Jim Ziegler, motivational speaker and consultant to the auto industry, Jeff Kershner, ecommerce director for The Mile One Automotive Group and host of the auto industry social networking forum DealerRefresh.Com , Jeff Raab from the Detroit Trading Company, (DTX), Mike DeCecco from Dealer.Com, Ken Schwartz from CityTwist, Michael R. Spadafore from R. L. Polk & Co., Kevin Schwartz and Rick Rochon from AdSymetrix and most recently Scott Davis from Bulldog Marketing Technologies.

Automotive advertising vendors, automotive advertising agencies and auto dealers that would like to contribute to AII, or to be considered as a “preferred automotive advertising vendor” on AdAgencyOnline.Net and/or to hire Ad Agency Online, L.L.C. or Gary May as a consultant can contact Philip Zelinger directly at pzads@bellsouth.net, call him at 888-796-2228 or visit AdAgencyOnline.Net at http://adagencyonline.net . Philip will also be conducting preliminary interviews with automotive advertising vendors and potential content contributors in an open meeting during the 2009 NADA Convention in New Orleans to be held in the lobby lounge of the Ritz Carlton Hotel, Saturday evening between 5:30 PM and 7:00 PM. An invitation only dinner meeting will be held immediately after the open interviews for the advisory panel of AII at the Melange restaurant in the Ritz Carlton. To quote Philip Zelinger, “Help is only a click away!” ###

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AdAgencyOnline.Net is a free automotive advertising resource / networking portal that shares best practices with automotive advertising agencies, auto dealers and automotive advertising vendors. Philip Zelinger is the President of Ad Agency Online, L.L.C. and the host of the blog talk radio show “Automotive Advertising Experts” that is featured on the portal’s blog talk radio station WAAOL – All Automotive Advertising News All The Time. Tim Zierden, the Assistant Vice President and General Manager of software solutions for JMsolutions, will be interviewed by Philip for the second time on WAAOL to discuss their unique inventory management and marketing application – AAX™.

About Tim Zierden

Tim Zierden has been recognized by the auto industry as a leader in integrated, automotive web-based products and service. Tim is responsible for the strategic direction of JMsolutions’ AAX™ Inventory Management and CMX™ Customer Management Solutions software. Prior to joining JMsolutions, Zierden was vice president of trade operations for lanelogic. His responsibilities included overseeing all technology enhancements, trade desk operations and trading process. Zierden also spent several years as the operating partner for Flow Automotive, a multi-franchise new car store. He worked in all areas of the dealership from service to sales and built a successful team that was able to more than double the business.

As one of the founding associates of CarMax, Inc., Zierden gained significant expertise in the field of inventory management. He joined CarMax as a buyer in training and opened 10 stores, eventually rising to regional vice president of merchandising. Zierden’s region included the #1 and #2 volume used car operations in the country. He led both the technology and operational teams that created CarMax’s appraisal process.

About JMsolutions

JMsolutions (www.jmfe-jmsolutions.com) was established in 2005. A JM Family Enterprises, Inc. (www.jmfamily.com) company, JMsolutions (www.jmsolutions.com) develops and markets innovative, integrated software systems that help automotive dealers improve operational efficiencies throughout the entire sales and marketing process while maximizing sales.

JMsolutions offers its AAX™ inventory management suite; CMX™ customer management suite which includes DealerUps™ customer relationship management, ProCal™ desking, ProFi™ finance and insurance menu; and SMX™ sales and service marketing suite by DMEautomotive. It also provides dealers with related training and consulting services. JMsolutions serves over 2,500 dealership clients nationwide, including the nation’s top six dealer groups.

Headquartered in Deerfield Beach, Fla., JMsolutions has major operations in Dallas, Texas.

About Philip Zelinger

Philip Zelinger invested twenty five plus years in the retail auto industry as a general manager and dealer principal before shifting his focus to automotive advertising when he accepted a position as the C.O.O. of a national automotive advertising agency in 1998 before leaving to found Ad Agency Online, L.L.C. in December of 2001. Ad Agency Online L.L.C. is a national network of independent affiliated automotive advertising agencies, production partners and preferred automotive advertising vendors linked by the online communication / distribution system developed by Mr. Zelinger. As the author of two books on the auto industry, including a career training guide titled “How To Sell A Car,” Philip is a nationally recognized authority on automotive advertising and a respected speaker invited to conduct seminars and Dealer 20 Group meetings throughout the United States.

About AdAgencyOnline.Net

AdAgencyOnline.Net started reviewing automotive advertising vendors and new technologies after their introduction during the 2008 NADA Convention in San Francisco. In addition to providing free creative, hosting online Dealer 20+ Groups and providing links to “preferred automotive advertising vendors” the site also hosts several blog talk radio shows in addition to the “Lunch With Phil Discussing Automotive Advertising” including the “Lunch With Ralph Discussing Automotive Advertising” and “Automotive Advertising Experts.”

AdAgencyOnline.Net is supported by automotive advertising agencies, auto dealers, auto industry vendors and a growing number of O.E.M. representatives that rely on the site to find and review vendors, applications and new technologies to maximize their R.O.I. in a shrinking auto industry. The site features applications used in both virtual and real world selling processes including DMS and CRM applications provided by established auto industry vendors such as ADP and BZ Results. Ad Agency Online L.L.C has been engaged by a number of new automotive advertising vendors not yet recognized by the mainstream automotive advertising industry that have been featured on WAAOL including Argistics – AutoTransaXion, SiSTeR Technologies - Video CarLot, EveryCarListed.Com, DealMaker.Com, CityTwist.Com, Bulldog Marketing Technologies, LeadConverter, Gumiyo, Kihon Media, Ai Dealer, NeoSynergy and Laser Stream Video.

In advance of the interview with Tim Zierden to review AAXâ„¢ JMsolutions provided the following press releases to describe AAXâ„¢ in more detail:

JMsolutions Announces Favorable Returns for Large Pre-Owned Vehicles

Data Findings Cast Silver Lining in Truck-Friendly Markets

Deerfield Beach, Fla. (September, 19, 2008) – JMsolutions, a dealer-focused automotive technology products and services company, released findings today which show that pre-owned SUVs and trucks are earning excellent returns in traditionally “truck-friendly” markets. Successful used vehicle sales opportunities remain despite the nationwide general downturn in new SUV and truck sales. For example, in Dallas, Texas, nine of the 11 most profitable used vehicle models in August were full-sized SUVs or large pick-up trucks.

The data, based on nearly 62,000 vehicles retailed in the U.S. in August by dealers using JMsolutions’ AAX™ used vehicle inventory management system, also showed similar trends in other regions. The second most profitable used vehicle in the Washington, D.C. market was the Chevy Trailblazer, with the Chevrolet Silverado 1500 and Dodge Ram 1500 respectfully rounding out the top 20 most profitable used vehicles. The Jeep Liberty held the number one rank in used vehicle profitability in the South Florida market.

“It’s clear that dealers who continue to utilize AAX and follow our inventory management philosophy are maximizing margins and ‘turns’ in their stores when buying and selling vehicles,” said Scot Eisenfelder, group vice president, JMsolutions. “The ability to adjust quickly and appropriately to the market is enabling dealers to reap the benefits on many vehicles that they may otherwise assume are losers.”

“Rather than moving too far under the vehicle’s book value and risk making the trade for a new vehicle, dealers are proactively using their store’s AAX data to base buying and pricing decisions. This allows them to be more competitive on trades, winning more new car deals,” Eisenfelder continued.

JMsolutions Study Results Show “Core is King™”

Dealers with more “core” inventory reap higher gross margins and increased inventory turn

DEERFIELD BEACH, FL. (May 19, 2008) – JMsolutions today announced the results of a study that shows that the average dealer who uses its AAX used vehicle inventory management solution and follows the system’s recommendations of vehicles to stock can see an average, verifiable increase in average retail gross and floor plan savings of $60,000 per year. “Core” vehicles are those which repeatedly sell faster at higher gross margins for the dealership.

“JMsolutions has long professed the advantages of using AAX and stocking the right, ‘core’ vehicles at the right price,” said Tim Zierden, assistant vice president and general manager, Product Solutions, JMsolutions. “We believe that dealers should be knowledgeable about marketplace pricing but, most importantly, they should look at their own store’s sales history to determine how that vehicle has performed in the past and at what price point.”

The study, which looked at the performance of more 1,700 AAX™ dealers, also illustrated that a 10 percent increase in the average dealer’s core inventory units equates to a three-day improvement in retail age at sale and five-day improvement in average inventory age.

There are conflicting viewpoints on how best to price used vehicles to optimize the dealer’s return. Some recommend that dealers should base their pricing on how those vehicles are being priced in the marketplace or on the Internet. Others say that the dealer’s own transactional history is the best compass on which to base pricing decisions.

“We found that basing pricing decisions solely on marketplace pricing drives used vehicle retail prices down,” said Zierden. “We advocate using market pricing as a guide, especially as vehicles age. However, many dealers will miss profit opportunities if they focus only on other dealerships’ published Internet pricing. We show our dealers how to make better pricing decisions using their own data which is a much better indicator of what a vehicle should retail for at their store.” “We are confident that we’re leading dealers in the right direction with our stocking and pricing methodologies,” Zierden continued. “There’s no getting around the basics of good inventory management – and this study substantiates our philosophy that ‘Core is King’.”

Zierden has joined a growing list of respected automotive advertising insiders to be interviewed on AdAgencyOnline.Net including; Clayton Stanfield from EBay Motors, Mark Boyd and Mark Dubis from CarFolks.Com, Jared Hamilton from DrivingSales.Com, Dale Pollak from vAuto, David Wassmann from NeoSynergy, Jerry Daniels from Automotive Broadcasting Network, (ABN), Terry Alling from Kihon Media, David Marod from LeadConverter, Mike Parsons from Laser Stream Video, Brian Hoecht from Ai Dealer, Ralph Paglia from ADP and host to the auto industry social networking community ADM, Jim Ziegler, motivational speaker and consultant to the auto industry, Jeff Kershner, ecommerce director for The Mile One Automotive Group and host of the auto industry social networking forum DealerRefresh.Com , Jeff Raab from the Detroit Trading Company, (DTX), Mike DeCecco from Dealer.Com, Ken Schwartz from CityTwist, Michael R. Spadafore from R. L. Polk & Co., Kevin Schwartz and Rick Rochon from AdSymetrix and most recently Scott Davis from Bulldog Marketing Technologies.

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 Ad Agency Online, L.L.C. should contact Philip Zelinger directly at pzads@bellsouth.net, call him at 888-796-2228 or visit AdAgencyOnline.Net at http://adagencyonline.net . Philip will also be conducting preliminary interviews with automotive advertising vendors in an open meeting during the 2009 NADA Convention in New Orleans to be held in the lobby lounge of the Ritz Carlton Hotel on Saturday evening between 5:30 PM and 7:00 PM. An invitation only dinner meeting will be held immediately after the open interviews for the advisory panel of a new auto industry social networking site – Auto Industry Insights – that Philip is helping to coordinate for his vendor/client EveryCarListed.com. To quote Philip Zelinger, “Help is only a click away!” ###

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Ad Agency Online, L.L.C., (AAOL), was formed as a national network of independent automotive advertising agencies, production partners and select auto industry vendors in December of 2001. Philip Zelinger is the President of Ad Agency Online, L.L.C. and host of their automotive advertising resource / networking portal AdAgencyOnline.Net. The site features a blog talk radio station – WAAOL, All Automotive Advertising News All The Time – that reviews new vendors and digital marketing applications to share with their online audience of automotive advertising insiders since the networking site was first introduced during the 2008 NADA Convention in San Francisco.

The auto industry has turned to the Internet to market their vehicles and as a result they have opened up a treasure trove of resources not available before the Internet matured. Philip will be attending the 2009 NADA Convention in New Orleans to meet with a growing number of automotive advertising vendors and potential clients anxious to join the automotive advertising resource / networking community and to engage Ad Agency Online, L.L.C. to represent them.

AdAgencyOnline.Net was initially developed by AAOL as a resource for their affiliated automotive advertising agencies, production partners and auto dealer clients to share best practices and review cutting edge automotive advertising applications. Based on their philosophy that a “rising tide floats all boats” AAOL opened their online networking community to site visitors and the auto industry social networking site has been expanding ever since.

The blog talk radio shows featured on WAAOL include “Lunch With Phil Discussing Automotive Advertising,” the “Lunch With Ralph Discussing Automotive Advertising” and “Automotive Advertising Experts.” Philip has a number of scheduled meetings at the NADA Convention with auto dealers and their automotive advertising agencies to assist them with their annual “shopping trip” to find applications that will improve selling processes in both the virtual and the real world.

About AdAgencyOnline.Net

AdAgencyOnline.Net provides free creative, online Dealer 20+ Groups and links to “preferred automotive advertising vendors” as well as hosting several blog talk radio shows. The shows interview auto industry insiders and review vendors focused on the unique challenges being faced by auto dealers in today’s shrinking auto industry. AdAgencyOnline.Net is supported by their independent affiliated automotive advertising agencies, auto dealer clients, auto industry vendor clients and a growing number of O.E.M. representatives that rely on the site to find and review vendors, applications and new technologies to maximize the R.O.I. for their automotive advertising dollars.

Automotive advertising vendors reviewed on AdAgencyOnline.Net are selected based on their ability to provide efficiencies in the selling processes for auto dealers and to maximize their R.O.I. for their automotive advertising. A number of the vendors that have been reviewed on WAAOL have also hired Ad Agency Online, L.L.C. to represent them as their agency of record or consultant to market their products including; CarFolks.Com – an auto industry social networking site, Laser Stream Video – an Internet focused video production application with enhanced vSEO capabilities, SiSTer Technologies Video CarLot – an automated video application linked via a dedicated API with You Tube to provide a uniquely effective vSEO tool, Gumiyo – a universally applied mobile channel platform, DealMaker.Com – providing a new website that connects buyers and sellers in a real time market driven “many to many” online negotiation, Kihon Media – an online magazine and third party website operating as a database marketing tool for auto dealers, Ai Dealer – an online transaction tool that offers a self serve desking tool for website visitors, NeoSynergy – an automotive advertising portal with AOL Auto and their application, Best Deals, allowing convenient updates to posted vehicle information to keep them competitive, and most recently – CityTwist – a DIY self serve online email marketing application and most recently, Bulldog Marketing Technologies – a data based direct marketing system with an integrated payment tool and unique filters designed to more accurately target messages to customers and EveryCarListed.Com – an inventory based website with the leveraged resources of thousands of auto dealer’s inventories and millions of vehicle listings offered for “free”.

AdAgencyOnline.Net has conducted interviews with respected automotive advertising insiders in the auto industry including; Clayton Stanfield from EBay Motors, Mark Boyd and Mark Dubis from CarFolks.Com, Jared Hamilton from DrivingSales.Com, Dale Pollak from vAuto, David Wassmann from NeoSynergy, Jerry Daniels from Automotive Broadcasting Network, (ABN), Terry Alling from Kihon Media, David Marod from LeadConverter, Mike Parsons from Laser Stream Video, Brian Hoecht from Ai Dealer, Ralph Paglia from ADP and host to the auto industry social networking community ADM, Jim Ziegler, motivational speaker and consultant to the auto industry, Jeff Kershner, ecommerce director for The Mile One Automotive Group and host of the auto industry social networking forum DealerRefresh.Com , Jeff Raab from the Detroit Trading Company, (DTX), Tim Zierdon from JMsolutions AAXâ„¢, Mike DeCecco from Dealer.Com, Ken Schwartz from CityTwist, Michael R. Spadafore from R. L. Polk & Co., Kevin Schwartz and Rick Rochon from AdSymetrix and most recently Scott Davis from Bulldog Marketing Technologies.

Automotive advertising vendors,automotive advertising agencies and auto dealers that will be attending the 2009 NADA Convention are advised to contact Philip Zelinger directly at pzads@bellsouth.net, call him at 888-796-2228 or to visit AdAgencyOnline.Net at http://adagencyonline.net to coordinate a meeting. An open meeting will be held by Philip in the lobby of the Ritz Carlton Hotel on Saturday evening between 5:30 PM and 7:00 PM to coordinate his plans for the convention. A formal invitation only dinner meeting will be held immediately afterwards at the Melange Restaurant at the Ritz Carlton for the advisory panel of a new auto industry social networking site – Auto Industry Insights – that Philip is helping to coordinate for his vendor/client EveryCarListed.com. To quote Philip Zelinger, “Help is only a click away!” ###

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AdAgencyOnline.Net is an automotive advertising resource / networking portal hosted by Ad Agency Online, L.L.C., (AAOL), and their President, Philip Zelinger. AskPatty.Com is a “female friendly” auto industry social networking site headed by Jody Devere. These two separate and distinct online information resources will be linking their content on a new social networking community, “Auto Industry Insights,” (AII) supported by AAOL, AskPatty.Com and a select group of equally respected auto industry targeted online communities.

Jody was invited to sit on the “Advisory Panel” for AII based on her experience in the auto industry, established online and real world networking communities and her relationship with Philip Zelinger who will be serving as the senior moderator of AII. Automotive advertising agencies linked by AAOL represent a diverse group of auto industry vendor / clients as well as automobile dealerships that share their vision to “blur the line between the virtual and the real world.” AII is being formed to leverage the resources of several auto industry networking sites with that same common goal.

About Jody DeVere

Jody DeVere is the CEO and President of AskPatty.com, Inc. with more than twenty-five years of achievement as a successful entrepreneur focused on sales and marketing leadership including ten years developing web based business solutions across diverse industries. DeVere is currently the President of the Woman’s Automotive Association International - the premier women’s organization for women automotive professionals, a member of the Car Care Council Women’s Board , a member of the California State Advisory Board for SkillsUSA, Chairperson of the United Spinal Motor Sports Committee, and a member of the SEMA Businesswomen’s Networking Association and is the Editor of the Car Channel on Blogher.com.JD Power Automotive Internet Roundtable, GYNYDA, NAWBO, Car Care Council Women’s Board, BlogHer.org, SEMA, SEMA Business Women’s Networking Association, Northwood Auto Show and the Association of Automotive Internet Sales Professionals. She has been a speaker with the National Automobile Dealer Association (NADA.org), National Independent Automobile Dealer Association (NIADA.org).

About Philip Zelinger

Philip Zelinger is the President of Ad Agency Online, L.L.C. and host of AdAgencyOnline.Net with 25 + years of experience in the retail auto industry as a General Manager and Dealer Principal followed by 10 years in the automotive advertising industry including 3 years as the C.O.O. for a nationally recognized automotive advertising agency. Philip is the author of two books on the auto industry including one titled “How To Sell A Car – A Career Training Guide To The Auto Industry.” Philip founded AAOL in December of 2001 as an online communication / distribution system that operates as a “paperless” automotive advertising agency linking a national network of independent affiliated automotive advertising agencies, production partners and select vendors using a proprietary operating system that he developed. Philip is the host of AdAgencyOnline.Net, and the site’s featured blog talk radio station – WAAOL, All Automotive Advertising News All The Time. The blog talk radio shows on WAAOL include; “Lunch With Phil Discussing Automotive Advertising”, “Lunch With Ralph Discussing Automotive Advertising” and “Automotive Advertising Experts.” In addition to handling daily operations at AAOL and hosting AdAgencyonline.Net, Philip speaks at Dealer 20 Groups, is a regular guest speaker to the advertising classes at Northwood University in West Palm Beach Florida and a seminar host at a number of national auto industry conventions including four successive years at the Digital Dealer Conference.

About AdAgencyOnline.Net

AdAgencyOnline.Net was formed by AAOL to find, review and recommend automotive advertising applications and coordinated selling process for their auto dealer clients. Auto industry vendors reviewed on the blog talk radio shows on AdAgencyOnline.Net include; LeadConverter, AI Dealer, Laser Steam Video, NeoSynergy, CarFolks.Com, ADP, BZ Results, Kihon Media, R.L. Polk & Co., The Detroit Trading Exchange, Ebay Motors, Veeple, Dealer.Com, AdSymetrix, Gumiyo, vAuto, AAX, AdTel, ReachLocal, ecarlist, and nada-24 – among others.

Many of the featured vendors on AdAgencyOnline.Net have engaged AAOL as their automotive advertising agency and/or consultant including but not limited to ; DealMaker.Com, EveryCarListed.Com, SiSTer Technologies–Video CarLot, CityTwist, Argistics-AutoTransaXion and Bulldog Marketing Technologies.

About AskPatty.Com

The Ask Patty.com, Inc. website and blog that Jody heads is a safe place for women to get advice on car purchases, maintenance and other auto related topics. Women can shop for vehicles at their network of certified female friendly dealerships across the U.S. AskPatty.com is a member and 2008 corporate sponsor of the Women’s Automotive Association International based in Detroit, MI, Board member of the UnitedSpinal.org, Member of the California SkillsUSA.org board, on the Women’s Board of the Car Care Council, a SEMA member and a member of the SEMA Business Women’s Networking Group.

AskPatty.com is partnered with several auto industry sites including, but not limited to, NIADA, DriverTv.com, MyCarPage.com, MyAutoLoan.Com, Aware and BlogHer.com.

AskPatty.Com has an established track record in training. The site provides a variety of products and services designed to educate auto dealers and automotive advertising agencies including their highly regarded dealer certification program. Properly armed with the right tools and training dealerships can increase their share of the largest and fastest growing demographic of new vehicle buyers in the US — Women Consumers. The Ask Patty Certified Dealer program was designed specifically for car dealerships to attract, sell, retain and keep loyal women consumers. An Ask Patty certified dealer is a dealer that creates a safe and comfortable environment where women feel welcome and a dealer that makes the experience of purchasing and maintaining her vehicle a pleasant one. Ask Patty trained and certified dealers are held to a high level of customer satisfaction for women consumers.

Jody will be interviewed by Philip on the “Lunch With Phil Discussing Automotive Advertising” that will air on Monday, January 12th 2009. The blog talk radio show will focus on the planned AII “network of networkers” that Jody Devere / AskPatty.Com and Philip Zelinger / AdAgencyOnline.Net will be contributing to. The leveraged resources provided by this newly expanded networking community will benefit auto dealers, automotive advertising agencies and auto industry vendors across multiple channels. Consumers will also be invited to share their experiences before, during and after their vehicle purchase by commenting on posted blogs, discussions and even contributing their own posts.

The new online networking community will include a number of automotive advertising insiders and their established auto industry networking communities. In addition to Philip Zelinger and Jody Devere the advisory panel for AII will include; Ralph Paglia, host of www.automotivedigitalmarketing.com ,(ADM), Jared Hamilton, host of www.drivingsales.com, Jeff Kershner, host of www.dealerrefresh.com , Gary May, host of http://imacsweb.typepad.com /, and Scott Monty, host of http://www.scottmonty.com/.

Two discussions that Philip Zelinger recently posted on ADM explained the basis for the shared visions that led to the development of AII; http://adpadm.ning.com/forum/topics/nada-agendas-not-theirs-yours and http://adpadm.ning.com/forum/topics/consultants-need-consultants.

Automotive advertising agencies, auto dealers, auto industry vendors, auto industry networkers and/or bloggers as well as O.E.M. representatives that would like to contribute content to AII should contact Philip Zelinger directly at 1-888-796-2228 or via email at pzads@bellsouth.net or through www.adagencyonline.net. Anyone interested in joining AdAgencyOnline.Net as an affiliated automotive advertising agency, auto industry vendor or auto dealer client of AAOL should also contact Philip or visit AdAgencyOnline.Net. To quote Philip Zelinger, “Help is only a click Away!” ###

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Ad Agency Online, L.L.C., (AAOL), and their national network of affiliated automotive advertising agencies are all students and teachers in the auto industry. The automotive advertising portal that they support – www.AdAgencyOnline.Net – was first introduced during the 2008 NADA Convention in San Francisco to provide a platform to share best practices. The NADA Convention to be held in New Orleans, January 24th through January 27th 2009, will be used to introduce a new social networking community, “Auto Industry Insights,” (AII) supported by AAOL, AskPatty.Com and other auto industry insiders along with their online networks.

AskPatty.Com is a “female friendly” auto industry social networking site headed by Jody Devere. Jody was on the short list to be invited to sit on the “Advisory Panel” for AII based on her professional experience in the auto industry, established online networking audience and her personal relationship and history with Philip Zelinger, the President of AAOL, host of AdAgencyOnline.Net and senior moderator of AII.

About Jody DeVere

Jody DeVere is the CEO and President of AskPatty.com, Inc. and has more than twenty-five years of achievement as a successful entrepreneur focused on sales and marketing leadership including ten years developing web based business solutions across diverse industries. DeVere is currently the President of the Woman’s Automotive Association International , the premier women’s organization for women automotive professionals, a member of the Car Care Council Women’s Board , a member of the California State Advisory Board for SkillsUSA, Chairperson of the United Spinal Motor Sports Committee, and a member of the SEMA Businesswomen’s Networking Association and is the Editor of the Car Channel on Blogher.com.JD Power Automotive Internet Roundtable, GYNYDA, NAWBO, Car Care Council Women’s Board, BlogHer.org, SEMA, SEMA Business Women’s Networking Association, Northwood Auto Show and the Association of Automotive Internet Sales Professionals.

She has been a speaker with the National Automobile Dealer Association (NADA.org), National Independent Automobile Dealer Association (NIADA.org).

Jody has been an expert guest on many radio shows, including Motor Trend Radio, Car Concerns, Oprah & Friend’s Radio Network on XM, Greenstone Media’s Radio Ritas, National Public Radio’s “Talk of the Nation” with Marti Barletta and she will be interviewed on the “Lunch With Phil Discussing Automotive Advertising” featured on the blog talk radio station hosted by AdAgencyOnline.Net – WAAOL, All Automotive Advertising News All The Time – that will air on Monday, January 12th 2009.

DeVere has also appeared on Fox 11 Morning News in Los Angeles as a guest on “Ask the Expert” with Jean Martirez. DeVere was also a guest on iVillage Live and has been a resource forThe She Spot – Why Women Are the Market for Changing the World — And How to Reach Them by Lisa Witter and Lisa Chen, O Magazine, Pink Magazine, F&I Magazine, iMedia.com, Paul Gillin’s book “The New Influencers,” and “Secrets of Social Media“, as well as J.D. Power’s “Women Online: Opportunities for Dealerships.” She continues to do speaking engagements in and out of the automotive industry.

The Ask Patty.com, Inc. website and blog that Jody heads is a safe place for women to get advice on car purchases, maintenance and other auto related topics. Women can shop for vehicles at their network of certified female friendly dealerships across the U.S.

AskPatty.com is a member and 2008 corporate sponsor of the Women’s Automotive Association International based in Detroit, MI, Board member of the UnitedSpinal.org, Member of the California SkillsUSA.org board, on the Women’s Board of the Car Care Council, a SEMA member and a member of the SEMA Business Women’s Networking Group.

AskPatty.com is partnered with several auto industry sites including, but not limited to, NIADA, DriverTv.com, MyCarPage.com, MyAutoLoan.Com, Aware and BlogHer.com. Auto Industry Insights will draw on these resources to the benefit of all parties involved.

AskPatty.com was a 2007 sponsor of the No. 112 AskPatty.com Chevrolet driven by the highest ranked professional female race car driver Deborah Renshaw, who heads up the panel of automotive expert women.

AskPatty.Com has an established track record in training that will provided added value and insight to their contributions to AII.
The site provides a variety of products and services designed to educate auto dealers and automotive advertising agencies including their highly regarded dealer certification program.

Ask Patty Certified Dealer Program:
Properly armed with the right tools and training dealerships can increase their share of the largest and fastest growing demographic of new vehicle buyers in the US — Women Consumers. The Ask Patty Certified Dealer program was designed specifically for car dealerships to attract, sell, retain and keep loyal women consumers.

What Is An Ask Patty Certified Dealer?
An Ask Patty certified dealer is a dealer that creates a safe and comfortable environment where women feel welcome and a dealer that makes the experience of purchasing and maintaining her vehicle a pleasant one. Ask Patty trained and certified dealers are held to a high level of customer satisfaction for women consumers.

The planned “network of networkers” that Jody Devere and AskPatty.Com will be contributing to will benefit auto dealers, automotive advertising agencies, auto industry vendors across multiple channels and even consumers willing to share their experiences by their comments and contributed posts. The convention and the new online networking community are not limited to automotive advertising and the auto industry insiders that will be contributing to both were drawn from a diverse group of established networking professionals. All of the members will provide content and reciprocal links to this newly forming auto industry consumer/dealer/consultant facing social networking site.

In addition to Philip Zelinger and Jody Devere the advisory panel for AII will include; Ralph Paglia, host of www.automotivedigitalmarketing.com , Jared Hamilton, host of www.drivingsales.com, Jeff Kershner, host of www.dealerrefresh.com , Gary May, host of http://imacsweb.typepad.com /, and Scott Monty, host of http://www.scottmonty.com/.

Philip Zelinger recently posted a discussion on ADM, an auto industry networking site – www.automotivedigitalmarketing.com- with the reasons for attending the NADA convention as well as the shared visions that led to the development of AII;http://adpadm.ning.com/forum/topics/nada-agendas-not-theirs-yours . Another discussion Philip posted on ADM focused on AII and explained the added value that their vendor/client – www.EveryCarListed.Com – will be bringing to the open forum. That discussion is posted at http://adpadm.ning.com/forum/topics/consultants-need-consultants

AAOL has provided leveraged resources to their affiliates since before the Internet based social networking phenomenon was recognized by conventional automotive advertising agencies. Their explosive growth evidences the wisdom of their business model for serving the auto industry. Their use of the Internet and digital marketing combined with the related technologies and applications that integrate “virtual auto dealerships” with real world selling processes has allowed them to prosper during a struggling economy that has forced auto dealers to rethink the way that they advertise.

The automotive advertising agencies linked through AAOL find, review and recommend cutting edge automotive advertising applications and coordinated selling process for both the real and virtual showrooms for their auto dealer clients. Their communal networking portal, AdAgencyOnline.Net, features preferred automotive advertising vendors through dedicated links and the site’s hosted blog talk radio station – WAAOL, All Automotive Advertising News All The Time.

The blog talk radio shows featured on WAAOL include; “Lunch With Phil Discussing Automotive Advertising”, “Lunch With Ralph Discussing Automotive Advertising” and “Automotive Advertising Experts.” All of the shows run on assigned weekdays from 12:00 Noon EST to 12:30 PM EST with invited automotive advertising experts reviewing cutting edge applications for consideration by the automotive advertising agencies, auto dealers and O.E.M. representatives that follow WAAOL to listen and learn while others teach!

Auto industry vendors previously reviewed on the blog talk radio shows include; LeadConverter, AI Dealer, Laser Steam Video, NeoSynergy, CarFolks.Com, ADP, BZ Results, Kihon Media, R.L. Polk & Co., The Detroit Trading Exchange, Ebay Motors, Veeple, Dealer.Com, AdSymetrix, Gumiyo, vAuto, AAX, AdTel, ReachLocal, ecarlist, and nada-24 – to name a few.

A growing number of automotive advertising and auto industry vendors reviewed on WAAOL have also become “preferred automotive advertising vendors” featured on AdAgencyOnline.Net. Many of these featured vendors have engaged AAOL as their automotive advertising agency and/or consultant with more formal agreements including; DealMaker.Com, EveryCarListed.Com, SiSTer Technologies–Video CarLot, CityTwist, Argistics-AutoTransaXion and Bulldog Marketing Technologies.

Most of these vendors will be represented by Philip Zelinger during the NADA Convention with meetings scheduled at one of the hospitality suites, seminars and/or at their exhibits on the convention floor. Philip will be coordinating individual meetings at hospitality suites including those hosted by SiSTeR Technologies at the Wyndham Riverfront Hotel to present their automated video production application – Video CarLot and a V.I.P. hospitality suite at the Ritz Carlton Club floor for Ad Agency Online, L.L.C. and their vendor/clients including DealMaker.Com, Argistics, CityTwist, EveryCarListed.Com, and Bulldog Marketing Technologies as well as individual presentations for LeadConverter, Ai Dealer, Kihon Media, NeoSynergy, Gumiyo and others to be named as arrangements are confirmed. All presentations at the Ritz Carlton Hotel will be by appointment only and according to Philip their “plate is almost full.”

Automotive advertising agencies, auto dealers, auto industry vendors, auto industry networkers and/or bloggers as well as O.E.M. representatives that would like to contribute content to AII should contact Philip Zelinger directly at 1-888-796-2228 or via email at pzads@bellsouth.net or through www.adagencyonline.net before or during the NADA convention. Anyone interested in joining AdAgencyOnline.Net as an affiliated automotive advertising agency, auto industry vendor or auto dealer client of AAOL should also contact Philip or visit AdAgencyOnline.Net. To quote Philip Zelinger, “Help is only a click Away!” ###

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