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 dedicating his Auto Industry Insiders blog talk radio show on Thursday, February 03rd, 2011 to review vendors exhibiting at the 2011 NADA Convention to discover new technologies and vendor solutions at the convention. The Auto Industry Insiders show is recognized as a “network of networkers” where automotive advertising experts share best practices for their online audience of automotive advertising decision makers.

Philip will discuss his agenda and list the automotive advertising vendors and applications that he is considering as preferred automotive advertising vendors on AdAgencyOnline.Net. “I have a laundry list of needs presented by our affiliated automotive advertising agencies to better serve their auto dealer clients ranging from DMS systems to integrated CRM applications and online conversion tools. Auto dealers are demanding more for less and the solution lies in new technologies that provide efficiencies in the sales and service process at the dealership as well as the new online showrooms that are dominating the retail auto industry. I scheduled a Pre-NADA Convention Networking Party on Friday evening from 5PM to 7PM at the Ritz Carlton Hotel Lobby Lounge co-hosted by my newest vendor client Intellacar to launch their new mobile sales presentation platform and to coordinate the agendas of several affiliated automotive advertising agencies and vendor clients who will be walking the exhibit isles with me during the convention.”

The 2011 NADA Convention is being held at The Moscone Center in San Francisco February 5-7, 2011 but Philip explained that productive activities for automotive advertising agencies and vendors are not limited to the exhibit hall. “On Friday evening I will be rushing from my event at The Ritz Carlton to a Wine Tasting Dinner at Le Charm Restaurant hosted by Brian Pasch for PCG Digital Marketing followed by another stop at The City Club Of San Francisco for an event sponsored by Autodata with an invitation to discuss new business with their CEO Greg Perrier and Vice-President Of Business Development Mike Benavides. I have to miss an event co-sponsored by J.D. Power and Associates and izmocars at the Moscone Center and several others that promise new business opportunities. Fortunately several of my affiliated automotive advertising agencies will be able to attend the ones that I miss to represent our shared interests. After all, what are friends for.”

Some other vendor parties being hosted during the convention on Friday evening include the kbb.com reception at Spur Urban Center, NADA welcome reception co-hosted by J.D. Power and Associates and the NADA/Dealer Academy Reception at Fairmont San Francisco. Saturday events discussed by Philip that he will be attending include the Cars.Com Rise and Shine Breakfast at The Moscone Center followed by his guest speaking engagement at the Chrysler Minority Dealer Association during their annual meeting at Hyatt Fisherman’s Wharf.

Saturday evening for Philip will include a brief stop at a party hosted by eCarList at XYZ Lounge in the W Hotel followed by a V.I.P. dinner party sponsored by his vendor client SiSTeR Technologies at The Grand Cafe Peacock Terrace to celebrate their recently awarded patent on their proprietary automated video production marketing platform. Other events delegated to Philips’ affiliated automotive advertising agencies include the Time Magazine Dealer Of The Year Brunch at the Ritz-Carlton Ballroom and Gallery, the Dealer.Com Reception at the Asian Art Museum and the RouteOne Reception at The Parlor on Fisherman’s Wharf.

Philip commented on his hectic schedule at The convention. “I am fortunate to have more friends and past, present and pending clients than I can possibly fit into a three day convention. Between myself and my associates I hope to be able to meet as many as possible and I should be able to catch up with the rest in private meetings at our suite, on the convention floor and at seminars that provide a shared learning experience.”

Sundays calendar for Philip will be dominated by early morning meetings followed by Super Bowl themed party hoping starting with an event hosted by Sean Wolfington from Tier 10 Marketing and his other affiliated companies including Brian Pasch representing the Automotive Advertising Network, (AAN). The DealerTrack post-Super Bowl Party is on the list of must attend events that Philip is hoping to fit into his Sunday schedule along with several OEM sponsored receptions individually hosted by One Ford and Team Detroit, General Motors, Chrysler Group, Mazda, Mitsubishi Motors, Subaru of America and Hyundai Motor America.

Parties and private meetings will be discussed on the Auto Industry Insiders show, however Philip commented that he is equally focused on investing time at the exhibit hall and select seminars. “I have taken advantage of the online services offered by NADA this year to organize my time on the floor. At last estimate I have 23 individual must see vendors who have set aside time to meet with me and mine to discuss them and theirs at their booths. Of course most visits will be little more than a walk by to catch up with old friends and schedule meetings after the convention to talk about new business opportunities or to develop new ones. Frankly, were it not for the NADA Convention my relationships with these critical vendor partners would be limited to impersonal phone calls, emails or online networking. Of course I conduct my business online all year so I am not complaining, but there is nothing like a friendly drink or a business card followed by a handshake to close a deal, make new friends and thank some old ones.”

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 and technologies 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., the NADA Convention 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 added to Philip’s NADA shopping list can contact Philip at http://adagencyonline.net. To quote Philip Zelinger, “Help is only a click away! After all, what are friends for!” ###

AdAgencyOnline.Net Reviews izmocars For Automotive Advertising Agencies On Blog Talk Radio

Automotive advertising agencies are expected to improve vehicle sales for their auto dealer clients, however, their ultimate self serving goal is to provide added value and profits to support their fees. Philip Zelinger, the President of Ad Agency Online, L.L.C. and the host of an automotive advertising resource / networking portal — http://AdAgencyOnline.Net — has accepted that responsibility for his affiliated automotive advertising agencies as he reviews new automotive advertising applications that promise to improve profitability for his auto dealer clients across multiple departments.

Philip is scheduled to review izmocars in an interview with their Chief Sales and Marketing Officer, Mike Martinez, on the blog talk radio station featured on AdAgencyOnline.Net — WAAOL, All Automotive Advertising News All The Time. The pair of automotive advertising experts will be discussing izmocars on the blog talk radio show appropriately named Automotive Advertising Experts scheduled to air live on Friday, January 28th, 2011 at 12 Noon EST.

Philip was asked to review izmocars by a client that had learned about them in an article in Automotive News written by David Barkholz and published on May 31st, 2010 that sited a testimonial reflective of many opinions that are shared by their satisfied customers. “Thanks to an in-store Web tool and some extra sales training, accessory sales at Bob Moran’s Acton Toyota in Littleton, Mass., have doubled to about $110,000 a month since September, said Shawnee Wandless, the store’s sales manager.”

“He said the tool, AddOnAuto by izmocar, allows the store to market accessories to car buyers in an easy-to-use, visual way. “We’ve put accessories in the forefront of vehicle sales, not as an afterthought,” Wandless said.”

“With a couple of mouse clicks, customers can see online how specific wheels, electronics, leather, chrome trim and other accessories will look on the exact vehicles that they intend to purchase.”

“The program also lists prices and calculates how much the monthly payment will rise if the accessories are wrapped into the vehicle financing. It’s a big leap forward from print or online catalogs that simply show the products alone without showing the parts on a specific vehicle, Wandless said.”

After an online presentation of izmocars by Mike, Philip agreed to continue his due diligence based on his shared confidence in the value and importance of selling accessories to boost the diminishing profits realized by vehicle sales. Philip explained that, “Fixed operations and F&I sales are more important than ever for auto dealers who are struggling to survive in a challenging economy. I see izmocars as a perfect platform to introduce accessory sales into the sales process at the formative stages of the presentation vs. during the negotiations after the vehicle has been selected by the customer. I look forward to sharing my discovery of izmocars with my affiliated automotive advertising agencies to solicit their feedback on their solution for consideration as a preferred automotive advertising vendor on AdAgencyOnline.Net.”

About Mike Martinez

As Chief Sales and Marketing Officer Mike Martinez is responsible for all marketing functions at izmocars as well as overall sales responsibility including business development, OEM relationships, field sales, and inside sales. Prior to izmocars, Martinez was executive vice president of products and strategy at OneCommand, responsible for OneCommand’s corporate and product strategy, technology, and product development. Prior to his time at OneCommand, Martinez was president and CEO of Four Creeks, a company he co-founded, which was acquired by OneCommand in 2006.

Before becoming an entrepreneur, Martinez served as the vice president of sales, marketing, and products for The Cobalt Group for four years. He also served for five years at Lucent Technologies as General Manager of Marketing, and for seven years in a variety of roles at Microsoft.

About Izmocars

Izmocars is the world’s leader in Interactive Media Content for the automotive industry. Founded in 2002, its flagship product, AddOnAuto, helps dealers add hundreds of dollars in additional gross revenue per vehicle sold by providing a visual accessories sales system that integrates the accessories shopping and financing function with the car purchase, making it very easy for dealers to easily and immediately launch an accessories sales business that creates new net profits for dealers.

AddOnAuto (AOA) is an In-Store Accessories Sales Solution that helps auto dealers sell accessories effortlessly from within their dealership and includes a Visual Configurator as well as a Virtual Inventory System.

Buying a car has always been a visual and emotional experience, which means customers need to be provided with instant visual confirmation while selecting accessories. AOA’s Visual Configurator enables customers to virtually add or remove accessories and instantly view them on their vehicle of choice. It is, psychologically, a powerful visual tool that not only enables customers to see their chosen accessories on the vehicle before purchasing them but also motivates them to make their decision in minutes!

AOA gives auto dealers access to their own Virtual Inventory system of accessories, enabling them to sell them without the need to hold a physical inventory. It also connects dealers directly to a vast, constantly updated vendor database of accessories, giving them the sales power without the expense. Auto dealers can now focus on selling accessories without the cost and strain of holding a physical inventory.

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 and technologies 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., izmocars 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!” ###

AdAgencyOnline.Net Reviews CloudOne Call Center For Automotive Advertising Agencies

Automotive advertising agencies are overwhelmed by demands from their auto dealer clients to provide more with less. Philip Zelinger, the President of Ad Agency Online, L.L.C. and the host of their automotive advertising resource / networking portal http://AdAgencyOnline.Net, recently interviewed James Crouse, the CEO of CloudOne, on his blog talk radio show Lunch With Phil Discussing Automotive Advertising. The pair of automotive advertising experts reviewed the services offered by CloudOne designed to supplement the limited resources of auto dealers who have reduced their staff and budgets to accommodate a consolidating auto industry.

Philip explained his decision to invite Jim onto his show to share his outsourced solution and to discuss the market conditions that have forced auto dealers to seek alternatives to processing inbound and outbound calls from their own facilities using their own staff. “The automotive industry is recovering from the most massive business contraction in its history. Dealers face many challenges to growing their business and competing effectively in this new marketplace. The question is, how do auto dealers allocate resources and increase efficiencies after implementing significant reductions in personnel and expense?”

“With this challenge in mind, CloudOne has developed a cloud based platform of products and services that enable dealers and automotive advertising agencies to grow business incrementally with controlled variable expense. The CloudOne platform offers access to Best of Breed marketing components that a dealer can use on an ala carte, monthly basis to help grow their business on a scalable level.”

About James Crouse, Chief Executive Officer – CloudOne

Jim was the founder and Chief Executive Officer of BarNone, Inc., a consumer-facing auto finance and lead generation company. Jim’s vision and execution at BarNone built a dealer-centric business model into a top consumer brand aimed at customers seeking a hassle-free experience to obtain financing for their auto purchases.

In 2005, Jim sold to First American Title Company (FAF) and he remained in his role at BarNone until 2007. During his tenure, Jim built the company to over $35 million in annual revenue and processed over 8-million customer applications. CloudOne is the extension of his previous vision and applications at BarNone.

About CloudOne

The CloudOne platform flexibility enables measured growth with reduced total marketing costs and increased return on investment. The platform is a cohesive marketplace of lead generation and fulfillment components that represent the best practice capabilities that BarNone achieved while servicing thousands of dealers across the country.

The CloudOne platform also includes strategic partnerships with best practice companies that have emerged over the past several years. From this substantial offering, auto dealers can pick and choose individual products or services, add to what’s working, scale back when needed, all from one central online location.

The CloudOne platform is anchored by the capabilities and efficiencies represented through the CloudOne Call Center. These Call Center services represent fulfillment best practices that have been developed through the answering of more than 8 million phone calls. The proprietary scripting engines reflect data assimilated over a decade of answering telephone calls for dealerships. This data allows our call center to be the most effective, efficient and consistent means of facilitating customer inquiries and appointments.

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 and technologies 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., CloudOne 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!” ###

AdAgencyOnline.Net Reviews eVBDS Electric Vehicle Charging Solutions For Automotive Advertising Agencies On Blog Talk Radio

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 interviewing three principals from eVBDS, (Electric Vehicle Business Development Strategies), — George Stellweg, Forest Williams and Carlos De La Guardia — on his blog talk radio show Automotive Advertising Experts. The group of auto industry insiders will be discussing the many challenges and opportunities that electric vehicles will represent to auto dealers. The show is scheduled to air live on Friday, January 21st, 2011 from 12:00 Noon EST to 12:30 PM EST.

Philip introduced the show with his overview of the plans that eVBDS has for auto dealers that differs from those outlined by the OEMs. “eVBDS is working with the Eaton Corporation — a leader in power management technologies for over a century with over 13 billion dollars in annual sales — with the expertise and vision to produce EV chargers that fulfill the larger purpose of home energy generation and storage control. eVBDS is helping Eaton introduce their Pow’R Station for customers to charge their electric vehicles. Their short term solution allows auto dealers to capitalize on the profits by selling the chargers at the local level vs. deferring it to the OEM sponsored channels … plus they plan to involve the dealer in servicing their customer’s future in-home energy management.”

“The factories have functionally bypassed the auto dealers with direct relationships with vendors such as Aerovironment for the Nissan Leaf and SPX for the Chevy Volt. They are even encouraging customers to contact these vendors directly to purchase their chargers and arrange for installation. The goal of eVBDS is to provide a world class EV charging product that will be sold exclusively thru dealerships’ F&I department. The initial EV buyer is likely to be affluent and will want to leave the dealership with a complete solution. They will be equally attracted to the ability to add the charger and installation to the vehicle loan package with much more attractive interest rates.”

“Over the next several years more consumers will want to add home storage batteries to take advantage of the low energy costs that will be offered at off peak hours. In addition, many will also decide to add their own electricity generation capability via solar, wind or even the Bloom Box that can generate electricity fueled by natural gas or propane. Their line of EV chargers are designed to manage these generation and storage processes for the homeowner. In fact, as dealers see service revenues dip due to the lower maintenance requirements of EVs they will be motivated to take advantage of these natural “add on” sales, perhaps leading to new business opportunities. ”

“I envision that the EV is going to have the same impact on the power grid that the personal computer had on computing. It will accelerate the move towards decentralized power generation and storage the same way that the PC ended the dominance of the mainframe computer.”

“The bottom line is that EV vehicles will impact the dealers bottom line before, during and after the sale and eVBDS is focused on keeping the auto dealer in the mix! Anything that makes auto dealers money is part of the newly assigned areas of responsibility for today’s full service automotive advertising agency. Based on my past dealings with one of the principals at eVBDS and my ongoing due diligence regarding their business model I see them as a valuable potential partner. After all, what are friends for!”

About George Stellweg

A successful military career served and inspired George well, of Dutch descent; George’s education globally has resulted in extensive multi-cultural business knowledge. With over 20 years of solid experience as a business leader, entrepreneur and senior executive, George has held leadership positions managing North American and international companies. He has successfully established new businesses in 8 countries managed and implemented executive, sales and business development teams in 15 countries.

He is currently the Founder and Managing Partner of Latin American Consulting, Inc, KSD & Co, LLC, and Electric Vehicle Business Development Strategies, LLC.

About Forest Williams

Forest Williams has been in technology sales and new business development for almost 30 years. A graduate of West Point, he served as a KC-135 pilot in the Air Force refueling the SR-71 spy plane, still the fastest aircraft in the world.

After leaving the service in the early eighties Forest went to work for National Semiconductor as a Strategic Account Manager in Southern California. He left National in 2001 to found CarLocate, a GPS vehicle tracking company that was the launch partner for Trimble Navigation’s TrimTrac, the industry’s first portable GPS tracking device.

Over the past several years Forest has become increasingly involved in the development of electric vehicles and the charging station infrastructure that is an important component for the success of EVs in the marketplace. He is currently a Founder & Managing Partner and VP of Sales and Marketing for Electric Vehicle Business Development Strategies, LLC, or eVBDS, which is introducing a line of home EV chargers that will also manage the energy generation and storage products many consumers are adding to their homes.

About Carlos R. De La Guardia

Carlos R. De La Guardia is Founder and Managing Partner in Electric Vehicle Development Strategies, LLC (eVBDS), Latin American Consulting, Inc, KSD & Co, LLC and the President of The De La Guardia Group; an international marketing and business consulting firm that advises the government in the development and implementation of new technology strategies in the public sector. He has developed a close relationship based on credibility and positive results with high ranking members of the government administration.

In April 2004 Mr. De La Guardia was appointed Chargé d’ Affaires until the new ambassador arrived after the administrations changed in Panama. In October of the same year he coordinated the transition team at the embassy and went back to his private consulting business; this time creating The De La Guardia Group, an international business and political strategy consulting firm based in Old Town Alexandria, Virginia, where he resides with his wife Laura.

He became a diplomat when he was appointed Deputy Chief of Mission at the Embassy of Panama in Washington, DC, the United States of America in November 2002. He was also Minister Counselor to the President in US-Panama affairs. Mr. De La Guardia’s role in Washington, DC was instrumental in the initial conversations between the two nations to have a Free Trade Agreement (FTA). He also played a key role in all the arrangements for the official presidential visit of President Mireya Moscoso to the White House in June 2003.

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 and technologies 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., eVBDS 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!” ###

AdAgencyOnline.Net Reviewed VehSmart Inventory Management System For Automotive Advertising Agencies On Blog Talk Radio
AdAgencyOnline.Net, a nationally recognized automotive advertising resource / networking portal, will be reviewing a new cutting edge technology vendor — VehSmart — on the portal’s blog talk radio station WAAOL, All Automotive Advertising News All The Time. VehSmart is introducing a fully integrated asset management and profit enhancement program for the automotive finance and dealership community. Philip Zelinger, the President of Ad Agency Online, L.L.C. and the host AdAgencyOnline.Net, will be interviewing Brian W. Story, the Chairman and CEO of VehSmart, and Rich Zellner, the President of VehSmart, on his blog talk radio show Lunch With Phil Discussing Automotive Advertising. The show is scheduled to air live on Wednesday, January 05th, 2011 from 12:00 Noon to 12:30 PM EST.

Philip shares best practices and new technologies on his blog talk radio shows with automotive advertising agencies who recognize the increasing role that technology and improved processes in sales and service play in today’s consolidating auto industry. According to Philip, “Most automotive advertising agencies have learned to use today’s technology to coordinate their marketing messages on the Internet with their conventional automotive advertising. Some have even learned the importance of integrating sales and service processes on their Internet based virtual showrooms with their auto dealer client’s brick and mortar facilities. Unfortunately, few automotive advertising agencies focus on other areas of day to day operations that require similar efficiencies to provide more profit from sales and service with less staff, inventory and working capital.”

“Today’s show reviewing VehSmart will take the value of technology to another level by applying efficiencies to commercial floor plan management, dealership inventory management, enhanced dealer to consumer aftermarket sales, retail automobile lender advance and service drive data programs. I have interviewed the principals from most of the major inventory management / appraisal / marketing vendors including Dale Pollak from vAuto, Len Critcher from eCarList, Pat Ryan from FirstLook and Tim Zierden from AAX. Each of these platforms effectively cover similar aspects of the sales and service process based on technology driven inventory management data, however, VehSmart offers a number of unique complimentary features and benefits that attracted my attention. I am anxious to listen and learn from Brian and Rich about their platform during my review of VehSmart so I can continue to teach my affiliated automotive advertising agencies and online audience of auto industry decision makers about the latest and greatest advancements in technology to maximize their R.O.I. on many levels. After all, what are friends, AdAgencyOnline.net and WAAOL for!”

About VehSmart

With applications that reach across multiple business sectors in the burgeoning billion dollar telematics sector, VehSmart™ is focusing its initial product rollout in the automotive sector with the roll out of its KeySmart™ products.

The VehSmart system utilizes a sophisticated telematics device that plugs into a vehicle’s diagnostic computer port and provides two-way information and control of automobile systems. The “plug & play” device, installed on the vehicle while on the dealer’s lot, provides a valuable risk mitigation tool for the lenders who are financing the dealer’s inventory. Simultaneously, the device provides valuable information to the dealer to help manage inventory, improve sales and increase profitability at the dealership. The same device, sold on to the car buyer, becomes an enhanced OnStar-like product for the consumer. The device can be plugged into any car manufactured since 1997; it is estimated that there are more than 300 million such vehicles registered and on the road in North America alone.

KeySmart’s advanced technology has the ability to provide information even when in underground parking lots or deep inside office buildings, whereas standard GPS cannot. KeySmart provide a suite of services that includes emergency and roadside assistance, concierge services, real-time traffic updates, and more.

Commercial and retail channels

VehSmart’s unique multi-pronged go to market strategy targets the consumer while also providing specific risk-mitigation value for automotive lenders who discern key value in the device’s ability to provide real time location and VIN information for the vehicles being floor plan financed on the dealers’ lot. One of the country’s three largest automotive finance lenders has completed beta testing and placed the first substantial order against a long term commitment. The lender will be using the device as a risk mitigation tool and a more effective way to manage collateral. As of January 2010, there were more than 9 million new and used vehicles on floor plan financing.

Being embraced by lenders, dealers and consumers alike, VehSmart is seeking additional growth capital to fund an accelerated growth ramp.

Highlights

OnStar™ type features for all vehicles manufactured since 1997 in one easily installed “plug & play” device
One of the country’s three largest lending institutions has embraced the KeySmart system as a significant risk mitigation tool to address the dealer “floor plan financing” struggles the industry is confronting. Recognizing unique value in the device’s capability to wirelessly transmit the Vehicle Identification Number (VIN) and the GPS tracking of the vehicle’s location, the device will be installed on vehicles as part of the floor plan financing program
New purchase orders and retail agreements have the company poised for profoundly profitable sales growth.
VehSmart’s “On Demand Floor Plan Audit” technology & process (patent pending) has been written into Federal SBA guidelines for lenders and dealers availing themselves of the SBA’s new loan guarantee program.
Proven, experienced management team. More than 30 years of success in the automotive and dealer financing sectors
The company’s business and revenue model captures revenue from three elements of the industry’s value chain: installation by lenders on floored vehicles, revenue from dealers as sales management service, revenue from auto buyer for enhanced location based services, plus company retains ongoing revenue stream through annual renewals
New purchase orders and retail agreements have the company poised for profoundly profitable sales growth.
VehSmart’s “On Demand Floor Plan Audit” technology & process (patent pending) has been written into Federal SBA guidelines for lenders and dealers availing themselves of the SBA’s new loan guarantee program.
Proven, experienced management team. More than 30 years of success in the automotive and dealer financing sectors
The company’s business and revenue model captures revenue from three elements of the industry’s value chain: installation by lenders on floored vehicles, revenue from dealers as sales management service, revenue from auto buyer for enhanced location based services, plus company retains ongoing revenue stream through annual renewals
OnStar™ on steroids

VehSmart products feature a full suite of features and benefits such as accident notification, stolen vehicle recovery, emergency roadside assistance, real time traffic updates, low battery warning, low fuel level alert. In addition VehSmart™ offers Concierge service, assisting drivers in locating restaurants, hotels and gas stations with turn-by-turn directions and even making reservations and stolen vehicle tracking. VehSmart also offer young driver alerts and geo-fence capability, sending alerts via text messages or email when young drivers are speeding, or out of a pre-determined geographic boundary.

Business / Revenue Model

Product going to market via three channels (VehSmart gathers revenue at each of the stages):

Institutional lenders via dealer floor plan financing – real-time asset tracking and risk mitigation device.
VehSmart receives revenue when device sold to lender for placement on vehicle
Dealer utilizes device as an inventory management and sales enhancement tool
VehSmart receives revenue from dealer for one time airtime charge and additional revenue if dealer upgrades to enhanced dealership management solution
VehSmart receives revenue from dealer for activation of consumer benefits and features upon retail sale.
Automobile buyer purchases the already installed device to gain benefit from the OnStar like features VehSmart receives recurring annual revenue
Intellectual Property

VehSmart has three current patent applications filed (Remote Panic Button, On Demand Floor Plan Audit System and STARS Reporting system). and is actively preparing filings for six additional patents. Additionally, VehSmart will rely on a combination of contractual restrictions, trademark, copyright, and trade secret law to establish and protect our trademarks, software, and expertise.

Simultaneously “pushed and pulled” to market: pushed into institutional market as risk-mitigation tool for lenders and pulled into retail market as revenue enhancement tool for dealerships and retail channel selling safety and convenience functions to the consumer.

VehSmart’s comprehensive functionality, including GPS based real time online mapping of the vehicle’s location, coincides with a time of extreme upheaval in the marketplace. Wholesale lenders (“floor-plan financing”) and auto dealers each are urgently searching for solutions to vexing institutional problems in the industry, and VehSmart’s multi-point solution is emerging as the industry’s favored solution.

VehSmart’s initial domestic product roll-out is being driven by automotive credit providers / lenders who have embraced this easily installed device as solution to many of the problems the lenders are currently experiencing in their “floor plan” finance portfolios. The VehSmart system is a way to mitigate loss and fraud by tracking their assets – the cars on the dealer’s lots – in real time. Within two minutes of being plugged in to the vehicle’s OBDll port (On Board Diagnostics Port, the small plug receptacle under the dashboard.) VehSmart relays the Vehicle Identification Number (VIN) and the latitude and longitude of the vehicle, telling the lender exactly where the automobile is located, and when sold, the lender knows to expect payment within 72 hours.

Disruptive technology automates a 70-year old manual process

The current means of auditing floor plan lending has the lenders sending out teams of auditors to each automotive dealer once a month with a bar code scanner and a clipboard to physically count each car on a dealer’s lot. With the VehSmart device installed, lenders know in real time where the vehicle is located and when it is sold. Cost effectively solves a MAJOR industry wide cataclysm – the reduction of floor plan financing across the industry. By providing real time floor plan audits, the VehSmart device combined with our IP protected software and reporting processes, resolves a major risk management problem for dealers and their lenders

Beta test already successfully completed at two of the country’s four largest non-captive lenders; and the first institution has committed to an initial order of 10,000 units against a total planned 100,000 units. The lender is installing the device on all vehicles being “floor planned” at dealerships designated as “at risk” and as “high risk” dealerships. The company expects that other large lenders will also very rapidly adopt the VehSmart automated risk management system in quantities of at least the same size, and perhaps significantly larger. Discussions to begin beta testing at other non-captive lenders have been underway and are progressing nicely.

SBA embraces VehSmart to eliminate waste and fraud

In major recent development aimed at getting floor plan lending flowing into the automotive sector again, the Treasury Department’s Small Business Administration (SBA) has recently begun a program that guarantees loans to banks for floor planned vehicles. Following a meeting in Washington DC last year, the SBA has embraced VehSmart’s technology as an extremely efficient means of eliminating waste and fraud in its program, and has written the VehSmart solution into the guidelines that dealers and lenders must follow in order to participate in the loan guarantee program.

Dealer aftermarket

Given the tumult in the automotive sector, dealers are now actively seeking profit enhancing aftermarket products and VehSmart is being actively sought by large and small dealerships across the country. With the device pre-installed on the vehicle, the customer has the option of leaving the device on the vehicle and activating a fully featured set of services such as accident notification, stolen vehicle recovery, emergency roadside assistance, real time traffic updates. concierge service with turn-by-turn directions and stolen vehicle tracking. Vehsmart offers young driver alerts and geo-fence capability, sending alerts via text messages or email when young drivers are speeding, or out of a pre-determined geographic boundary.

PowerSports product

VehSmart has developed a product for the motorsports / motorcycle marketplace that delivers the same robust personal safety and security features. A BlueTooth™ enabled helmet delivers the voice and safety features of the VehSmart system directly to the helmet for hands free operation. This product will be available for a variety of Powersports products including motorcycles, ATVs, snowmobiles and more.

About Brian W. Story, Chairman& CEO

Mr. Story has over 24 years in the automotive industry, combining both his retail and aftermarket experience to bring highly successful and profitable opportunities to auto dealers. Mr. Story began his auto sales career in Southern California in 1984. Ten years later, he surveyed the automotive landscape, resigned as General Manager at a successful Ford dealership in the Los Angeles market and formed his own automotive aftermarket company, Safelite of America, incorporated in 1996. Through Safelite of America, Inc., he provided highly profitable promotions, products, and services to auto dealers. He created the Slasher Sale, trademarked in 1997, to move used car inventory at a time when lease returns were flooding the used car market and bringing wholesale prices down. Mr. Story eventually licensed the concept to other marketing companies. In 1999, Mr. Story developed and trademarked the Stealth Automotive Security System, a product designed to enhance the dealer’s bottom line in both new and used vehicles. Mr. Story is well known throughout the retail automotive industry and has an extremely impressive track record in the aftermarket business.

About Rich Zellner, President

Mr. Zellner has been in the automobile industry for almost 30 years, with over 17 years in automobile finance management. After twelve years in dealership management roles, he joined AutoFinance Group and quickly climbed the ladder becoming a key member of a company that was ultimately sold to Key Bank for 10 times book value. As a member of the Key AutoFinance management team, Mr. Zellner was considered one of the company’s sub-prime experts and traveled throughout the country lecturing bank management and dealer groups on auto finance.

From 1999 through 2006 Mr. Zellner was a Senior Vice President at WFS Financial and ultimately Wachovia after a merger. During his tenure Mr. Zellner was responsible for policies, procedures and management of a sales and marketing group of over 170 associates, travel and incentive group, and dealer services group. In recent years Mr. Zellner served as President of Cogent Financial Group, an auto finance and elective surgery medical finance company, offering consumer loans through auto dealers and medical practices. As President, he was responsible for all facets of the business including credit, operations, funding, collections, accounting, and legal. Additionally he formed a consulting company, Automotive Resource Group, with a client list that includes companies such as J.D. Power, Blue Chip Financial, and Universal Auction Group.

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., VehSmart 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!” ###

AdAgencyOnline.Net Reviews AutoRevo For Automotive Advertising Agencies On Blog Talk Radio

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.

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., AutoRevo 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!” ###

AdAgencyOnline.Net Reviews CarFolks.Com For Automotive Advertising Agencies Using Social Media For Reputation Management

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.

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., CarFolks.Com 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!” ###

AdAgencyOnline.Net Reviews TK Carsites For Automotive Advertising Agencies Focused On Internet Based Marketing

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!” ###

AdAgencyOnline.Net Reviews WomenCertified® For Automotive Advertising Agencies On Automotive Advertising Experts Blog Talk Radio Show

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.
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., WomenCertified 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!” ###

AdAgencyOnline.Net Reviews DealerFire On Their Automotive Advertising Experts Blog Talk Radio Show

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. Read the rest of this entry →