Today’s automotive advertising agencies must be increasingly resourceful to provide more for less in a struggling economy. The dictate from their auto dealer clients is to sell more new or used vehicles and it isn’t limited to any particular media or creative message. In order to survive the consolidation in the auto industry automotive advertising agencies must acknowledge that automotive advertising is not limited to conventional media — like Radio, TV, Newspaper, Direct Mail, email campaigns or even Internet SEOSEM marketing plans. It starts with the fact that we have to do business with our friends because our enemies will never call us!

Internal marketing efforts include networking to preferred vendors and area businesses — especially their employees in need of transportation and their company vehicles in need of service and or replacement. Also, point of purchase merchandising between departments designed to cross market to existing customers is more cost effective than conventional or digital advertising investments targeting strangers. Service sells cars, and vice-versa, so showroom boards offering inter-department promotions in all departments and areas of customer contact — like the cashier — is a staple of any internal automotive advertising plan.

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