What dealers do with your static marketing materials

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Marketing professionals spend thousands of dollars to make their promotional materials look perfect.  Layout, type fonts, images, color — everything is scrutinized and painstakingly reviewed until it’s ready to represent the brand out in the public.   Imagine my surprise when I saw this hanging on my front door.  Notice the black marker redacting out the national information in favor of his local phone number, which was on the opposite side.

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Who am I kidding?  I’ve been working with local dealer organizations for years.  I’m not surprised to see this at all, because I see it often.  Local dealers, franchisees or agents don’t want me to call a national number or connect to the national website for fear that I’ll be referred to a competing dealer.  This is a great example illustrating the need for an ad builder system where a dealer could professionally replace his phone number or web address in place of the national number.  It’s not that complicated.  Our InDesign plug-in allows clients to load and tag their creative files for free whenever they want.

Twenty years after print-on-demand technology arrived on the scene, we still see examples like this…so it’s always instructive to be reminded of what happens in your local market and see this first-hand.

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