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The PCG Digital Marketing has just released the roster of speakers and topics to be covered during the automotive industry’s first ever Automotive Marketing Boot Camp.  The boot camp will be held on February 12th; the day before NADA starts in Orlando.

The Boot Camp is a hands-on skills based training program which covers the most important elements of automotive digital marketing strategies: social media, blogging, video, link building, content creation and SEO. 

 Social Media expert JD Rucker will teach attendees the ‘Ins and Outs’ of social media marketing and how to use the latest technology to attain new levels of targeted consumer interaction.

 Paul Rushing and Brian Pasch, SEO specialists and respected Internet Marketing experts, will cover how to create search friendly blogs in WordPress as well as using content driven strategies to deliver stand-out search results.

 Classes on video creation and video SEO will be co-led by Tim Jennings and Matt O’Such.  Tim will provide necessary skills needed to use video to enhance a dealer’s organic search visibility.   Tim Jennings has been in the automotive business for 18 years. The last 15 years he has held his current position as Internet Sales Manger in Dekalb Illinois.  He spoke at the 2007, 2008 and 2009 Digital Dealer Conferences and was featured on the cover of the October Digital Dealer Magazine.

 Rounding out the boot camp will be a class on the fundamentals of Google Adwords by Eric J.B. Mayhew.  Eric is the Manager of Advertising Products at Dealer.com, the global leader in online marketing solutions for the automotive industry. He is the lead architect for Dealer.com’s SEM optimization product, TotalControl DOMINATOR™, and is responsible for all facets of its application and design.

 Complete class descriptions can be found online at http://www.automotivemarketingbootcamp.com/instructors/

The Automotive Marketing Boot Camp will be 2 hours in length and offers attendees 10 hands-on classes which will deliver the skills dealers need to understand, manage and catapult their online marketing strategy to the next level.  The boot camp is perfect for General Managers and Internet Sales Managers. 

More information on the Boot Camp can be found at: http://www.automotivemarketingbootcamp.com 

Schedule:                     http://www.automotivemarketingbootcamp.com/schedule

Online Registration:    http://www.automotivemarketingbootcamp.com/paypal

Registration is limited to 75 people to keep class size to 15 people.  Registration is $795.00 until December 12^th and $895 from then on. 

About the Brian Pasch and the PCG Digital Marketing

Brian Pasch is a veteran marketing expert and a noted expert in the field of Automotive SEO and Internet marketing. His career has spanned both management and technology roles.

He continues to lead research into Digital Marketing platforms. PCG continually tests new digital marketing strategies which can provide a cost effective channels for business advertising and lead generation.

PCG works for and with an ever-growing number of auto dealers and dealer groups from all over the country to maximize results of their digital marketing efforts.

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The PCG Digital Marketing created http://www.governmenthealthcarefacts.com/ so that consumers can have a voice to discuss national healthcare proposals and how they would affect their lives.  The non-government website will seek to clarify the plethora of information being broadcasted around the country on current and new healthcare initiatives. 

 Brian Pasch, CEO of the PCG Digital Marketing is encouraging all consumers to share their thoughts and concerns about the proposed government healthcare initiatives.  According to Pasch, “It is so important for Americans to send a message to Congress and share their concerns and ideas on how to reform our national healthcare system.  Consumers normally don’t have an open opportunity to have their voice heard nationally and this website provides that venue.”

The website is designed to allow consumers to discuss national and local healthcare issues by way of virtual town hall style meetings.

 According to Pasch, the website will provide an unbiased collection of public information and attempt to identify misinformation floating in cyberspace about specific healthcare reform ideas.  Consumers can join the discussion on the latest government proposals and voice their opinion. 

 Some of the current town hall discussions include: 

• What Are Your Biggest Fears About Healthcare Reform? 
• How To Pay For Obama’s Healthcare Plan?
• What  is on your healthcare reform short-list? 

 Consumers who would like to share their story and hear what others have to say can visit http://www.governmenthealthcarefacts.com/

The NHTSA has called an official end to the Cash for Clunkers craze that has swept the nation since going into effect the end of July.  Since the NHTSA does not control how many rebates are issued by car dealers during the program the likelihood is that the Cash for Clunkers $3 billion budget won’t be enough to fulfill the record numbers of transactions that will take place in the last four days of the program.

Cash for Clunkers will come to a close on Monday August 24th at 8:00 pm and it will be a four day marathon race for dealers across the country to squeeze in as many clunker deals as possible before the program shuts down. 

Brian Pasch, CEO of the PCG Digital Marketing which offers automotive marketing services to the automotive industry has been following and analyzing the bill since before it was approved by congress. Their company also created the popular consumer forum www.cashforclunkersfacts.com .

 Commenting on the final days of the program Pasch voiced his concern “It is clear to me that the number of sales accelerated in the next four days will easily push the total CARS rebates past the $3 billion in funding. The question that comes to mind is:  How are those transactions going to be funded?”   

According to Pasch, the situation will be especially tricky since the NHTSA has no authority to spend past the $3 billion allocated by Congress.  Even further complicating the situation is the fact that the CARS program was implemented without real-time tracking to understand how many rebates have already been promised to American car buyers. 

Pasch added, “The large backlog of deals to be submitted still exists and the payments backlog will be further extended by the weekend sales rush. By next week, the NHTSA’s 1,000 employees will have over 700,000 Cash for Clunkers sales  to process and that workload will not be completed any time soon.”

Congress will not know for weeks just how far past the $3 billion the CARS program is in the red.  In fact, Pasch predicts that it will take three or four weeks for dealers to get all their sales into the NHTSA reimbursement system. 

In late September Pasch predicts that a wave of criticism will surface which will be targeted at the NHTSA and their implementation of the CARS program because of the financial havoc it has dealt to consumers and car dealers alike.  

NHTSA Secretary Raymond LaHood has assured dealers that they will get paid, but the question may become, how???

To follow the latest information regarding the Cash for Clunkers bill, visit http://www.cashforclunkersfacts.com/news-on-bill/