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Join the Billy Bob Tour through the Appalachians with the Black Sheep
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Each year, AFCP organizes a motorcycle trip for avid motorcycle
riders. The ride is open to all free paper associates, their friends and relatives and anyone who wants to participate. The group gets
together once per year to ride motorcycles in various areas of the
country to experience great scenery and have fun.
Join us for the 2009 Billy Bob Tour! You'll have the time of your life.
2009 Billy Bob Tour
We will meet at the Comfort Inn in
Knoxville, Tennessee during the afternoon of Sunday, June 14 and spend
three days riding in that area of the country. We will be staying at
the Comfort Inn during the entire ride and making day trips in
different directions each day. The Comfort Inn is centrally located surrounded by shops, bars, movie houses, shopping malls and many wonderful southern restaurants. And, has great access to the open road.
We will be riding the Blue Ridge Parkway and the beautiful Great Smokey Mountains during the Billy Bob Tour and from Nashville to Asheville. This will prove to be a great southern riding experience.
You can make reservations now at the
hotel.
Hotel Information:
Comfort Hotel, Knoxville, TN
PH: 865-690-0034
FX: 865-690-8173
Room rate is $79 single or double
Ask for the group rate under "Black Sheep of AFCP". A room block has been reserved but will not be held long, so make your reservations early.
Contact Craig McMullin to get on the mailing list for more information and keep an eye on the AFCP website Black Sheep page.
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Auto Trader to Cease Printed Versions
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Dear Valued Customer:
As a valued AutoTrader customer we want to thank you for your business and inform you about important changes happening with our magazines.
As you may have already heard, Cox Auto Trader, parent company to AutoTrader.com and Cox AutoTrader/AutoMart, has made strategic changes to its business in an effort to better address the evolving needs of both consumers and dealer advertising customers through its online automotive advertising business led by AutoTrader.com.
Effective February 2009, AutoExtra and AutoMart magazines will cease print distribution. Auto Trader and Truck Trader magazines will cease print distribution later this year. In conjunction with our change in focus in the long term from print to on online products, Auto Trader and Truck Trader will begin accepting only private seller listings effective February 2009. Therefore, beginning in February, there will be no more dealer advertising in these books.
AutoTrader Classics and AutoTrader Latino magazines will continue as you know them today as part of the AutoTrader.com suite of products and services. In addition, AutoMart.com will now be managed by AutoTrader.com and we will continue supporting the AutoMart.com brand through an infusion of Search Engine Marketing.
We remain firmly committed to the AutoTrader brand. Over the past several years, the consumer automotive shopping process has drastically shifted from print publications to the internet. In just 10 years, the AutoTrader.com website has grown to become the industry leader in automotive classified advertising with over 14 million visitors every month. We will continue to provide exposure for your advertising on AutoTrader.com through our partnerships with some of the biggest and best online automotive sites including MSN Autos, Edmunds.com, Kbb.com, NADAGuides.com and more. In 2009, you will see our ads on more high profile networks and shows than ever before and the exposure from our major sports sponsorships including NBA on TNT, MLB and NFL teams will send more in-market shoppers to your dealership.
Below is a quick recap of the changes:
Auto Mart and Auto Extra will cease print publication February 2009.
Auto Trader and Truck Trader will accept only private seller advertising listings and will be closed later this year.
Automart.com will continue to receive full sales support and very strong SEM promotion.
Many of the sales representatives from Trader Publications have already transitioned to the AutoTrader.com team.
If you are currently advertising with AutoExtra, AutoMart or AutoTrader magazines, you will be contacted in the coming weeks by an AutoTrader.com representative to discuss the transition of your advertising to our online solutions.
We remain committed to providing you with the most cost effective way to reach in-market car shoppers. If you have immediate questions, please call (800) 353-9350.
Sincerely,
Chip Perry Joe George
Chief Executive Officer President
AutoTrader.com AutoTrader.com
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Cheers,
Craig McMullin
AFCP
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Visit Our Sponsor
Put your logo and ad here for only $20 per issue. We'll hot link it to your designated web page so readers can easily find you.
Or, give us an article to run as the bottom article on a future issue of Cheers for only $75!
Just contact Craig at craig@afcp.org for more information.
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AFCP Goes Social
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Now you can connect with industry associates by joining the AFCP groups.
AFCP has created groups at each of the major social networking sites (LinkedIn and Facebook).
Just click here for instructions on how you can join the AFCP groups. |
Are You Connected?
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Are you connected to your industry associates at the Free Paper Forum?
If not, you may be missing a lot of important/profitable information.
Join the forums today!
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