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Car Rental Guidelines
Rates for the same-size car can vary widely from company to company with extra costs nearly doubling the basic rental rate. Ask the reservation clerk to calculate the total cost of the rental, including such extras as mileage, insurance, taxes...

Car Rental Israel - Israel Driving Guide
Are you planning to visit Jerusalem and seeking a good car rental Israel deal? What about your car hire Israel? Here is a useful Israel Driving Guide to help you drive safely in your car rental Israel all over the Holy Land. International...

Possible car rentals in Bournemouth
When you arrive at the Bournemouth airport, usually the first thing you want to find is some information on car rentals. In Bournemouth there are a lot of rent-a-car companies, so finding them is not a problem. Just connect to the Internet and look...

Direct Mail for Rental Car Agencies

Car Rental Agencies need visitors and travelers to come and rent cars, but they also know that some of their business is local and therefore they need to be involved in the community and work with other businesses to refer them clientele. Companies like Car Lots, Auto Service Garages, Insurance Companies and Tow Companies too. Often these other business will provide them with additional leads for portential renters of their cars

But what if they want more? Well, how about a robust yet inexpensive advertising and marketing campaign to target all the local small businesses and residents nearby to tell them that they exist and have cars to rent at fair and reasonable rates?

It is recommended that rental car agencies use direct-mail and direct-mail marketing advertising in

coupon packages. Rent-a-Car agencies should send these direct-mail packages out quarterly with weekend rate discounts to all the households with in a 15-mile radius.

Direct-mail marketing is an effective way to advertise and the cost is fairly low compared to other forms of advertising. Rental car agencies, which use direct-mail have been satisfied with the results and report excellent return on investment for this type of advertising. Please consider this in 2006.

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