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If You’re Asking For Billions, A Long Copy Ad Is Still The Way To Go

December 9, 2008 By Dan Goldgeier

Yesterday’s Automotive News contained a full-page, long-copy ad for GM, pleading its case for a bailout.

“While we’re still the U.S. sales leader, we acknowledge we have disappointed you,” the ad said. “At times we violated your trust by letting our quality fall below industry standards and our designs became lackluster.”
The unsigned open letter, entitled “GM’s Commitment to the American People” ran in the trade journal Automotive News, which is widely read by industry executives, lobbyists and other insiders.
In the ad, GM admits to other strategic missteps analysts and critics have said hastened its recent decline.
“We have proliferated our brands and dealer network to the point where we lost adequate focus on the core U.S. market,” the ad said. “We also biased our product mix toward pick-up trucks and SUVs.”

You can download the ad in PDF form here.
While it’s a start, an ad in a trade pub isn’t going to help GM fix its problems. Real action needs to be taken to get consumers thinking positively about GM–at the dealer level, too.

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About Dan Goldgeier

Dan Goldgeier is a Seattle-based freelance copywriter with experience at advertising agencies across the U.S. He is a graduate of the Creative Circus ad school, and currently teaches at Seattle's School of Visual Concepts. Dan is also a columnist for TalentZoo.com and the author of View From The Cheap Seats and Killer Executions and Scrubbed Decks.

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