Category Archives: Auto Glass

Lagrangeville Auto Glass Repair and Replacement Business Partners with Online Advertiser for Marketing

Most auto glass repair businesses are turning to the World Wide Web now for their marketing needs.  It seems that a significant number of consumers now turn to the Internet as their first resource for finding a good windshield replacement business or auto glass repair garage when they need it, and so more and more companies are focusing the brunt of their advertising on online routes of publicity.  A Poughkeepsie-serving auto glass business, Tri-County Auto Glass, is just one of the many now signing up for online advertising in that respect.

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Tri-County Auto Glass has apparently made a deal with the online advertising firm Prospect Genius to handle their SEO strategies for their marketing plans.  Prospect Genius is an intriguing online advertising company that makes a point of distinguishing itself as a company that brings “integrity” to web advertising.  This is perhaps unsurprising given the advertising brand’s roots: Prospect Genius apparently came into being after two IT specialists were disenfranchised and disillusioned by other online advertising companies, and subsequently decided to create their own on the basis of providing better value for clients and doing so in a more responsible or ethical manner.

Whether or not ethics are involved in online marketing, though, there is no denying that online advertising and a sound set of SEO strategies are the best marketing bets for independent or small businesses in the auto glass trade at the moment.  With the bigger players having far more capital and resources to dedicate to major marketing campaigns that can span the whole media spectrum, smaller companies have no choice but to focus on a more specific medium, the one most likely to gain them results.  As a result, the focus of many small business advertising efforts, including that of Prospect Genius for Tri-County Auto Glass, is to make the business more visible to searchers of a particular keyword or keyphrase, usually one with a very specific niche.

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For example, instead of aiming for an SEO strategy that focuses on bringing in searchers of “auto glass repair”, a niche keyword would be supplied instead, such as “auto glass repair Poughkeepsie”, to narrow down search limits and lower competition for the top place in the search results entries for that particular search.  Most SEO works this way, with the marketers working to make sure that the business’s website or webpages are easily accessible and visible to consumers who might be interested in what the company has to offer.  Prospect Genius’s work for Tri-County Auto Glass is apparently going to be focused on this sort of visibility and ease of access marketing.  The online advertising company has also gained a few other clients in the auto glass trade besides Tri-County Auto Glass recently.

Golub Capital Partners with Palladium for Auto Glass Repair Brand ABRA’s Recapitalization

Following the announcement that auto glass repair company ABRA (ABRA Auto Body & Glass) would be undergoing recapitalization under Palladium Equity Partners, LLC’s direction, more information has been pouring out of the business network regarding the recapitalization.  One of the latest pieces of news is that Golub Capital is actually a partner of Palladium in the transaction.

Golub is apparently providing subordinated debt as well as acting to support an equity co-investment in the recapitalization of the auto glass repair company.  Golub Capital revealed early in November that it had given $27M senior subordinated notes in aid of the transaction.  Representatives of the company spoke glowingly of the auto glass repair business, with the current managing director of Golub Capital stating that ABRA was considered one of the industry leaders when it came to collisions repair.  The managing director went on to say that the company was very excited to be partnering with efficient teams such as those from Palladium Equity Partners, LLC and ABRA.

The managing director of Palladium responded to that by adding that Golub was remarkably flexible and easy to work with during the entire transaction, suggesting that such adaptability was the very reason Palladium had chosen to work with Golub.  It was also stated that the other company’s efficiency and experience in business was very highly valued by Palladium, which is a company that has always focused on strongly directed investments and high-efficiency transactions.

Golub Capital is a major source of financing solutions in the country, and generally supports companies that belong to the middle of the industrial spectrum.  Holding its main offices in Chicago and New York, it has been named the Debt Financing Agent of the Year by M&An Advisor (only last year) for its debt financing work and wide range of offered solutions.  In the same year, Golub was named by Buyouts Magazine the Middle Market Lender for 2010, an honor granted to it the previous year as well.  The Thomson Reuters Loan Pricing Corporation also ranked it as the top Middle Market Bookrunner for the 3rd Quarter of 2011.

Instead of focusing on a wide “middle market” definition, on the other hand, Palladium Equity Partners, LLC focuses on investments that have to do with business services as well as ones that seem to be geared towards the Hispanic market in the United States, making it a very specific portfolio that the company boasts.  It is a fairly new company, having been formed in the late 1990s, but it already has over a billion and a half dollars of equity in its investments.  Now that the ABRA body and auto glass repair brand is included, Palladium is going to be growing even more.