Featuring Your Car in Magazines
March 15, 2009 by amabq · Leave a Comment
Featuring your car in Car Magazines can have many advantages for any Car Owners.
First, it will give a good documentation of your modified car for your effort and secondly, it
will provide you with a good exposure for your car if you want to sell it.
However, since there are millions of automobiles out there on the road, how can one attract the attention of Car Magazine to feature your car?
Here are some tips and guides on How to Feature your car in magazines by a BMW car owner whose BMW M3 manual was featured in 3 Car Magazines.
1. BE the FIRST (NEWS SELLS)
Car magazines works like newspapers, they need news to sell their magazines, hence to make the magazines notice you, you need give them a reason (some kind of news) for them. If your car has the first new modifications from a car tuner, that would be ideal as it will create attention of readers.
2. BE UNIQUE: CREATE a whole extraordinary car:
Your best bet is to start off with your mind to create something really special to your own liking, of course according to your taste. You don’t want to create a unique car only to hate it after the modifications. People want to see something special. “Extra Ordinary” always attracts attention. But remember to do it tastefully otherwise it will only attract negative attention. Be creative, don’t limit yourself to accessories or products from just one car tuner, you may mix and match with products of other car tuners or even from other makes of car tuners.
3. CUSTOMISED MODIFICATIONS: ATTENTION TO DETAIL:
Custom modifications attracts attention, it shows creativity and uniqueness too, that nobody else’s has. Car Magazines want to show unique parts to the world and people will want to buy the magazines to read and to check out the new parts.
4. BRIGHT COLOURS:
Car magazines love BRIGHT colored car, so if your modified car is of that, you have a point ahead of other car owners. You may have noticed this in all other front cover of magazines too. So if you plan to repaint your car, catch attention and make it to the cover, choose bright! (important note: choose a bright color that you can live with!)
5. CONTACT YOUR LOCAL MAGAZINES:
Well you need to let the magazines know that you have a unusual car for them to feature. Find the best magazine that suit your car theme or make and contact them. If your car is modified by a tuner, you may want to ask your tuner to call the Car Magazines as they should have contacts to the Magazine publishers.
If you have a special unique car, many car magazines are more than willing to feature it. Just think of it this way, Car magazines need cars to feature in their magazines every month! (At least six feature cars per issue). How are they going to find these new cars? If you have one and feel like getting it featured, capture some good pictures now and email them. You will have to let Car Magazines publishers and editors know of the existence of your Unique Car. Good Luck!
For more information and guides on how to modify your car especially BMW, refer to www.BOBmodifiedBMW.com website where you can see many Modified BMW pictures and articles to refer to as a guide. You can download a copy of Modifying Guide for your Car.
Other Car Information can be found at BMW Dealerships
