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20
Jul

Top 10 Ways To Promote Your Car Dealership

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Businesses that work with selling automobiles or bikes are not your everyday kind of challenges. I mean goods offered by these business companies don’t sell more routinely as other business products like say, food items. Customers that these firms count on have to prepare before deciding when or how to buy the item. Be it via installment payments or financial institution loans. What I’m to tell you is, unless you’re hysterically wealthy, you can’t just wake up one morning and make a choice to get yourself a brand new car. And it’s because of this, that entrepreneurs running such companies have to market hard so as to sell more.

Like any other business sector, this is a competitive one as well. You have to bank on prospects coming your way. I’m writing this article, to school you on several business promoting approaches.

Equip your salespeople

The sales teams most likely have superb public relations and advertising talents but as a manager, you need to provide some incentives to heighten those individuals morale. Cherish them at the office. When was the last time you increased their sales commission percent? Or organized a luncheon to listen to their complaints? Promote competition by coming up with roles such as the employee of the month. And please let that position come with its fair share of extras and not merely the title.

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Offer financing approaches to customers

As I have just stated, people don’t wake up one morning and decide to purchase an automobile suddenly. Money is a scarce resource, dear friend. I’m hardly hanging on, myself! Let your business have an outlined construct of how clients are going to acquire the goods. Go ahead and partner with banking institutions that can take care of your lease-to-own or payment plan solutions for those customers who can make the full payment.

Manager or owner availability

When I walk into any shop, and I quickly realize the store manager is working with me, I feel important. Your customers want to feel valued in the same way also. Once awhile avail yourself and connect with a would-be client. That helpful interaction might go a long way to earn you a referral and that reference will make you a second referral and the chain keeps on.

Introduce email marketing

Direct mail advertising contributes to how high your sales revenue goes. Some companies have already made use of this tactic and experienced impressive sales increase. Encourage prospects to fill out forms on your web page and leave behind their contact info. An exceptional program will allow you build a great relationship with your clientele. Also, develop an auto responder series that guides your clients on what features to look for when buying a car or motorcycle. Ultimately, you’ll build trust and an exceptional lead in the industry.

Increase the traffic on your website

Have you heard of SEO marketing? Search engine optimization is a marketing strategy you need to turn into an investment. You can pay per click for targeted ads listed alongside search results in Google and any other search engine of your choice. Or use the organic search that calls for you optimizing and implementing keywords into your blog such that when clients type that distinct phrase, the link to your site pops up too among the results.

Ensure your website is mobile compatible

At any particular point in time, you have your phone within proximity. But you never walk around with your laptop or worse yet, your desktop computer! The same applies to your customers. Let your website be mobile compatible and well featured such that it appeals to the consumer visually. Promote a fully featured website that works across all devices allowing the client to browse current inventory, or even see the latest promotions available to them.

Join the chamber of commerce

By entering that committee, you’ll acquire a membership roster that will detail other businesses that are also members. You will be able to fish their contact information and thus try to do business with them.

Partner with other businesses

Get into a partnership with other business. Generate a symbiotic relationship with those companies. A company that offers insurance coverages can do. In that whenever a customer purchases a car or motorcycle, they get free insurance for a year from that company, and after that, they become the insurance firm’s long-term patron.

Create referral incentives

Brainstorm how to make loyalty programs and referrals appealing to potential customers. What are you able to offer that’s beneficial to the client? Free oil service, maybe? You figure it out. Don’t just offer cash incentives. Be creative!

The brand message

Work on your brand message. Mercedes has always offered cars that are classy in nature. That’s why countless leaders prefer such cars. What brand message are you going to create? Work on the facts as that’s what attracts consumers’ focus.

Now you know! Those are the invaluable ways you can work with to refresh your service. Execute them, sit back and chill. See how quick your business progresses.

20
Jul

Portland man arrested for murder, intimidation in MAX train hate speech incident

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Monday, May 29, 2017

Saturday morning, 35-year-old Portland, Oregon man Jeremy Christian was arrested and taken to the Multnomah County Detention Center on charges including murder, attempted murder and intimidation after verbally harassing two young women on a train and then attacking three men with a knife.

At least two of the victims attempted to intervene with the suspect and calm him down. The suspect attacked the men, stabbing three, before leaving the train.

An official statement from the Portland Police Bureau said Christian “was on the MAX train yelling various remarks that would be best characterized as hate speech toward a variety of ethnicities and religions. At least two of the victims attempted to intervene with the suspect and calm him down. The suspect attacked the men, stabbing three, before leaving the train.” According to witnesses, Christian approached 16-year-old Destinee Mangum and a Muslim friend of hers who was wearing a Muslim headdress. Of the three men who were attacked, one died on the train, another was pronounced dead later at a hospital, and a third is still alive.

“He told us to go back to Saudi Arabia and he told us we shouldn’t be here, to get out of his country,” Mangum told KPTV on Saturday. “He was just telling us that we basically weren’t anything and that we should kill ourselves.” Mangum and her friend then changed seats to avoid Christian. “This white male from the back of us was like he’s talking to you guys? You guys can’t disrespect these young ladies like that. Then they just all started arguing.” She said Christian began attacking people just as Mangum and her friend got off the train. “[I]t was just blood everywhere and we just started running for our lives.”

He told us to go back to Saudi Arabia and he told us we shouldn’t be here, to get out of his country.

“[T]hey lost their lives because of me and my friend, and the way we look[…] I just want to say thank you to them and their family, and that I appreciate them,” said Mangum. “Without them, we probably would be dead right now.”

The two men who died were Ricky John Best, age 53, and Taliesin Myddrin Namkai-Meche, 23. The third knife victim, Micah David-Cole Fletcher, 21, was still hospitalized as of today. Best, who served 23 years in the U.S. Army, left behind four children. Namkai-Meche graduated from Reed College with a degree in economics and was working as an intern. Fletcher, who has disclosed publicly he is on the autism spectrum, was profiled by Venture in 2015 for his participation in a Portland poetry slam. At that time, Fletcher disclosed he had been institutionalized for “erratic anger” during middle school.

Christian has come to the attention of police before. He was convicted of robbery and kidnapping in 2002. On April 29, he showed up to a right-wing free speech march armed with a baseball bat and threatened counter-protesters. He was wearing a U.S. flag like a cape, shouting racial epithets and making the Nazi salute. The police took away his bat. He attended a number of alt-right rallies and, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, Christian has promoted white supremacist views on the Internet.

The attack took place the day before the beginning of the Muslim holy season, Ramadan. The Council on American-Islamic Relations has asked U.S. President Donald Trump to condemn the killings.

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19
Jul

Oil rig in Gulf of Mexico sinks after explosion; eleven missing

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Friday, April 23, 2010

The oil rig Deepwater Horizon sank yesterday after an explosion Tuesday night that left eleven people missing.

According to an officer from the US Coast Guard, the rig sank sometime in the morning. The rig had caught fire after an explosion of unknown origin occurred two days ago. 115 of the 126 workers on board the time of the explosion have been rescued after evacuating in lifeboats, either by the Coast Guard or from other ships in the area.

The remaining eleven have not been located, although Coast Guard officials have expressed optimism that they are still alive.

The environmental impacts of the explosion and subsequent sinking of the rig are unclear. While up to 13,000 gallons of crude oil per hour has been released from the rig, until now, the effects have been considered minimal, as it had been burned off in the fire. That does have the potential to change, though, according to David Rainey, vice president of the lessor of the rig, BP. The rig, built in 2001 by Hyundai Heavy Industries was owned and operated by Transocean.

The rig was located roughly 50 miles southeast of the coast of Louisiana, and was under lease to BP since 2007. It was completing the construction of a new oil well, and was constructing a layer of cement in the well to reinforce it. This is considered dangerous, as it has the potential to produce an uncontrolled release of case, called a blowout. While the cause of the explosion has yet to be determined, a blowout is considered a possibility.

One survivor of the explosion, who declined to give his name, told the The New York Times that he was lying in bed when the explosion happened. “It caught me by surprise. I’ve been in offshore 25 years, and I’ve never seen anything like that,” he recalled.

Stanley Murray, the father of another survivor named Chad, an electrician, said: “My son had just walked off the drill floor.” However, Murray said that a neighbor did not make it in time, adding that his son told him that the missing eleven workers could not have made it out alive. “The eleven that’s [sic] missing, they won’t find them,” Murray said.

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17
Jul

Category:Harlem, New York

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Probate Attorney Talks Continuing Care Retirement Communities

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Darlynn Morgan

By Darlynn Morgan, Probate Attorney

As a Probate Attorney, I often help my clients plan ahead for the type of living assistance they may want (and may ultimately need) when they reach the golden years. However, when it comes to such options, most people only think of three things: living at home, nursing homes or assisted living centers.

But, happily, there is another fast growing option available to American seniors the Continuing Care Retirement Community or CCRC .

A CCRC combines the services of an independent living retirement community with an assisted living facility and nursing home, all on site.

Residents of CCRC s pay an entrance fee and an ongoing monthly fee for services. In return, they receive all the benefits of independent living (their own private living quarters, the ability to continue driving, etc.), along with the security of knowing they have excellent assisted living or nursing home care available to them on site and within reach for the rest of their lives.

A Not For Profit Option

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Unlike most assisted living or nursing home facilities in the United States, most CCRC s are not for profit. Many are operated by charitable or religious organizations.

If the CCRC takes in more money than it requires for operation, the money is reinvested in the retirement community itself and benefits the residents not some unknown group of investors. This is a real benefit to the residents because it allows them to remain in the CCRC if they outlive their own assets.

That is not the case with most for profit long term care facilities. If their residents outlive their own assets, they must either move out or apply for assistance from the government and hope they qualify.

A Higher Standard of Living

While many people think that the chief component in the CCRC is the continuing care, in reality most of the investment in CCRC s is made in the independent living facilities and on-site amenities. In most cases the residents have spacious apartments or cottages with modern appliances and their own furnishings. And many facilities have pools, spas, fitness centers and organized activities for the residents.

And since financial surpluses are invested back into the community, profit is not a consideration in the health care services provided to the residents. Staffing is often twice that of for profit facilities and many CCRC s offer private rooms for all levels of care rather than the semi-private rooms in most nursing homes.

So How Much Does a CCRC cost?

While some of the newer CCRC s are designed to appeal to the well-to-do and have fees to match, most are designed for, and are well within reach of, middle class seniors. Many of these communities have been around for years, but the public is just now catching on to the benefit of this type of living arrangement.

CCRC fees will vary according to the type of services and amenities offered. There are basically two types of contracts:

Lifecare communities will have higher initial fees but the monthly fees usually do not increase as the resident requires additional care. That makes the monthly expenditure more predictable and easier to budget for. Modified contract communities offer a lower entrance fee and monthly fees but the monthly fee increases as the resident requires additional care. These increased fees can be substantial so it s a good idea to discuss this at length before you sign a contract. Initial entrance fees for a CCRC can range anywhere from $105,000 to over $1 million depending upon where they are located and, of course, the amenities available. However, many communities will refund a portion of the entrance fee upon the death of the resident. Be sure to ask about this possibility when interviewing a CCRC facility.

The monthly fees can range anywhere from as low as $1,400 to as high as $4,000, again depending on the level of care needed and the amenities, much the same as the entrance fee.

Another Benefit The Tax Write Off

One of the little known benefits of a CCRC is that a portion of both the entrance fee and the monthly fee is usually tax deductible in the year that they are paid as prepaid medical expenses.

The percentage you can deduct usually ranges from 25% to 30%, and that can make a serious difference in the amount of income you pay taxes on for that year.

CCRC s are an attractive option for American seniors and one that is well worth planning for. Most of us want to remain independent in our later years. While none of us knows what our health situation will be as we age, we do know that we want the best care available with as little burden on our loved ones as possible. The CCRC allows us to cover all the bases.

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17
Jul

Gastric bypass surgery performed by remote control

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Sunday, August 21, 2005

A robotic system at Stanford Medical Center was used to perform a laparoscopic gastric bypass surgery successfully with a theoretically similar rate of complications to that seen in standard operations. However, as there were only 10 people in the experimental group (and another 10 in the control group), this is not a statistically significant sample.

If this surgical procedure is as successful in large-scale studies, it may lead the way for the use of robotic surgery in even more delicate procedures, such as heart surgery. Note that this is not a fully automated system, as a human doctor controls the operation via remote control. Laparoscopic gastric bypass surgery is a treatment for obesity.

There were concerns that doctors, in the future, might only be trained in the remote control procedure. Ronald G. Latimer, M.D., of Santa Barbara, CA, warned “The fact that surgeons may have to open the patient or might actually need to revert to standard laparoscopic techniques demands that this basic training be a requirement before a robot is purchased. Robots do malfunction, so a backup system is imperative. We should not be seduced to buy this instrument to train surgeons if they are not able to do the primary operations themselves.”

There are precedents for just such a problem occurring. A previous “new technology”, the electrocardiogram (ECG), has lead to a lack of basic education on the older technology, the stethoscope. As a result, many heart conditions now go undiagnosed, especially in children and others who rarely undergo an ECG procedure.

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16
Jul

News briefs:August 6, 2010

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16
Jul

Child killed by family dog

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April 12, 2005

In what authorities call a terrible tragedy, a four-year-old boy was killed Sunday afternoon by the family dog. The Orange County, Virginia USA boy was playing in his back yard while their dog, a RottweilerGerman Shepherd mix, was chained to a stake.

The parents of the boy were home when the mauling occurred, but there were no direct eye witnesses to the attack that took place in the Placid Pines mobile home park. County Sheriff C.G. Feldman said, “We’ll probably never know what provoked the attack.” he told the Associated Press, “The boy had grown up with the dog.”

A CBS6 broadcast said investigators saw no signs of parental negligence, and the boy was their only child. No charges against the parents were filed. The dog was euthanised Monday.

Sheriff Feldman stressed there were no similarities or connection with an earlier case of an elderly woman killed in an attack by 3 pit bulls in the nearby county of Spotsylvania just over a month ago.

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By Lilly Simpson

Are you a plus sized person who wants to look good? If so, what are you wearing? Need some new ideas, or some new looks? How about some trendy plus size clothing? Many times you can buy something off the wrack or online, so let me give a few ideas.

Especially, if you have gained weight and are in a larger size, you may not know where to look for your current size of clothing. Department stores and Clothing stores are getting to where they are carrying more trendy large size clothing, whether this is for women or men.

Looking Good

Plus size clothing purchased today as compared to a few years ago looks much nicer. Manufacturers realize everyone wants to look nice no matter what size they are. Certain fashion designers are focusing on larger size fashion clothing. Put some nice accessories with it, or some great shoes and you can have a very nice look.

Really, you would have a hard time finding the old style of clothing that your parents might have worn, except when it comes around back into fashion again. You can find some very trendy items that are fun and sexy looking.

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Look Like A Fashion Model

Women, with the proper make up, jewelry and shoes, you can look like a fashion model. Men, you can too. With the clothing for large men now days, you see some very trendy clothing.

It does not matter whether you are going to the gym, going to work, having a night out on the town or are being comfortable at home, there are clothes you can look great in. Dress up or dress down, today’s fashion has you covered.

Just make sure you know your current size or check a size chart. Different manufacturers may cut their garments a little differently, so your size may not be the same in all lines of clothing that you look at.

You can get around that by trying the clothes on or if shopping online, be sure that you have the ability to return clothing if it does not fit.

Where to Shop

As said, you can shop for clothing and undergarments online or in your local mall. Don’t put it off, if you want to look good. Buy some of the fashionable clothing and add some accessories for a great look.

Sometimes you will find a specialty shop for big and tall people; sometimes it will just be a section in a department store. Start asking around among your friends, or call some shops on the phone and see what is available. Another question you might ask, is what age group their clothing might be appropriate for. If you are a teenager, you don’t want the look your grandmother might.

The Secret Too Looking Good

One secret to women looking so nice, even when a larger size, are the undergarments. Bodyshapers and shapewear can hide the troubled areas and accent the curves. Women today are in love with their bodyshapers. It makes them feel sexy and boosts their confidence because they are instantly slimmed down.

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14
Jul

Body of missing teenager Amber Dubois found

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Monday, March 8, 2010

The skeletal remains of 14-year-old Escondido, California teenager Amber Dubois were found north of the Pala Indian Reservation Saturday morning, police said. Dubois disappeared February 13, 2009 while walking to Escondido High School. The San Diego County Medical Examiner’s office made a positive identification through dental records.

According to Escondido Police Chief Jim Maher, police were following a lead when they came across the remains. Maher declined to say what the lead was or to describe in detail the site where the remains were found. He also refused to reveal whether John Albert Gardner III, suspect in the murder of Chelsea King, is being linked to the Dubois case.

Amber’s father, Maurice Dubois, made a statement thanking those who had helped in the search for Amber. “The entire community, everybody who helped out with the search effort, and above all our huge volunteer corps, they are the most dedicated people and without them we couldn’t have done anything,” he said.

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