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"A mentor is someone who sees more talent and ability within you,
than you see in yourself, and helps bring it out of you."
- Bob Proctor
"There are two ways of spreading light -
to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it."
- Edith Wharton
"A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination."
- Nelson Mandela
"The real act of discovery is not in finding new lands,
but in seeing them with new eyes."
- Marcel Proust
"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature. . .
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing."
- Helen Keller
"Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself.
Be bold. When you embark for strange places,
don't leave any of yourself safely on shore.
Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory."
- Alan Alda
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Knowledge Cafe |
Of the hundreds of books that I have read in my life, this book is in my top 10 easily. For one reason, I just love the title. I do believe that there is a Giant in each one of us that can be encouraged to come to the surface and help us all have a more fulfilled and exciting life personally and in business.
I recently re-read some key sections in the book as I do from time to time to remind myself of the power I have within me. This book--indeed, Anthony's life is all about empowering people and this it does effectively for me.
I got to go to a weekend seminar with Tony Robbins in South San Francisco around 1993-4 and the first part of it was the Firewalk Experience. It was absolutely one of the most powerful experiences I've ever had. Incredible and empowering.
Awaken the Giant Within will teach you how to just change your thinking in small ways and have it make a major difference in your attitude and how you feel.
An example is Tony's Problem Solving Questions, his Morning and Evening Power Questions that get you to focus on solutions, not problems. Changing your Life Metaphors, using the The Emotions of Power and Changing Your Rules have all been helpful for me.
And, all for about $11 bucks. Wow. If you don't already own it, this will be an excellent addition to your success library. I'll send one copy free to the first person to respond via email. | |
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Welcome to the Commercial Truck Success Idealetter!
Published every other week, the Idealetter is be a brief one-page thought starter and news source for busy commercial sales professionals and managers with numerous links to the Commercial Truck Success website and many other links to useful information, tools and inspiration!
Please feel free to offer comments and suggestions for future topics that are of interest to you. Also, please forward this to others you wish to share it with. There is a forward email link at the bottom of this page. I wish you success! Keep up the good work! And, never stop learning! - Terry Minion, Editor |
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Outstanding Dealer Websites |
| This is a new spot in the IdeaLetter where we share outstanding dealer commercial websites that we find or are sent to us. Since we also build websites for commercial dealers, we are always looking for those who stand out ahead in website thinking.
This time the spotlight is on:
Sir Walter Chevrolet
Raleigh, North Carolina
Welcome to Sir Walter Chevrolet's Business Central website. This is a very good website--in fact, it is among the best that we have found. Here are some features of their website we appreciated:
- Separate site from retail store with separate domain name: www.sirwaltertrucks.com
- Easy navigation throughout
- Two featured vehicles are on the home page with links to more information.
- Home page is short, sweet and to the point. Nice.
- Nice online specials page with links for more info.
- View vehicles page is very clean and easy to use. What a concept.
- Toll Free phone and address is on every page at eye level. Nice going!
- Payment estimator is very, very simple and easy to use and opens in a smaller separate window. Best I have seen. No need to complicate this as many do.
- Contact Us page is very simple and among the best we have seen. Name, email, question. Couldn't be easier!
- About Us page is my favorite. I always look for photos of sales staff and manager with info (so few have this). Great photos with nice smiles looking good. No suits. Suits in commercial is weird. Email, cell numbers. If someone wants to get hold of you, they have lots of ways on this site. Excellent. Outstanding. Super job.
Now, that being said, here is the real interesting part for me: their retail site is awesome as well.
- On the home page, there are links to their nice blog, facebook link, other links. Way ahead of the curve. Sweet!
- Join Newsletter link on home page. Leading the way is Sir Walter Chevrolet! Nice going.
- Link to the Business Central stays on the retail site, but shows all the commercial people photos and information in a window. This is outstanding.
- The 360 degree view of parts of the dealership is outstanding. Nice, large store.
- Mission statement and much more. Check out the Information tab. Very nicely done.
- On a scale of 1-10, I rate this stores whole web program as a 10. There is more they could and probably will do, but what they have done and are doing is awesome!
- The only thing I would like to see is the rest of the people. Congrats on the commercial troops, but there aren't any other people here. Humanize it. Your human customers will appreciate it.
- Check out their retail site at www.sirwalter.com.
Here's what I like best about these sites:
They are working together!! It is rare enough to get very excited about.
I could go on, and I'll let you check it out for yourself. Our hats are off to the Sir Walter Chevrolet team and their vendor, Clicktomize. These websites, blogs and other tools put them on the leading edge. Go Sir Walter! If you see a dealer commercial truck website that you think is a good one, great one, or outstanding one, please send it on to us. Email address at bottom of page |
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EBY Aluminum Body Lineup. Sweet! |
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Always on the hunt for great bodies, body companies, useful products and I just ran across M.H. Eby who has been in business since 1938 and currently has three locations: Blue Ball, PA, Story City, IA and West Jefferson, OH. According to their website, in the early 1970's they pioneered the switch of the complete EBY line of products to aluminum. There's a lot of that going on now, but that was a gutsy move back then.
EBY's complete line consists of horse trailers, livestock trailers, bulk commodities trailers and truck bodies and they are sold throughout the United States and Canada. Of course, at CTS our main interest is truck bodies, and when I saw photos of the bodies shown above, I was very impressed with the look and width of the product line. I'm only showing a few of the photos that are on their nice website at www.mheby.com.
As I was looking through their site, this is the truck that got my attention first:
I've never been a big advocate of single rear wheel flatbed trucks, but when I saw this truck photo, I thought, my that is one gorgeous truck! The body looks dynamite on that uplevel chassis with the aluminum wheels and red paint. Sweet! I love the fold-down sides and the unique headboard design. We need to see some of these babies out here in California. Every one of them look great.
If you're not already familiar with this company, please check out their comprehensive website or call them at 1-800-292-4752 for more information.
Nice to meet you, EBY! |
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Here's Something Fun! |
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Here's something that is totally fun!
Get the Ball!
If you liked that, this one is even funnier:
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NTEA Work Truck Show - March 4,5,6 2009 |
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Redesigned and Improved |
Check out the redesigned and improved Commercial Truck Success reference website at www.comtrk.com. New larger size, center line main menu, easier navigation. Growing daily with currently over 120 pages, over 1,000 photographs and hundreds of links to suppliers and product websites all across the country for common and not so common bodies and other applications.
Keep telling us your thoughts on making it better and we'll keep changing it for the better. It will be expanding dramatically in the next 30-90 days, so keep looking! |
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