Anyone from East TN at the Corral?

Thanks guys. I am Excited!

Leadsled Coupe said:

Thanks guys. I am Excited!

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So, did they force you to turn in your notice?

Michael Yount said:

LS3-Powered 1982 Volvo 242 DL 5-Speed

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$25k! Almost half way to $50k!

93Cobra#2771 said:

So, did they force you to turn in your notice?

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Not yet. They have some conflict of interest system thing with their official response coming. I'll stay collecting theri money as long as it's coming. Meanwhile I have letterhead paper being drafted with my logo etc and I'll draft up a killer introduction and send it out to all US /Canada commercial and art foundries. I have a list of all of the commercial already and most decent sized art foundries.

When I joined the investment casting institute this week they posted my logo all over FB and LinkedIn.

The old story about what does the dog do with the bus when he catches it -- you might want to phase your mail-out a bit Chris. If a ton of interest occurs all at once you won't be able to respond with the kind of customer service that I know is your hallmark. I learned that lesson the hard way during the first year of the 10 that I earned a living as a consultant.

Great point and I am VERY happy to have you and your expertise and experience to help guide me. ) )

Michael Yount said:

The old story about what does the dog do with the bus when he catches it -- you might want to phase your mail-out a bit Chris. If a ton of interest occurs all at once you won't be able to respond with the kind of customer service that I know is your hallmark. I learned that lesson the hard way during the first year of the 10 that I earned a living as a consultant.

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Beat me to it, Michael. I’ve been a part of large campaigns like that, both mailing and digital. It is imperative you stage the contacts. Send out X number, and then follow up with personalized contact such as physically calling.

Initial contact without immediate follow up is wasted contact.

Maintaining a database of who/when initially contacted and then your follow up activity is helpful as well. There are actually pretty reasonable prices database systems out there for that type of activity. Can set calendar events, syncing with phone calendar etc. I purchased one called “Daylight” when I was doing sales.

Sage advice.

93Cobra#2771 said:

Beat me to it, Michael. I’ve been a part of large campaigns like that, both mailing and digital. It is imperative you stage the contacts. Send out X number, and then follow up with personalized contact such as physically calling.

Initial contact without immediate follow up is wasted contact.

Maintaining a database of who/when initially contacted and then your follow up activity is helpful as well. There are actually pretty reasonable prices database systems out there for that type of activity. Can set calendar events, syncing with phone calendar etc. I purchased one called “Daylight” when I was doing sales.

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Awesome. Thanks that's killer!!

93Cobra#2771 said:

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Thanks Richard. I was listening to a podcast Fri on a similar product and how good they are to use. I have to get some customers to get funds to buy this stuff lol.

Leadsled Coupe said:

Thanks Richard. I was listening to a podcast Fri on a similar product and how good they are to use. I have to get some customers to get funds to buy this stuff lol.

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Yeah I had about six months of potential customers. I got it mainly for the mass email function. There are some cloud based services that may be better to use now. What I liked about daylite was it didn’t look like a mass email. I kept the email unique but simple that it looked like a personalized email. It took a bit of time but I started getting some decent business from my “e-mail cold calls”. Even more fun was when someone sent a mass email and cc a bunch of people instead of bcc. Guess who went and sniped all those contacts and added to their database (raises hand).

at one point I had a mailing list of over 2000 potential customers. I would group email 200-300 per week. Then get 10-20 RFQ. I’d process those and follow up with phone calls. By the time that was done it would be a new week and I’d start the process all over again. I went from zero to roughly $300,000 in sales in - couple of years times. Then the recession of 06-07 hit.

That story is also very helpful Richard. I will look into similar programs in the cloud as I'll want to run a non iOS.

End of the auction is getting pretty interesting....

Highest price 240 in BAT's history!

Congrats!

Congrats Michael. Well done to the end!

Thx guys - yeah Don, just honest. He was young with a way different risk profile than me. I talked to him live on the phone. He said he had his “bad idea jeans” on. Pretty funny.

I remember that, there were a lot of posts that were interesting, various people showing their interest in Volvo's or any other brands. They appreciated the effort in your car, I think a lot of people watch the BAT site and enjoy the huge array of different vehicles. I don't look there much, but it is better than browsing youtube or some animal or facebook site, killing time. I could learn things and get productive ideas from seeing other cars that have been modified.