Mar 31 2008

Thank Your Customers

Tag: Generaladmin @ 8:05 am

By Bob Winkfield

I’ve called on business selling advertising for more than 20 years. The most common comment I hear is that the best advertising comes from word of mouth. That statement is quite true. Often business owners, even though they quote this statement don’t tap into that vital resource to build their businesses. Your satisfied customers and clients will tell others about your business or service. It is commonly known that it is less expensive to retain a current client or customer that it is to recruit a new client or customer. So, given these truisms, why wouldn’t a business owner devote resources to market to their existing customer base? I often hear the comment that “well my current customers are coming to me anyway, why I should offer them an incentive?” The answer is TO KEEP THEM COMING BACK! In business today, competition is everywhere; consumers are continually being bombarded by special offers promotions and incentives by your competitors. It is vitally important for you to keep your clients coming back to you!

Through the Equilibrix email marketing plans, we create a database (mailing list) of your regular clients or customers. On a monthly basis we create and email your information to your database. The information you send to your clients will depend on the type of business you operate. If you operated a car wash as example, you would want to include information on how to maintain your automobile in top condition, and offer a coupon incentive to return to your car wash for the best wash & service ever. ALWAYS Thank your customer for their continued patronage. You appreciate their business…tell them that!

If, as an example you are in a service business like a mortgage broker, you would want to create an email database of the realtors, who send you business. The mortgage market is continually evolving with rates and loan programs changing constantly. Pass that information on to those folks who refer business to you! Rather than a discount coupon like the car wash, maybe you would suggest that the realtors email or call you to enter a drawing for a Free business lunch at a favorite local restaurant. You want to keep those referrals coming in!


Mar 26 2008

Whole Foods in Plantation - Announcing 5% Day for The Kids Ecology Corps!

Tag: Environment, NEWSadmin @ 10:25 pm

Announcing 5% Day for The Kids Ecology Corps!

What: Support KEC at Whole Foods for 5% Day!

When: Tuesday, April 8, 8:00 AM until 8:30pm

Whole Foods in Plantation

7720 Peters Road
 
Who should come: All supporters of The Kids Ecology Corps, friends and family

Why: Whole Foods in Plantation has chosen The Kids Ecology Corps for their 5% Day! 5% of all sales are donated to The Kids Ecology Corps! Help support our environmental programs by doing your shopping that day!

The Kids Ecology Corps will be there all day with children's activities and crafts, games and information on lowering your carbon footprint, protecting the environment and becoming a "Climate Change Activist".

Please help support The Kids Ecology Corps by doing your week's shopping on April 8th at the Whole Foods in Plantation.

Call us at 954-524-0366 for more info or email us at kec@kidsecologycorps.org.

Hope to see you there!

Volunteers to help at our table would be appreciated in 3 hour shifts from 2-8pm. Service hours will be given. Please RSVP to Toby Lopez by Friday April 4th.

Toby K. Lopez
Community and Volunteer Outreach Coordinator
The Kids Ecology Corps
1350 East Sunrise Blvd., Suite 106
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33304
Tel.:   954-524-0366
FAX:  954-462-9182

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Mar 14 2008

Last nights School Board meeting tenatively approves a plan

Tag: Generaladmin @ 7:36 am

My wife attended this meeting and from the sounds of things, it was a bees nest of issues and upset concerned  parents.

Below is an article form Sun-Sentinel this morning summarizing the meeting:

School Board OKs reshuffling thousands of SW Broward students
By Akilah Johnson |  Sun-Sentinel.com
5:45 AM EDT, March 14, 2008

After nearly nine hours of heated and contentious debate about how to reshuffle thousands of students in Southwest Broward, the School Board tentatively approved a plan early Friday:

Send all of Southwest Ranches and pockets of Davie and Pembroke Pines to West Broward High School in Pembroke Pines; a chunk of Weston to Western High in Davie; and a hunk of Miramar High students to Everglades High in Miramar.

The Whole Article:
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/

Also from Sun-Sentinel there are two videos and the map with changes available:
The Board Meeting
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/video/?slug=sfl-0313boundaries.video

Cypress Bay
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/video/?slug=sfl-0312cyprus.video

School Boundary Map
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/broward/sfl-westonhsboundaries,0,699630.flash

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This is an important document which all the changes may be based on:

Enrollment and Facilities Planning Inventory (EFPI)
School Facility Data Provided by Facilities and Construction Management
Policy 5000 Standards for Overcrowded Schools
Revised: Thursday, February 07, 2008

 

This was supposed to be the list of attendees:

Boundaries Discussion
School Board Workshop V
February 13, 2008

Robin Bartleman, Chair
Maureen S. Dinnen, Vice-Chair
Beverly A. Gallagher
Jennifer Leonard Gottlieb
Phyllis C. Hope
Stephanie Arma Kraft, Esq.
Robert D. Parks, Ed.D.
Eleanor Sobel
Benjamin J. Williams
James F. Notter
Superintendent of Schools
Katherine Blasik, Ph.D., Associate Superintendent
Research, Evaluation, Assessment, & Boundaries
Jill Young, Director, School Boundaries
Thomas Getz, Director, Capital Planning and Programming
Patrick Sipple, Noelle Mecoli, Joseph Beck, Demographer Specialists, School Boundaries
Area Superintendents: Dr. Verda Farrow, Dr. Joel Herbst, Dr. Joanne Harrison, Dr. Leontine Butler

 

 


Mar 13 2008

Broward School Board Meeting TONIGHT!

Tag: Generaladmin @ 8:51 am

Parents furious as thousands of students reassigned in SW Broward
By Akilah Johnson |  South Florida Sun-Sentinel

As far as high school boundaries and southwest Broward County are concerned, this much is clear: Parents are furious, students dismayed.

Thousands of teens in Cooper City, Southwest Ranches, Davie, Pembroke Pines and Weston must switch schools in the fall. The shuffling uproots tradition and deepens resentment among communities.

Tonight's Hearing - The first of two School Board hearings on proposed boundary changes is at 5:30 p.m. at the Plantation High School auditorium, 6901 NW 16th St., Plantation.

Read the complete story
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/