Session Start: Sun Apr 13 21:56:12 2008

[21:56] *** Tim_Away is now known as TIm_Drobnick_Sr

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[22:02] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> hello mickey

[22:02] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> hello angelica

[22:02] <Angelica_G> hiii Tim

[22:02] <Angelica_G> I have miss the archives

[22:02] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> oh

[22:02] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> i will put those up

[22:03] <Angelica_G> thank you Tim

[22:03] <Mickey_Mixon> Hi Tim, Angelica.

[22:03] <Angelica_G> hi Mickey

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[22:04] <Dale_Cable> hi everyone

[22:04] <Angelica_G> hi Dale

[22:05] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> angelica, the other night when joy wray left, then came back in and you asked if she had left, and then started talking about how she was afraid to talk to me and was not making money, it was somone impostering her

[22:07] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> hello dale

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[22:07] <Paulette_Nurse> Hello everyone!

[22:08] <Angelica_G> yeah I thought that was pretty odd

[22:08] <Mickey_Mixon> Hi Paulette, Dale.

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[22:08] <Angelica_G> thanks for telling me - I guess we have to be cautios

[22:08] <Angelica_G> hi Paulette

[22:09] <John_Gosselin> Hello!

[22:09] <Angelica_G> hi John

[22:09] <Paulette_Nurse> Hi John

[22:09] <Dale_Cable> hi john,paulette,mickey

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[22:09] <John_Gosselin> Hi Marvin

[22:10] <Marvin_Davis> Hi Tim

[22:10] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> joy said she does not spell bad as that person was doing

[22:10] <Paulette_Nurse> Hi Marvin

[22:10] <Marvin_Davis> Hi John

[22:10] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> hello paulette, john and marvin

[22:10] <Dale_Cable> hi marvin

[22:10] <Marvin_Davis> Hi Paulette

[22:10] <John_Gosselin> Hi Tim

[22:10] <Paulette_Nurse> Tim, is it possible to have additional email addresses that I can give to sales associates, or is it better to use admin@victoriacityportal.com

[22:11] <Marvin_Davis> Hi Dale,MickeyAngelica

[22:11] <Paulette_Nurse> for everyone

[22:12] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> paulette you may have others if you like

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[22:14] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> hi bob

[22:14] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> ok the archives are updated, http://portaldirectormeeting.com/archives.html

[22:14] <John_Gosselin> Hi Bob

[22:14] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> paulette, give me the other emails you want and i will create them for you

[22:14] <Dale_Cable> hi bob

[22:14] <Bob_Lazor> Hi Everyone

[22:15] <John_Gosselin> Tim - when will you be updating tickets?

[22:15] <Angelica_G> thank you Tim

[22:16] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> john i updated some this evening, and the techs have been, give me the posting number and i will look at it

[22:16] <John_Gosselin> I have several over a week old and some new

[22:16] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> ok  i will look thru just yours and see

[22:17] <John_Gosselin> OK

[22:19] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> john, like this one right:  I am trying to asign a batch of current free listing leads to my new sales rep - and want to do it by zip code, but can't find a way other than edit them 1 at a time. Is that something you could do manually for me Tim? Would you also condsider adding by Zip Code in the batch re-assign leads drop down box? Thanks, John

[22:19] <Paulette_Nurse> Tim can you create one for associate@victoriacityportal.com,and homepageprizedraw@victoriacityportal.com

[22:19] <Paulette_Nurse> thanks Tim

[22:19] <John_Gosselin> Yes, I can not sort by zip code on the pre-loaded leads - and I'm trying to have my Sales Rep only work in his zipcode

[22:22] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> John, you can either assign all the free business listins from one salesperson to another salesperson, or you can reassign them one at a time.

[22:22] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> There is not a function to only assign free listings by zip code.

[22:22] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> However, if you are refering to the leads, those are open so all salespeople can see them, until they create a free listing from it.  

[22:22] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> At that point it is taken out of the pool of leads so other salespeople will not call it.

[22:22] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> You can tell your salespeople to only work on zip codes from the l

[22:23] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> lead base,

[22:23] <John_Gosselin> Well, after our chat, that is what I thought I would do Tim - but the sort by zip code pruduces a page of errors which I pasted a few in the ticket

[22:27] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> yes i see that

[22:27] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> john, first you must move all black candles out of your room

[22:28] <John_Gosselin> ?  Hugh... Is that why nothing works?

[22:30] <John_Gosselin> All this time I was looking for the black cat...

[22:30] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> thats right

[22:30] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> i am looking at it

[22:30] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> did anyone see the Executive Promoter site

[22:31] <John_Gosselin> I saw it...

[22:31] <Paulette_Nurse> I did Tim, I have a question

[22:31] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> yes go ahead.

[22:31] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> I realze that most of you do not fit the profile for EP, but if you find one for us I will give you a finders fee

[22:32] <Paulette_Nurse> Right now I am doing a lot of the promotion that yu have suggested the Promoter do, should Directors stop promoting

[22:33] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> Paulette, no

[22:33] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> Paulette, what I am looking for on promoters, is someone tha may be able to get us exposure over large areas

[22:33] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> I expect they will take on many cities, and then use TV or Radio or such ,

[22:33] <Paulette_Nurse> State or Province wide

[22:34] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> but you need to keep doing what you do on a local bases

[22:34] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> right

[22:34] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> I can't tell them which areas to work, so that is why the portals are ala carte, i wanted to do it by state or province, but we would have to switch over to a franchise format to do that

[22:35] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> what I am doing with this is taking 25% of the $100 fees you pay me, and turning it over to professional promoters to help you out even more

[22:36] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> this is why I have to approve them, it wont' be everyone that asks to be an EP,

[22:36] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> and more than likely they will need to come visit me inperson,

[22:36] <Paulette_Nurse> Do you have checks and balances in place to monitor if the promoter is actually promoting in a state/province/area

[22:36] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> I was planning on releasing this at the DRA meeting in Vegas on may 2nd, because there are some very big time promoters there, but now that meeting has been delayed, so I released it now

[22:36] <Bob_Lazor> Tim Does it make sense to add a link to site like AutoMart which has a US Alexa rank of 5,300 to get some traffic?

[22:37] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> Bob, that will only increase your traffic if automart also links back to you

[22:38] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> Paulette, yes, I do, but I am not giving out all the info on the site. I am looking to make some good alliances with some powerful promoters that will help our entire system.  This will require me getting to know them, and building a working relationship with them.

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[22:38] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> For example, the EP that has worked with me for the last 2 years to help get all this tested and put together, has been the CEO of a 100 million dollar corporation.  NOw that this is ready he has resigned to do this fullt ime.

[22:38] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> hi jim

[22:39] <Angelica_G> Tim that is great idea and I appreciate all the efforts you are putting into promoting the portals

[22:39] <Ed_Bremer> ge all

[22:39] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> Angelica you are welcome.  

[22:39] <Jmi_Johnson> Hi

[22:39] <Marvin_Davis> Tim could it be a PD that becomes a Ex.P.

[22:39] <Marvin_Davis> Hi Bob,Angelica

[22:39] <John_Gosselin> Tim - I am glad you are so optimisitc in this new promotion - however, I feel it is jumping the gun... It would be a bigger help to most of us to take that $25 and put it on technical support

[22:39] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> marvin yes, but you will need to convice me that you have the skills and resources to get us in the media, promote us,

[22:39] <Dale_Cable> hi ed,jim

[22:39] <Paulette_Nurse> Hi Ed, Jim

[22:40] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> John G, this is not jumping the gun, its been part of my plan for years

[22:40] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> John G, remember, taht $25 does not exist yet

[22:40] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> that $25 is created by the EP,

[22:40] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> when those $25 are created, that leaves $75 for building the business, minues head hunter fees

[22:41] <Marvin_Davis> so would the PD sale his Portal or would he continue owning the poratl?

[22:41] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> Marvin, PD can be an EP, and EP can own a portal ,

[22:41] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> but not everyone can be an EP

[22:42] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> its my decision who is an EP

[22:42] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> I will be calling about 100 people I know that are heavy promoters to see if they are interested.

[22:42] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> any 5 of those would triple your business for you

[22:43] <John_Gosselin> Tim can you manually update my BLOG - it's been 2 weeks

[22:44] <Marvin_Davis> so what a Ex. does a portal director could continue doing without losing anything because you can't lose waht you never had rt.?

[22:44] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> marvin yes

[22:45] <Bob_Lazor> Tim on the Auto Mall they have a traffic partnership oppty where they give you a branded site you can promote. Like Hometown portal partners with Auto Mall

[22:45] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> Bob, do they give a link back to your portal?

[22:45] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> john G, did you change the password on your blog again?

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[22:46] <John_Gosselin> No nothing - haven't touched it in two weeks

[22:46] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> ok

[22:46] <Ed_Bremer> hi Cyril

[22:46] <Marvin_Davis> Hi cyril

[22:46] <John_Gosselin> Also, any progress on the RSS feeds for listings and coupons and such

[22:46] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> nno

[22:46] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> no

[22:46] <Cyril_Allen> ge everyone, hi Ed,Angelica,John,Marvin,Tim

[22:46] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> hi cyril

[22:47] <Dale_Cable> hi cyril

[22:47] <Cyril_Allen> ge Dale,

[22:47] <John_Gosselin> Tim - you asked me to put the contents of the info.txt file in a ticket so you can upload it - that ticket has never been responded too...  So Alexa is saying that my Portal is an unoffiical Site

[22:47] <Marvin_Davis> Hi Ed, Jim

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[22:48] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> john g, i will look fo rthat ticket, and your blog has been updated

[22:48] <John_Gosselin> TY

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[22:48] <Angelica_G> hi Cyril

[22:48] <John_Gosselin> Is the Sort working or are you still looking at that - I've lost track on that one

[22:49] <Marvin_Davis> wb Ed

[22:49] <Ed-B> thanks

[22:49] <Marvin_Davis> yw Ed

[22:49] <Bob_Lazor> Tim Here is a link to the options they offer, I have taled wuith them and my traffic was an issue     http://www.automart.com/partnerships.php

[22:50] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> bob, i was just wondering if they give a link back to your portal

[22:51] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> john g, the sort by zip code is workign, its just giving error messages at the top, i will try to find out whats causing the error message. in the mean time it is usable

[22:51] <John_Gosselin> Ok

[22:55] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> how was results from everyone this week? listings, sales, contacts, alliances?

[22:56] <John_Gosselin> 1 Sales Rep., 7 Resumes, 3 Presentations, 76 leads, no sales

[22:57] <Angelica_G> Tim I went to get package from chamber of commerce and I was referred to a non-profit ran by leaders of the community who are trying to promote the small businesses, they have 254 stores

[22:57] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> john g, that is a good week

[22:57] <Marvin_Davis> Tim had a bad week i lost my helper and i will have to aquire another one this week if she doesn't return

[22:57] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> Angelica, how did that contact go?

[22:57] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> Marvin where did she go?

[22:57] <Paulette_Nurse> Tim I had one person who committed but did not follow through, how do get the fence sitters off thier butts

[22:57] <Marvin_Davis> droped off the face of the earth don't know!

[22:57] <Angelica_G> I had a great conversation with the Director, she asked me to email flyers and she said she'll distriubte them to her shops

[22:58] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> paulette, thats why you keep the pipeline full, you wont' get them all,

[22:58] <Mickey_Mixon> gn everyone

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[22:58] <Marvin_Davis> gn Mickey

[22:59] <Angelica_G> I am giving a free premium listing to the rotary club in her town

[22:59] <Paulette_Nurse> I realise that Tim, just frustrating sometimes

[23:01] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> paulette yes i know, lets see if we can help on that. had she already said she wanted to buy the listing?

[23:01] <Marvin_Davis> Tim was doing so well with her i hated to lose her but! it's her call so i'll have to move on there is more people just like her out there that wants to make money ha!

[23:01] <Ed-B> talked to two mall marketing directors last week -have app.with one tomorrow10 A.M.--& one kitchen & bath center

[23:03] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> ed, very good!

[23:05] <Ed-B> offering free sound

[23:05] <Paulette_Nurse> Yes she did

[23:05] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> angelica, i assume you feel giving a free listing to the rotary club will help you get to the members also right?

[23:05] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> Paulette, after that did she give a reason or just cancel?

[23:06] <Angelica_G> absolutely - I am hoping they will promote the portal at the community level as well

[23:06] <Paulette_Nurse> She has promised to get back to me, I've sent her the listing for approval and to return by fax to me

[23:07] <Bob_Lazor> When I talked with the PA restaurant Assoc president his main concern was how many eyeballs I was going to deliver

[23:07] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> paulette, just stay in contact with her, not pushy just friendly,

[23:07] <Paulette_Nurse> Maybe she will surprise me this week, I'm also waiting on my dentist who is interested in perhaps PL and a banner

[23:07] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> Bob, if you explain the blue funnel concept, they should see the value of wht you are doing, and that it will improve considerably as you do your job over the next year.

[23:08] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> very good paulette

[23:08] <Marvin_Davis> Tim i have serveral business people waiting on me toreturn with proposals

[23:08] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> marvin, that is very good.  i know you need an assistant however,

[23:09] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> marvin if you attend any organizations, bowling leagus, churches, etc ask around if anyone knows anyone that wants to work on commissoin with you

[23:09] <Marvin_Davis> but i was depending on my techie person to be with me just incase they have some hightech questions for me!

[23:10] <Marvin_Davis> thanks Tim i will get to that right away!

[23:11] <Paulette_Nurse> Marvin I do a listing for any business that I have an appointment, when they see their business in print it does something to a business person

[23:12] <Marvin_Davis> my techie person is my cousin and i wanted to give her the benefit of the doubt or an oppertunity !

[23:12] <Paulette_Nurse> Premium Listing for them to see what it would look like

[23:13] <Marvin_Davis> ok Paulette that sounds like a good idea thank you

[23:13] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> paulette, do you use the print preview for the listing so you are not charged for the listing?

[23:14] <Paulette_Nurse> I love that feature Tim, I use it all the time for the sample PL

[23:16] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> great

[23:16] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> paulette, you do know you can save the HTML from that, and then if you sell it just use the advanced HTML feature instead of rebuilding the listing

[23:17] <John_Gosselin> Tim - getting back to the Alexa info.txt file - it's ticket 692  - but I think you would be better off with the actual file since it has to be all on one line and it looks like a few control characters... I've been able to jump up another 25,000 in rating this week and would like to get this off my to-do list - will you upload it?

[23:17] <Marvin_Davis> thanks Tim for that Tip!

[23:17] <Marvin_Davis> i'll write that down it will come in handy for my new tech!

[23:17] <Paulette_Nurse> Tim, I usually bring the html to Front Page or Dreamweaver for the designer touch

[23:18] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> john, g checking for that ticket

[23:18] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> paulette, good idea

[23:20] <Paulette_Nurse> gn everyone

[23:21] <John_Gosselin> gn Paulette

[23:21] <Ed-B> gn Paulette

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[23:21] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> john g,

[23:21] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> email that to tim@yourhometownportal.com

[23:23] <John_Gosselin> Ok - sent

[23:24] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> john g, how do you notify alexa it is there after i upload it

[23:25] <John_Gosselin> After you upload it, all I have to do is go to edit, hit continue, and there is a "Fetch" feature on the lower right of that next screen

[23:26] <John_Gosselin> The file just needs to be read only

[23:26] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> this file you sent me is not all on one line

[23:27] <John_Gosselin> Can you open in Notepad and remove wrap lines - I must have messed it up - sorry - but that darn notepad defaults to wrapped lines

[23:28] <John_Gosselin> this is what they check:    tim@yourhometownportal.com

[23:28] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> john g did you have to create an account with alexa to use the fetch feature

[23:28] <John_Gosselin> Ops - forget that last one...

[23:28] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> i don't have wrap on, i am using note tab pro, its for programmers

[23:28] <John_Gosselin> this si what they check:  http://www.londonderryportal.com/info.txt

[23:29] <John_Gosselin> No Tim, no extra account - Diamond Sharp has many Sites under one account

[23:29] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> john, but a person has to have an account with alexa to use the fetch option right?

[23:31] <John_Gosselin> I don't know - I have always had an account... I've never tried it without one

[23:31] <John_Gosselin> I'm resending that file -

[23:33] <Bob_Lazor> I am going to call it a night gn all

[23:33] <John_Gosselin> gn Bob

[23:33] <Ed-B> gn Bob

[23:33] <John_Gosselin> Tim - file sent

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[23:33] <Marvin_Davis> gn Bob

[23:35] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> john g it is uploadee

[23:35] <Marvin_Davis> Ed duties call i'll see u all tomorrow, have a great great! monday all, Tim thank you!

[23:36] <Ed-B> gn

[23:37] <Marvin_Davis> goodnight all

[23:37] <John_Gosselin> Thanks Tim  - I just did the fetch, it should update this week and we'll see a better discription in the listings

[23:38] <Marvin_Davis> i'm gone but it will look like i'm still here gn

[23:39] <John_Gosselin> gn Marvin

[23:41] <John_Gosselin> Well - I'll call it a night also - Have a good night - Tim Thanks again!  - Have a Great Monday everyone!

[23:41] <Angelica_G> ty John you too!

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[23:47] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> gn everyone

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