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🌐 𝘚𝘪 𝘷𝘪𝘢𝘨𝘨𝘪𝘢 𝘱𝘦𝘳 𝘭𝘢𝘷𝘰𝘳𝘰 𝘰 𝘱𝘦𝘳 𝘥𝘪𝘭𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘰, 𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘳𝘪 𝘴𝘪 𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘢𝘯𝘰 𝘪 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘪 𝘯𝘢𝘻𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘪 𝘪𝘯 𝘢𝘶𝘵𝘰, 𝘰𝘱𝘱𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘥𝘰𝘱𝘰 𝘶𝘯 𝘷𝘰𝘭𝘰 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘰𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘰 𝘴𝘪 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦 𝘶𝘯'𝘢𝘶𝘵𝘰 🚙 𝘢 𝘯𝘰𝘭𝘦𝘨𝘨𝘪𝘰 .. 𝘢𝘣𝘣𝘪𝘢𝘮𝘰 𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘢𝘵𝘰 𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘢 𝘱𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘻𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘦 ?

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Used SUVs in Ellensburg WA

Looking for a used SUV in Ellensburg, WA? Look no further than Jet Motorsports! We offer a fantastic range of pre-owned SUVs, from compact crossovers to spacious family vehicles. Our inventory is carefully selected to include top brands and models known for their quality and reliability. Each vehicle undergoes a thorough inspection to ensure excellent condition. Visit the Jet Motorsports website today to explore our inventory and find your perfect used SUV in Ellensburg, WA. Get ready to embark on your next adventure with confidence!

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Effective Ways to Attract Customers to Your Car Service Business | 5 Unique Ideas

Attracting customers to your car service business can be daunting, especially when the market is filled with the best service providers. But quality alone doesn’t contribute to attracting customers; you have to step onto all the opportunities that will connect the potential buyer to your brand. How customers experience your service is another thing that will determine your sales stability. So, if you are new in the automobile industry, you have to the right place. Because these five unique general car business ideas boost your sales instantly. Satisfying them and ensuring effective customer retention further depends on your strategies in that regard. For now, we will discuss five effective ways to attract customers to your car service business. Let’s get to it!

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Join venture/ Strategic Partnership

Adopting strategic partnerships is one of the best ways to increase your customer stream in auto repair business. A joint venture or becoming a franchise to an automobile company can be a good idea. The strategic partnership offers multiple options for you. You can become a designated repair shop of any car insurance company. Generally, insurance companies deal in a wide variety of insurances. They don’t maintain an in-house department for claims. They have designated workshops where you send their customers whenever they experience a vehicle accident. This way, as a repair shop, you will have a stable customer flow in your workshop without making separate marketing efforts to increase your business. However, you must comply with insurance company policies in that regard.

Local Marketing

Local marketing includes the promotional activities you carry out surrounding your workshop area. This can be very effective because accessibility is an important consideration for customers when it comes to choosing an auto repair shop. Creating offers for people who can actually avail of them is a better choice since they can be easily encouraged to take purchase decisions.

Local promotional marketing campaigns include signboards and pamphlets. Brochures that will let people learn about your value offers. You can personally encourage incoming customers to come again by offering second-purchase discounts. This includes onsite sales on the outlet, value bundle offers, and more carefully configurated sales packages.

Referral Program

One of the best ways to attract a new customer in the general car business is to initiate a referral program and add valuable customer benefits. For instance, when referring a customer, you get a flat 20% off your next purchase when he gets a service. The business also offers a free surprise gift or complimentary services in a referral program. You can add whatever is possible for you. Here is a short list of ideas:

Discounts or coupons.

Giveaways or free subscriptions.

Branded Items such as a keychain, bottle, pen, diary or other things

Store credits or points.

Flat discounts

Paid ads Campaigns

Social media Ads and Google pay-per-click is another highly effective idea to attract increasing numbers of customers to your car service business. Social media paid ad campaign helps you increase your sales leads by increasing your brand reach to millions of people. Platform-sponsored content appears on users’ timelines regardless of whether they follow the page or not. When paid ads increases brand exposure, it helps them in multiple purposes:

Increase brand awareness

Increase followers

Page impressions

Sales leads

Customer engagement

Website traffic

Conclusion

These five unique ideas general car business ideas will help you drive more customer footfall to your workshop with the minimum or least required efforts. You can go for a massive marketing program requiring millions of dollars. But if you are looking for a productive approach that will yield maximum results with minimum investment, then going for these strategies is a wise choice. Let’s learn more about increasing sales in the auto repair business in our next blog.

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Bugatti Bolide Model 2023 by Artofvibration

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Tesla for Sale: Buyer’s Remorse Sinks In for Elon Musk’s E.V.-Owning Critics

When Jennifer Trebb first pulled into her driveway two years ago with her sleek Tesla Model Y, it was — as she put it — “kind of like a ‘Back to the Future’ moment.” She was helping the environment, she said, but driving a Tesla also had cachet. “It was definitely a little bit of a cool moment to have something that was innovative and different,” she said. But Ms. Trebb recently made a U-turn,…

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WHAT I REALLY THINK ABOUT THESE 2023 KIA SPORTAGE | FIVE STAR SUV OR NO ...

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My Mom & I Getting Birthday Party Supplies

File:Ufo 2 rend 1.png This dream took place during the day in a fictional city, and I was inside a house with my mom. My mom wanted to go buy some food & other supplies for a birthday party or some kind of other party before it was too late. We had some kind of light thing (machine) or something that was going to be used at the party. Continue reading My Mom & I Getting Birthday Party Supplies

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[donaldfunk]

Maximizing Customer Satisfaction in Your Auto Body Repair Business: A Guide to Service Quality

Once out in the market, every auto repair business will surely provide competitive services. Still, the satisfaction level of each customer would vary depending on the experience he had with the service provider. But customer experience includes more than just service quality. It includes each and everything on which customer satisfaction is relied upon. For instance, if you provide excellent service to your customers, but the customer has to wait for long hours, or your workers don’t even communicate with him, proper break down properly. Maybe with your excellent repair service, he still wouldn’t want to return. Today’s customers are more powerful and independent; any mistreatment on your part won’t just make you lose your client but also risk your negative word of mouth in the market. The blog shares a few things to be careful with to improve your customer experience and satisfaction.

Improved Communication

Communication is one of the most crucial elements in your business success. Everything lies in how eloquently you sell your idea to your customer and how convinced they are with your words. It doesn’t just help your prospects turn into customers but also turns them into satisfied customers. When you maintain enough transparency with your customers, they tend to find you reliable, such as sharing the proper breakdown of cost, including repair part price, service charges and all. This will make your customer find the value of money in spending every cent.

Assisting customers through the repair process is one of the factors that leads them to come back. The more quickly they get what they came for, the more satisfied they are. Therefore, make you’re your customer service representatives provide proper guidance to them.

Embracing Ethical Practices

Many business startups over-commit their offerings when running marketing campaigns because this attracts more customers. Customers feel betrayed and lose confidence in the service providers when they don't get the service as promised. Therefore, businesses should be careful of what they commit to their customers. Once you have promised, make sure you fulfil it. Try to embrace ethical practices such as don’t cheat, deceiving and fooling your customers with low-quality products and services just for some short-term gains.

When it comes to the auto repair industry, Ethical practices include promising just what you can provide, having skilled workers and having user-friendly policies to avoid being inflexible and inconsiderate to your customer loss. As no business can guarantee 100$% default-free service, always keep a policy of return and exchange. You can say no to a refund but can offer an exchange or re-do services until the customer is satisfied. This way, neither will you lose your customer, nor would it cause your extra money?

The Importance of Customer Feedback

The job doesn’t get completed until you get the customer’s feedback on it. Customer feedback is a crucial element for your business's success. Whether it is negative or positive, customer feedback will always help you move in the right direction with your service offering. They teach you better where you need improvements. You can more accurately design your value proposition when you know how your target market thinks, want and buy. This is why even successful business giants keep a separate department that handles customer feedback and identifies how to improve their products and services. When you give importance to your customer services and make adjustments to your offerings, your customers feel like they are heard and begin to connect with your brand even more than before.

Going an Extra Mile

Gone were the days when businesses used to abide by tight, inflexible policies. In this era of consumerism with cutthroat competition, if you want to survive the battle, you will have to go the extra mile from what is normal. Going the extra mile can include exclusive deals, complimentary services, loyalty programs and much more.

Conclusion

Many successful businesses focus on increasing their customer base by attracting new customers with lucrative marketing strategies. While on the other hand, if they lack in handling proper customer complaints and after-sale service, then they are getting a new customer and simultaneously losing the previous ones. Building customer trust and creating a stable customer base is much more crucial for an auto repair business. This blog is a short guide that points out multiple ways to build customer trusts that would help small startups and large enterprises seek stable growth.

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Another reason oil companies use to raise prices on gasoline and home heating fuels is when there are no other issues. ‘The weather is too hot!’

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TAEVision 3D Design Applications Automotive CITY LIGHTS Porsche Cayenne 5-door SUV mid-size luxury CrossOver sport utility vehicle OffRoad ▸ TAEVision Engineering on Pinterest ▸ TAEVision Engineering on Google Photos

Data 444 - Jul 23, 2023

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Snowflake Day Tree + Activities

I actually started to make this two years ago and forgot about it but then I got the idea to do it again and remembered that I had already written most of the code. It was sort of like finding money in your pocket you'd forgotten about. 😂

Much like in real life, I prefer to spend my holidays in-game with family instead of randoms and I just want to open presents without having to throw a Gift Giving party. So I made a Christmas Snowflake Day tree to do that where you can decorate and add gifts to open on Snowflake Day.

I also added some holiday activities for kids and toddlers if you have the More Activities Activity Table. It's an add-on so you need that mod (and whatever requirements go with it) if you don't already.

Enjoy and Merry Christmas!

More info after the cut and Updates here

Decorate the Tree (this is meant as a joinable group activity so you can invite others to join; up to 4 Sims (child+) can decorate) 

Add Tree Topper (if you have any)

Hang Ornaments (if you have any)

Turn On/Off Lights (if decorated)

Admire Ornaments (sims may get a nice holiday moodlet - Holiday Memories buff)

Add Gift for…

Look at Presents (get information on how many gifts are under the tree and to whom)

Steal Presents (only for Klepto, rebellious, Evil, Mean-spirited; you will get in trouble if someone sees)

Sneak a Peek at Presents - to check out any of your gifts

Invite Everyone to Open Presents - for Snowflake Day, brings everyone on the lot to open gifts under the tree; if someone doesn’t have gifts, they will watch others open presents and if they are in the household they will get a sad buff. Gifts improve relationship score if Sims like it; does nothing if they don’t but if they get too many gifts they don’t like, they can complain about it.

Open Gifts - self explanatory. If you don’t want to gather everyone together, you can open gifts at any time on Snowflake Day. Depending on how many gifts you like/don't like, you will get a special moonlet (Feeling Grateful/Bummer Holiday)

Take Down Decorations

Put Away Tree

Sims can also:

Ask for holiday presents…Toy | Book | Vehicle | Computer | Electronics | Jewelry | Decor | Hobby Object | Sports Object

This is a one-time interaction that Sims can use on any family or household member. If a sim gets what they asked for, they will get a special buff (Just What I Wanted)

Thank for Presents (if they had a particularly good Snowflake Day)

Complain about Presents (if they had a bad one)

With the MAAT add-on, children and toddlers can also:

Make handmade ornaments and hang them on the tree. The ornaments can be stored in the decorations box.

Make handmade Snowflake Day cards for friends and family (kids only). You can give them directly to Sims or put them under the tree as a gift.

Notes and Recommendations:

To be able to utilize all the tree features, make sure there is enough space around the entire tree for Sims to gather and interact with the tree

Your Sims need to have a giftable object in their personal or household inventory to add a present to the tree

When a Sim has asked for a gift, the game checks whether any of the gifts they receive are in the same buy subcategory or object type as what they asked for so if, as example, a kid asks for a toy and you get them a cc toy that is categorized as a plant or deco object in the game, it’s not going to count. 

To gift jewelry, you need the TS3 Store Jewelry Machine or any custom wearable jewelry objects that is the same object type as the Store Jewelry box object

If you don't have my activities table mod and don't want it, then don't download the two MAAT files.

Requires Generations, Showtime (actually I don't think you need Showtime. I think I wanted to use something from it but then didn't but I'm sure one of you will confirm for me 😭) and Seasons

Details and Instructions:

The tree and box can be purchased in the Entertainment/Hobbies Section (300 and 200, respectively), the tree topper in the Misc Deco (90) or they can all be found in the custom Snowflake Day collection file.

To decorate the tree, your Sim needs both the tree object and the decorations box. Custom ornaments and tree toppers go into the decorations box.

The tree comes with a default decoration but you can create and add your own tree decorations. The file has an XML (HolidayTreeDecorations) where you can add the Resource Key, Group ID for the OBJD of the decoration, whatever name you want to call it, whether you want it to light up or not, and the image (if you don’t want a custom image, just use the default one in my first entry).

Credits: Meshes by EA, tree deco is from Coral Island (I hope Stairway Games doesn't come for me!!) and the ornaments are by me and Freepik. Images are EA and Flaticons. Animations by EA and me.

Download here

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Degrowth basics

"The word degrowth stands for a family of political-economic approaches that, in the face of today’s accelerating planetary ecological crisis, reject unlimited, exponential economic growth as the definition of human progress."

What is Degrowth? | Caracol DSA

Why degrowth is the only responsible way forward | OpenDemocracy

Degrowth and MMT: A thought experiment

We Need A Fair Way To End Infinite Growth | Current Affairs

Degrowth: A Call for Radical Abundance | Common Dreams

Can degrowth save us and the planet? | Nottingham Trent

Defending limits is not Malthusian | Undisciplined Environments

Can We Have Prosperity Without Growth? | New Yorker

The Urgent Case for Shrinking the Economy | The New Republic

Giving Up on Economic Growth Could Make Us Cooler and Happier | The New Republic

A guide to degrowth: The movement prioritizing wellbeing in a bid to avoid climate cataclysm | CNBC

What is ‘degrowth’ and how can it fight climate change? | Popular Science

Enough for Everyone | Yes! Magazine

Toward a Post-Capitalist Future: On the Growth of “Degrowth” | Lit Hub

All we are saying is give degrowth a chance | The RSA

A pathway out of environmental collapse | newsroom

On Technology and Degrowth | Monthly Review

What is degrowth (and more importantly, what is it not)? | META

Green growth

"There is no empirical evidence that absolute decoupling from resource use can be achieved on a global scale against a background of continued economic growth."

Is Green Growth Possible? | Jason Hickel & Giorgos Kallis

The Myth of America’s Green Growth | Foreign Policy

The decoupling delusion: rethinking growth and sustainability | The Conversation

Is green growth happening? | Uneven Earth

Green Growth | Uneven Earth

The Delusion of Infinite Economic Growth | Scientific American

Degrowth is not austerity – it is actually just the opposite | Al Jazeera

A response to Paul Krugman: Growth is not as green as you might think | Timothée Parrique

Deceitful Decoupling: Misconceptions of a Persistent Myth | Alevgul H. Sorman

Degrowth isn’t the same as a recession – it’s an alternative to growing the economy forever | The Conversation

Degrowth and the left

"In the middle of an ecological emergency, should we be producing sport utility vehicles and mansions? Should we be diverting energy to support the obscene consumption and accumulation of the ruling class?"

The Left should embrace degrowth | New Internationalist

Ecosocialism is the Horizon, Degrowth is the Way | The Trouble

Degrowth: Socialism without Growth | Brave New Europe

Toward an Ecosocialist Degrowth: From the Materially Inevitable to the Socially Desirable | Monthly Review

For an Ecosocialist Degrowth | Monthly Review

Degrowth and Revolutionary Organizing | Rosa Luxemburg NYC

The necessity of ecosocialist degrowth | Rupture

Degrowth is Anti-Capitalist | Protean Mag

Degrowth Communism | PPPR (Part one | Part two | Part three)

Economic Planning and Degrowth: How Socialism Survives the 21st Century | New Socialist

Degrowth and the South

"Southern countries should be free to organize their resources and labor around meeting human needs rather than around servicing Northern growth."

Who is afraid of degrowth? A Global South economic perspective | IBON Foundation

The anti-colonial politics of degrowth | Jason Hickel

Unlearning: From Degrowth to Decolonization | Rosa Luxemburg NYC

Degrowth requires the Global South to default on its foreign debts | Resilience

Journals/Reports

Degrowth: a theory of radical abundance | Jason Hickel

A systematic review of the evidence on decoupling of GDP, resource use and GHG emissions, part II: synthesizing the insights

What does degrowth mean? A few points of clarification | Jason Hickel

Providing decent living with minimum energy: A global scenario | Global Environmental Change

Urgent need for post-growth climate mitigation scenarios | Nature Energy

Degrowth and critical agrarian studies | Julien-François Gerber

Decoupling debunked – Evidence and arguments against green growth as a sole strategy for sustainability | European Environmental Bureau

Incrementum ad Absurdum: Global Growth, Inequality and Poverty Eradication in a Carbon-Constrained World | David Woodward

Degrowth can work — here’s how science can help | Nature

A New Political Economy for a Healthy Planet | Jason Hickel

Planning beyond growth. The case for economic democracy within limits

Millionaire spending incompatible with 1.5 °C ambitions | Cleaner Production Letters

Is green growth happening? An empirical analysis of achieved versus Paris-compliant CO2–GDP decoupling in high-income countries | The Lancet

Books

Exploring Degrowth: A Critical Guide | Pluto Press

A People's Green New Deal | Max Ajl

Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World | Jason Hickel

Breaking Things at Work: The Luddites Are Right About Why You Hate Your Job | Verso Books

The Future is Degrowth: A Guide to a World Beyond Capitalism | Verso Books

The Imperial Mode of Living: Everyday Life and the Ecological Crisis of Capitalism | Verso Books

Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism | Kohei Saito

Degrowth & Strategy: how to bring about social-ecological transformation

27 Essays and Thoughts on Degrowth | Giorgos Kallis

Videos

Yes To Limits To Growth! | The Other School

How Degrowth Can Save the World | Andrewism

How We End Consumerism | Our Changing Climate

Demystifying Degrowth | Rosa Luxemburg NYC

Degrowth is not Austerity | John the Duncan

Degrowth and Ecosocialism | Planet: Critical

Degrowth in 7 minutes: Fighting for climate by living better | Think That Through

The Future is Degrowth (w/ Aaron Vansintjan) || SRSLY WRONG

"Degrowth means power to the working class!"with Jason Hickel | GND Media

Others

degrowth.info

Degrowth Journal

Doughnut Economics