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stuarttwiss2018trailride · 6 years ago

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Day 35. Balfour, BC to Revelstoke, BC. 241 miles.

A wonderful day of scenery and a sprinkling of stupidity. Nature and the kindness of others wins in the end!

I have been staying with Cybilla and Steven in their ground floor space overlooking an offshoot of Kootenay lake. I slept well, the weather report is 100% accurate and there's a strong sun in a blue sky.

I seem to be packed and out with ease and the help from Steven to lube the chain speeds me on my way.

Their recommendation for breakfast is the bakery at the Balfour ferry jetty. I get fuel for bike and rider here. The breakfast was made of pastries and muffins washed down with coffee. I have really slipped with my healthy diet, although the vegetable samosa was rich in turmeric.

The port is a hub for gossip and services. The bakery door advertises charter fishing, opera and burlesque. The three interests of the people of Kootenay? The fishing charter boasts 289 rainbow trout over 20lbs. Pictures of people barely holding up giant trout are proof of their successes. Everyone smiles and greets and seems to compete for the most beat up pickup. A family gathering to discuss a recent car auction, the mother laying free newspapers on the plastic seats to protect from the cold. It's chilly but sparkling in the sun. People comment on the improved air quality now that the cooler and wetter weather is helping bring the fires under control.

A last minute check had confirmed that my own route to the US border area remained blocked but I still had a good run planned on gravel and forest trails as far as Edgewood before heading West to Lumby on tarmac.

The ride is scenic, although that phrase does the glory of the landscape no service at all. At every turn the sun glistens on the reflected sky and the layers of mountains are greying into the distant horizon. Trees and water present themselves in every possible divine combination.

I reach the ferry, an untainted spot on the edge of the vast Columbia River. The panorama is astonishing and gazing at it more than occupies the 30 minutes it takes for the ferry to arrive.

The journey across is a rolling presentation of spectacular views, which is a good thing because as it happens I have to make the trip three times and if I hadn't I would not have seen the sparrows.

Leaving the ferry I don't expect to be called on to leave first but suddenly it's all systems go. I zoom off, park up and gather my route up. I have to turn off left as the stream of trucks and RVs head up to Revelstoke. It's a wide logging road which I follow into a weigh station for the 24 wheel logging trucks. Wrong turn, I swing round and head off up the narrower service road. A couple of miles into the trail I am heating up and choosing to take off a layer I find I have no backpack to put it in. Foolish me I will have left it on the ferry which I can see is already heading back and is mid river.

At the terminal the vehicle loaders are helpful but nobody they speak to via radio on the boat or the other side has seen it.

The back pack has some value but what is invaluable is the Spot, GPS tracker attached to it's harness. Spot helps family know where I am and is a lifeline to emergency services. Without it I cannot go on the trails. It also has the major advantage of being a way of tracing the bag. There is no cell coverage on the Shelter Bay side, the only WiFi is on the Galena side.

I am now on the ferry going back. A few hundred yards from Galena I pick up WiFi and Spot's spots appear. Some on the Galena slipway and the last one suspended in mid crossing. The bag was with me on the boat and then disappeared! Logical conclusion that I and two of the deck hands come to, 'Its been stolen!'. We bemoan the avarice of others and lament that this should have happened when most people are so kind.

I am now traveling back to Shelter Bay on the ferry. The ferry has its own family of swallows and the parents feed the young on the wing. I luckily catch some moving pictures of the fledglings bouncing on the boat hawser. Awesome flying and awesome phone camera.

I am back on dry land and, just to be sure I didn't take the bag off where I found I had lost it, I head off down the Forest Service Road. It's not there. I have no signal to check its location either but I am now convinced that theory 1, bag stolen, is indeed the right one.

I had emailed home on the boat, just the briefest, 'bag stolen', but when I get into data service 20km down the road I have already got an inbox full of CCTV and webcam links to the ferry. Then a phone call to share my woes and new plans: police to report stolen, insurance, new Spot supplier etc etc. I have already embellished my theory with villains, a couple on the ferry who acted strangely and shook my hand.

I have a hotel recommendation from home too but go with The Cube in Revelstoke. There I get the only room with its own shower and shower before sitting in the kitchen area to drink coffee, write my blog and bathe my wounds.

At the hotel table I find three new spots on the Shelter Bay side! The bag made it across on the ferry, perhaps it wasn't stolen, perhaps it was dropped.? The spots move but all are within the area of the logging depot where I made a wrong turn. The last spot is at 4.00pm, but no more. I form a new theory, 'Picked up by forestry worker and taken home for safe keeping,'

A while later another hotel guest hears my accent and this prompts a conversation. Soon we are talking origins, holidays and the journey I might take. I show Thea my map and Pieter her husband comes over on the way to his shower. We chat about or lives and recent journeys. They have been down South in Grenada and The Dominican Republic. I have been telling Thea about solo travel and our conversation moves onto Spot. I open up the Spot app and suddenly the 3 spots turn into 20 and all in the same space, the latest at 9.00pm, it hasn't been picked up by a forest worker and taken home, it may be lying on the area right now!

Knowing it is there drives me to want to head on into the back roads but it's dark already and I can't ride without the safety of the Spot tracker. Instead I ask Pieter whom I have known for 5 minutes to take me down to Shelter Bay, a round trip of 48 miles! Surprisingly and without hesitation he says yes!

On the road we talk about near misses and crashes with wild animals and how dangerous night driving is. Pieter has hit a moose and another deer and all but written off his car. He and I chat like old friends and the miles disappear so fast the turn onto the service road catches us out. A quick three point turn and Pieter is now nursing his car down what is a nasty corrugated road which on the dirt bike I had not noticed. I'm mortified.

At the logging depot we search the verges, nothing. Pieter plays his vehicle lights onto the area, nothing. I head up to the weighbridge and hut and, shining a light through the window, see the bag propped up inside. YAY! What a relief! I had dropped it off the back of my bike when turning to get back on track. There were no thieves only people looking out for other people. The ride is on again and I have a night freed from anxiety.

I am so elated and gabble on in the car about the friendliness of strangers. Pieter tells me of his life as the chauffeur of the Liberian Ambassador to the Netherlands and we share EuroRail experiences. We talk of children and grandchildren and the pain of loss. He's tired I know but even so he was yet another friend in need. People are great!

After saying goodnight to Pieter I get out for a quick taco and slaw. More talk with a young couple who, like me missed lunch and dinner and are trying to catch up. Then it's back to my room and this blog, check out the pictures.

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grumpygrandpa · 5 years ago

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Reliable Site Sales Funnels - Site Visitor Call Info - Does Your Touchdown Web Page Collect Any Type Of?

It is uncommon that a very first time site visitor to a web site purchases throughout that initial check out. Even if the sales procedure is entirely effective keeping that site visitor it is still fairly most likely they will certainly go assume it over awhile. If there is no additional get in touch with from your sales procedure, the needs of their everyday life will certainly take over and also they will totally fail to remember concerning their rate of interest in making that acquisition. The very best method to prevent that circumstance, apart from obtaining them to make that acquisition on the very first see, is to see to it you remain to interact with as numerous interested potential customers as feasible. Better, considering that at each phase of your sales procedure you will certainly shed several of your site visitors, it makes good sense to place the ask for continuous interaction precisely that first touchdown web page of your internet site.

Putting your ask for call info on the touchdown web page of your internet site offers 2 main features. One, obviously, is to catch as lots of as feasible prior to you begin shedding them to disturbances or parts of your sales message that are inefficient. The 2nd feature, in numerous sales funnels, is the specific reverse. This function is to remove site visitors that are not interested sufficient so you are not squandering their time or your sources as they get in the a lot more energetic parts of the sales procedure.

There are several methods to accumulate call details yet when you decrease all the fluff and also bells as well as whistles to the basics you are entrusted just 2 techniques. One technique is to supply something of value on the touchdown web page that they will certainly require to give some standard call info to get. In this technique the site visitor is still complimentary to proceed discovering your offering much deeper right into your sales channel even if they do not capitalize on that very early totally free deal on your touchdown web page. The 2nd technique makes use of basically the very same devices yet they are positioned throughout the course of the site visitor as well as if they do not act they can not remain to discover your offering. Which approach is appropriate? The basic response is a strong as well as steadfast, "It depends." I can inform that with the offerings I have and also the customers I have actually had so much, I never ever utilize that initial choice any type of even more (unless the customer firmly insists ... also after that I divided examination to show the factors for that option). Each and every single sales channel I make use of or that I develop for my customers makes it difficult for site visitors to proceed without taking the activity of supplying their name and also email (and also often telephone number)... simply put, showing a more than typical degree of passion.

The obligatory nature of the touchdown web page get in touch with details demand suggests that you require to achieve 3 points prior to that factor. One, your sales message until now should be appealing sufficient that they genuinely need to know even more as well as will certainly really feel some loss if they quit currently. 2, you have to ensure them that they will certainly have the ability to terminate the e-mail messages quickly and also with simply a click. Third, you need to ensure the site visitor that their get in touch with details will certainly not be shared or offered. Last, constantly ... constantly ... recognize those guarantees! Do not also utilize their call info to speak to them regarding something besides the offering in this sales channel or relevant understanding. They will certainly not see that as fine due to the fact that it is still you and also you did not share or offer their call info. They will just see that they are instantly obtaining details as well as provides that they did not request for as well as your reliability will certainly be smeared. Treat them as well as their inbox with respect. They revealed passion in this offering. They gave you with a means to maintain speaking with them concerning this offering (or whatever you guaranteed to send them in return for their email). Program them the regard they should have as well as maintain the part of their inbox mess that you are in charge of concentrated on what they intended to obtain from you.

Why have I stopped to make use of the much more open collection strategy in both my very own as well as my customers' sales funnels? Simple. Checking gradually exposed that sales were greater as contrasted to total sources used up. The screening merely took specifically the exact same sales channel as well as advertising tasks and also contrasted them throughout time. The only distinction in between both was whether the ask for call info was a sideline demand or stood in the method of advancing via the procedure. Does that indicate the various other strategy is not legitimate? Naturally not. I make certain there are circumstances and also offerings for which this would certainly not function well whatsoever. With whatever you are using, examination both and also utilize the one that functions much better when contrasting the roi you make with each technique. The viewpoint driving the sales channel building and construction carried out by my firm is to make certain that each layer of the sales procedure is eliminating the individuals that are not certified purchasers. Each layer is going to have an ever before extra interested and also well specified team of individuals, making it a lot less complicated to place with each other a remarkable and also completely targeted sales message when it comes time to shut the offer. The whole sales funnelbase review was developed to make certain that just one well specified as well as very interested team of individuals will certainly make it that much. Currently the sales message can talk straight to them (that is likewise a little preference of why I make use of lots of sales funnels ... one for every determined team of possible customers ... not one per offering as is most typical ... however that is one more write-up ...).

Back to the factors the necessary technique is, in my viewpoint, remarkable for many offerings ...

The sales procedure obtains extra energetic the much deeper right into it the interested site visitor goes. There might be video clip streams that consume the data transfer you acquired. There might be real-time conversation attributes where your site visitors can ask their inquiries. There might be a phone call facility entailed to assist shut offers when they get to a specific factor. Every one of those have the prospective to develop costs and also consume the beneficial sources devoted to making sales. A well developed sales channel assists to safeguard those sources by straining any person that is not mosting likely to reply to the sales message, any person that is not interested sufficient now and also any person that is not certified as a possible purchaser. If the web site you are making use of available does not have an energetic part it is much lesser to utilize a solid filtering system method. I would certainly advise you examine both methods. I have actually located that changing to an extra energetic sales technique benefits many offerings made by tiny firms that are not currently popular around in the wild ... like your own!

What does that last paragraph concern accumulating get in touch with info utilizing the necessary technique? It belongs to the factor that sustains the selection of whether to utilize the passive or energetic method to gathering call details. In every part of your sales channel it is essential that you recognize specifically what you are doing and also why.

No matter your picked strategy you will certainly next off require to figure out a technique of tempting the site visitor to get rid of their important name as well as e-mail address (at the very least). The approach you pick additionally effects their choice on whether to provide you genuine get in touch with details or phony info. You desire the actual products obviously. The very best method to make sure that each site visitor that selects to take this activity likewise picks to supply actual details is to provide something that will certainly be provided by email and also state that is just how it is supplied. You might supply lessons or everyday nuggets of understanding pertaining to what is being used (even if they are not precisely certain what that is yet ... bear in mind ... you are still being interesting at this phase). You can enter them in an illustration of some kind. You can also utilize my preferred ... ensure your sales duplicate thus far is so fascinating it will certainly produce a little feeling of loss in absolutely interested site visitors if they do not reach figure out extra. This is, obviously, one of the most tough to create however functions rather well when done appropriately. Despite which approach you make use of in the real demand ... provide whatever you guarantee as well as supply it well as well as of top quality. This will certainly leave an irreversible impact of both you as well as your offering that you will certainly not have the ability to alter. It is the sales channel alongside the impression. Certain, they currently saw your advertisement as well as your touchdown web page message yet this is the very first time they are trusting you with something as well as anticipating something in return. Supply!

Recording get in touch with info right there on your touchdown web page is an effective technique that provides you a way of remaining to interact with interested individuals that you formerly had no other way of speaking to straight. Prior to this communication you did not understand adequate regarding them to understand what to state neither did you recognize if your offering can be of any kind of worth to that individual. Currently, at the very least with the compulsory call details method, you have a large amount of info regarding what they are searching for from the context of your sales as well as advertising and marketing procedure. You understand what advertisement or advertising and marketing task brought them below. You recognize that whatever you stated on your touchdown web page interested them sufficient to offer you their important get in touch with details. You understand that they are absolutely thinking about whatever the sales message to this factor has actually been speaking about. If all those items are well targeted as well as laser concentrated you will certainly have a great deal of info concerning what sort of individual you are collaborating with. Your whole collection of interactions from this factor can be established to speak with them straight. Both the emails they get from your interactions system and also the following layer of this sales procedure are currently a lot easier to create since individuals that get this much are comparable sufficient in some vital manner in which the very best message as pertaining to your offering is reasonably very easy to establish.

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pupcake-and-icecream · 5 years ago

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Efficient Web Site Sales Funnels - Site Visitor Get In Touch With Details - Does Your Touchdown Web Page Collect Any Type Of?

It is uncommon that a very first time site visitor to an internet site buys throughout that initial check out. Even if the sales procedure is entirely effective with that said site visitor it is still fairly most likely they will certainly go believe it over awhile. If there is no additional call from your sales procedure, the needs of their day-to-day life will certainly take over and also they will entirely fail to remember regarding their passion in making that acquisition. The very best means to prevent that situation, apart from obtaining them to make that acquisition on the initial go to, is to ensure you remain to interact with as lots of interested potential customers as feasible. Even more, because at each phase of your sales procedure you will certainly shed several of your site visitors, it makes good sense to place the ask for continuous interaction precisely that first touchdown web page of your site.

Positioning your ask for get in touch with info on the touchdown web page of your web site offers 2 key features. One, obviously, is to record as numerous as feasible prior to you begin shedding them to diversions or parts of your sales message that are inadequate. The 2nd feature, in several sales funnels, is the specific reverse. This objective is to remove site visitors that are not interested sufficient so you are not squandering their time or your sources as they get in the extra energetic sections of the sales procedure.

There are lots of methods to accumulate get in touch with details yet when you lower all the fluff and also bells and also whistles to the fundamentals you are entrusted just 2 techniques. One technique is to supply something of value on the touchdown web page that they will certainly require to give some fundamental get in touch with info to obtain. In this technique the site visitor is still complimentary to proceed discovering your offering much deeper right into your sales channel even if they do not make use of that very early complimentary deal on your touchdown web page. The 2nd method utilizes basically the very same devices however they are positioned throughout the course of the site visitor and also if they do not act they can not remain to discover your offering. Which technique is proper? The basic solution is a strong as well as steadfast, "It depends." I can inform that with the offerings I have and also the customers I have actually had so much, I never ever make use of that initial choice any type of even more (unless the customer urges ... also after that I divided examination to show the factors for that selection). Every sales channel I utilize or that I develop for my customers makes it difficult for site visitors to proceed without taking the activity of supplying their name and also email (as well as occasionally telephone number)... simply put, showing a more than typical degree of rate of interest.

The necessary nature of the touchdown web page get in touch with details need suggests that you require to achieve 3 points prior to that factor. One, your sales message thus far should be interesting sufficient that they genuinely need to know even more and also will certainly really feel some loss if they quit currently. 2, you need to ensure them that they will certainly have the ability to terminate the e-mail messages quickly as well as with simply a click. Third, you should ensure the site visitor that their get in touch with details will certainly not be shared or offered. Last, constantly ... constantly ... recognize those guarantees! Do not also utilize their get in touch with info to talk with them concerning something besides the offering in this sales channel or associated understanding. They will certainly not see that as alright due to the fact that it is still you as well as you did not share or market their get in touch with info. They will just see that they are instantly obtaining details and also provides that they did not request as well as your integrity will certainly be smeared. Treat them as well as their inbox with respect. They revealed rate of interest in this offering. They supplied you with a method to maintain talking with them concerning this offering (or whatever you assured to send them in return for their email). Program them the regard they are entitled to and also maintain the part of their inbox mess that you are accountable for concentrated on what they intended to get from you.

Why have I discontinued to make use of the extra open collection technique in both my very own as well as my customers' sales funnels? Simple. Examining with time disclosed that sales were greater as contrasted to general sources used up. The screening just took specifically the exact same sales channel and also advertising tasks and also contrasted them throughout time. The only distinction in between both was whether the ask for get in touch with details was a sideline demand or stood in the method of proceeding with the procedure. Does that indicate the various other method is not legitimate? Certainly not. I make sure there are circumstances and also offerings for which this would certainly not function well whatsoever. With whatever you are providing, examination both and also make use of the one that functions much better when contrasting the roi you make with each method. The viewpoint driving the sales channel building performed by my business is to make certain that each layer of the sales procedure is getting rid of the individuals that are not certified customers. Funnel base Each layer is going to have an ever before extra interested and also well specified team of individuals, making it a lot less complicated to place with each other an incredible as well as flawlessly targeted sales message when it comes time to shut the offer. The whole sales channel was made to make certain that just one well specified as well as extremely interested team of individuals will certainly make it that much. Currently the sales message can talk straight to them (that is likewise a little preference of why I make use of several sales funnels ... one for every determined team of possible customers ... not one per offering as is most usual ... yet that is one more short article ...).

Back to the factors the required technique is, in my viewpoint, remarkable for a lot of offerings ...

The sales procedure obtains a lot more energetic the much deeper right into it the interested site visitor goes. There might be video clip streams that consume the data transfer you acquired. There might be real-time conversation attributes where your site visitors can ask their inquiries. There might be a telephone call facility entailed to aid shut bargains when they get to a particular factor. Every one of those have the possible to produce costs as well as consume the important sources devoted to making sales. A well created sales channel assists to secure those sources by removing any individual that is not mosting likely to react to the sales message, any individual that is not interested sufficient now as well as any person that is not certified as a prospective customer. If the site you are making use of up for sale does not have an energetic part it is much lesser to make use of a solid filtering system technique. I would certainly advise you evaluate both techniques. I have actually discovered that customizing to a much more energetic sales technique benefits a lot of offerings made by little firms that are not currently popular around in the wild ... like your own!

What does that last paragraph involve accumulating call details making use of the required technique? It becomes part of the factor that sustains the selection of whether to utilize the passive or energetic strategy to accumulating call details. In every part of your sales channel it is essential that you comprehend precisely what you are doing as well as why.

Despite your selected technique you will certainly next off require to establish a technique of attracting the site visitor to get rid of their beneficial name as well as e-mail address (a minimum of). The approach you select likewise effects their choice on whether to offer you actual get in touch with details or phony info. You desire the genuine items certainly. The most effective method to make certain that each site visitor that selects to take this activity likewise picks to give genuine info is to provide something that will certainly be provided by email as well as state that is exactly how it is provided. You can use lessons or everyday nuggets of understanding pertaining to what is being used (even if they are not precisely certain what that is yet ... bear in mind ... you are still being appealing at this phase). You can enter them in an illustration of some kind. You can also utilize my favored ... make certain your sales duplicate up until now is so appealing it will certainly develop a little feeling of loss in really interested site visitors if they do not reach learn a lot more. This is, naturally, one of the most challenging to create yet functions rather well when done properly. Despite which approach you utilize in the real demand ... supply whatever you assure and also supply it well as well as of excellent quality. This will certainly leave an irreversible impact of both you and also your offering that you will certainly not have the ability to alter. It is the sales channel alongside the impression. Certain, they currently saw your advertisement and also your touchdown web page message yet this is the very first time they are trusting you with something as well as anticipating something in return. Provide!

Catching get in touch with details right there on your touchdown web page is an effective strategy that provides you a way of remaining to interact with interested individuals that you formerly had no other way of talking with straight. Prior to this communication you did not understand sufficient regarding them to understand what to claim neither did you recognize if your offering might be of any type of worth to that individual. Currently, at the very least with the compulsory call details technique, you have a lot of details regarding what they are trying to find from the context of your sales as well as advertising and marketing procedure. You understand what advertisement or advertising and marketing task brought them right here. You understand that whatever you stated on your touchdown web page interested them sufficient to offer you their beneficial get in touch with info. You recognize that they are absolutely thinking about whatever the sales message to this factor has actually been discussing. If all those items are well targeted as well as laser concentrated you will certainly have a great deal of info concerning what type of individual you are dealing with. Your whole collection of interactions from this factor can be established to talk with them straight. Both the emails they obtain from your interactions system and also the following layer of this sales procedure are currently a lot easier to compose since individuals that get this much are comparable sufficient in some essential manner in which the very best message as pertaining to your offering is fairly simple to establish.

#funnelbase #funnelbase_review

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