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A VERY DEAR LADY TO ME

On Wednesday 11/4/2009 during that beautiful aftetrnoon a lady very dear to my heart past away. Her name was Beverly Thomas Tuitt She was a Harlem School of nursing Graduate. She was like an Aunt to me along with all the Nurses of that class with my Mother.   All the nurses of that class rasied me up from when I was 2 years old while my mom finished school.

When my mother past away a few years back I guess I adopted Bevie(as she was affectionately known) and she adopted me. We watched out for each health wise and just in general. When I needed a place for a while she gladly took me in and when I got sick she was by my side as  I for her when she was sick.
This last time I kind of feel like I let her down though.   She was in the Hospital and I was not there in time to say good bye or just hold her hand.  I did see her the sunday before and she looked great thought she was on the mend again.  She was tough you see she was a 32 year cancer survivor.  But the chemotherapy and radiation and operations all took there toll on her.   she just couldn’t win this fight sorry to say. But Sunday she was confident sitting up joking told me she had a few more years maybe. It was close I thought she was on the mend as well. Just did not work out that way.

She was however a great believer in business practices of supporting your friends and family in business. She was the rally person with emails and word of mouth you need car or truck call my nephew Courtney he will help you out. Or hey all my friend and nursing school buddy just wrote a book we need to buy it and support her first book let people see it so she can sell more.  Always the ra ra never give up.  She was great and she will be missed by me and her Family.  God bless you Beverly Thomas-Tuitt tell mom I say hey and I love you both.

Safety Tips for Night Driving – News – Automotive Fleet

WE ALL NEED A REMINDER OF HOW TO BE SAFE BEHIND THE WHEEL ESPECIALLY AT NIGHT.
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COURTNEY-COMMERCIAL/COURTNEY ALLEYNE

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I am told I should have done this in the beginning but this is a learning curve for me.  My name is Courtney Alleyne I am a commercial sales representative with one of the largest auto groups in the Tri-state area. I am happpy to say we are still here and in business. I cater to individuals and small to large businesses. I sell all types of vehicles from all the manufacturers out there except for a select few. 

I have been in the auto sales business for over 15 years with the last 7 in the commercial end of it.   I always get the question what exactly is commercial sales? Well it is the selling of vehicles especially trucks and vans to business for commercial use.   But it is also the sale of cars and suv’s and cuv’s to those same markets.  who is my customer base? well that is simple.  I look for all types of businesses that may need some form of transportation to move people,  goods and materials from one location to another.  I also deal with special applications for the handicapped business man or women who needs to be able to drive in order to work as well.  

I look for those who run fleets of 1 to infinity and need a real good upfront person to talk to for consistent pricing and knowledge of the vehicles and laws surrounding application of the vehicle. This is especially handy with those looking for multiple passenger vehicles for churches and daycare and after school centers.  I even show people vehicles they never even thought of that just might prove out better than the original vehicle they were looking for at either the same cheaper or some times higher price. But it is always the vehicle that in  the long run will help the company or persons bottom line which is profitability and or ease of doing business. I am especially useful with this approach to the new businesses and start-ups.

My claim to fame I guess is that I will come out to you and meet you in the office or field to discuss those needs. usually with a good look at what you do, I can show you if not a different vehicle then perhaps a better way to set it up to make you and your business more efficient. Communication and trust on both sides that all the information needed is accurate and up front will make the difference.

I am the representative from start to finish and during ownership. No worry that now you have to worry about how service is going to treat you. I am the person even after the sale that you deal with for any problems or concerns. You not only get my cell number as well as office but you have email and website access to me 24/7. 

COURTNEY-COMMERCIAL  is member in good standing with buisness network intnational, the new york truck club. I am found on merchant circle, linkedin, facebook, msn live, startup.biz.com,and Networks.org.  I have completed sales and continue to do business with such companies as PS marcato, Parkchester preservation, arch electric, Demand air Mechanical, Puerto Rican Family Services,  The Brooklyn hospital just to name a few.

my motto is I STRIVE TO SEE TO IT MY CUSTOMERS GET

 THE VEHICLE THAT IS RIGHT FOR THE BUDGET

AND THE JOB WITH THE RIGHT UPFIT TO HELP

GROWTH AND PROFITABILITY.

 

How would Henry Ford react to today’s automakers?

You’ve got to wonder what Henry Ford would think.

Two of Detroit’s three automakers are bankrupt. General Motors Corp. and the Chrysler Group LLC are operating largely on aid from the federal government, which now owns a big chunk of the latter and will soon own a controlling stake in the former. The president of the United States has even sacked GM’s CEO and forced the company to pick new board members.

“Most of this wouldn’t shock him because a lot of this happened during his lifetime,” Henry Ford’s great-grandson, Ford Motor Co. Executive Chairman Bill Ford Jr., told The Detroit News in a recent interview. “He failed a couple times. He saw a lot of car companies come and go. And he saw his own company go bankrupt and then go on to the verge of bankruptcy several times during his lifetime.”

Ford is alone among American automakers in not asking for a government bailout and has been gaining market share at the expense of its cross-town rivals. But it still lost more than $14.6 billion last year and is struggling to return to profitability amidst one of the worst market declines in history.

Henry Ford’s first foray into car manufacturing, the Detroit Automobile Co., went bankrupt two years after he launched it, having only made 20 vehicles.

But historian Douglas Brinkley, author of “Wheels for the World: Henry Ford, His Company, and a Century of Progress,” said the great inventor would have been dismayed at the lavish salaries of auto industry executives today.

“He never made any money until he was well into his 40s,” Brinkley said.”He was no jet-setter. He never invested in Wall Street. If he had failed, he and Clara could have lived contentedly in a small apartment.”

Brinkley said Henry Ford — the consummate self-made man — would have been disturbed by the big role the federal government now plays in the U.S. auto industry. But he would be far more interested in new technologies like battery-electric and ethanol powertrains that are emerging in the industry today.

Henry Ford initially wanted to produce an electric vehicle, but was convinced it would be too difficult by none other than Thomas Edison, his idol and the man who literally electrified America. Brinkley said Ford never stopped looking for alternatives to oil.

“He didn’t like the way the oil companies were developing into a major power bloc,” Brinkley said, adding that Henry Ford also found the noise created by the internal combustion engine offensive. “By the 1920s, he didn’t think gasoline was the answer.”

Henry Ford bought up Michigan’s breweries in a bid to create an ethanol alternative and never ceased to believe that electric motors would replace gas-powered ones in the future.

Bill Ford agreed that it is the new technologies — not the new business realities — that would really interest his great-grandfather.

“He’d be really energized by that and think, frankly, that it’s about time,” he said.

Brinkley believes that the question of how Henry Ford would respond to the challenges facing the industry he helped create is more than academic.

“There’s no better industrial figure to study now than Henry Ford. He made his company a model of efficiency. Henry Ford believed in running a lean business,” he said. “Henry Ford would not have been worrying about how to make it through this recession. He would have been finding a way to revolutionize the whole global auto industry.”

bhoffman@detnews.com (313) 222-2443

A NEW AUTHOR HAS EMERGED ON THE LITERARY SCREEN!!!

Now who could this be and what would a car salesman be knowing about authors?  Well I will tell you this particular one is my WIFE! her name is ATHENA DENT.  The name of the book is ‘silk’.  It is a book and story that should have a book written about it’s inception.  A piece that took her over 3 years to complete and complete she did. I give her lots of credit and Love for following her dream and sticking with it even when the cards and the system was against her.

But now it is done and it is published through www.authorhouse.com isbn: 978143892335

HERE IS A SHORT BURST TO GIVE YOU AN IDEA.

Like Georgia Peaches picked ripe off a tree, juicy, sweet and ready to be baked in a delicious peach cobbler.  Like good ole southern hospitality that stays in the air like a summer breeze. Tucked away in Atlanta are five southern belles, who are living their lives as they knw it. Each in their own special way.  Joy,Sylvia, Crystal, Genny and Margaret are more than just ’sisters’, they have a spiritual bond…..like family.  They represent different generations, but their ages do not seperate the one thing they have in common…….being a woman.

available now through the following

www.authorhouse.com, www.amazon.com, www.barnesandnoble.com, www.borders.com isbn 978143892335

pick up a copy tell me what you think. Maybe i can get yours signed if you like.

NETWORKING AROUND NEW YORK CITY AREA!

There are many places to go and network during the day in the evening and online.   I like everyone else do a combination of both if I want to make a dent in my empty pockets. But it takes time to build and you have to be in it to get anywhere. but I think the key item to it all is you heave to be willing to help others along the way. You have to network with the idea that you are their not for yourself alone but to help all those others there as well to succeed.

I personally use this format through Word press and Merchant cirle and linkedin and startup.biz and networks.org . All with the intention to help me build a decent referral business online. And through word of mouth as well but in the same time I use BNI to do just that as well and the Westcheter business connection events and the Networks. org events to get face time along with the Different Chanmber of commerce events that I can get into like the big yankee Stadium business Expo.  No matter what you do they are a neccessity you have to put a face and a handshake when you can with the website or what ever means used to create the initial conversation and or meeting online.

I personally recommend and I am sure most of you are already using them so connect with me (courtney commercial ) if you wish and see things grow even faster for you and the clients of ypour innercircle.  I like Merchant circle, Linked in, facebook, the networks.org, BNI(business network international) and Westchester Business Connection. They all lead to the type of people you want to do business with.

Ford Releases 2010 Taurus – News – Automotive Fleet

Ford Releases 2010 Taurus – News – Automotive Fleet

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The features that will be available on this vehicle both standard and optional are what every family with young or new driver’s need.

Ford bets new 2010 Taurus could be key to financial future
Pete Reyes, engineer by training and manager by talent, had just finished the development and launch of Ford’s 2008 Super Duty pickups and had been reassigned to study Ford Motor’s testing methods when he had a fateful conversation.
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Test Drive review: 2010 Ford Taurus is full of surprises
bright red 2010 Ford Taurus with lots of goodies. A sunny spring day. Hundreds of miles of open road. Hit the interstate, wind ‘er up, settle in.
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TRANSIT CONNECT

Today I saw what could be the deciding factor for Ford and turning a profit. Granted this is not a vehicle produced in the US but it is what small business around the USA have been looking for. It is the replacement in my opinion to one of GM’s best mini vans ever.
If you are a car or truck person you know that to be the Chevy astro van and the gmc safari. this little van has the room in the right places for almost any type of operation.
it is 4 cylinder and still very powerful with a load on.
If you get the chance check it out as soon as they start arriving in the dealers with in the next month.

Especially with all that is happening with GM and Chrysler.
I do not know if any has thought much about this. But I hoppe we all understand how dire the situation will get if GM and Chrysler dissappear? It could wipe out Ford or send them reeling from recovery into a prolonged restructure on top of the restructure. Why you ask well think about it the suppliers around the workd that will be affected are some of the same used by ford as well. they go under the ones that are left will raise pricies and those who were already looking for a premium dollar for the parts will want even more and no credit will be extended and the gov’t will loose even more from the gnp because on of the nations oldest yet again alrgest contributor to the gnp will go out of business or be severly hurt. and the auto industry in america will be owned and controlled by the foriegn carmakers who need less people in their plants. Which means less people employed looking for work in other fields. because so many will be available when the big three go out.
The quality is their folks come take a look the job and fmaily you save may just be your own. So many businesses are connected to the american auto industry it is not funny and lets not forget those in the uaw that will have no where to go. the domino theory on steroids unless we do something now.

TOP 10 REASONS FORD SHOULD BE ON YOUR LIST

Top 10 Ford Motor Company Quality Success Stories

Ford continues to make great strides toward achieving its goal of best-in-class quality. The following ten examples show some of the successes already achieved along the way.

1. Now shoulder-to-shoulder with industry leaders in initial quality – The quality of Ford brand vehicles soared to the top of the charts equaling that of Toyota and Honda, according to the second quarter 2008 U.S. Global Quality Research System (GQRS) study conducted by RDA Group of Bloomfield Hills, Mich. The study showed Ford brand improved 6.5 percent versus last year with a combined average of 1343 things-gone-wrong (TGW) per 1,000 vehicles during the first three months of ownership. This performance is statistically equivalent at the 95% confidence level to the TGW levels of Honda and Toyota.

2. Virtual technology expertise worth sharing – For nearly a decade, Ford has been using its industry-leading digital ergonomics research to help line operators do their jobs efficiently and issue-free. Led by a world-renowned ergonomics expert, the team optimizes every movement so employees can build car after car and avoid fatigue and injury. This upfront virtual technology greatly reduces issues at launch and relates directly to quality. The company shares its findings on how to reduce repetitive stress and other injuries with the other American automakers and University of Michigan researchers.

3. Best-in-class paint performance – According to GQRS studies, Ford is tied in first place for fewer chips and scratches and more long-term durability. Its three-part wet application process not only provides better long-term resistance to chips and scratches than water-borne paint, it reduces the plant shop’s CO2 emissions by 15 percent. An eco-friendly anti-corrosion system helps prevent rust while cutting paint shop water use nearly in half and reducing the production of sludge by 90 percent. Also, Ford is the first automaker to implement a technology called High-Gloss Mold-in-Color. The 2008 Ford Super Duty’s wheel lip molding is injection-molded with the high-gloss metallic color built right in – no primer or paint required. This increases long-term appearance and durability, as well as being more environmentally friendly than priming and painting those parts.

4. Chart-topping electrical functions – Thanks in part to stringent electronics testing during the predelivery process, Ford topped the charts in GQRS studies for electrical functions such as the radios. Hundreds of end-of-line evaluations take place and are tracked through Ford’s Quality Leadership System (QLS), which gives anyone in the plant the ability to flag a vehicle as having an open concern and keeps that vehicle from leaving the plant until it’s been fixed.

5. Quality testing goes green – As the 52-year-old high-speed test track at Ford’s Michigan Proving Grounds undergoes its $13 million reconstruction, it’s reusing almost every bit of existing material, preventing 130,000 tons of debris from going to local landfills. The track is critical to Ford’s quality assurance process, as it’s used for a wide range of vehicle testing.

6. Earning third-party accolades – In May, two separate research firms confirmed that Ford continues to make great strides in quality. San Diego-based researcher Strategic Vision put Ford neck-and-neck with Toyota for total quality, and ahead of everyone else. The firm said the two automakers were tied for topping the most segments on its Total Quality Index with three vehicles each. Winning Ford vehicles are Ford Edge, Ford Mustang Convertible and Ford F-250/350, which was also a segment winner in 2007. Meanwhile, noted automotive consulting firm AutoPacific released the results of its 2008 model year vehicle satisfaction research, putting Ford on top or tied for first in six Vehicle Satisfaction Award categories. Vehicles earning accolades were Ford Taurus, Mercury Milan, Lincoln Mark LT, Ford Explorer Sport Trac, Ford Explorer and Ford Edge.

7. Ford Flex boasts ultra-quiet ride – Ford Motor Company’s wind noise went from second-worst in the industry in 2003 to best in the bunch for 2007 based on TGW according to GQRS results. The all-new 2009 Ford Flex is no exception. In Ford’s wind tunnel tests, it delivered a quieter ride than competitors including the Acura MDX, Toyota Highlander and GMC Acadia, good news for customers who equate quietness with quality.

8. J.D. Power says Ford Focus is most improved – The 2008 Automotive Performance, Execution and Layout (APEAL) Study by J.D. Power and Associates showed that Focus gained 88 index points over last year. The Ford Escape also earned a spot among the top 10 most improved vehicles in the industry. In addition, five Ford Motor Company vehicles received second- or third-place honors in their segments: Ford Explorer Sport Trac, Mazda CX7, Mazda CX9, Ford Focus and Lincoln Navigator.

9. Long-term durability improves – Ford brand improved at a rate of 3 percent versus the industry average of 1 percent according to the 2008 GQRS three-years-in-service report. The survey looked at 2005 model year vehicles (compared to 2004 model year in 2007). The top non-luxury brands were Toyota, Mercury, Honda and Ford, with a gap of only 0.6 problems per vehicle difference from Toyota to Ford. For the fifth year in a row, Mercury did better than Honda in this durability study.

10. Ford brand makes significant quality gains – According to the J.D. Power and Associates 2008 Initial Quality Study, Ford vehicles increased in quality at a faster rate than the industry average. Continuing its five-year upward trend, Ford brand improved by eight points over last year’s study, bettering the industry’s seven-point improvement. Ford Motor Company vehicles received 10 honors, including three with the highest rankings in their respective segments: Lincoln Navigator, Mazda MX5 Miata and Ford E-Series.

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