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Early Dot-Com Startup Celebrates 10 Years in Business

Early Dot-Com Startup Celebrates 10 Years in Business

Charlottesville, VA (PRWEB) October 15, 2010

News Highlights:

    Vmeals web-based service turns 10 in October 2010
    Vmeals was ahead of its time in online ordering of food from restaurants and caterers
    Advent of social media marketing spurs new growth for veteran web firm

Vmeals (www.vmeals.com), a web-based service for ordering delivered meals from restaurants and caterers, is celebrating its 10th year in business this month. The firm was founded in 2000 during the dot-com boom days, and its path to growth and success in the online food ordering business has been a tumultuous one.

A Concept Ahead of Its Time

“Vmeals was at least five years ahead of its time,” says current chief executive W. Carter Hoerr. “There was no established market for ordering food online during those early years, so we were pushing the rock up a really steep hill. Restaurants then didn’t understand the value of being online, and our prospective customers were resistant to ordering online versus picking up the phone and ordering the old way.”

Only in the past five years, according to Hoerr, has the concept of ordering food online from restaurants gained significant traction. “Now there’s an entire industry developing around the concept,” says Hoerr, “with lots of players jumping into the space.”

Hoerr says that the road to success for the innovative business has not always been a smooth one. “We’ve been to the edge and back a couple of times. We’ve been through two economic downturns in these ten years – times when some of our corporate customers cut back on meal spending – but we’ve survived and grown coming out of those down periods. Our customers love our service, because it makes their jobs so much easier; and our restaurant partners value the incremental business we send them, so it’s a win-win proposition on both sides.”

The rise of social media marketing has spurred new opportunities for growth for Vmeals, according to Hoerr. The business is rapidly changing its sales and marketing approaches as a result. “We built the Vmeals business over many years through direct, feet on the street sales,” he says. “Now we’re able to scale our business more effectively, thanks to recent sales and marketing technology. We can reach more prospective customers, and establish new restaurant partnerships, through web-based marketing channels.” He lists search engine optimization, social media marketing, email marketing, online advertising, and web-based referral marketing as effective accelerants for growth.

To highlight the value of online engagement with its customers, Vmeals is celebrating its 10th birthday with a month-long series of daily and weekly customer prize drawings. Molly Fulton, sales and marketing manager for the company, describes the effort: “Our 10th birthday is a terrific milestone for Vmeals. It’s an opportunity for us to celebrate with our customers and our restaurant partners, and we do that through an integrated communications approach,” Fulton says. “We promote our customer prize drawings through our website, our Facebook page, Twitter posts, Linkedin posts, and regular emails. Then our sales reps and our customer service folks reinforce the effort during each customer and partner communication. The result is a viral expansion of our message through our entire network; something that just wasn’t possible even just a couple of years ago.”

In the ten years since Vmeals was founded, many new competitors have entered the space, according to Hoerr. “Vmeals and a handful of other early companies forged the path towards online ordering of food,” he says. “Now there are a lot more players in our space. That’s a good thing, because that increased competition is helping increase awareness about our value to both users and suppliers. Customers finally understand that they don’t need the telephone to order food anymore, and in fact that it’s easier and more convenient to order online. But that behavior change has taken a long time to develop, and it still has a long way to go.”

“The next ten years should be really exciting.”

About Vmeals:

Vmeals (www.vmeals.com) is an online service for businesses that order group meals for meetings and events. The Vmeals website features menus and delivered meals from more than 1,400 local restaurants and caterers in more than 30 metropolitan East Coast and Midwest markets. Vmeals customers include Fortune 1000 offices, professional services firms (investment banking, law, accounting, technology, consulting, and training), pharmaceutical sales reps, colleges, medical centers and non-profits.

The web-based Vmeals system handles all aspects of the delivered meal transaction – marketing, customer acquisition, menu presentation, pricing, order processing, payment, and customer service – except the actual preparation and presentation of the food.

Vmeals is privately held by individual investors.

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Bush Mandate To Add 6000 Border Patrol Jobs

Just as the national unemployment rate hits a five-year high, the United States Border Patrol is filling 6000 positions for new border agents. “The president has made a presidential mandate to hire 6000 agents by the end of the fiscal year,” according to Damian White, a recruiter with US Customs and Border Protection. Those hired must move to the southwest border of the United States, to offices in Arizona, California, New Mexico and Texas. New recruits start at 000 annually, but can make 000 by their third year. An applicant must also be between 18 and 39 years of age, a US citizen and able to pass a written test, background check and physical. They must complete a 55-day basic training program and learn Spanish if they are not already proficient. US Border Agents arrest undocumented aliens, investigate terror threats, and fight illegal smuggling.
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Get Best Web Design Solutions at Thomasgarciastudio.com New Mexico Website Design Solution

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Submission To Discovery Channel’s Dirty Jobs

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Perry Supply Co., Inc. has been in the wholesale plumbing heating, air conditioning, and industrial supply business for over 47 years. We have six locations throughout the state of New Mexico with our main office in Albuquerque. Our employees have a vast knowledge of all aspects of this business and many have experience installing and servicing our products. We deal with over 7500 different products and over 600 different manufacturers, but if there is something that you need that you do not see listed, please call our office and ask. We make every attempt to have what you need when you need it. We also offer full design services for HVAC, hot water radiant heating, and evaporative cooling. We also do takeoffs for jobs, both commercial and residential, plumbing and/or heating and cooling. We can help you to design a job, prepare material lists, and even order the fabricated metal that you might need for the job. If you have enough time to plan ahead, we can have large jobs pulled and ready for your call or deliver straight to the job site within the local area. We want to be your full line wholesaler and will do our best to offer the best service and inventory possible.

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Life in the Northern New Mexico Mountains

Life in the Northern New Mexico Mountains

When I discovered this realm it was as if I’d been called; as if everything about it was a dream dreamt but only subconsciously remembered. I longed to live and learn and grow here, and just plain absorb the wisdom that emanates from every cliff and crag.

The Gallina mountain valley is a unique pocket of fertility amid the semi-desert terrain of most of New Mexico. It’s a haven that used to supply its people their every need, and still does to a degree—to a greater degree if the Forest Rangers don’t catch you.

There are rich, beautiful National Forests and BLM lands everywhere, as throughout the state. Yet rural residents of New Mexico usually exist at below poverty level, when just a few generations ago, every need was supplied by the land, and hard work.

Still, the Gallina valley is blessed with several precious river waters that sluice the village in flowing acequias (a-say-kias), sustaining the verdant rolling hills and fields of the village.

Our niche in the Gallina mountain valley of northern New Mexico is a life apart, literally. The closest Wal-Mart’s is an hour and a half drive one-way. That’s also our closest pharmacy. A two-hour drive will get you to the closest decent hospital or doctor, or Sears or furniture store, or photo developer or movie theatre. One bank serves a circumference of 200 miles.

There are no phone companies, Hobby Lobby’s or drive through fast-food restaurants in Gallina and the surrounding villages. In fact, there are only two places of business in these villages. But there is no lack of churches and liquor stores.

Many of us women make our own barbeque and spaghetti sauce and the like, and can it along with wild orchard fruits and our veggies. I’ve never tasted a sweeter fruit than the cherry-sized wild plums and apples in the village, or the local choke cherry jelly. The wild asparagus fields are a closely guarded treasure.

Residents don’t run down to the store or drive-through to grab something for supper. Almost daily the beans are pressure-cooking and the red or green chili already on the table beside the fresh, steaming tortillas.

Most cooking is done from scratch. One day I ran out of the breadcrumbs I had dried to make stuffing for a wild turkey dinner and a friend sent me a sack she had on hand. Not only had she dried them herself, but began with homemade rolls she makes every week. Her dried homemade breadcrumbs made the most flavorful and the best texture of any dressing I’ve ever made.

Fresh goat milk is abundant, from which many still make cheese and butter. Most of us kill and pluck our own fowl, our arms bloodied helping our families butcher goats, hogs, cow, deer, and elk. We slice the fat layer from the outside of the hogs for chicharrone, rendering our own lard when we fry it. We treasure the heart and liver, some even saving the hides for tanning.

We use everything possible. If you see a deer or elk antler hat rack in someone’s home, they didn’t order it from a Cabalas catalogue, they salvaged it from their source of meat. We build adobe hornos and harvest corn for drying in them to make chicos, along with vegetables to preserve for winter, and bake the most delicious bread. And the blood from hog butchering makes the traditional morcilla, which means black (blood) sausage.

Hidden in these mountains are the toughest, tenderest, most generous and knowledgeable women I’ve ever known, though economically depressed. Life is hard for everyone. The unemployment rate is close to ninety percent.

The highest paying jobs are logging, which is dangerous, seasonal and only for the very healthy and young. Even married men must travel far and wide to find logging jobs. Some are lucky enough to be ranchers, having family land passed down for generations. And even for them life is full of hard work to meet daily needs that city folk take for granted.

As in day’s of old, the spring, summer and autumn is made up of scurrying to prepare for winter. Not only is the income level depressed, there are none of the conveniences that 95% of Americans take for granted. Some of us get snowed in for weeks at a time. Even if you can get to the highways, they are too iced over to get to the cities.

Flagstone and gravel, provided by Mother Earth, is harvested for use. People like us can replace the rotted wood skirting of our cabins and floors with enduring flagstone without cash, but at the price of sweat and know-how. Gravel to tame mud, and moss-rock flagstone for durability and beauty, are for the taking, if you know where to find it.

Because of low-income and high unemployment rates, everyone is a jack-of-all-trades. Most can’t afford to pay for services. We freely help each other with everything from building a home, plumbing, masonry work, roofing, auto mechanicing, errands, gardening, butchering and packaging, and gathering firewood, because for most that is the only source of heat.

During monsoon season, when weather is its dampest, we go mushrooming. I’ve picked the most delicious field mushrooms, not to mention the golden and white chantrels, which are gourmet ingredients in fine restaurants. With these fleshy field fungi I’ve sautéed bagfuls in butter and garlic, composed simmering symphonies of mushroom onion soup unsurpassed anywhere, and dried them for winter use

Many lost skills are in constant use here, like doctoring the ill. Each year I go digging Osha root with friends to get us through the flu season with all its infections and respiratory problems. And we harvest many other wild herbs for medicinal reasons. I’ve learned of onion tea, vinegar and alum rinses for healing strep throat and innumerable other cures.

We harvest wild asparagus and raspberry patches. We hunt and butcher (you’ll never taste more tender meat, because the fathers have taught the sons how to skin, clean, and cut the grain, removing the tendons.) It’s time consuming, but work & time is how we survive. Time isn’t money here; it’s survival.

Yet, with all the poverty, I’ve never lived among such a richness of spirit, love and reaching out. I’ve learned that lack of money leads to a wealth of possibilities.

Most families have been here for generations. We gather at harvest and butchering time to share the workload and the bounty. And the families are closer than most, not only when help is needed, but when it’s time to relax or celebrate. Families are in daily contact from the youngest to the oldest. Community life literally revolves around the family unit.

The ground and the forest feed us and supply many of our needs. You may never see cash change hands. This is a country where beer and firewood is the legal tender. And you will never see anyone, not a stranger hitchhiking through or the poorest homeless, go hungry or without a roof over their heads.

People work hard for day-to-day needs such as heat and food and shelter, but when our labor isn’t enough, the heart of a neighbor is. When tragedy strikes a local family, you’ll see those who sometimes have even less than the victims, rise up and organize benefits to raise funds.

This is a land where people never take off their boots, except to retire to bed at night, because the outdoors is their workplace. A land where people respect the elderly, instead of firing them a year before they are eligible for full retirement. The young and healthy are preoccupied with securing a good life for their families and rely heavily on, and go often to our elders for the earthy wisdom that is the only means of survival in these parts.

There might not be much time or energy left over for formal education. Many don’t have the luxury of plumbing or electricity, much less computers, television or radio. Life being such, I have never met, even in metropolises, as many well-read people. We discuss everything from quantum physics to religion to pop-psychology to the works of Shakespeare or John Steinbeck; or debate who is a better novelist, Louis L’Amour or Zane Grey, or which comic book hero has the worst vulnerability.

Knowledge and wisdom are not so much sought after as it is obtained through daily life. As anywhere, you may obtain an education if you keep your mouth shut and your ears and mind open. A friend took me to the forest one day. He wanted to scout out some new hunting areas. I accompanied him as we drove through the dusk and watched him closely. Whenever he tensed or became alert I noticed a pungent, musky odor. After awhile I told him what I smelled. I learned that this is the odor of male elk.

I had already discovered that, wherever I found wild mushrooms, an earthy dankness wafted in the air. I hunt mushrooms through my olfactory senses more than by sight. Wisdom in the wilderness penetrates not just the logical mind, but every sense God gifted us with. There is a reason that when the locals want you to really hear what they’re saying, they will tell you, “Watch this,” instead of “Listen to this.”

Wisdom resides everywhere here, though in unexpected forms. Wisdom comes in overalls and cowboy boots, be it male or female. You may find it in the trail of the mule deer, or the height and density of the clouds. No Doppler radar is needed to predict what to expect from the heavens today, tomorrow, or even next winter.

The beauty of the mountains that surround us in all their richness and harshness also shapes the attitude of the people, who may at first appear hard-bitten by the ruthless bounty of our surroundings.

Though day-to-day survival takes most of our time and energy, life throws its curves here as elsewhere. We face debilitating disease, chronic illness, death, taxes, and severe losses too. Yet, unlike the millions relying on medications for depression, and the frightening rate of suicide, and the rising frustration leading to crime, we face every twist of life and fate with unfaltering hope.

Living so close to the brutal cycle of nature teaches even the stupid or unwilling to be thankful just to be alive. But the wise among us gather so much more from our daily brushes with the Almighty. And that strength of character and resilience is evident, from the smallness of daily life to the horrors of loss, in our ability to rise each day, and smile, and learn, and love those around us, and thank God for it.

Life may be harsh here but there’s nowhere else we’d rather be. And when life takes some of us away to wars or the cities to provide for our families, many can’t help returning here to the purity of simplicity and the sweat of the brow. The rest of us just stay put and thank God for another day in paradise.

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“JOBS PLAN”

Susana Martinez, Republican gubernatorial nominee began airing a new television advertisement entitled, “Jobs Plan.” The commercial speaks to Martinez’s economic plan, which is focused on repairing the failures of the Richardson/Denish Administration and creating jobs by making New Mexico competitive, phasing out job-killing taxes and rooting out the corruption that is costing the state both wealth and opportunities.
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New Mexico Town to Embrace Incoming Uranium Miners

New Mexico Town to Embrace Incoming Uranium Miners

Once the proud center of the Uranium Universe, and until recently the world’s largest uranium producer, the city of Grants (New Mexico) nearly collapsed in the 1980s as uranium prices sank into a twenty-year depression. Five thousand uranium miners lost their jobs, and the city elders panicked, searching for an industry with which to replace mining. “Uranium companies helped build our hospital, our school and most of our major infrastructure,” Star Gonzales, Cibola County’s Head of Economic Development, told StockInterview. “We are a mining community and know it is beneficial.”

Grants is a sleepy town of less than 10,000, north of Interstate 40, off exit 85, and about an hour’s west of Albuquerque. This past November, we toured the town’s Mining Museum, which boasts of having the only underground uranium mining museum. Grants is now a “prison town,” and instead of mining uranium, the town runs most of the state’s prison system. The times are changing again, though. Along with the recent .50/pound spot uranium price, revival of uranium mining in Grants is all but a done deal. Several uranium companies have taken their first steps into Cibola County. As with the state of Wyoming, more will follow them.

IS URANIUM MINING AGAIN WELCOME IN GRANTS?

We wondered what the political pulse on uranium mining would be like in Grants. So we talked to several representatives on the city, county and state level. Fasten your seatbelts, and move over Wyoming. Grants, New Mexico is making a public invitation to all uranium mining companies. “We will greet them with open arms!” Star Gonzales shouted into her phone. “We are very mining friendly in this community.” That’s an understatement. Grants Mayor Joe Murrietta returned from Vietnam after being wounded on the Fourth of July 1968 with a Purple Heart and began working at Anaconda’s uranium mill in Grants, New Mexico. He worked for Anaconda and ARCO for fifteen years before the uranium boom in his town ended. “We can handle the mining industry, and we are looking forward to having it back,” Murrietta told us. The mayor is confident the entire community would welcome uranium miners back.

Grants City Manager Bob Horacek worked in a uranium mill, as a college student twenty five years ago, and remembered it was a nice source of income to help him pay tuition. “We are obviously looking for jobs,” he told us. “It’s a pro, and economically we could use the higher paying jobs.” Asked about one company, which announced it may build a mill, possibly in Cibola County, Horacek quickly responded, “I’d like to visit with them.” State Senator Joseph A Fidel, a Democrat representing District 30, which includes Cibola and Socorro counties, perked up during our interview, when we talked about uranium in his county, “I would be happy to have mining come back. It would be very positive economically.”

We talked about environmental activists. Senator Fidel explained, “If there are protests, they will come from outsiders, from Taos or other parts of the country.” Ms. Gonzales agreed, “There will be no protests from the local community. The mining spirit still lives today in this town.” These echoed State Senator Leavell’s remarks, in part two of this series, “Most of the protestors have come from San Francisco, DC and Santa Fe.” Fidel concluded, ‘The community will be very supportive of uranium mining. People will be cooperative and will react positively, when the time comes.”

Each of the politicians interviewed were cautious, but optimistic. Grants, New Mexico was hard hit. As with the Governor of Wyoming, who basically told uranium companies to put up or shut up, New Mexican decision makers are waiting to hear directly from uranium companies. Are they serious? Fidel pointed out, “I believe it will materialize into something serious.” After all, the county may be sitting on hundreds of millions of pounds of unrecovered uranium. More than 340 million pounds, possibly a great deal more, of uranium was produced before mining came to a standstill during the twenty-year drought. “We have a lot of uranium,” said Senator Fidel. “The county has good potential.”

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