Would you send out the following letter via US Mail? I would bet you would never. That's what sets us apart. I know being different takes giant leaps in your faith in the power of advertising and what works. He who stands out get noticed.
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Greetings:
You may already know that we are frugal. We readily admit to that. This letter is sent via a recycled envelope and stamp that were thrown out. We cut off the other persons return address and reused the envelope. This letter is recycled paper that someone threw out. The printer and computer this letter was printed on came from a clean out job my son did. Even the tape used to reseal this letter was salvaged. We keep our costs down. This is why you can get great deals at our farm and nursery.
Now we are having our year end clearance. With this letter you will be able to buy all potted stock at 40% off. All Balled and Burlapped stock will be 20% off. We will even give away some off our surplus inventory. We know we can't sell it all. So come this week and take advantage of us. Bring this letter with you so we can reuse it.
You don't need money! If you have barter bring or drag it in. If it is trash, we will just put it in our dumpster. You will be rewarded for your efforts. On Saturday we will be serving roadkill soup. My father will be cooking it and I promise that we will all be in top form for the day. Bill Hirst 215 651 8329
www.seedlingsrus.com
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This was one of our most popular and productive letters we we sent out by US Mail. For every 10 customers that we sent this letter to, we had about 2 come to the nursery and spend a minimum of $200 each. Being that we really did recycle this letter and hand addressed each letter, it did take time but it made quite an impression with our customers.
This is just one of our many ways we keep in contact with our customers. Prospects are targeted with emails which requires no postage and are totally free.
The following is another of our marketing methods: Marketing our trees is better understood when you are thinking about marketing in terms of adding customers to your customer base and using free trees as a means of finding new potential customers. That's why we always have promotions that include free trees. You can see an example of on of our free tree offers by going to our web site http://www.seedlingsrus.com We like to add potential customers by using our E-Newsletter to help make potential customers aware of our offerings. We have plenty of dormant stock and stock that is surplus to our needs. This is offered within the E-Newsletter. Customers are made aware that the E-Newsletter will be used to notify of freebies. Customers to our nursery are also made aware that there are promotions and shown the promotions. All free items are offer subject to being on our E-Newsletter list. This readily gets them to sign-up for the news letter. Customers are offered discounts on stock when they bring their friends along while shopping. Thus we encourage group shopping. Free surplus is always sent along with group shoppers. Sort of like a volume discount incentive. We also use the tack of asking the customer to help us by finding other homes for our surplus. We might ask if their church needs any free surplus. This means they will ask others if they need our stock. The customer becomes an unpaid salesman but compensated by free tree offerings.
We always try to stand out from other nurseries. We try to be different. We find that people will finally come to our location for more than just trees. They want to find out if we really are real!!
Report #124 Use This Green Tree To Block Windmills: Green Giant Arbs and Windmills. Promote while Boycotting...See this promotional boycott add That We have Run....Double Tasking???!!!!
Our farm, Highland Hill Farm, is located in solid clay. We therefore like plants that grow well in dense, heavy, rather impermeable, NOT well-drained soils. One of the arborvitae, the Green Giant,a hybred of the Western Redcedar Tree, or botanically, the Thuja Plicata, is our favorite. This is a great choice for the areas effected by windmills. Here is why: It is deer resistant, ez to plant, fast growing, and will help block the flow of air that must be available to operate windmills.
The hardiness zone the Green Giant Arborvita tolerates is from zone 5 to zone 8. That's where extreme cold temperatures get down to a temperate level of about 15 or 20 degrees in the winter (Zone 8), but also as low as a frigid level of 15 or 20 degrees BELOW zero (zone 5). Green giants are evergreens, being cedars. Their rapid growth rates can in ideal conditions reach 3 feet per year. Site requirements for the Green Giant Arborvita are sun to partial shade, moist well drained soil preferred (but still does well in clay), and protection from wind, at lest when young.
The Green Giant is a beautiful tree. It has an aesthetically fine form. It's conical, being narrow to broadly pyramidal, reaching from 50 feet to 80 feet in height in southeastern Pennsylvania. This tree can reach 120 in some locations. The width at the base of the cone is usually about 15 feet to 20 feet. The leaves are rich green making graceful foliage.
Green Giants make a superb privacy screen. Since this tree grows fast and tall, it is a great choice to block windmills. Not only visually, but there height can interfer with windmills catching the free flow of air by upsetting the wind patterns. It only takes a small decrease in wind velocity to stop some windmills as they do require a minimum operational windspeed to turn on. Small decreases in wind velocity on sites can render windmills unprofitable. They keep their foliage color year 'round, great for brightening bleak gray winter days with snow on the ground. Being evergreen, they will block windmills all year round. The cinnamon bright red bark when young turn rich russet brown with time crating a strong contrast with the needle leaves while helping to hide windmills.
Green Giants' flowers, their fruit are pretty little light brown half-inch female cones. (Just so you know, Green giants are females, so its okay to call the cones pretty.) The Green Giant is also a wonderful shade tree, casting a dark, dense shade. The wood is strong too, once the tree is beyond its youth.
This is an arborvita that should outlive even your grandchildren. There are Green Giants out west documented to be over 300 years old. Just don't plant these too close to the ocean, or roads in areas where there's a lot of salt used for snow removal. If you get over 100 inches of snowfall and more per year, no roadside Arborvita planting where salt is used, PLEASE. The greatest soldier of ancient Greece in the Trojan war had his one little weak spot, what proved to be a fatal flaw, and the "Achilles Heel" for Green Giant Arborvitae is hypersensitivity to salt.
If a windfarm comes to your area, you will need the fast growing Green Giant. You will want to protect your property from these Eagle chopping, bird and bat killing machines. Another major problem
of windmills is a problem called shadow flicker. "Shadow flicker" - the effect of the sun shining at a low angle through the moving blades, which means they might have to be shut off at sunset and sunrise if built near houses or if a house is built near a windmill. This is an effect that wind farm operators try not to talk about. Public officials who want the tax dollars that are extracted from windmills fail to address this issue because less hours of operation means less tax dollars will be available.
Public officials can take away your rights with a pen like a packman, a bit at a time. You may not get any compensation to boot. You can call them and tell them that their job is to protect your rights not take them away. Please help us save our farms value. They don't expect to be called. That is why you must do it. They remember the personal calls. Read this call to action and Help Us.
We just found out that there is a large wind mill farm being placed near our son's property in Herkimer County NY. He will probably lose future uses of his property. There will be what is called a 1250' setback requirement that means there will be no new devolopment within that zone. His properety will be in that zone. We have no problem with the windmills on the neighbors property, just don't take away our property rights because of the neighbors use of his property. This amounts to a taking without compensation. I would call this legislative conmdenation. It can happen to you. Bit by bit our public officials use zoning to suit their needs, not to protect ours. If one should not build with 1250' of a wind mill why is a wind mill allowed to be built allowed to be located with 1250' of an existing house? The answer is simple, the public officials don't care about the citizens, they only care about their private agenda.
Please call all the following officals and tell them to stop supporting this project:
Number of Members:
Claudine Grande Phone: 315-866-6886
Mildred S Wheeler Phone: 315-866-3209
Dolores D Walawender Phone: 315-866-0137
Jean E Maneen -Phone: 315-894-2034
Gary G Jackson -Phone: 315-894-2579
Leonard Hendrix - Phone: 315-894-3211
Robert Hyde - Phone: 315-866-1898
John L Brezinski - Phone: 315-732-6397
Peter F Manno - Phone: 315-894-5454
Raymond Smith - Phone: 315-429-9433
If these publisc officials are not told how you feel they will do it to others. Please call all of these officials today!!
Here are their Email addresses:
Dolores D Walawender - District 3 (dee525@twcny.rr.com)
Jean E Maneen - District 4 (missjeanie@aol.com)
Gary G Jackson - District 5 (jacksong@twcny.rr.com)
Leonard Hendrix - District 6 (diggerhend@aol.com)
Please Tell Them not to support this taking...Most concerns are centered on destruction of the vistas and a decrease in property values that will occur if the turbines are built. As farmers we cherish the beauty of our land and detest its destruction. Thanks, Bill Hirst
http://www.zone5trees.com , http://www.highlandhillfarm and http://www.seedlingsrus.com and http://www.greengiantarbs.com
About the Author
Bill Hirst has been growing plants on his 200 acre farm in Bucks County for 30 years. His web sites are http://www.seedlingsrus.com and http://www.digatree.com Sign up for Bill's newsletter at http://www.seedlingsrus.com/123456signup.html
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