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Here are before Bugtoberfest 2009 Shots.
It’s Friday afternoon before Bugtoberfest 2009. The 2.2 acres of property is squared and ready for two days of air-cooled fun. I will try to take photos from the exact locations for both the BBQ and the show for everybody. We are really looking forward to seeing everyone here.
Chirco.com got a Facelift for it’s VW Parts site
Actually it got 7 face lifts with the drop pages Lemorris designed.
Chirco.com is made up of 7 drop pages targeted to our specific clientele.
Chirco.com VW Parts main page
www.chirco.com
Aircooled VW Parts
www.chirco.com/aircooledvwparts.htm
Performance VW Parts
www.chirco.com/vwperformanceparts.htm
Dune Buggy Parts
www.chirco.com/dunebuggyparts.htm
Sand Rail Parts
www.chirco.com/sandrailparts.htm
Baja Bug Parts
www.chirco.com/bajabugparts.htm
Super Beetle Parts
www.chirco.com/superbeetleparts.htm
We are at Las Vegas Bugorama 2009
Not as big of a show as I thought it would be and very windy. There is a lot of very nice VW people.
In between shows we have been planning our schedules
We to do next?
We are at the Las Vegas Town Square show
What a nice venue for a show. The cars are spread our among high end shops and food courts. Seems like all the guys are checking out cars and the gals are shopping.
We have lost Cheryl.
More soon.
It’s hard to get away, when you know the staff will miss you.
Every once in awhile I have to go out of town to go to shows and event. I try and keep it to a minimum since it breaks the staffs heart when I leave. You would think after almost 10 years, it would get easier.
This weekend Lemorris and I are in Las Vegas for the car.
You can see the updates on his Media Blog
http://www.chircoestore.com/media/
This is a test mobile post
This is a blog post is being posted from my blackberry.
We just made Chirco.com faster to use.
Lemorris and I recently purchased tools that analyzed the structure of the html pages on www.chirco.com domain, since the load time was taking 12.2 seconds to fully down load. As you can imagine, 12.2 seconds is an eternity for a web page to load. After about 2 hours of work, we had Chirco.com loading at 4.1 seconds with a low time of 3.7 seconds.
I’m guessing that it took you about 2 seconds to be totally board with this update 
We are working on our Technical Articles
We have been working on our Technical Articles that we have with in the site and the forums. Currently we have close to 70 articles that have been collected over the 8 bazillion years.
Lemorris had the great idea to give all the articles the same look and feel. He also wanted the text only articles to have either an image or a video included in it. Our project finish date is November 2050, but we might be able to wrap it up prior.
To make it easy for our customers to find the articles, we have them in four locations, so after one is completed it is being reformatted in each location. When we are done burning the mid night oil re-doing these, we will update everyone.
Latest Bugtoberfest 2009 Promo Video
Thanks to Sean and Lemorris for this creative promo video.
2009 is going to be a Big Show
Chirco’s Bugtoberfest Host Hotel is The Hilton East
7600 E Broadway, Tucson AZ 85710
Rates are $89.00 an evening if you sign up for prior to 10/18/09
http://www.chircoestore.com/catalog/faq.php?cID=14
Just for joining the Chirco eStore you will receive,,
Chirco Performance and Restoration rewards you for becoming a registered member to our estore with a 10% discount coupon
just type in
newmember.
Just for joining the Chirco eStore you will receive:
A 10% discount code
Access to all the benefits of the the eStore, like the wish list and the ability to view your previous orders.
You will also receive regular updates about the Chirco site, eStore, events, and members only specials and opportunities.
Note: Yes all you existing members get to use it one time too.
We did not forget about you.
Please view our video on how to use a coupon code in our eStore.
Chirco’s Bugtoberfest 2009 is Ramping Up
2009 is all ready looking as it’s going to be our biggest show yet.
New to this years show is a host hotel, The Eastside Hilton (See Video)
The Tucson perimeter cruise is starting a bit earlier along with the Saturday night BBQ so people can relax prior to Sunday morning.
This year we are going to do our best to start parking cars a little later.
More to come soon.
Registration page
Chirco.com has been having fun on Twitter
For those of you that have been to our store in Tucson, you know we like to chat with our customers up at the counter and on the phone. This is one of the best benefits of working in a hobby business that you really enjoy. For the last 6 or 7 months we have been addicted to Twitter and having a bunch of fun with it.
Ever since Joe got his new Blackberry, you can find him around the store and the service department snapping pictures and uploading them to twitpic and tweeting them. Lemorris and Don use it to post just about everything and as a tool to communicate what they are working on. The funny part about that little fun fact, is that they work 5 feet apart.
If you would like to follow us, here are the links and we will follow you back.
Don
http://twitter.com/chirco_don
Joe
http://twitter.com/chircovwparts
Lemorris
http://twitter.com/chircomedia
Chirco.com’s Club Connection is up and going
Performance and Restoration has helped local Tucson clubs with a 10% store discount for years.
Due to numerous requests we have decided to extend this offer to other clubs in the US.
By joining the FREE program your club will receive:
Here is the whole program
Chirco Helps Air Cooled Car Clubs
Chirco is developing an online source to help AirCooled VW clubs through the US.
“With our online business booming, it’s time to open up our benefits nation wide states”
Lemorris Harris Marketing Director of Chirco.com.
The program is not 100% perfected yet, but we have had some good early responses.
Club members can get a hold of Lemorris toll free 800-955-9795 or lemorris@chirco.com
The Chirco Forums Got a New Look and Feel Today
We finally had a chance to sit down and review the Chirco forums to make some necessary changes. Lemorris was very quick to open up photoshop and start freshening up the banners and linking them to new threads. He also wanted to create an Introduction thread so newer members could read about existing members and also post an introduction of their own. The How to use the forum information was consolidated into one post, and the same thing with the eStore help post.
There is still more to come, all very exciting.
Chirco Bugtoberfest 2009 The Interrogator Pre Show Ad 1
Great job Lemorris, Sean and Joe for putting together this video to help promote our 2009 Bugtoberfest. For more onformation, check out the thread in the Chirco Forum
