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Volume 40, Issue 1 January 2013 In This Issue Help Make Wishes Come True Making Memories! RV Show Dates and Times Campkin’s Factory Tours Quick Links Home About Us Our Brands Showroom RV Specials Parts Store Service Centre News & Events Blog Contact Us We are asking every Customer who’s shopping: “Could you make a small Donation?” Donate $1.00, $5.00 or More! To All The Little Brothers and Little Sisters of North Durham Thank You! When I was a kid… At Campkin’s we believe in making memories. If your family needs some “memories time” consider a Clipper Camper. One day your kids will say: When I was a kid… Social Networks Contest! Like us on facebook and we’ll enter your name in a draw for a $50 Gift Card! 2013 RV Show Issue It’s RV Show and Sales time Again! We will have one of our biggest displays ever at the 2013 Toronto RV Show and Sale. This years show will be one of our biggest with 40 RV’s on display in our booth. Prolite, Surveyor, Trail Runner, Sundance and from Prime time RV: Avenger, Tracer and Sanibel. Our other brands:Clipper Campers, and Travel Trailers, Visa, Koala, Lacrosse, North Country,R-Pod, and Sprinter will not be on display at the show but are online and at our sales lot. Factory Reps on hand to help answer any questions. here’s the link for more information: 2013 Toronto RV Show and Sale Campkin’s Staff, Training is Very Important! Campkin’s RV Sales Staff take a Tour! For the 21st year in row, Campkin’s Sales Staff were at the Factory all last week, getting all the information they need to help our customers make an informed decision. We have pictures and videos that we will be posted on our youtube channel and will be in featured articles in upcoming newsletters. Also, we attach a video to each inventory item on our website, so ‘click’ and watch whats new on the lattest 2013 models! RV Care: Did You Know? We at Campkin’s RV Centre are proud to be an RV Care dealer. When you travel in the RV you purchased from Campkin’s you’ll be treated like family at any RV Care dealer from Sydney N.S. to Sidney, B.C. As family, if you have a problem or need help, any RV Care dealer will give you the highest possible priority and the best service available to get you back on the road quickly and safely to enjoy your travels. Another Bonus when you buy from Campkin’s RV! Seems like Spring is Early this Year? We are really excited as the January Thaw has made us all thing of an early spring. The first week was very busy with customers in everyday looking at the new2013 models that arrived over the fall and also taking advantage of the last 2012 models that are priced to clear. Whatever your plans make sure you inlcude a wee visit to Campkin’s RV Store, Dave and Louise are busy redoing the whole store and we have lots of new items arriving daily. If we don’t see you at the show we’ll see you at the store because…wait for it…. “It’s worth the hurdle to Myrtle!” Sincerely, Brad Campkin Campkin’s RV Centre bradc Save up to 25% Every Month we have a NEW Coupon that if you print off and bring in will get you FREE Stuff, SPECIAL Discounts only available if you bring in the coupon Winter covers, 25% of all in stock and 15% off Custom Orders! Must present this coupon, printed or electronic So Check back every Month to see what SPECIAL DEALS we have for YOU Also Check our Monthly Web Coupon January’s Campkin’s Club Coupon Offer Expires: While Quantites Last. No rain Checks.

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Campkin’s RV Centre | 9760 Baldwin St. North (Hwy12) | Myrtle Station | Ontario | L0B 1A0 | Canada ]]> http://campkins.wordpress.com/2013/01/14/campkins-january-2013-newsletter/feed/ 0 campkinsrv shr_drw_left.png shr_drw_fb.png shr_drw_twit.png shr_drw_linked.png shr_drw_divider.png shr_drw_more.png shr_drw_right.png shr_btn_like_sm.png p1x1.gif Campkin's Big Brothers Big Sisters North Durham Clipper Camper Like us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter View our videos on YouTube campkins 39 logo Find us on Google+ Find us on Yelp Visit our blog Find us on Pinterest Join Our Mailing List Surveyor Factory Tour RV Care 6.jpg http://campkins.wordpress.com/2013/01/10/187/ http://campkins.wordpress.com/2013/01/10/187/#comments Thu, 10 Jan 2013 01:15:29 +0000 campkinsrv http://campkins.wordpress.com/2013/01/10/187/ ]]> Reblogged from Mike Molino, LLC: Is the routine making you stale? How long have you been in the job you have now?  Do you still look forward to going to work each day?  Is the job a source of energy for you? Many of us have been in our jobs for a long time. In this era of mobile employees, I may still be unique in the number of people I reported to. Read more… 619 more words Great Blog by an RV Industry Leader! ]]> http://campkins.wordpress.com/2013/01/10/187/feed/ 2 campkinsrv http://campkins.wordpress.com/2012/10/30/usa-shoppers-coming-to-canada/ http://campkins.wordpress.com/2012/10/30/usa-shoppers-coming-to-canada/#comments Tue, 30 Oct 2012 12:59:44 +0000 campkinsrv https://campkins.wordpress.com/?p=177 ]]> Great to see how many American RV online shoppers we are getting at Campkins RV Online Store parts@campkins.com 1-888-743-9378 ]]> http://campkins.wordpress.com/2012/10/30/usa-shoppers-coming-to-canada/feed/ 0 campkinsrv http://campkins.wordpress.com/2012/07/02/176/ http://campkins.wordpress.com/2012/07/02/176/#comments Mon, 02 Jul 2012 14:11:12 +0000 campkinsrv http://campkins.wordpress.com/2012/07/02/176/ ]]> Reblogged from Everywhere Once: EverywhereOnce isn’t a political blog, and this isn’t a political post. Health insurance, for us, isn’t a political matter but a practical one. Of all the things we had to consider when preparing to hit the road full-time, how to manage health care costs was not only the most significant but also the most unpredictable. In 2010, when we left behind our Mega Corp provided health insurance coverage and surrendered ourselves to the tender mercies of the individual insurance market, we couldn’t guarantee we’d even be sold an individual policy. Read more… 873 more words For all of my American friends, happy RV'ing! ]]> http://campkins.wordpress.com/2012/07/02/176/feed/ 0 campkinsrv http://campkins.wordpress.com/2012/06/18/whats-missing-on-campkins-mobile-web/ http://campkins.wordpress.com/2012/06/18/whats-missing-on-campkins-mobile-web/#comments Mon, 18 Jun 2012 20:28:10 +0000 campkinsrv https://campkins.wordpress.com/?p=174 ]]> What can we do for you? Email me today with a suggestion for our apple app or or mobile website and I’ll send you a $10.00 online credit to be used towards any purchase online (min purchase $10) bradc@campkins.com ]]> http://campkins.wordpress.com/2012/06/18/whats-missing-on-campkins-mobile-web/feed/ 0 campkinsrv http://campkins.wordpress.com/2012/03/13/campkins-rv-sponsoring-the-2012-65th-toronto-sportsmen-show-2/ http://campkins.wordpress.com/2012/03/13/campkins-rv-sponsoring-the-2012-65th-toronto-sportsmen-show-2/#comments Tue, 13 Mar 2012 17:35:18 +0000 campkinsrv http://campkins.wordpress.com/2012/03/13/campkins-rv-sponsoring-the-2012-65th-toronto-sportsmen-show-2/ ]]> Campkin’s RV – March 13, 2012 Press Release Campkin’s RV Centre, the RV Dealer in Myrtle Stn., North Whitby Ontario Canada, is a major sponsor of the 2012 65th Toronto Sportsmen Show at the Toronto Convention Centre running from March 14 – 18, 2012. Campkin’s RV is also an exhibitor with 8 Coachmen Clipper Fold-Down Campers on display in the South Hall of the Toronto Convention Centre. As a major sponsor Campkin’s RV is the sponsor of the Seminar Stage, called “The Campkin’s RV Seminar Stage” where a virtual “who’s who” of the fishing and outdoor world will be doing FREE Seminars on the hour all during the 2012 Toronto sportsmen Show. Campkin’s RV also has two 2012 Coachmen Clipper Fold-Down campers on display, one on either side of the Seminar Stage showing a typical “Camp” setup. Many Outdoor enthusiast’s are looking at “getting off the ground’ in an affordable way. Campkin’s RV is showing different Fold-Down campers from the basic Coachmen Clipper Express, a simple tent trailer with sleeping for 4 to the “home on wheels camper” the Clipper Classic 1285SST with all the comforts of home, hot water, shower, fridge, furnace, stereo etc. Guests of the 2012 65th Toronto Sportsmen Show will be greeted at the entrance to the show with two Coachmen Clipper Fold-Down Camper Trailers, showing the affordability of this type of RV. Many tenting enthusiasts take the first step to get off the ground by purchasing a Fold-Down Camper Trailer. Brad Campkin will be appearing on the Hamilton TV station, CHCH, on Wednesday March 14th at 7:20 am to promote the 2012 65th Toronto Sportsmen Show and the RV Lifestyle which he has been involved with for almost 40 years. Campkin’s RV Centre in Myrtle Stn., North Whitby Ontario offers all types of towable RV’s from Fold-Down Camping Trailers, Light Weight Travel Trailers, Conventional Travel Trailers and Fifth Wheels plus Toy Haulers.  Campkin’s offers the best online experience with a mobile site, www.campkins.com/mobile an app on iTunes, and an RV Industry First, RV ONLINE Parts Store. As an RV Care Dealer, Campkin’s offers customers peace of mind as they travel across Canada with a no charge membership with 60 RV Dealers who offer emergency service from coast to coast. For more information or Interviews please contact: Brad Campkin bradc@campkins.com 1-888-743-9378 ext 25 ]]> http://campkins.wordpress.com/2012/03/13/campkins-rv-sponsoring-the-2012-65th-toronto-sportsmen-show-2/feed/ 0 44.022289 -78.968878 44.022289 -78.968878 campkinsrv Image http://campkins.wordpress.com/2012/02/19/cdn-buying-gas-in-usa/ http://campkins.wordpress.com/2012/02/19/cdn-buying-gas-in-usa/#comments Sun, 19 Feb 2012 16:02:09 +0000 campkinsrv https://campkins.wordpress.com/?p=161 ]]> “I have just been reading about how you can use your Canadian credit card in the ‘pay at the pumps’ at US gas stations. When you attempt to swipe your card at the pumps it always prompts you to type in your zip code. I have tried many different times to punch in valid US zip codes but it would never work.. here is the procedure to use your card: when prompted for a zip code type in the numeric portion of your home Postal Code and add two zero’s at the end. for example if your postal code is L0B 1A0 type in 010 000. the pumps will accept this as a valid zip code and you will be able to use your Canadian credit card.” I found this on the web, Hope this Helps! ]]> http://campkins.wordpress.com/2012/02/19/cdn-buying-gas-in-usa/feed/ 0 campkinsrv http://campkins.wordpress.com/2012/01/03/campkins-rv-posts-over-1-million-inventory-visits/ http://campkins.wordpress.com/2012/01/03/campkins-rv-posts-over-1-million-inventory-visits/#comments Tue, 03 Jan 2012 21:43:38 +0000 campkinsrv http://campkins.wordpress.com/?p=157 ]]> ONE MILLION INVENTORY VISITS Press Release Campkin’s RV Centre – January 2012 Campkin’s RV Centre, an RV Dealer in southern Ontario Canada, reports a very strong “Fall Selling Season” and attributes it to “Overwhelming Internet Traffic”. 2011 was the companies very best year since it started in 1973. Campkin’s RV uses a combination of Search Engine Optimization and Marketing Techniques. The most important has been putting ALL of their New and Used RV’s on the Website with detailed description and lots of pictures. “Our SEO partner, Synergy Pro Solutions, have made sure each page and each picture etc is picked up by Google and all the search engines.” Campkin’s RV website traffic surpassed the one million inventory hits for the very first time. “Going from approximately 350,000 in 2010 to over a million in 2011 definitely has kept our sales department much busier, we’ve even had to hire two more sales people to keep up” says Owner and Sales Manager Brad Campkin. Campkin says they have a very high conversion rate from web surfers to onsite viewing appointments, “We track each contact made from our website and we see just under 50% of our calls and emails from the website convert to a visit at the dealership!” Campkin also says having the SELLING PRICE on the website, not “Call for Price” or “fill out a form to get the price” has made a huge difference. “People come in knowing their price range and are all set to look at the RV they saw online” he says. New this past year, Campkin’s launched theirs and Canada’s first, RV Parts and Accessory Store. Many RV s stores are really a link to a third party supplier’s online catalogue. Campkin’s RV has created an RV Parts store that lists the actual inventory in their Accessory Showroom. “We have made it easy for our customers to shop online, again making our Website our most important marketing all year long” says Campkin. We have also created a Mobile Website for all the Smart-phones. “When our customers are on the go…and they are in their RV’s, they can access our Parts and Accessory store right from their smart-phone, plus shopping for a new RV is easy as every RV in stock is accessible from our mobile website. Last but not least Campkin’s RV Centre has an iTunes App that is really taking off. Brad says “We are getting a lot of subscribers to our iTunes App and we send ‘push notifications’ that alert our followers to news and events happening at the dealership.” You can follow Campkin’s RV on Twitter and Facebook as well, the links are on their website http://www.campkins.com Campkin’s RV Centre is in Myrtle Station, North Whitby, Ontario Canada. And have served the southern Ontario RV market since 1973, offering full year round service, RV Accessory showroom and the top selling brands of towable RV’s in North America. Campkin’s RV is a member of the RV Care Network a Canada wide Dealer Network that looks after customers that travel across Canada. ]]> http://campkins.wordpress.com/2012/01/03/campkins-rv-posts-over-1-million-inventory-visits/feed/ 0 44.022289 -78.968878 44.022289 -78.968878 campkinsrv CAMPKINS 2011 WEB GRAPH http://campkins.wordpress.com/2011/08/20/campkins-rv-goes-mobile-again/ http://campkins.wordpress.com/2011/08/20/campkins-rv-goes-mobile-again/#comments Sat, 20 Aug 2011 14:29:14 +0000 campkinsrv http://campkins.wordpress.com/?p=147 ]]> Campkin’s RV has done it again, we have just launched our new mobile website, what’s new you ask? Well the first thing is that with all the new smartphones and tablets we had to make it easier to use on all platforms, so now wether you are using a iPad or a Playbook our mobile website works great! Also we have added the Online RV Accessory store to our mobile application. What makes our Online RV Accessory Store so unique is that unlike other RV Dealers, Campkin’s Online RV Accessory is not a ‘third party’ link. When you come to our store you are dealing directly with Campkin’s in Myrtle Station! You can peruse our store when your sitting on the GO Train, or waiting in the Dentist office! We also have embraced the new QR Code technology that allow our customers to ‘Scan’ with their smartphone and get more information on our RV’s for sale. If you have dropped by our store on Hwy#12 in Myrtle Stn, you may have noticed that we print off all of our Inventory Sheets, post them in the front window (for after hours and Sunday customers) and you can scan the Qr Code and take home all the info you need to research the products. At campkin’s RV we are constantly working to make your RV Shopping experience the very best. ]]> http://campkins.wordpress.com/2011/08/20/campkins-rv-goes-mobile-again/feed/ 0 44.022289 -78.968878 44.022289 -78.968878 campkinsrv qrcode.campkins_mobile http://campkins.wordpress.com/2011/05/19/rv-service-why-is-it-so-bad/ http://campkins.wordpress.com/2011/05/19/rv-service-why-is-it-so-bad/#comments Thu, 19 May 2011 19:26:19 +0000 campkinsrv http://campkins.wordpress.com/?p=140 ]]> Ok this might sound crazy but since 1973 I’ve been involved in serving customers who want…no, NEED RV service. Why is it as an industry we still seem to make it tough for our customers to get hassle free service? Well I think I know a couple of reasons…. Seasonality: from staffing to crazy rushes of customers we constantly battle the crazy swing of supply and demand. Often if just one employee calls in sick a whole weeks service schedule gets messed up and if course the customer who was promised a pickup date is let down, bad service, right? Technical support: we are the professionals. We should know how to fix an RV. With all the electronics, the new designs, new construction methods and materials and not to mention hi tech appliances often we are put in the position of having to ‘learn’ how to diagnose and repair an RV for the very first time while under time pressure, calling factories and/or tech lines. Bad service, right? Scheduling: 9 techs, 7 service bays, 2 parts people, 1 parking lot. Only 8 hours in a day! Long weekend coming up…trying to co-ordinate 8′ to 40′ RV’s into service bays at the right time with the right parts. One part is wrong, could be anyone’s fault, doesn’t matter, have to re-schedule. Bad service, right? I don’t want to sound negative, what I want to say is even if every person in a parts and service dept does everything right there are external forces that sometimes come into play that can make the hardest working staff member look bad. We constantly talk about what we do have control over and how we can improve by looking inward and improving our methods and processes. I am very proud when I hear one of our staff say “your right, we could have and should have done better. We are truly sorry we let you down. Will you allow us another chance to make it right?” We always own our actions, we can and do offer the very best service and effort everday, no matter what challenges are thrown our way. And we are very lucky to have 38 years worth of loyal customers who understand and appreciate our committment to them. From the desk of: Brad Campkin ]]> http://campkins.wordpress.com/2011/05/19/rv-service-why-is-it-so-bad/feed/ 1 44.022289 -78.968878 44.022289 -78.968878 campkinsrv