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Relocating Discoveries
Aside from finding a good pizzeria when you relocate, there are more important things to search out. Bank, church, post office, and lawn service are just a few. I have been fortunate to be 70 years old and have a full head of hair, but for some reason it continues to grow. I never went for hair stylists; I prefer the old-time barbers. My father always took me to a barber as a kid. Searching for a barber is not that easy; it is a forgotten art.
Twenty years ago, before moving to Florida, I went back home to New York City. My barber was a guy named Isaac, a Russian Jew. He set up shop on 7th Avenue in the Chelsea section of Manhattan. He was the first barber to cut my hair in NYC. He was so good that one day, while getting a shave, I glanced over at the next customer, and it was Anderson Cooper. Isaac was the barber for the Manhattan elite. I was lucky.
What are the chances of finding a barber of that quality in Ocala, Florida? Luck struck twice, for low and behold, right next to #1 Pizza was a barber, King Cutz. I decided to try my luck after having a slice, with a guy named O’Nell. As I entered the shop, it was crowded. It was the Friday before school started in Florida. August 12 was, I thought, early; it seems school starts earlier each year. When I was in grade school, we started after Labor Day. Why would you have children start school in early August in Florida? It is so hot! The air conditioners have to work harder to keep class rooms cooler. Anyway, a dozen kids were ahead of me, all Spanish and black; razor cuts are a big style for kids, not me, who likes scissors. I didn’t feel out of place, but I was concerned about being older and liking traditional hair cuts.
O’Nell had been a teacher in a hair salon in Puerto Rico. He spent 30 minutes on a six-year-old’s hair. He meticulously clipped each and every hair on this buzz cut, and I was impressed. I was next; he cut my hair, trimmed my beard, and not a hair was out of place. In the morning, I had no cow lick, which usually occurs after my hair is cut. I found my barber and my pizza!
Most New Yorkers agree that the best Chinese food is in Chinatown in lower Manhattan. I could never remember the names of the restaurants; I went by numbers: 17 Pell Street, 37 Mott Street. In the same strip mall, there was a Chinese restaurant! I have not tried it as yet; there is too much pizza to digest. What are the odds of it being as good as a New York restaurant?
My saga continues for new places in Ocala, especially to eat.
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Lol. Peter, that is why @sapna Sapna and I created the Business Directory and the Classified Ads section on our FORUMS. We are working on it as we speak. Let’s take your case, for example. I am so glad you wrote this post. When people move, If they are renting and purchase a new house, like yourself, or if they sell their home and buy a different house, the new neighborhood or area they are moving to, they not know any establishments of service to go to. Everything is going to start new. In their current area, they knew the barber, gas stations, mechanic, grocery stores, bars and restaurants, dentist, doctor, shops, banks, landscapers, contractors, hardware stores, pizzarias, and other specialty businesses for goods and services. That is the main reason and mission why the business directory and classified ads sections were created. We wanted a business directory that was different than the competition. Our business directory will consist of businesses that are endorsed and sponsored by our members of GCA FORUMS. Our goal at GCA FORUMS is have recommended small businesses endorsed by a member of our FORUM who they have dealt with and is highly recommended in the subject area throughout the United States. Well, why would a business want to be listed in GCA FORUMS? Why not Angie’s List, YELP, Google My Business (GMB), the Yellow Pages, and other Directory Platforms? Our goal is to help small business owners maximize branding their business brand and maximize their revenue potential. There are millions of small business owners in the United States that the public can benefit but consumers do not know the business offering their product and/or services exists. We are going to help them. Any small business that offer the best products and services to consumers, GCA FORUMS will help them by endorsing them and sponsoring to our business directory. Our business directory will have the basic free service like the competition such as Angie’s List, Google My Business, Yelp, Yellow Pages, and other business listing and review platforms. GCA FORUMS will have whatever the competition has, but more. The main difference is GCA Business Directory will be LOCAL SEO DRIVEN. Our goal is for the small business owner will get organic traffic by maximizing their online presence through all the major online search engines. If the business owner want to take their digital marketing platform to the next level, we have a sister inhouse digital marketing company, Viral Website Developers, that can help them with the multiple options to their scope of online marketing model. This includes digital media marketing management where VWD (Viral Website Developers) will manage all of their digital media marketing portal and consolidate the business’s marketing platforms including the backend. VWD can guide and coach the business owner on how to consolidate all social media platforms they have consolidating it with the main purpose of maximizing the brand of the business and outrank the business brand over the competition. VWD offers full-service digital media marketing services such as creating and managing, consulting, and modifying websites, hosting, content, graphic design, logo design, programming, social media marketing, CRM, email marketing, infographics, videos, networking, and eCommerce. I will answer any questions anyone has so please do not hesitate to ask. As we speak, Sapna, Ravinder, Marga, and our technical team are working seven days a week on the back-end work of GCA FORUMS. We are doing a restructure on Viral Website Developers so you can check on the website daily to see the changes.
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Great news!