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We hope that everyone is having a safe and productive new year so far. As many of you that follow or site know we have been trying to do as many things to connect us in the business with you the customer and user. We have a customer support page on GetSatisfaction for any suggestions or ideas you may have, a page on Twitter for quick updates, a Facebook page where we post quick updates as well and other things, a few small blogs on sites like posterous and tumblr as well. I am always looking for new technologies as the webmaster that will allow us to get input and ideas from our customers and users. There is a new service I have discover called Skribit you can see a widget on the right hand side of the site under our @Almobile on twitter section. What this does is let you the user suggest the topic you want us to write about here. If you have a simple question you want answered then the GetSatisfaction page would be the best place for that. If there is a topic to do with mobile home parts, camper parts or anything else to do with mobile homes you can suggest that we write about that topic. This is a new thing I have just setup, so I do not have any idea as to the amount of input that we will receive. I will try to write a news post or informative post on any topic that fits within our subject area. So please feel free to make use out of all of our tools at your disposal and again if you have any ideas or feedback you want to get to me you can do that via our GetSatisfaction page by clicking here of the Feedback tab on the left hand side of our website. We hope this is another tool you will find useful and thank you for being a part of our online community.

Scott

Happy New Year 2010

We wanted to take a quick minute to wish all of our loyal customers a safe and happy New Year!! We have many plans to help us better server you in 2010. We will continue to sell top quality Mobile Home and Camper parts and supplies for everyone in the Tuscaloosa County area. This is our second year doing our Online Parts Catalog for RV, Motorhome and Camper parts. We received some good feedback from those of you who used this service in 2009 and we hope the convenience will convince you to either make another order or try our Online Parts Catalog for the first time. It is a secure, safe way to get the RV parts you need delivered to you wherever the road may take you. We thank you for helping us make 2009 a great year of service and look forward to making 2010 even better. If you have ideas or recommendations please let us know via our Online Support Portal or the Feedback tab on the left of our web site. If you want to contact us in a more personal way please go to our Contact page and choose what way you would like to do that. For those who use the computer a lot do not forget to follow us on Twitter @almobile and become a fan on FaceBook to keep up with all of the latest quick news updates. Sometimes there are things that we need to say, but having our webmaster make a blog post such as this is a little much for a short news update. Also, many of us employees do not know how to do the web coding so that is left to the web developer. We are however getting “tweeting” down and the benefits of using FaceBook to reach our users. You can click on the links in this post to follow us at either place and get more small but important updates.

Again, we thank you for your continued business and support and hope to see you all in our store when we open back up for business on Monday January 4th at 8:00 a.m.

First I want to wish every a happy and safe holiday. I hope everyone enjoys their Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa or other holiday they celebrate this time of year. I also hope everyone has a safe and fun New Years. I wanted to let all of our customers know as soon as possible our holiday hours and days we will be closed so that you can arrange to get what you need before we are closed. I know many of you rely on us for your propane gas, mobile home parts, camper parts and your HVAC work. Our HVAC team has been hard at work fixing and servicing mobile home furnaces this winter. They also just finished another course on continuing their education so that they can keep up on all of the new technology and changes in mobile home heating and cooling. We are truly blessed in many ways. We have an great staff and our HVAC crew is one of the best for mobile homes in this area. Paul Marcum, our lead HVAC technician has been with us for over 15 years doing nothing but mobile home heating and cooling. This is a family owned business as most of our customers know, and he is as much family as the rest of our staff. My grandfather started this business in 1982 with a very simple goal in mind and that is to sell quality mobile home and camper parts and supplies at great prices. I was only four years old at that time but I can remember being a young boy going into his shop and seeing the way he interacted with customers. He genuinely wants to help everyone and his dedication is one of the qualities I respect most in him. So if there is anything you need this holiday season please give us a call at (205)556-1151 or email us at Sales@almobilehome.com. Below are the days we will be closed for the Christmas holiday as well as New Years.

We will be closed December 24^th , 25^th and 26^th for Christmas and December 31^st , January 1^st and January 2^nd for New Years. Please try to get anything you need before that, as we do not want anyone to have to do without during this holiday season.

We wish you a happy and safe holiday and thank you for another year of your business.

You can now login our site using OpenId, MyOpenId, FaceBook, Twitter, Windows Live (Hotmail and MSN) and your Google account username and password. This makes leaving comments and other user only options much easier. You can also still make an account for just here as you always have been able to as well. This is just one of the many new options we are testing for our online setup.To see more about this click on the link about openid above. It will tell you about the secure way it is being used on thousands of web sites already. We have known about this technology for awile now but wanted to allow it to go through the beta stages before implementing it on our site so that our customers safety and information would not be at risk. We hope that this is just another way to make finding out information, leaving feedback and connecting with us easier. Thank you very much and if you have any questions or comments on this new addition to the site, or would like to know about using it on your business site or personal blog you can contact the webmaster by email at Tech@almobilehome.com.

Do not be caught off guard this winter. Call our licensed and bonded HVAC crew out now to check your heater and ensure it is in proper running condition. Our crew will come out, do a routine checkup, and make sure all parts are in safe working order and get you ready for the upcoming cold winter nights. Our HVAC team leader Paul Marcum has been on the job for over 15 years and continues his education on the new a/c and heating technology.  We also fill propane tanks so if you live in a camper or RV and heat and/or cook with propane come by and let us fill your tank. We have competitive prices and friendly staff on site during all business hours that will fill your propane tanks. You can view the prices on our propane on the Propane page by clicking here.

After a few tense days in the hospital, the owner Mr. Wilson is now home and recovering nicely. We would like to thank all of you who expressed concern and prayed for his recovery. It was truly touching how many of you noticed his absence and were genuinely concerned about his health and well-being. Although he will be recovering at home for the next week or so, he is still an important part of the business, still the owner and sole proprietor and will be back as soon as the doctor clears him. I can assure you because I speak with him often he is as anxious to get back to work as many of you are to see him back. As many of you know this is a Family ran business and we like to think of our customers as family. We are all worried about his health and well being and praying for his speedy recovery. Until he returns all of us employees are banning together to make sure we can deliver the same quality service that he has upheld for over 27 years. I would like to everyone again for the flowers, cards and just the concern shown for him. He is a very important person in our lives and I am so proud to see how important he is to so many of you. If there is anything we can help you with please email us by our contact page or by clicking here. You can also call (205)556-1151 during our office hours with any of your needs. If it is web related such as ideas for the site, questions or comments please email me here or go to our online customer support portal by either clicking the feedback tab on the left or clicking here. We want to make your shopping experience with us a great one every time. Whether that is an in store trip or you are ordering online, we strive to do the best job possible. To find out more ways to stay updated you can sign up for our mailing list or view or contact page for our FaceBook, Twitter, LinkedIn and our other web links.

Thank You,

Web Master

The setup we have been running on the main website has been in place for over 2 or 3 years. It is and has been time for some serious updating. I know this down time is bad for you, the users and customers and I do apologize. I will make that pages on here for the HVAC, Propane etc as they were on the main site for the in between time. I will also post our hours – 8:00a.m – 5:00p.m. Monday – Friday and 8:00a.m. to 12:00p.m. Saturday. I am going to just do a redirect to this page until the main site is back, and both fully functional and tested. Again, I apologize for any trouble this causes, feel free to send feedback via the Feedback tab to the left, or the feedback area on our Contact Page. Once the main site is up all pages coded and transferred to here will stay available so if you want to go on and bookmark here that is fine. I just did not want our users to have downtime because of an update when we have a perfectly functioning Blog Platform running Right here. We have implemented so many new things over these past 3 or 4 months online. We have the Online Support Through GetSatisfaction, we have the Twitter updates via @almobile, We have the FaceBook page, both a regular one and a business one that you can become a “fan” of, the business LinkedIn page, new RSS links for our updates so that you can get them direct to your email or mobile device or PC RSS reader. If there is something we are lacking, anything you would like to see from us and have not seen, please go to the feedback tab, or our GetSatisfaction page and suggest that new idea. We always love a challenge and try to accommodate any request that are within reason and our capabilities of course. If you were a member of the main site, I am doing my best to update all of that without losing the members because we know how much time many of you have spent on our site and I do not want that to have to be in vain. You can become a member on here, and subscribe to be updated whenever a news post is made, simply click here to login or click here to register if you are a new user, or you can subscribe to updates through the RSS feed. I will post more when I know an approximate date of finishing the main site and until then let me know anything I can do or help you with again through the Feedback tab or email me from the Contact Us page here. We thank you for your time, patience and overall your loyal business.

WebMaster – Email Me

If you look on the left side of the blog you will see a Feedback tab, This is your instant link to our GetSatisfaction account. You can send us your idea’s, questions, tell us about any problems you may have and even give us some praise if you are pleased with the job we did or the product you purchased from us. There is a link on our Contact Us page to there site, where you can get more information. I did want to make use of their widget on here however, as I believe it will be an easier way to post your information since it is a one click process. If you would like to view the whole page please feel free to go to our full page you can do that by clicking the Get help! image to the left. Please give us 48 – 72 hours to respond to any inquires, we take your input very seriously and would love to hear anything that you have to say. We hope this is a useful tool in getting any of your issues resolves and will allow us a new line of communication between us in the business and you the customer.

I made a Funnel account on Tumblr, this is a smaller blogging platform that has the capability to let me publish the RSS feed from This blog, Our website and Our Twitter account as well. I am always looking for ways to make it easier for you to find and locate our content and I am hoping that this is going to be a very useful tool. Now all of our information, from the page to sign up for the newsletter and all new posted news story’s from the blog here, the site and twitter will all be displayed there. Now you can go to the Tumblr site, and if we have any new news out you will get it right away. Any suggestions you have you can either send through our online customer support site at GetSatisfaction, the form on our Contact Us page, or by sending me an email. Thank you for all of your business and we look forward to adding more ways of connecting us with you, the customer as we value your input.

Webmaster

If you want to be updated on the news about our business, sales and other news you can go to http://bit.ly/ALMailing and sign up for our newsletter, or make a user account on the site and subscribe to the newsletter and to get emailed when any new new updates are released. This is for customers only and your email and other personal information will never be given to any outside sources. Thank you for checking in on our blog and have a great day.