Tim Hodges Portfolio
TimDHodges@yahoo.com - (519) 657-3995Websites and Webpage's
Forest City Surplus (I have been looking after this website since September 2003)
Funclips Coupons (Performed a website upgrade including a search engine optimization plan)
Link 2 Realty (Performed a website upgrade including a search engine optimization plan)
Cool Baby Wear (Installed and setup a Zen Cart store for a client)
The Stylist - offering mobile hair services to seniors
DG Consulting Service
A details webpage on a boxing video I did when I worked at Direct Video.
Blogs I look after
My personal blog which focuses on general and internet marketingFunclips Coupons blog
The main Forest City Surplus blog
The Forest City Surplus Audio / Video blog
The Forest City Surplus Pellet Gun blog
The Forest City Surplus airsoft blog
The Forest City Surplus camping gear blog
The Forest City Surplus paintball blog
CIPS London Section event invitation emails
Starting a software business event email number 1Starting a software business event email number 2
Starting a software business event email number 3
More CIPS event invitations available on request
Forest City Surplus Themed HTML Newsletters
2010 Winter survival gear newsletter
Price comparison newsletter
Halloween 2009 newsletter
Back-To-School 2009 newsletter
2009 Winter survival gear newsletter
Christmas 2008 gift newsletter
Forest City Surplus Non-Themed HTML Newsletters
November 2008 newsletterAugust 2008 newsletter
July 2008 newsletter
May 2008 newsletter
February 2008 newsletter
January 2008 newsletter
Forest City Surplus plain text Newsletters
October 2007 newsletterSeptember 2007 newsletter
July 2007 newsletter
June 2007 newsletter
May 2007 newsletter
Tutorials
A tutorial on how to download attached files when using
classic mail Tim Hodges Video Portfolio
Videos Stared in, Wrote by and edited by Tim Hodges
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3 Things to consider before building a website |
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Camping Tent Peg Mallets Demonstration |
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Fanon MV6 SW Megaphone Demonstration. A similar video to this increased sales of one of her megaphones by 42% in comparison with the previous year. These series of megaphones videos had the benefit of eliminating customer phone calls asking if the megaphones work or not and how far away can you here these megaphones. |
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ER-55W Megaphone Demonstration |
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Ammo Crate Demonstration |
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Telescopic 26 Inch Security Baton Demonstration. This video has the added bonus of being used in the retail store of Forest City Surplus to help sell batons. |
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Bully Biodegradable Garbage Bags Presentation |
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9 Port Grandtec Security Camera DVR Card Demonstration |
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Folding Camp Cot Demonstration |
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Crank Flashlight Demonstration |
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Crank Lantern Demonstration |
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Folding Portable Toilet Demonstration |
Videos filmed and edited by Tim Hodges
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U.S. Army Alpha Black Tactical Edition Paintball Markers demo One of the most successful videos we posted on YouTube. This video brought in a lot of people to the retail store to buy paintball guns. |
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Camping Section Walkthrough |
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Hobby Motor Spinning It amazes me how this short video brings people looking for hobby motors to the Forest City Surplus website to buy hobby motors. This short little video took less than 30 minutes to shoot, edit and post on YouTube. |
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Bug Jacket informational video
This video will helped eliminate customers contacting us and asking if one could wear this bug jacket what the hat underneath. |
Videos staring Tim Hodges
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Cable Tie Handcuffs Demonstration This is the first video we shot at Forest City Surplus for YouTube. It started out as a little video to demonstrate how the cable tie handcuffs work, to our surprise is video now has over 138,000 views. |
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A News London Camping Interview |
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Exploding Pop Cans with the HK Steel BB Gun One of a series of videos featuring a product demonstration followed by firing a BB gun at pop cans and watching them explode. |
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Pyle PMP35r megaphone demonstration A demonstration of a megaphone that we carry. A customer recently commented on YouTube"This was a fantastic review. Thorough yet simple explanation of this product. I was going to get the PMP30 before I saw this and now I'm definitely getting the PMP35R. Thank you!" |
Endorsements of Tim Hodges
"Over my many years working at for city surplus I've seen many customers come in with printouts from the website that maintains. It has brought us in a lot of business. It's a major factor in how a small business like us is able to compete with big box stores like Wal-Mart, Home Depot and Canadian tire… Tim takes great pride in the website ensuring product accuracy. His descriptions can usually answer most customer questions. A lot of customers are so sure of the content of the website they walk in with the printout and simply pick the item off the shelf without having to ask the staff questions. It's a real labour saver."
Bill Turney, Assistant Manager Forest City Surplus (519) 673-5650
"When Tim designs ads he regularly asks for suggestions on what I feel is selling well in the store. I find it empowering that he asks us front line workers what we feel is worth advertizing. I've never been treated like this at any of my previous jobs"
Jennypher Diavo, Cashier, Forest City Surplus - August 29, 2009
"The print ads are the main reason why we had a great Christmas sales season this year (2009). I see a lot of customers come in with copies of Tim's print ads with items circled in it that they want to buy."
Bill Turney, Assistant Manager Forest City Surplus (519) 673-5650
"The short of it is that Tim works bloody hard. He's creative, intelligent and dedicated, and he gives his all. I've never seen him go halfway on any project. That sort of hard work and dedication is an asset to any organization or company. The amount of blood & sweat I've seen him put into a voluntary organization (CIPS London section) speaks volumes."
Scott Kinoshita , Executive Secretary , CIPS London Section - September 21, 2009
“Tim Hodges is a long-standing, highly-value and indispensable asset both to the Freedom Party of Ontario and to me as Leader of the party. His regular attendance at meetings of the party executive since 2005 have been instrumental in guiding marketing and fundraising efforts, in resolving technical issues, and in bringing to election platform planning the political insights and opinions expressed by his wide and varied contact list. He has initiated successful and newsworthy party-awareness and issue-awareness campaigns between elections, often forming and leading groups of volunteers at events on the ground. He has also been my number one go-to person during election campaigns, having contributed time, effort, and the sweat of his brow to the various aspects of my own general election and by-election campaigns.
Recognizing Tim’s exceptional contributions over the years, I personally nominated him for election to the Freedom Party of Ontario executive. Pursuant to a unanimous vote in favour, Tim now sits as one of the 7 party officers comprising the policy-making Provincial Executive.
Tim Hodges skills and winning personality will be an asset to any organization. I recommend him highly, and I encourage anyone seeking further information about this exceptional individual to contact me at my law office."
Sincerely,
Paul McKeever, B.Sc.(Hons), M.A., LL.B.
Employment Lawyer
106 Stevenson Road South
Oshawa, Ontario
L1J 5M1
Tel: 905-721-9772
FAX: 905-571-7706
"Tim is conscientious and hard working. He was always eager and willing to come in early or work late during my busiest times. He would be a valuable asset to any employer."
Robert Vaughan, President, Direct Video
"In the retail (non-web) portion of the store, we have a lot of customers that come in looking for products they found on our website, along with the descriptions and details that Tim provided. Tim has noticably improved the amount of business we do at Forest City Surplus via the website fcsurplus.com."
Tim Leader - Deputy Tool Department Manager, Forest City Surplus - August 25, 2009
"Thanks to a poster Tim made for me I was able to get five new clients in one week"
Bill Birnie - William J. Birnie Superlative Services - December 22nd, 2009
"Tim is very computer savvy and was able to point out deficiencies in my business’s intranet which saved me both time and money."
Robert Vaughan, President, Direct Video
"My association with Tim has been through our volunteer work for the London West Conservative Association. During the 2006 and 2008 federal elections Tim worked tirelessly. He came straight from work daily and ate at his desk. His expertise in creating databases was invaluable. Modern elections come down first to recruiting and assigning campaign workers and, second, to identify supportive voters and getting them out to the polls on election day As co-chair of the “get out the vote” team, Tim liaised with our volunteers and the National Party to ensure that information was updated constantly and relayed to the Campaign Manager. Tim was called upon to train volunteers in the use of the Party’s data management system. Tim has served on the local Board of Directors and has worked on building and maintaining our website and membership lists. As President of the Riding Association, I know I can rely on Tim to complete all tasks accurately and on time."
Ron Fisher, President 2007-2010, London West Conservative Association
"After we posted a flyer Tim created in the London public Library system we were overwhelmed with the record number of guests (18) attended our next Toastmasters meeting"
Tom Dampsy, President 2008, Forest City Toastmasters