Flagstaff, AZ

Greetings from Flagstaff!
Today is my last day here at Oxendale Kia. It has been a pretty successful week for me, but let me catch you up where I left off in the last post.
Working at Bradley Ford in Lake Havasu AZ was not as successful for me this time around. I absolutely love the location, but unfortunately I blanked for the first time this week. Although I didn't reach my business goals for the week, I still enjoyed my day off with a fellow customer of mine, that I sold a 2013 Ford Fusion to while in Lake Havasu about two months ago. An elder friend of mine offered to take me to Oakman, AZ on my day off because I had told him it was on my "Bucket List" to see and feed a donkey some day. I had a blast with my 85-year-old customer that day. I have included a few picture below from that day off.
After the Bradley Ford sale in Lake Havasu, I had a week off. Instead of paying for a ticket to fly myself to Kansas City and back, I decided to take the three-hour ride to Las Vegas, and I flew my best friend out to see me. We had a blast in Vegas! We slept probably a total of 15% of the time we were there, and we did many fun activities together, some of which include: going to Circus Circus to play in the arcade like we were little kids again, checking out the nightlife and attending concents with artists such as LMFAO with the Party Rock Crew and Will.I.Am and even a little bit of gambling at various casinos. As you will see below, I also included pictures from this experience on my six weeks away from home trip across the country.
For week four on the road, I worked here in Flagstaff, AZ at the Oxendale Kia dealership. This week has been incredibly successful for me. I made two nice car deals and I am hoping my managers that will stay here tomorrow can finish closing the third deal I've been working on after I leave.
Tomorrow I am flying back to Chesapeake, VA to work at Performance Buick again. As you can tell from reading my blogs, I visit this place often but I enjoy it every time. Hopefully I can finish out these next two sales strongly so keep praying for me!
Thanks again to all who continue to read my blog,
Emily.

Will.I.Am

   Huk from America's Best Dance Crew

 

   LMFAO

 

On the Road Again....

   I'm back!  It looks like my last post did not actually post unfortunately, and I apologize for that.  To catch you up, I have been working hard traveling all over the United States and I'm still loving it.  Last week, I worked at Performance Buick in Chesapeake, VA, and sold three cars.  The week before that, I worked at Randy Reed Chevrolet in St. Joseph, MO and sold two cars.
   Traveling lately has really taken its toll on me.  By no means at all am I thinking about discontinuing my career right now in the car business, but when I say the traveling part has taken a toll on me lately, that's exactly what I mean.  Last night, we traveled from Chesapeake, VA to Las Vegas to Lake Havasu City, AZ.  After sleeping the entire time through the first flight which was only an hour long, I was ready to board plane number two from Atlanta to Las Vegas and prepare myself for work in the morning.  Unfortunately for everyone over the age of six this time, the four-hour flight to Vegas felt nothing short of a kindergarten classroom.  I used to teach kindergarten, so I am not trying to complain, but that flight from Atlanta definitely made me reminisce on the days I had 12-14 four-year-olds in the same room screaming for attention. 
   We arrived in Las Vegas around midnight last night, piled into a 15-passenger van and rode three hours to Lake Havasu City.  By the time I was all nestled in the my bed for the night, it was around 3:30 in the morning.  I got an additional four hours of sleep on top of the sleep I got on the two planes and the van prior to arriving in Lake Havasu.  I came to work on time by 8:30 this morning and didn't get back to the house we rented this week until about 9:30 tonight.  It's now 11:30 and I'm getting ready to return to my bed for the week so I can have a very productive and hopefully sucessful day tomorrow.
   I would like to thank everyone for being patient with my blog and staying up with all of my activity as I travel all over this beautiful nation working as a traveling saleswoman.  Whether I have ten followers or ten million followers, it really means a lot to me that people are taking the time to read my blog.  God bless you, and stay tuned for further updates!
Sincerely,
Emily DeMarea
(The Traveling SalesWOMAN).

(Almost) On the Road Again...

Good afternoon,

   I am still on break since my brother just got married on May 4th.  The rest of my team is currently working in Cheasapeake, VA while I am taking my final vacation days here at home.  Starting a week from today, I will be back to work in St. Joseph, MO. at the Randy Reed Chevy dealership.
  I always love going to Randy Reed in St. Joseph to work because I don't have to live in a hotel whenever I'm working there.  It's a 40-minute drive to get there, but I usually enjoy the alone time because it allows me to focus on my goals each morning.  I will be working at this Chevrolet dealership for a week until my travels guide me elsewhere.
   This was definitely a short post today, but I just wanted to update everyone in where I was in my journey as a traveling salesWOMAN.  As always, thanks for reading my blog!
-Emily.

Vacation!

Hello everyone,
This week I am actually on vacation.  I left Chesapeake, VA on the 19th in order to get home for my brother's fiance's bachelorette party.  The week following the bachelorette party, (4/29-5/3) I will have another week off because my job will be on our monthly break.  After that, my brother will be getting married on May 4th, so I will obviously be home for that.  I should get back to this job by May 6th and I will be working promotions and getting ready for the wedding in the meantime.
Thanks for reading the update,
Emily.

PRAYERS FOR PARKER

Hello everyone,
    Normally I plan on posting to my blog once a week, on every Tuesday.  Even though this is still one of my first blogs, I want to make an exception for a dear friend of mine, Parker Fly. 
    Usually when I travel all over the United States and sell cars, the goal of myself and the auto marketing company I work for is to blast out as much inventory as possible for the dealership that brings my team in.  The sale we have been working this week is exceptionally different.  Instead of just working for the dealership this time, we are also working for a 14-year-old friend of ours who just received a liver transplant in May 2012. 
    Performance Buick in Chesapeake, VA, and Prestige Auto Marketing, based in Orlando, Fl., have collaborated to put on an inventory blowout sale for Parker.  We are selling raffle tickets for $20 a piece and we will be giving away the Brocho, "Parker Edition" that is pictured below.  The raffle for this vehicle will take place at 7 p.m. on Monday, April 22 at Performance Buick (4033 Portsmouth Blvd., Chesapeake, VA 23321).
   To read more about Parker, visit his page at https://www.facebook.com/PrayersForParker. 
   If you would like to make a credit or debit donation to Parker, please call (757) 488-3500 and tell them you are responding to a post made by Emily DeMarea on his behalf. 

Welcome!

Hello, and welcome to my blog!

    My name is Emily DeMarea and I am a traveling saleswoman.  I work for an auto marketing group based out of Orlando, Fl.  In April 2012, I finished my schooling with a Bachelor of Science in Journalism and a minor in Political Science.  Needless to say, I am not doing exactly what I planned on, but it gets me out of the bar and into my big girl work clothes! 
    Speaking of the bar, I got this job while working at a sports bar in the Kansas City Power and Light District.  A group of businessmen came in and sat in my section.  Originally, they had planned on only spending an hour or two at the bar.  Six hours later, they came to the conclusion that working in a sports bar in Kansas City, Mo. was not what I should have been doing at the time.  They convinced me to try out something new and within hours, I was on a plane to Orlando, Fl. (all expenses paid) to give it a shot. 
    At first I was very skeptical of trying the job.  I told everybody about it BUT my parents.  I still wasn't sure it was the right occupation for me at the time, so I didn't see the need to worry my parents if I wouldn't be sticking with it a year or two down the road.  Fortunately, I happened to enjoy the job very much and I had a natural niche for it.  I sold two cars in six days and my new boss was very impressed by me since it was my first time selling in the automobile industry.
    Like I mentioned earlier, I had never planned on spending my post-college career traveling the nation selling cars.  I want to be a television news reporter someday, and hopefully work my way up to a local news anchor.  I plan on utilizing this blog as a gateway for the two jobs so when I apply at a local news station and they ask what I have been doing since I received my Bachelor's, I won't just respond, "Traveling across the United States selling cars."
    This is the first of many blogs to come, in which I intend to describe the greatest and some of the worst times one can have as a female traveling car salesperson.  Thank you for taking the time to read this blog and I hope you continue to read those to come in the near future.
Sincerely,
Emily A. DeMarea