GroundLink Acquires LimoAnywhere!

[LimoAnywhere.com]

Dial7 an Carmel are taxi services disguised in beat up Town Cars. Have you been to New York and ridden with them? I know you haven't.

Also, I've said it before. I come from the trucking industry... Over 60 years and still going. That logic of making the money on the backhaul is exactly what killed the industry. Gl is a brokerage. Brokerage make you broke.

I certainly don't want to argue with anyone here, but I have been to NYC (last time three weeks ago actually) and did ride in all kinds of cars with all kinds of providers. There are different classes of cars that have different prices. GL offers Economy, Luxury and VIP. If you get Economy for $59 don't expect a 2011 Executive L Towncar. This almost never applies to markets outside of NYC because generally the cars are newer/nicer elsewhere and you may actually get a new Towncar for the price of an Economy ride. Happens to me all the time when I travel. But NYC is NYC - different market, different consumer, different demands.

My point about Dial7 and Carmel was that there are operators selling rides for less than GL with whom Todd (JHNPTRLIMO) has been competing for years. Yet Todd is still successfully selling rides to EWR for $138. It's really nothing new.

Again guys, I am not trying to convince everyone that it will work for every single operator in every single market. It will not. And we will never force (not that we could) anyone to take on any jobs they don't want just because they use Limo Anywhere. If it does not make sense, it does not make sense. You can take a mathematical approach to this or a common sense one. Either way it's up to you to decide whether you want the job or not. If you ONLY want to take on VIP jobs, then that's fine... just map your vehicle classes appropriately and they will only send you those. If you just want SUV jobs, not a problem. You are in full control of what you do and do not receive. And again, even if you do get the job offer, you can reject it and not get penalized for it in any way.

I have always said to people that if you talk to 100 different limo operators, you are going to learn 100 different ways to run a limo business. I see this every single day in our operation here at Limo Anywhere.

Max.

[DublinLimo]

I have looked at every comment with intrest and there are valid points raised, but for me the bottom line is that we have been an affiliate of Ground Link or Limo Res. as they where previously known for over a year and up to 3 weeks ago did 2 jobs in a year. In the past 3 weeks we've received nearly $1500 worth of business from Ground Link.We have their Amex on file and can close & process payment as soon as the job is done no waiting for the end of the month to invoice and another couple of weeks for a check . So I'm very
happy with the new arrangement. And when you think about it are your rates really such a big secret anyway.. if somebody want's your airport rate they will call you or look it up on your web site...

[JHNPTRLIMO]

Well, whatever it is..it is. I think we beat this to death!! At least as far as I go, I am content with it. Limoanywhere is a great product, so i'll continue to use it and see what the future holds for the GroundAnywhere..or whatever it will be. I am officially closing myself out of this thread...unless of course something juicy comes up!!

I certainly don't want to argue with anyone here, but I have been to NYC (last time three weeks ago actually) and did ride in all kinds of cars with all kinds of providers. There are different classes of cars that have different prices. GL offers Economy, Luxury and VIP. If you get Economy for $59 don't expect a 2011 Executive L Towncar. This almost never applies to markets outside of NYC because generally the cars are newer/nicer elsewhere and you may actually get a new Towncar for the price of an Economy ride. Happens to me all the time when I travel. But NYC is NYC - different market, different consumer, different demands.

My point about Dial7 and Carmel was that there are operators selling rides for less than GL with whom Todd (JHNPTRLIMO) has been competing for years. Yet Todd is still successfully selling rides to EWR for $138. It's really nothing new.

Again guys, I am not trying to convince everyone that it will work for every single operator in every single market. It will not. And we will never force (not that we could) anyone to take on any jobs they don't want just because they use Limo Anywhere. If it does not make sense, it does not make sense. You can take a mathematical approach to this or a common sense one. Either way it's up to you to decide whether you want the job or not. If you ONLY want to take on VIP jobs, then that's fine... just map your vehicle classes appropriately and they will only send you those. If you just want SUV jobs, not a problem. You are in full control of what you do and do not receive. And again, even if you do get the job offer, you can reject it and not get penalized for it in any way.

I have always said to people that if you talk to 100 different limo operators, you are going to learn 100 different ways to run a limo business. I see this every single day in our operation here at Limo Anywhere.

Max.

[brandon1]

I hope this means a better and more updated version of LA net, as of right now it's seriously lacking.

[DublinLimo]

I heard this big news as well so what is next is groundlink will charge more and get for the leads with limo anywhere or the operations will stand by its self?

These are not leads but actual jobs, click accept and the job is yours at the price stated.

[vflllc]

@Max and other,

I have only read the first page, and thought of an idea, I've always had a minor concern with LA and that concern was not being able to get all my client data and reservation history EXPORTED in case I ever wanted to move to another software. That concern never really became in an issue with LA since their software is great, but its still a concern. I will mention that as these small operators grow, I'm assure the load on the cloud will become heckteck even if not eventually inflation might cause prices for LA to hike up, I can't see everyone possbily being happy with LA at that point. To make long story short, I am suggesting that LA in the future introduces a stand-alone self hosted local LA product (Not the weak temp-patch LA Local) for those growing companies, or just those who are internet paranoid (maybe have the equivalanat of hitler as their customer and simply want anti-internet security). I am not suggesting that LA is unsafe, neither that LA is in any form a money draining organization. speaking for myself, I wouldn't mind coughing up some cash for a server-client version of LA that is independent of the cloud. Looking forward to some replies..

[Cedar Mill Limousine]

Let me try to explain what the ultimate goal here is... let's assume you have a driver going from Manhattan to EWR and then back to base (wherever that might be) or another location. He is driving without a passenger in the car twice on this trip - from base to PU and from DO to base (or wherever). So your cost of $138 really includes those two extra legs that you are not technically getting paid for. Hypothetically speaking, if I was able to offer you a job that allowed your driver to pickup another client at EWR around the time he drops off the first client, and bring them back to somewhere near your driver's next trip's PU or base, would you do it for less than $138? You would fill one of the empty legs and increased your fleet utilization ratio.

To be fair, dial7 and Carmel are advertising rates that are lower than GL's and I am sure there is a number of other (smaller) operators who offer the same type of pricing. Network Solutions still sells domains for $35 per year while GoDaddy has been selling them for under $10 for years. Both have customers and are doing OK form what I know.

This is what has happened to the trucking industry: all the "back loads" (loads companies would do for cheap so they wouldn't have to "dead-head" back) have become the normal rates. It used to be that you could make more money going over the road than local - now all rates are cheap. Stick to your rates that you need to make a profit, otherwise you will "cut your own throat" eventually.

[Wade Randolph]

@Max and other,

I have only read the first page, and thought of an idea, I've always had a minor concern with LA and that concern was not being able to get all my client data and reservation history EXPORTED in case I ever wanted to move to another software. That concern never really became in an issue with LA since their software is great, but its still a concern. I will mention that as these small operators grow, I'm assure the load on the cloud will become heckteck even if not eventually inflation might cause prices for LA to hike up, I can't see everyone possbily being happy with LA at that point. To make long story short, I am suggesting that LA in the future introduces a stand-alone self hosted local LA product (Not the weak temp-patch LA Local) for those growing companies, or just those who are internet paranoid (maybe have the equivalanat of hitler as their customer and simply want anti-internet security). I am not suggesting that LA is unsafe, neither that LA is in any form a money draining organization. speaking for myself, I wouldn't mind coughing up some cash for a server-client version of LA that is independent of the cloud. Looking forward to some replies..

I would also like to see this and I know of many large operators that would switch to LA in a second if they offered a client hosted program.

[transporter]

no large operators will sign up with groundlink in Miami area because the rates are so low that after the overhead there is only $10-20 left per each transfer, I wanted to sign up and they told me I must purchase limoanywhere software, (which I wouldn't mind doing) they also told me they are overloaded with affiliates for South Florida and will put me on a waiting list, I just couldn't afford to stay on a waiting list