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Year: 2014

Job: National Inside Sales and Customer Service – HGNR, Inc. – FILLED

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Job Title
National Inside Sales and Customer Service

Company/Organization
HGNR, Inc.

Job Description
National Inside Sales and Customer Service

Full-time employment
Location: St. John’s (North Portland, OR)

HGNR, Inc. is a specialty distributor in the bicycle industry. We are hiring a full time Inside Sales and Customer Service Rep. Sales and bicycle industry experience required.

NATIONAL INSIDE SALES AND CUSTOMER SERVICE
REP; DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE BUT
ARE NOT LIMITED TO:

* Present a professional image to customers at all times.
* Generate new and repeat sales through regular inbound and outbound telephone and email communication.
* Educate customers about features and benefits of products to improve sales and customer satisfaction.
* Maintain complete and accurate information in GoldMine our Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system.
* Manage time effectively, meet personal goals and work effectively with other members of the HGNR team.
* Perform other duties as assigned.

DESIRED SKILLS:

* Customer service driven
* Strong cold calling ability, resilient and persuasive
* Excellent telephone sales personality
* Proven ability to achieve sales targets
* Ability to work accurately in a fast paced small business environment
* Exceptional verbal and written communication
* Proficiency in Microsoft Windows, Word and Excel and other common software and office equipment.
* Excellent time management and detail oriented.

NECESSARY PERSONAL QUALITIES:

* Honest
* Strong people skills
* Adaptability (Life Long Learner)
* Attention to detail, organized and cooperative.
* Self-starter with disciplined work habits.
* Interested and motivated to work for a small business.

QUALIFICATIONS:
* At least 2 years sales and bicycle industry experience.
* Previous success at increasing sales and market penetration.

SALARY and HOURS:

Starting salary: $30,000; with performance bonus available after the first year. Ultimate earning range is $35,000 to $60,000 or more per year.

Hours: Mon. through Fri., 40 hours a week. Weekends occasionally required.
Vacation: 4 weeks paid vacation, 2 weeks at the end of December and 2 weeks floating.

How to Apply
TO APPLY: Please furnish letter of interest & resume by e-mail to jobs@hgnr.com

Future off-road bike park Gateway Green acquired by City of Portland

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Conceptual drawing of the off-road biking plans.

A key step toward making Gateway Green a reality was taken today when Portland City Council voted unanimously to authorize a land transfer from the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT). Portland is now the official owner of the 25 acre property that’s slated to become what Portland Parks & Recreation referred to today as an “off-road biking facility.”

The City of Portland acquired the land from ODOT for $19,300, money they received from developers via System Development Charges (SDCs).

In a statement released today by PP&R, City Parks Commissioner Amanda Fritz said,

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Fatal collision spurs new calls to complete the Historic Columbia River Highway State Trail

Ellen Dittebrandt.

The death this past Sunday of Ellen Dittebrandt, killed while bicycling on Interstate 84 west of Hood River, has stunned her large community of friends in the Gorge, many of whom are now focused on completing the Historic Columbia River Highway State Trail in her memory.

Dittebrandt’s death also comes on the heels of a scary month in Oregon. Just last week we reported that there were four major rear-end collisions in the span of just one week.

This latest collision happened early Sunday morning. According to Oregon State Police investigators, Dittebrandt, a 52-year old volunteer firefighter (named Firefighter of the Year in 2010), artist and triathlete who lived in Mosier, was riding westbound in the shoulder of I-84. Friends say she was training for a triathlon and was riding from Rowena Crest to Crown Point and back.

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Arrest made in hit-and-run on SE 82nd in Clackamas County

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The Clackamas County Sheriff’s office arrested a man today after a hit-and-run on SE 82nd just south of King Road (about 12 miles southeast of Portland).

Here’s the story so far from the CCSO:

On August 26, 2014 at approximately 3:00 p.m., Robert B. Hyer, age 30, was riding a bicycle in the bike lane southbound along SE 82nd Avenue. As the bicyclist began riding in front of the entry to a gas station on the west side of SE 82nd Avenue, a Ford pickup driven by Leodan Juarez Belton, age 49, from Clackamas, turned into the gas station and struck the bicyclist, knocking him to the ground.

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First look at new, left-side buffered bike lanes on NW Everett

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There’s a new, 10-foot wide bike lane on NW Everett (and as you can see not everyone knows it’s for bikes only).
(Photos by J. Maus/BikePortland)

PBOT has completed a lane “reorganization” project on NW Everett Street between NW 25th and I-405. As we reported back in May, this project is the result of two factors: An understanding by the bureau that the intersection of NW Everett and 16th is unsafe due to its history of right-hook collisions; and a repaving project that gave them a golden opportunity to do something about it.

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As Congress drops Safe Routes to School, advocates ask Metro to step in

A Safe Routes to School ride in Portland in 2010. A new BTA campaign suggests tapping federal funding allocated to the Metro regional government to offer the program in suburban schools, too.
(Photo: J.Maus/BikePortland)

Second in a week-long series about the BTA’s five new advocacy campaigns.

Over the last two years, people trying to reverse the spectacular 40-year slide in the number of kids who bike and walk to school have come to a gradual realization: dedicated federal funding for the Safe Routes to School program is probably gone for good.

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Q&A: How Minnesota saves lives by spreading safety money thinly

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Sue Groth, director of traffic, safety and technology
for the Minnesota Department of Transportation,
has been nationally recognized for overseeing rapid
drops in traffic fatalities.
(Photos: MnDOT)

Sue Groth’s job: use math and millions of dollars to stop injuries before they happen.

The team Groth leads at the Minnesota Department of Transportation has probably saved a few hundred lives over the last 10 years. In that time they’ve reinvented “highway safety” spending and seen traffic fatalities fall almost twice as fast as they have in Oregon and the rest of the country.

Groth is the plenary speaker at the Sept. 15 Oregon Transportation Summit hosted by OTREC at Portland State University. I caught her by phone last week to talk about MnDOT’s daring decision to give up some of the “gobs of money” it gets for highway safety and hand it to local agencies instead.

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National org wants to know: What should we call this thing we do everyday?

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People for Bikes, a national advocacy group funded by the bicycle industry, wants to change cycling in America by coming up with a new name for it. Specifically, the group wants help figuring out what to call everyday cycling in order to differentiate it from recreation and fitness riding.

Here’s the set-up from People for Bikes via an email they sent out today:

“Lots of people ride bikes for recreation, exercise and sport. But there’s another kind of bicycling that’s becoming more and more popular in communities across the country. It’s difficult to quantify, because folks call it a lot of different things. And it doesn’t have an official name…

Imagine you’re rolling out on your bike right from your garage—no spandex involved, you’re wearing normal, everyday clothes.

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A community on bikes rallies against violence in the streets of north Portland

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Samuel Thompson led calls for peace on the streets of the New Columbia neighborhood on Sunday.
(Photos by J. Maus/BikePortland)

“Occupy the streets! Until we get peace! Occupy the streets! Until we get peace!”

Reeling from a (yet another) violent summer where gang members have ruled the streets with guns, about 150 people joined the Take Back the Streets Ride in New Columbia on Sunday. Armed with bicycles and a powerful sense of unity, they stood up to their fears. As they pedaled, chanted and smiled, they started a new narrative about the public space outside their doorsteps and showed how bicycles can be an effective tool for grassroots, social change far beyond the central city.

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