he Nevada
County Economic Resource Council yesterday hosted a (three bus) tour of
four export manufacturing locations in the western county. Some of them
are highly visible businesses and some are not so well known to many
people. The DeMartini RV Service and Sales center is one of the more
visible ones, with its marquee statuesque building located at the top of
the hill on Idaho Maryland Road, next to Hills Flat Lumber. The leading
sales tax producer for the county is a dealer for four top end motor
coaches and RV's, Monaco, Holiday Rambler, Fleetwood and Mandolay.
DeMartini's is known for customer service and value, often buying huge
lots of motor homes at one time to be able to pass on savings to
customers. The internet is their major means of advertising. Vicky
Demartini, daughter of owners Tim and Margie Demartini is the web
master.
“Well, one
of the main things that we do that sets us apart from other RV dealers
is that we have extensive pictures on our website, we take them at every
single angle and they’re really big so customers can really see what it
looks like. We do a lot of search engine optimizations that come up on
the searches and now we’re starting to do video. We’re trying to do
everything we can so that they can buy it right there from the website
without even seeing it. We’ve done that.”
DeMartini
says many people come to Grass Valley to pick up their newly purchased
RV's and decide to come back for a vacation when they see how beautiful
it is in the area. Buyers for their RV's come from Europe, the Middle
East and China as well as states around the US.
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