February 10, 2010

The Office Supplies Salesman Won A Cruise

My office supplies salesman that comes in every week to fill up our office supply closet came in early to fill our order. I guess that he won some big contest that his company was running and he was taking off for a week long cruise to the Bahamas. All of my employees heard him say this and were all jealous.

He told them that he had worked for a different office supply store before coming to work for his current company and when he learned about all the promotional things they give to their top salesman, he knew that he just had to go and work for them. I told him to let my employees know how many hours he had to work to win the cruise and he told them that for the past year, he has worked seven days a week and that usually added up to about seventy to eighty hours per week.

For some reason, after hearing that, my employees were not as jealous of the office supply store salesman anymore. I told them that I could afford to send them all on a cruise if they wanted to work seven days a week for the next year, but no one wanted to take me up on that deal. We all told our office supplies salesman to have a good time and we would see him when he got back.

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February 8, 2010

Phoenix Website Design Company Wins Awards

The Phoenix website design company that works for us and designed our site over two years ago just won some pretty impressive awards. I knew that they were defiantly the best website design company in the state, but two of the awards were for national recognitions.

Since the national awards are voted on by other website companies, they must be doing something right. I can say that I do not know one company who I am in competition with who would say anything good about me for fear that they would lose a client to me.

There is one other Phoenix website design company that I think might be worth watching and that is only because I know that one of the guys from the company that I use left there and started up his own website design company about six months ago. Not too many people know that he had a big hand in getting the other one up and running but the awards should help with that.

I sent our website company a plant congratulating them for winning the awards and also sent a plant to the guy who is starting out solo, but deserves some credit too. I want him to know that I appreciated everything he did for my company when he worked on our site.

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January 31, 2010

Selling Coins Helps Me To Save Money

The whole point of selling old silver coins is to make money and turn around and buy more rare coins. My brother seems to think that selling old silver coins is just a hobby for me and I should concentrate on finding a better job or getting a better education and lay off attending the coin swap meets that I go to every weekend.

I have met some of the most interesting people while out selling coins and they all make most of their living by doing the same as me. The money that we all make at our day to day job, pays just the bills and normal living expenses that we all have but by selling coins we are able to put some money in our savings accounts and take nice trips too.

My brother only sees what he wants to see and apparently he thinks that every person should work eighty hours a week and have enough debt to drown in like he is. I will never live like that and actually having the knowledge to handle selling coins has bought me some insurance that I will not have to. I only sell coins that I do not want and only if they are going to make me some money.

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January 13, 2010

I Hired Two SEO Marketing Consultants

I figured that if one SEO marketing company could get me on the fast track to climbing the search engines, then hiring two SEO marketing companies would be even better. I had meetings with both of the potential companies I was looking to hire within hours of each other. I had been told great things about both of them and looked forward with meeting with each SEO consultant and hearing what they had planned for my site and how they were going to work to get it ranking at the top of the search engines.

The first SEO consultant touched on how our site needed quite a bit of work and that she was up for the challenge of it. She also told me that they would put together a six month plan of how they were going to get us to the top, as soon as we let them know exactly what keywords we wanted to rank for.

The second SEO consultant that came for a meeting that day had already done her homework and had written down all the keywords that she thought we should go after in the rankings. She also commented on how our site did need some reworking, but it was nothing to big and her team would have it done in no time.

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Hoping The Wrought Iron Storm Doors Are Priced Right

I hope that the final cost of the storm doors is right at the amount that I was quoted by the store owner. I just overheard a buddy of mine tell someone that the company I ordered my wrought iron doors from is notorious for overcharging their customers. I am just hoping that I am the exception to this and my storm doors get done on time and are installed by the end of the month like I was promised.

I knew that I should have checked out this company a little more. There showroom was a mess and when I walked through their shop where they make the wrought iron doors, I almost tripped on some metal, since it was so messy.

I just had my heart set on storm doors that were different than everyone else’s and when the store owner told me how much it would cost for them to custom make my doors, I was floored at how cheap they were. Maybe I signed the papers a little too fast. I am thinking that a quick call to them could ease my mind and maybe they might even tell me that my order was finished ahead of schedule.

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January 4, 2010

Cannot Reach The Dell Man To Fix The Poweredge Servers

The last thing that we need this week is for one of the poweredge servers to go down, and it seems like that is going to be inevitable. The oldest one has been going offline by itself all day and we have to keep resetting it. I think that it is only a matter of time before this office comes to a complete halt.

I have tried to call the dell repair man that has fixed it before but he is not answering his phone. I think that since it is so close to the holidays, he may have taken a vacation or something since he has always been easy to reach before.

If the poweredge servers do go down before the end of the workday, then I am planning on just sending everyone home early for Christmas break. It will probably upset some of my workers who cannot afford to lose and hours of pay during this time. It is possible that we may just have a miracle and the servers will stay up and running for the rest of the day and then I can possibly find a different dell repair service to come in before we get back up and running after the holidays.

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December 23, 2009

Searched And Searched And Found Danny DeMichele

For the past six years, our perfume site has held its own on the web, but recently the sales have dropped off and it looks as though we have more competition getting into the action now. I never did anything different to the site other then letting it go live but now it looks as though I may need to hire some professional help to keep our sales from dropping to much more.

I searched and searched for the best and found him, Danny DeMichele. I have read all the reviews from his past clients and it looks like he does not disappoint. I sent him an email through his company’s site and waited for a response. Two hours later, the response was very promising. He could see that our sales had only recently dropped off so getting us back to the top would not be too hard according to Danny DeMichele.

I did not want to get my hopes up with this guy, since I was new to the whole internet marketing stuff but was happy that he did not make me pay upfront. He wanted to prove that he knew exactly what he was doing and that I would be so happy with his campaign that I would have no problem writing him a check. I hope that Danny DeMichele is right and he is just not tooting his own horn prematurely.

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December 22, 2009

Opening A Used Sun Hardware And Equipment Store

I had finally decided to open up a used sun hardware and equipment store with all of the extra parts I had compiled over the years. I knew that someday all the used sun equipment that I had kept from old computer servers, routers and everything else would be worth money. I have always put them in my barn in a separate area and just recently realized that it was starting to take over half of the barn.

I called and found a space to rent that was not too expensive but was big enough. I put out the word to the area computer repair companies that I would be offering them discounts on the used sun equipment. I got a good response from them and know that this venture is going to be very lucrative.

I remember installing tons of sun hardware over the years in all of the neighboring cities and know that there have got to be people and repair men looking for specific parts that they are probably ordering off the internet when they could just make a short drive and get what they need here.

I have hired two full time employees to help stock and run the used sun equipment store that is set to open in two weeks. I am looking forward to working with the community.

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December 21, 2009

I Could Afford The Used Dell Servers

My friends all keep telling me that I need to get rid of the crappy servers that I have in my office and get some dell servers. They have given me all the information about how they are more reliable and less likely to cause interruptions in the lines. I know that purchasing dell servers will probably be really expensive and I will have to wait till next year to switch over.

When I told my friends that, they gave me the name of a company that sells used dell servers and other equipment. I got on to check it out just to make them happy and found that the used dell servers were much more affordable than new ones. I guess that I may be able to get the dell servers this year.

When the dell servers come in, I will have to pay someone to take out the old ones that I have and put in the new. I am not that computer savvy and there is no way that I would have any idea of how to change out the servers. Maybe if I ask my friends who talked me into this whole deal, they know someone who will do it for a reasonable price.

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December 2, 2009

They Are A Good Siding Company

If you are looking to hire a good siding company, you should call the company that my brother just had done his house. He was a little skeptical with them at first, because they were just getting started in the business but after seeing their work, he was very impressed. He had heard of them from one of his coworkers and thought that he would just have them give him a quote, so that he would have some idea of what it would cost to side his house.

When the siding company came back with an estimate that seemed too good to be true, he knew that he had to take them up on the deal. He had heard from other people that you need to be completely comfortable with your siding contractor before letting them work on your house. He was not completely comfortable with the siding contractor before they did the work, but was really liking them after they finished.

The owner of the siding company had stopped out to make sure that my brother was happy with the job and explained to him that he was one of fifty homeowners who were given a discount on their siding installation because they were trying to get the word out, about what great work they do.

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