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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