December 28, 2009
I would rather pay a guaranteed SEO company to do work for me, a little more money than hire the guy that does not promise me results but I save a few bucks. There are only four different guaranteed SEO companies on the web that I have found and all four have done a great job for me one time or another.
I build the websites for my clients and then send them out to the teams of organic SEO geniuses and then they turn them into sites that my clients think are the best. I can never afford to have even just one site that does not rank well so guaranteed SEO is the only thing that makes sense to me.
I pass on the cost of the organic SEO geniuses work to my clients and they just assume that it is part of the website package cost. I offer them other additional things that I can do for them to help the site to rank well, like link building but those are additional services at additional costs.
Most of my customers take me up on the additional services until they get their site where they want it to be and then they think that they do not need me anymore. When they start to fall, then they usually come back and ask for help again.
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December 23, 2009
I was rather sure that by setting up my account to be run by Danny DeMichele, that I would have instant overnight results. When the Danny DeMichele team informed me that it would take a little time, I was frustrated.
I guess that since my site has not been producing sales for three years, a little longer would not be a big deal. The plan that Danny DeMichele, put together specifically for my site, did not have a timeline on it. I understood that they would work very hard for me and that I would start to see some changes in traffic, but it would take some time. I was willing to wait for about six months but no longer than that.
When after three months, I started seeing some sales come through the site, I got very excited. I even found that on the search engines, I had moved up four pages. Instead of being in search engine Siberia, I was emerging onto places where real companies were. I called and told the Danny DeMichele team exactly what I had noticed and they knew already of course, but they listened anyway. I cannot imagine how the site will be running in double this amount of time. There is hope for the future of sales on my site.
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December 22, 2009
The long wait on the used sun hardware that we really needed, from our supplier, prompted us to find a new one. I was put in charge of that task and it did not take me long to find a new used sun equipment company that I knew would do a great job for us.
All of the customer reviews were positive on this used sun hardware site. Unlike the company that we had just used, who only had about an eighty percent approval rating from its clients. I thought that if a company had this many good reviews, then they must be doing something right.
I placed a small order with them, just to see if all the stuff said about the used sun equipment site was true. I remember seeing a lot of the reviews talking about how fast their orders were shipped and how knowledgeable the staff was, so I put them to the test.
I called and just explained the part I needed, by giving the operator a description of it and what it does. She knew what it was and placed the order very quickly. The part was on my desk the next day and it was about twenty percent cheaper than what I would have paid with our old company.
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December 21, 2009
The only way that I can justify paying the high costs of the dell repair company is if they guarantee their work. I have seen too many different repair shops fix something and then get conveniently called back the following week for the same thing. They have no problem charging for the extra service but they should actually owe you for that fact that they have to fix it twice.
I had this happen too many times with our company’s poweredge servers. I think that we must have called the dell repair company at least five different times in two weeks, for the same problem. Each time that he would come, he would say, I think I got it this time and then charge us an outrageous amount of money again.
I solved the problem of being overcharged for repairs by buying some new servers that came with a ten year warranty. Anytime that I have had problems with them, I just call the store and they send someone out to fix it. I made sure that the deductible fee was very low and I do not have a problem with paying for that every time. I would recommend to anyone who has a lot of computer equipment to make sure that everything you buy has a warranty with it.
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December 15, 2009
My exterior painters in Reading PA that I have used for many years were just bought out. I am hoping that they will still offer the same quality of work and the competitive prices that this community has come to know. I found out that the exterior painters in Reading PA had changed hands when I attended a contractor’s breakfast this morning. A gentleman that I did not know introduced himself to the entire group as the new owner.
I think that the new owner thought that he would be accepted better into the group, but the old owner had owned the house painting company for over thirty years and even helped to organize the first contractor’s breakfast about twenty years ago to the day.
I tried to be a little nicer to him, then some of the other guys and explain to him why the other contractors were having a hard time with him being the house painting company’s new owner. The old owner had tried to make it work, but with bigger and better company’s coming into town all the time, he just could not make it work anymore. Most of the contractors look at the new owner as an outsider and they would rather have someone who has lived in this town run the house painting business than someone that they did not know.
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December 2, 2009
The neighbors warned us that it might start getting a little busy over at their house, because they were having some home improvements done. I asked them what all they were doing and they gave me a list of about ten different things. Maybe I should have asked them what they were not doing to the house; it might have been a shorter list.
The very next day, I noticed a crew pull up with all new wood slider windows that I knew were going in the back section of the house. Our homes backed up to some woods and the neighbors thought that if they put in new wood slider windows, they could get a better view of the woods during the day. I am not sure how, but it was not my decision to make.
Two days after the new wood slider windows went it, another crew pulled up with the new double hung windows that were going into every spot the sliders did not. This way, the neighbors explained their maid would be able to clean them much better than before since the new double hung windows tilted in for easier cleaning.
I was happy for that, because their maid was about seventy years old and every year they sent her up on a ladder to clean the windows. The work continued for about a month, and then it just stopped one day when it had all been completed.
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December 1, 2009
I was in the process of buying my first house and hiring a Colorado home improvement company to redo some things when I closed on it. I needed to have the flooring in the kitchen and bathrooms replaced and the garage needed to have a new automatic over head door installed. When the Colorado home improvement company gave me the estimate, I was really surprised at how low it was but later found out why it was so low. The amount due, matched the work that was being done. I would bet that monkeys could do a better job then what they did.
I have learned my lesson on just hiring anyone. I need to get references and make sure that the other home remodeling company I hire is fully insured. If the next one could also supply some before and after pictures then I can get a feel for their work before they even touch my house. I will have to pay someone to do this work over and that is going to cost probably double since the new home remodeling company will have to remove the work done by the first company.
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