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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November 30, 2009
I hired a new salesman to help me run my discount office furniture store. I have owned this store now for twenty years and am deciding to have a website designed that will help to sell everything that is offered in the store, but online. I am really excited to put all the discount office furniture online since a lot of the people who come to my store tell me that they have never found better prices anywhere.
If my prices are really that great then I should be able to sell lots of items online and double my sales. I am thinking of holding off on adding the office supplies to the site for just a little while. I want to make sure that the furniture does well first and then I will add the office supplies.
I do a lot of business in office supplies but I make my real money with the office furniture. My brother makes most of the pieces by hand and he gives me a great deal on them. I think that this is why I am better priced than my competition. My middle man is someone who I am related to and he treats me very well.
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November 24, 2009
I remember as a child a friend of mine used to wear funny t shirts all the time to school. He used to get in get trouble once in a while when the t shirts were a little too offensive. I would always laugh because he actually liked getting in trouble and he thought it was funny.
These days I do not think you could get away with wearing some of the funny shirts like my friend used to have. People are too uptight in school and other places for that kind of activity. They say it takes away from the children’s learning experience in school when someone is being disruptive like that.
I think this is why as adults if we can get away with wearing what we want then we do because in school you are almost like a prisoner. They tell you what to wear and what not and tell you how to act; it gets a little crazy if you ask me.
A good old funny t shirt is not going to keep the other kids from learning if they are that easily distracted by some funny t shirts that the other kids are wearing. I do not agree with today’s tough rules and regulations in school, I think they go overboard a bit.
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November 23, 2009
The life insurance quote that I got from my insurance agent last year has expired and the new rates are much higher. I should have just gotten it then but I really could not afford it. I figured that I would put the policy into place when I got a raise. I got my raise just last week and now the new life insurance quote is about double of the one that I had from last year, for the exact same coverage.
I am feeling really stupid for having this happen but also think that maybe I should shop around for some cheaper no medical exam life insurance, just like people do for car insurance. In the past when I have done this for car insurance, it seems that you can always find someone who is cheaper.
I am thinking that by using one of those online companies that gets you lots of quotes to compare I should be able to get some no medical exam life insurance for a better rate. Even if it is just a little bit cheaper, anything will help at this point. I know that I need to be prepared but paying double is just out of the question.
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November 20, 2009
I love wearing funny t shirts in public and getting people to read them. It seems that no matter where I go, I get compliments on my funny shirts. I started designing them myself about three years ago and put them in an online store. Whenever anyone asks me where I got my t shirt, I just pull out a little business card with the address of my site on it and had it to them.
I think that I get more business by wearing my funny shirts, then I do from any other form of advertising that I do. There are four different colleges located all within about sixty miles of me and it seems that I give a lot of my business cards out to the kids that attend those colleges. I also advertise around the campuses but cannot track how well that does for me.
I am planning on expanding my funny t shirts business next year, with a small shop where people can come in and design their own funny shirts, if they do not like what I have designed. I think that people will love to put their own designs on their own t shirts. I will have to see if the idea works in the shop before I offer that service on my website.
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