February 22nd, 2010
The antique car restoration Tampa FL company that my husband hired called to tell us that our car was finished. We had driven it down there about four months ago and since they came highly recommended by many of our friends who also have antique cars, we knew that no matter how long it took or how much money it cost, the antique car restoration Tampa FL company would do it right.
My husband and I knew that going down this week would not work into our schedules, so we planned on heading down the week after next to pick it up. We already had the address for the body shop Tampa Fl company so finding it the second time would not be near as hard as the first time was.
The first time we headed to the body shop Tampa Fl company, we did get lost a little bit but I blame it on the GPS system and not my husband and I. I think that there must be some new roads that are in Tampa and they are not recognized yet on the GPS that we have. I updated the device as soon as we got home and next time we go, we will see if it tries to take us the wrong way again only this time we already know where we are going.
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February 10th, 2010
The office supplies store that I work at has just hired four new employees to keep up with the amount of sales that we have just started doing since our office supply website has started to rank well. The front part of the building is strictly for cash and carry sales from our local customers. The back end of the building is the warehouse where we keep every item that we offer, stocked.
When we had our website built a few years ago, it did not really bring in the sales that everyone thought that it would. Now that the boss put a bunch of money into it for marketing, it has taken off. In fact, the sales have quadrupled over the last six months. The four new employees take the online office supply orders and fill each of them and send them out to wherever they need to go. We had to ask the local deliver company to stop in four times a day to pick up our orders because if they do not, then the dock gets backed up and processing orders comes to a standstill and the boss does not like a standstill of any kind.
I am so glad to work for a company that is growing, with the economy the way that it is, that is a good thing. Our office supplies store is going to be here for a long time to come thanks to the World Wide Web.
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February 8th, 2010
The email we got from the corporate office let us know that someone from a website development company would be contacting us sometime this week to discuss our personal website. I always knew that me complaining all the time about having to share a site with every other branch would pay off.
I had been actually reading up on custom web design and how having one site designated to just one part of your company can be much more profitable than having one big site over everything and everyone. I sent a copy of two articles that were all about custom web design, to the corporate office and I am now thinking that they defiantly read them.
I hope that the website development company calls while I am in the office because I would hate to have someone else handle the call and get the credit for the deal. I have notes and notes on top of notes of ideas that I will be willing to pass along to just let the custom web design company know how I am thinking the site should look. I know that they might use them and they might not, but they should be willing to look at them and see if they are any good.
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January 31st, 2010
I put an ad on an auction site to sell old coins that I found in the attic of my new house. The previous owners told me that they were there when they got there and that they have never touched them and thought that I might be interested in them so they just left them for me. Now, my grandma was a very well known woman in this town who ran a jewelry store and she taught me all about coins and their worth. Imagine my surprise when I found that I could sell old coins that were not even really mine and make some good money.
I looked each one up online before deciding to go forward with selling old coins online. I was rather shocked to find some really old valuable coins in the collection. I do not understand why someone would move out of the house and not take them with them. It must have been that they just forgot to check the attic or something, thinking that it was empty of anything valuable.
My goal with selling old coins online is to make back most of the down payment that I put on this house. What a strange turn of events to think that the house is actually going to be giving me something back.
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January 13th, 2010
I was reading up on how to have a successful website and found that I may be doing it all wrong. I have been using a company to help promote my site online, in the newspaper and on television but I think that after reading this article, I need to concentrate on some SEO marketing for the near future.
I guess that I thought if people saw my site address, it would stick in their heads and they would just go there, check it out and then buy something. I have been wrong in concentrating so much advertising locally and should have put more time and money into trying to gain world wide exposure.
The article discussed several different ways to be successful with SEO marketing and suggested that I find an SEO consultant that has proven results and hire them. I called up several friends who work in the web industry and asked them for a few names of SEO consultants that they would recommend. I narrowed their list down to three, just from the location of the SEO consultant and their office in proximity to mine and starting making phone calls to get my site on the fast track to ranking well on the search engines.
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January 13th, 2010
My husband told me to meet him for lunch in town because he had a surprise for me. I had no idea what he was talking about but I love surprises so I went. We ate lunch at my favorite restaurant and then he drove us to this little shop that sold storm doors. I kept thinking that this must not be my surprise or my husband was going to be very sorry.
He opened my door and told me that he wanted to show me some of their wrought iron doors really quickly. I just gave him a look to let him know that this better not take long, so that we could get to my surprise. I think now that he must have been laughing inside. The first few doors that I saw were nothing to spectacular but then I saw it. There were a set of beautiful wrought iron doors with the initial T on the front of them. I knew that they had to be for us, because my husband was just smiling.
I cannot believe that he remembered me saying that I remember my grandparents having these really neat storm doors that had their initial on the front and that someday, I would love to have some just like it. My grandparents storm doors were made of aluminum, but mind were made of gorgeous wrought iron. They turned out to be the best surprise that I have ever had.
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January 4th, 2010
The only way that the dell repair man would come and fix the poweredge servers last night, was if I agreed to pay the extra fifty dollar trip charge because it was after hours. I had to have the servers up and running before everyone came in to start work again, since we lost about three hours yesterday when they went down.
I agreed to the trip charge amount, because I really had no other choice and the dell repair company knew that. I had tried to find a different repair company to come out and it seemed that no one else knew how to fix poweredge servers. I did not think that they were rare or anything, so I am not sure why no one else knows how to repair them.
As soon as I am able to afford some new servers, I will be buying them. I will have to make sure that I call around to the different repair men to see what is more commonly used and buy those, so that I am not taken advantage of again by the dell repair company that knew I had no other choice and let me know it. I will never call that place again for anything.
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December 23rd, 2009
When our company site started moving backwards on the search engines instead of up, we had to find out what our competition was doing to make that happen. I called in a favor to one of the deliver guys that we both use and he found out that they are using Danny DeMichele to boost their site.
I had never even heard of Danny DeMichele, so I searched online for him and found out that he is a very accomplished business man who knows all about SEO marketing. He has even written some books on the subject. I am planning on giving him a call next week after discussing any other options we may have with my sales team.
If this Danny DeMichele is our best bet to regaining our spot, then we will hire him to do exactly just that. I cannot afford to lose my job over some lower internet sales. I will pull out all the stops before I let that happen. I plan on leaving our competitors in the dust and not looking back anytime soon.
The more that I think about it, the more I think that maybe hiring more than one internet marketing company besides Danny DeMichele would be a good idea.
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December 22nd, 2009
I knew exactly where to order my used sun hardware from for the servers and routers that needed to be fixed. I had seen my boss order parts from them numerous times before, but he was not here to do it this time. My boss was on vacation for two weeks and had put me in charge. I wanted to make sure that everything I did to solve the problem, would be just the way he would do it. I found the name of the website he uses for the used sun equipment on his desk in his rolodex.
I logged onto the site from his computer and ordered all the used sun hardware that it was going to take to get this office back up and running efficiently. I had everything sent express so that I would have it tomorrow and fixed before the boss came back on the following day.
I met the parcel delivery man with the package of used sun equipment at the door and signed for it and then ran all the way upstairs to start making the necessary repairs. It took me most of the day but I did eventually get everything fixed and running in plenty of time. The boss was very proud of me when he heard that I handled the situation exactly the way that he would have and solved the problem too.
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December 21st, 2009
The only reason that I did not buy the used dell computer from the store in the mall is because I have seen lower prices on websites online. I know that a lot of people have trouble buying things that they cannot touch and test out, but I do not have that problem. The site that I will get my used dell computer from has a money back guarantee, so I have no worries about buying from them.
My sister bought some dell servers from them about a year ago and they actually looked brand new when she got them. They were installed in her office and she has never had any problems with them. I think that she saved something like five thousand dollars by going with the used dell servers versus buying new ones.
She tells me that story all the time and says that if I ever need any sort of computer equipment, that I should always look on this site before buying, because you never know if you might be able to save a ton of money or not. I am finally going to follow her advice and purchase the used dell computer from the site.
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