January 31, 2010

Selling Coins Is Becoming A Hobby For My Son

Selling coins became a hobby of my sons when he saw that I had a big collection stored away from when I was his age. I had almost forgotten about it until my parents moved from my family home to a new condo and cleaned out the attic. They told me that I should check into selling coins that were in it because they might actually be worth something now. They knew that when I was young and collecting them that they were just everyday coins but now that it is forty years later, they thought they could possibly have some value.

When I was collecting when I was about twelve the thought to sell coins from my huge collection had never crossed my mind. I just liked finding different coins of different years and from different countries too. I remember making a list of all the countries and trying to get coins from everyone. I did not even come close but my son and I might have to start working on that list again.

So after taking the collection of mine and actually hoping to sell coins from it to start collecting from all the countries, if has brought my son and I together doing something that we both truly enjoy.

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January 13, 2010

The SEO Services And Link Building Is Paying Off

The yearlong plan of link building that the SEO services company had laid out for our site was starting to pay off. I had followed the climb up the search engines for several keyword rankings but only over the past two months, have our sales jumped considerably. I think that it was probably just in time since the holidays were just getting underway. If this was what we were going to be able to expect for our holiday sales, then we were going to have a record breaking year.

It was my idea to hire the SEO services company after reading an article in a computer magazine and how important link building had become to the success of websites. I knew that we were not doing any link building and that we needed to look into it. I made several calls to other CEO’s that I knew would point me in the right direction of some reputable SEO services companies.

Once we laid out everything we needed to rank for, the plan was put into action and we started slowly climbing the ladder of the search engines. Our sales were slowly climbing also but I had faith that we would soon see some really good results and it is finally coming true.

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The Neighbors Installed New Wrought Iron Storm Doors

I wanted to be the first to go over to the neighbor’s house and tell them how nice it looked with their new storm doors. I think that their choice of wrought iron doors was very smart; it sets their house apart from everyone else’s. I wish that I had been the one to have thought of that. I wonder if they would be offended if I had some new storm doors installed on my house.

I would probably have to go with a completely different color and style than their wrought iron doors or it would just look weird and like I copied them. Of course if they tell me that they would rather I not put up wrought iron doors then I will respect their wishes and keep up my old vinyl ones that are pretty much going to need to be replaced sometime in the next year or so anyways.

When I got to the neighbors house, I saw two other neighbors walking the same way. I think that I was still the first one to let them know how nice the house looked with the new doors, but I was certainly not going to be the last one for the day.

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January 4, 2010

Voting On Best Way To Buy The Poweredge Servers

Our only chance of getting some different working poweredge servers, is finding some that have been refurbished back to their original state and are priced very low. Our technical budget is gone for the year and there is no way that we can keep paying to have the dell repair man come out and fix the servers we have one more time.

I truly believe that if we would have taken the money that we have given the dell repair man and saved it, we would have been able to afford a brand new pair of poweredge servers. Of course, this was not possible because we actually have to have the servers up and running to create the cash flow to pay for the repairs.

We do have some other ways that we may be able to get some new or used servers, but we will have to max out our credit cards to do it. We cannot come up with any other solutions to the problem and time is running out. All the managers are going to attend a meeting and vote on buying the poweredge servers with our credit cards, or just paying the dell repair man again when that time comes.

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