January 13, 2010
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
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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December 23, 2009
The first client that I referred to Danny DeMichele is still using him to keep his site up on the search engines. I was happy to hear it and asked him if he would help me by writing about his experiences with Danny DeMichele for all of the clients who do not choose to follow my advice and hire the very professional internet marketing genius.
My client told me that he would be happy to do that for me and if it helped Danny DeMichele build up his client base a little more than it would be worth it too. Four days later, a handwritten and typed letter arrived at my office. It was very nice and explained everything that Danny DeMichele had done for this guys site and how his sales were enough for him to retire and only sit back and collect the online sales money.
Since most of my clients had ecommerce websites, I knew that this would get their juices flowing and they would want the same thing. I sent a copy of it to every person I had helped get their sites off the ground and within twenty four hours, Danny DeMichele told me that he had heard from all but one of the four hundred clients I had sent the letter to.
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December 22, 2009
I had a really hard time finding just the right used sun hardware parts that I needed to fix the servers in the office. I knew that if I did not find them in the last store I stopped at, that I would have to call and order them from a supplier that was out west and they would take at least four days to get here.
I was so glad to hear the girl behind the desk tell me that they did indeed have the used sun equipment that I had asked for. She had called to the back warehouse for one of the guys to bring them up. I made a phone call while I was waiting to let my boss know that I had in fact found all the used sun hardware that I needed to get the office back up and running.
I drove back to the office quickly and practically ran in with the parts to get to work. I wanted to make sure that no more sales than needed to be lost would be. I even skipped lunch and worked through dinner to get the servers back online and in good working order. I am very glad that the used sun hardware was at that computer store in town.
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December 21, 2009
The number one thing that was at the top of my computer equipment necessities was the dell servers. I had heard so many horror stories from people who have bought less expensive brands of servers just to save a few bucks and they have problems with them all the time. I know that the company that I used to work for had dell servers and we never had any trouble with them.
So, when I decided to venture out on my own and open up my own practice, I already knew a good place to get used dell products from and planned on using them for everything that I could. I called and explained to them that I knew I was going to need at least two servers, but that they had to be dell. The lady read through the list of used dell servers that they had in stock and I chose two that were not the most expensive, but not the cheapest either.
I was proud of myself for getting all the computer necessities in one place and for getting exactly what I wanted. I did not have to compromise on anything. Every make and model that I wrote down, the online company had in stock and it will all be arriving in less than a week.
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December 2, 2009
A vinyl siding contractor stopped by my house to tell me that they would be in the area next month and wanted to know if I wanted a free estimate on what it would cost to install vinyl siding on my home. I figured since they said it was free, I might as well have them do it. I did not think that I could afford to have them do it, but at least I would know how much it might cost me if I could do it in the future.
This same kind of thing happened last year, when a contractor that installed replacement windows knocked on my door and explained that they were just out in the neighborhood doing free estimates. When he came back up to my door, from figuring how much it would cost to put in replacement windows, I knew that I could actually afford it, and he did the work later that week.
If the vinyl siding contractor comes up with a really low number, then I might be able to get my parents to loan me the money to have the siding put on until I get my end of the year bonus. It would only be a three month loan, and they know that I will pay them back.
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December 1, 2009
It took me a couple of days to find a link building company in my area that only does one way links. There were quite a few that said that they could do reciprocal link building for me but that they did not have the resources to handle one way links. I knew that sometimes the search engines figure out that you are just trading the links back and forth with the whole two way thing and I did not want to take the chance to have them re-index me and take my site down a page rank or two for it.
I hired the company that does the one way links and they have set up a standing order for me, granted that I start to see results from their link building efforts. I filled out an order form that explained which keywords that I want to rank for and how many one way links I wanted done each month.
I have told a couple of friends who are always complaining that their sites rank horrible, about this local company that does the link building and helps you to rank better. I am not sure if any of them have called and placed an order yet or not.
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November 30, 2009
I chose to change the air fresheners in my bathrooms when I found a company online that offered tons of touch free products. I liked their site, it was easy to manage and I spent about an hour looking over everything that they offered. I was really intrigued by the waterless urinal section. I had never heard of waterfree urinals and I had to read more to understand about how they worked. I think that when we get ready to redo our bathrooms next year then we will have one installed, since they save water.
I ordered a few different kinds of air fresheners and they arrived about two days later. I think that I read on their site that they have numerous warehouses all over the nation so they guarantee quick delivery. I remember reading it should not take more than three days to receive your orders and they did not let me down this time.
I forwarded the name of this site on to my friend who owns a salon on the other end of town. I know that he would like the fact that they guarantee fast delivery and they have so many products to offer that are touch free. He hates to think of people going into the restroom and then touching a bunch of stuff after washing their hands.
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November 26, 2009
I may have to check out some of the bingo promotions online sites that I have been hearing about from some of my friends that I bowl with on Thursday nights. I have started to have lots of free time with my husband being on the road all the time and all the kids finally out of the house so I have started to play bingo sometimes too. I knew that maybe we could get to the local lodge that hosts the big bingo bashes but most of those were on Thursday nights when we were playing on our bowling league.
So, when one of the girls told me that she plays online bingo games on Friday nights at her house, I figured that maybe we could all talk to each other on the phone while we were playing the online bingo games at the same time. Everyone loved the idea, so not I definitely need to check out all the bingo promotions that they are talking about and get signed up on the site that everyone else plays on. I wrote it down so that I would not forget it and even saved it to my favorites so that on Friday night, I can get logged in that much faster.
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November 23, 2009
I was supposed to get life insurance quotes from my insurance agent today, but he called to say that they were not ready just yet. I had been waiting on the life insurance quotes for about a week and was ready to go to someone else. I only wanted to know how much it would cost for me and my husband to get no medical life insurance for fifteen years and they asked me some of the stupidest questions before even finding out how much coverage I wanted to get.
I am sure that since my husband and I are both smokers, it may cost us considerably more than a normal non smoking thirty year old person but I was just curious to see if we may be able to afford it or not. We were told by our attorney that we needed to get our affairs in order soon since we were starting a family. He suggested that we get the no medical life insurance and that we set up will that explained who would get custody of our children if something ever happened to us.
The insurance agent asked me if I wanted to have the life insurance quotes mailed, emailed or faxed to me and I told them to fax them as soon as they had them. I am thinking that they may have lost my fax number.
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