Posted by Faith on December 31st, 2009 My brother was really into computers when he was younger but my parents made him go to school to become a dentist. He opened up his practice very shortly after graduation and was very well known in our town.
The day that he made the announcement that he was going to close the practice; I thought my parents were going to die. He had decided to pursue his dreams and work with computers. He had already enough money in the bank to live off of for a very long time and he had bought a building to run the computer business out of five years prior that no one knew about.
I drove over to the building with him to check it out and he showed me the many used servers he had compiled over the last five years. He had been refurbishing them in his spare time and knew that they were all worth a lot of money since there were other companies doing and selling the exact same used poweredge servers. I was happy for him to be able to do what he wanted and wished him luck in the used servers business.
In the five years since my brother opened his used poweredge servers business, he has been able to open up four more shops just like them all over the northern part of the state and they are all doing very well.
Posted by Faith on December 30th, 2009 I would be happy if one of my computer guys would come back and tell me that he was able to find some used hp servers for the amount that we can spend. I had priced some new servers and knew that we may be able to get some used ones at that price but never all the used hp servers that it would take to run this office.
He came back about four hours later with a big smile on his face and I thought that he might have come through for us but he just handed me a business card. I asked him what it was and he told me that one of his computer contacts gave it to him and said that this website had the best prices on used proliant servers that he had ever seen.
I got on the site and found four used proliant servers priced within our budget and bought them and then had them shipped to our office over night to give the tech guy’s time over the weekend to get us back up and running by Monday. When I called down to tech, they gave me the thumbs up on the brand and the model that I had bought. They told me that installing the used hp servers would be very simple and that they would probably even have it all done in one day.
Posted by Faith on December 28th, 2009 One of the most amazing services to me is custom website design. This is very intriguing type of work and interests me more than anything. It helps to have artistic skills when designing a website. You have to have an eye for colors and symmetry. The layout and design will form the entire website and all the website pages.
After the initial layout you have to use colors that will put people in the right mood for that particular website. I had no idea that certain colors mean certain things. Orange and yellows mean happy and fun while blue is professional and honest.
After layout and colors are finished you have to do extensive research for whatever industry that website is being built for. You have to find out what keywords are important and how much traffic might be generated from them. Also what kind of competition each keyword has and how hard it might be to rank for it.
A custom web design must also consider ease of navigation and even security. If people cannot find the information they need easily or if they cannot shop securely, they will leave a website very quickly. Custom web design is very complex but I think that is what makes it so interesting.
Posted by Faith on December 23rd, 2009 My first choice for new doors was iron entry doors but I am having trouble finding some that are affordable that do not look cheap. I started searching online instead of looking around town and I am starting to see some light at the end of the tunnel.
I found two different companies that will ship whichever iron gates and iron entry doors I choose to me free of charge. I think that I may have to go with some that are featured in the clearance section of the sites but that is okay, since they have such a wide variety of them, I know that I will be able to get a great deal.
I have two choices to make now, which of the iron entry doors and iron gates I want, and which company to buy them from. I am thinking that I should choose the company that is closer to me so that I get my order delivered sooner rather than later. I hope to have the gates and doors delivered and installed by the end of the month when my parents come to visit. My mother will love them, since she also has iron doors and gates on her house.
Posted by Faith on December 23rd, 2009 My first time that I read about all of the things that Danny DeMichele knew about, I could not stop reading. I was drawn to buy his book and I read it from cover to cover in about a day, I kept pulling it out at work when no one was watching me to read it. I have always wanted to sell the hand blown glass vases that I make online but have never had the know how to do it before reading the Danny DeMichele book.
The book makes me think that anyone can turn a website business into something as big as they want to. I would of course have Danny DeMichele put together a plan to get it all up and running since he is such an expert in increasing traffic and sales. I may be able to start selling the glass online soon since I have a friend who builds websites and he still owes me a favor from when I helped him move last summer.
I am calling my friend as soon as I get off of work and then I am going to reread the Danny DeMichele book at home so that I can read it straight through, not like I did at my desk. By this time next year, my goal is to have a site that sells my vases and that helps to add income to my household.
Posted by Faith on December 22nd, 2009 The long list of people that they have helped in the past and are currently working for, helped me decide to go with ReputationManagers.com to better my reputation in the music world. I think that I may have come on a little too strong when I first got to town and started producing, so I am going to tone it down for a while and let ReputationManagers.com help me fix the way people think about me.
I have already cancelled some appearances at places where the normal everyday public would never be seen. I will be out all of the appearance money but having your peer’s respect you is worth a lot more. I found out that people think that I am abrasive from another buddy in the business. I did not get invited to one of the top award programs in the music business because they were afraid that I might cause a commotion. That is when I decided to stop playing the tough guy and go for the role of the professional person who really knows his business.
ReputationManagers.com knows exactly what I am looking to do and they have put together a plan to get me there. They have given me a list of things that I can do also, to get there may be just a bit faster than if they were working for me alone.
Posted by Faith on December 21st, 2009 I think that I would rather buy some used poweredge servers and call the dell repair company a couple of times a year to fix them than to spend all that money on new ones. My boss at my last job had to have everything new and it seemed that his new stuff would break down just as much as something that was bought used.
The office across from ours had purchased some used poweredge servers from an online company and they worked great. I think that the dell repair company came to our office about double the times that they went across the way. I know that the people who worked at the other place laughed every time that the repair man showed up. If my boss had not turned up his nose at their used poweredge servers when they were having them installed, then they would not have thought that us having our new stuff fixed all the time was so funny.
So, when I decided to venture out on my own and open up my own practice, I decided to install used poweredge servers that were going to save me some money right away. If I have the same amount of luck that the people in the other office had, then I will not have to make many calls to the dell repair company any time soon.
Posted by Faith on December 16th, 2009 The type of servers that I needed for the office, were not available at the local electronics store or the local computer shops. I had been to every one of them and most of them told me that I was going to have a tough time finding those locally. They suggested that I look on the internet for the xseries servers that my boss sent me out to find.
If these xseries servers are only found online, I am going to be very upset that I have spent half the day wasting gas looking all over town. I guess that maybe he did not know that the local guys would not have them.
The internet turned out to be the perfect place for me to find the system x servers that I needed. I was able to compare the prices of about ten of the top rated providers and choose the lowest ones. Since we needed to order four system x servers, we got free overnight shipping. I actually think that when you spend that much money with a company, they should hand deliver the goods to you. Since they do not do that, I guess that free overnight shipping just might be the next best thing.
Posted by Faith on December 15th, 2009 It took ten different outdoor painting services companies to complete the project of repainting the school busses. Someone had spray painted them over the summer and the school corporation had to have numerous fundraisers to pay to raise the money to repaint them. The insurance company that the school had did not want to pay for the damage since it had happened twice before and they just had to drop the school after the third time.
I read in the paper that not only did the outdoor painting services companies just charge for the paint, but they all cut their rates of what they would usually charge in half. I was glad to see that they did not do it for free, since I understand that it is hard enough for the little guys to make it without having to do free jobs.
I own a house painting company in a neighboring state from where this happened and I would have liked to help them clean up the busses, but I would not have been able to cut the prices in half like the other companies did. House painting is a very physical business and every hour is worth a lot of money. You have to recoup your hours somehow; I take my hat off to the ten companies who were able to work for half price.
Posted by Faith on December 2nd, 2009 My neighbors hired some idiot to install new replacement windows into their beautiful home. I do not know what they thought was wrong with the old windows but I am sure that they wish they would have kept them now.
He showed up one morning and started pulling out the old composite slider windows they had in originally. It started to rain about two hours into the removal of the old windows. I never saw him wipe his feet when he was going in and out, and he never covered up any of the open window holes either. This means that there had to be water and mud all over their house.
When he finally got around to putting in the replacement windows that were taking the place of the composite slider windows he cut some of the openings to make the new ones fit. Three of the openings that he cut, were too big and the new replacement windows did not take up the entire hole.
He ended up just leaving them just like that and left the house with it looking horrible. I was watching to see when they came home, what their reaction would be. You could tell that they were very upset and they ended up having to hire a more professional company to come and fix the work of the idiot they had chosen to put in their replacement windows.