February 8th, 2010
The SEO consultant that was hired by the SEO marketing company we use has agreed to come and work solely for our company. My boss told me that we needed to have someone in house that could direct a team for all SEO issues and I informed our consultant of this and let her know that we would probably not be needing her services as soon as I could find someone to hire.
She, the SEO consultant, was worried that since she was so new to her SEO marketing company that they would fire her if we dropped them. I offered her the job and let her know what the starting salary would be for her to become our personal SEO marketing manager and she accepted right away.
My boss was thrilled to learn that I had convinced the SEO marketing person who was already very aware of what our site needed to do to stay on top. The salary that we offered her was apparently more than what she was making for the marketing company and being able to only deal with one client, was something that she explained later was a dream come true.
It took her three weeks to relocate permanently to Boston and start working for our company. She has put together a team of five people whose job is to work on search engine optimization for forty hours a week.
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February 5th, 2010
The all terrain crane Wilmington company seemed like the obvious choice when we needed to lift up the car from down in the steep muddy embankment. My son had somehow driven off the road and wrecked into an embankment that went down about twenty feet and did not have a scratch on him, but the car was another story. If the all terrain crane Wilmington company does not think that they can pull the car up then I have no idea how we will get it.
I suppose that we could try other things like boom truck rental in Charlotte and try it ourselves. My husband used to work for a construction company and should have no trouble in talking with the company who handles the boom truck rental in Charlotte and seeing what tips and tricks they can offer to get the car back up.
Our insurance company will not release any of the money that will be given to us after they determine it is totaled until they can see it and having it in a safe spot is apparently our responsibility. I am thinking that after trying a crane and a boom truck and it is still not in a safe spot, it never will be again.
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February 3rd, 2010
The dentist offices that offer family dentistry in my town are all closed on the weekend. I can really never take any time off of work to get my teeth cleaned or have anything else done so I have to drive sixty miles on the weekends and do it.
I used to work out of my house and actually the family dentistry office that I went to then, had some really crazy hours then too. They were only open on Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 8-2. I realize that the dentist was rather old and was probably ready to retire but he should have hired on a younger assistant like some of the other local dentist offices.
Anyway, when I decided to jump back in to a real nine to five office job, I had to look at every appointment I ever made a little differently and at first I thought that I could just schedule around meetings and stuff but that did not work. I was hired to make sure that the office runs smoothly and effectively and if I leave for any reason, the smoothness and effectiveness goes with me. For that reason, I will be traveling to the family dentistry office sixty miles away from here on Saturday for a noon appointment.
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February 1st, 2010
I have been looking for a new hayter lawnmower and not having much luck finding one that I can afford. I figured that most lawn mower dealers would have one in stock, or at least be able to get their hands on a hayter lawnmower. I tried several local dealers and then decided to switch my attention to the internet.
On the internet, I had many more choices and there were also different price points. I could buy lawn mowers that were in tip top shape, or purchase some that would take maybe a little bit of work but that were not too far gone.
I decided to purchase actually two different hayter lawnmowers that both needed a little bit of work. The first one only needed a few minor parts and I knew that I already had them in my shop. The second of the two needed some bigger parts that I found through an online dealer for real cheap, so I just paid for them to be shipped at the same time that the lawn mowers would be shipped out.
I hope to use one of the lawn mowers for my own personal need and then sell the other on one of those auction sites since I have seen how hard it is to get your hands on a good in shape hayter lawnmower for a good price.
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January 27th, 2010
I saw that there was a big show at our local armory where there would be people coming to buy and sell gold jewelry. I understand that gold is at an all time high but I do not think that I have too many pieces that I want to part with, let alone just do it to make a few bucks. On the other hand, my sister is really down on her luck and heard of the whole sell gold jewelry show and wants me to go to it with her.
I decided to go with her and check out these gold buyers that are going to be there. I did bring along just two pieces of jewelry that I am not too fond of, just to get a price. One is a very big brooch that my grandmother gave me when I was very young. Women just do not wear brooches anymore, so there is no reason to hang on to it. My grandmother always said that jewelry was meant to be worn, not sit in a box. So, if these gold buyers can offer me a decent amount of money, then I may consider selling.
My sister brought about twenty pieces of gold jewelry and was offered a four figure amount of money from the gold buyers. I made two hundred dollars on my grandmother’s brooch and was happy with that.
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January 20th, 2010
I knew that at four hundred pounds, I needed to put find a personal trainer at the top of my list before anything else. I have actually lost about thirty pounds since doing some workouts at home but have hit some sort of wall and have been stuck there for the last three weeks. I called and asked one of the local gyms if they had a personal trainer directory and they told me that they did and they could either fax it or email it to me, so I chose to receive it by email.
I looked over the personal trainer directory for a few days and tried to narrow down the search to find a personal trainer off of the list. I knew that I would never be comfortable with a woman, so it cut the list practically in half by doing that. I started making some phone calls to find out how much this was going to cost me and was pleasantly surprised by many of the personal trainer’s answers.
I settled on trying out two different personal trainers that I had gotten from the personal trainer directory, just to see which of them I was most comfortable with. I was just hoping that one of them would work out.
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January 19th, 2010
The waterfree urinal that we just ordered from our plumbing fixtures company is the top of the line. I wanted to be able to actually see other than what I had seen in pictures, but the plumbing fixtures company ordered two and sold both of them as soon as some of their clients saw them. I think that I would have been the next stop after them but they got them first and now I have to wait about four to six weeks for our waterfree urinal to come in.
I told all my customers about it and of course the men are all looking forward to seeing the waterfree urinal and the ladies just think that anything in a men’s restroom must be really gross no matter how new it is. I have always put time and money into making the women’s restroom really nice and have never spent any money on the men’s but that is about to change.
Four to six weeks from now and maybe a little extra time to install it and I will have the coolest restroom for men in this town, since the people who bought the floor models of the waterfree urinal are sixty miles away.
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January 13th, 2010
I was happy to find out that I did not have to handle the three way link exchange that had been going on for about six months now. I was having a hard time keeping up with everyone else, I figured that they had more than one person writing their one way links and that was how they put them out so fast.
I guess that either the boss saw how overwhelmed I was, or one of the other people on the three way link exchange tree called and told him that we were not holding up our end of the bargain. I really do not care which is true, I am just feeling very relieved right now and know that if I am not expected to handle that and all the other duties I have, my life will be much easier.
My boss introduced me to four young gentlemen who had been hired to strictly handle the one way links and make sure that we kept up our end of the deal. I was to get them set in their new office and then show them everything that I had worked on up until that point and then let them go.
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January 5th, 2010
For three years now I have been using the same dell repair company and have never had any problems with them till now. I called to have them write up a work order to fix my poweredge servers like they have done many times before. This time, the woman who I talked, to must have been new or something and she asked me not to send the poweredge serves today because they were backed up with repairs.
I hung up the phone and just stood there thinking that I must have not heard her correctly and so I tried back and got a different operator. I explained that I had used their dell repair service many times before and that I once again needed my servers to be fixed and then sent back. The operator that I had on the line at the time helped me with the work order and then asked me if I had any other questions.
I proceeded to tell him all about the woman that I had spoken with earlier and how she had asked me not to send the poweredge servers today because they were backed up and had lots of other repairs. He was dumbfounded and told me that he was very sorry and would make sure to find out who did that and take care of the problem right away.
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January 4th, 2010
The new store was going to need more than just a few things to get it up and running so I decided to look online for some used point of sale equipment. I had heard that by buying used pos equipment, you can save tons of money and still get everything you need.
I found most of the things on the list from the used point of sale equipment site that I found by searching online and got most of them at a huge discount. I did have to get a few things new but we certainly saved a lot of money on the used stuff so the few new things did not really make much a difference.
I did call and ask my partner if there was anything else that she could think of that we needed before I finalized the sale and she told me that she would like to get a few used pos equipment items just for back up, just in case we had issues with not everything working correctly on the day the store was going to open. We had advertised the grand opening all over the state and hoped that it would be really busy with people who had seen all the ads.
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