02/08/2010
I was told to type remodeling service Raleigh into the search engine to see which companies would come up. I guess that my boss must have hired someone to get our site to rank better and this was one of the keyword terms that he wanted to rank for. The company site was actually tenth for the term remodeling service Raleigh which I thought was pretty good but my boss was not pleased and wanted to be in the top five on the first page and nothing less would do.
I know that last week when he told me to type in kitchen remodel Raleigh, we were only on the fifth page and ranked something way out of where anyone would search. He was furious and had me call this guy who has the list of keywords that include kitchen remodel Raleigh and asked him if he was doing the job he was paid to do or if he thought this was some kind of game.
Ever since our biggest competitor hired a fancy new website company to handle their entire search engine marketing, my boss has been very edgy. He knows that he cannot afford to hire the same company till more jobs start coming in and he thinks that more jobs will not come in unless he has a better ranking site.
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02/02/2010
My online marketing service Raleigh company that I had been using is raising their prices. I had heard this through the grapevine and did not actually believe it. I have used them for at least seven years and their prices have never gone up or down even once.
Now, I do know that they have a lot of competition that has moved into the area and they still rank as the number one online marketing service Raleigh companies. I have a feeling that they are just aware that people know how good they are and they should start charging it.
Late last year they started up a subsidiary social networking service Raleigh division. I called and put us on the list to be included in whatever they could offer us and it cost over five hundred dollars but it was worth every penny for the extra links we were given. I put out an email to our five other offices down south and informed them of the social networking service Raleigh division and told them that it would be very wise to invest in this service for their sites as well. I know that at least four have but the fifth did not and with the prices rising, they might have to pay more than what the rest of us did.
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Jewelry — Dog @ 7:42 pm
01/30/2010
For six days now, my wife has told me that she is selling jewelry online to make some extra money. I have yet to see any of that money, but do know that she bought some crappy jewelry at the flea market last night to take and try to sell scrap jewelry to the gold dealer in town. She somehow thinks that if she can double up on her efforts to make money that one of them will pay off.
The selling jewelry online idea came up when my sister auctioned off her engagement ring to the highest bidder after dumping her boyfriend. My wife figured that since people wanted a used engagement diamond ring, they would also like some of the pieces that she had compiled over the years. I do not think that she realizes that you never get out what you put into it originally.
I informed her this morning that she can actually make more with the sell scrap jewelry idea to the gold dealer than by letting pieces that we paid thousands for, be sold for hundreds. If she only makes a few bucks on each deal that she makes with the gold buyer then it will be more of a profit then the online loss.
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01/27/2010
I was thinking that I could redo my kitchen all by myself until I really started researching everything. I had been watching a lot of home improvement shows and checking out things on the web. I looked up remodel kitchen Tampa Bay and found some home improvement stores in my area that could possibly help me out.
I also searched remodel kitchen Tampa Bay, to see if there were any small handymen in the area that would not charge me too much, to lend me a hand if I needed it. I figured that maybe with the help of just one man, I would be able to save thousands of dollars. I did find two small companies that agreed to come out and take a look at my project and give me a price for them helping me out.
I found a kitchen showroom Tampa Bay company when I was out going to the home improvement stores and I got a lot of great ideas by checking out the kitchen showroom. There were some things in those kitchens that I had never even thought of doing in mine. If the handyman I hire, knows how to do wiring, then I am going to install a new flat screen in my kitchen just like I saw in the kitchen showroom Tampa Bay company’s store.
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01/18/2010
In our quest to find the cheapest and most reliable janitorial products supplier, we actually found two that seemed like they would work for us. Both of them carried all the cleaning supplies we needed and the pricing was the same for all of it. They both had numerous warehouses that they could ship from located throughout the country. We really liked that since we also have companies in four other states.
Our quest to find a new janitorial products supplier for us, turned into finding one for the entire corporation and we liked that. We could just all the bills sent to one office for each individual order for cleaning supplies but they would ship to the correct locations every month.
I did not know how to decide between the two, and just thought that flipping a coin could solve the issue. I flipped and our decision was made, we had a new affordable janitorial products supplier for all five of our offices and we would be saving money too. I could not wait to place the first order and did it right away. I sent out emails to all the other offices and informed them of the change in cleaning supplies providers and how they were supposed to handle each order and that we would take care of the payments.
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I have heard my boss yell at the office supply delivery man about six times over the past month. It seems that they have a new manager and none of the orders are correct. I know that we have used this same office supply company for at least five years and never have I heard of any issues prior to the ones this past few weeks.
I do know that they sell the most affordable discount office furniture around and that is probably part of the reason that we keep using them and putting up with the incorrect orders. My boss asked the delivery man if there was any way he could give him the name of the owners and their phone number. He gave him both and then told him to make sure to put in a good word for him, our deliveries were not late, just not correct which he has no part in filling them.
I heard most of the conversation on my boss’s side about how since they had changed their managers, most of the office supply orders have been incorrect and that we have used them for so long and do not want to have to find someone else. I am not sure if it did any good but we will see, the next time our delivery man comes by with our next order.
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01/12/2010
I wanted to make sure that I gave enough consideration to all the different types of life insurance out there, so I made sure to request a life insurance quote for every kind. I knew that my parents had always had term life insurance and my brother recently signed up for a no medical life insurance policy himself.
I know that there are probably other kinds of life insurance too, which is the reason for the request of one of every kind of a life insurance quote. It may take me a little longer to make a decision but I think that it was a very smart move on my part.
In the end, I understand that the no medical life insurance sounds more appealing than any other kind and I have not even seen the numbers yet but I do not want to look back and think that I did not cover all my options with something this important.
Getting life insurance in place is my first step to planning for my future. I have also decided to set up a will with my attorney later this week, and I need to make sure that the beneficiary to the life insurance will also be handling my estate, so as not to cause any problems among my family members.
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12/31/2009
I really thought that our boss would approve the purchase of the new servers after we submitted all the necessary forms for him to look at. This would be the first time in the history of the company since I have worked here that he has told us no. I was the one that got everyone all excited about the new servers we were getting and now I would have to tell them that I let them down.
As I was beginning to make the announcement, my boss stepped out of the elevator and started for the conference room we were all standing in. He asked me to let him speak and I stepped out of the way. I never expected him to say that we were in fact getting some different servers, but that they would be used servers that had been refurbished. The whole office cheered and a feeling of calmness took me over.
I did not care if the servers were new or not, just that they were of working order. The used poweredge servers that I picked out for our office were really nice and could handle double the workload the old ones could. The used poweredge servers were also ten thousand dollars apiece cheaper than the new ones we had requested. I guess I can see why he turned us down and went with the used servers.
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