12/31/2009
I may have to think twice before I go and okay the buying of the used poweredge servers we have been talking about. Our sales for the last six months just came in and they are much lower than what we had first thought they were. I am thinking that they are so bad, that we may need to nix the used servers and layoff some people in the office or even in the shipping and receiving department.
My secretary told me to look at all the time the old servers went down and figure out how many sales we missed out on because of that. I did as she suggested and was pleasantly surprised with the results, well not pleasantly, but happier than a few minutes before. I could see that had we been up and running for those many times, we would have met our goal of sales for the month.
This information just enforced that fact that we indeed needed the used servers and we needed them very badly. We could not have another month like last month so the plan to buy the used poweredge servers was inevitable and it was going to help us to turn around too.
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12/30/2009
I was reading a new computer magazine that I had found in the lobby of the doctor’s office and it compare buying new servers to used servers and what the cons and pro were for both. I noticed that the exact kind of used hp servers were named in the study and I wanted to see what was said about them but I was called into the doctor’s office.
When I came back out, the magazine was gone and I asked the girl behind the counter, where it had gone. She told me that they got their new shipment of magazines and had thrown out the old ones. I got her to dig through the trash and get it for me.
The article went on to say that the used proliant servers were very reliable and could usually be found for very reasonable prices. I was wondering if that was the name of the used hp servers we had or not, I thought it was but now was starting to think that it could be any of the used hp servers that were named in this article.
I called my office and asked my secretary to run down to the computer room and read me the name of the server that we had just had installed. She confirmed that they were in fact used proliant servers.
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12/28/2009
I want to make sure that the site we just spent three thousand dollars on does well and is not just a thing we think about every once in a while. I want to see more sales coming from it than from our store. I have heard that you should make sure to have your web people do some SEO services for you. If your site does not have good SEO marketing then you might as well just forget about it because your site will be lost at the bottom of the search engines forever.
I called the company that built our site and asked if they offered SEO marketing and they informed me that they did not but that they knew of a few companies that did. I told them that I only wanted the best and they told me that I would have to pay a little more for the best SEO services company that they knew of, but that did not matter to me.
I contacted the SEO services company and they were more than happy to get started on our site. They asked me about everything associated with the site and I informed them of everything that I could think of. I think that they are going to do a great job for us.
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12/23/2009
My mother sent me some money for my birthday and then sent me some more, for Christmas. I have not decided what I want to do with it yet, but am leaning towards buying myself some new iron entry doors. I had been thinking about it anyway, but did not want to spend all that money at once.
I will actually have enough money now to get the iron gates too that will make the whole front of the house look more uniform. I currently have a chain link gate and it would look cheap if I left it after having iron doors put in.
I am going to make a trip to the local store to see if I can find iron entry doors and iron gates that I really like and that will not go over the amount that I have budgeted including the money from my mother. I think that I have heard that if you go in the basement of the door and gate store, they have some older and cheaper floor models that have been marked down in price and they make work better for me. I do not mind buying floor models, they may be a little banged up, but they are going outside anyway, so they are not going to stay pristine forever.
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While many people think that they know how to improve you site and the amount of traffic it is getting, Danny DeMichele gets proven results. I have been following him ever since he first started in the business. I have recommended many of my clients to give him a try and they always are happy with the results. I have used him in the past and know that if you give him a chance, that he can do exactly what he says and turn your site around 360 degrees.
I had two sites about a year ago that were tanking and I contacted him to see if he thought that they could be helped at all or if I should just give up hope. He looked them over and sent me a free plan to fix it and make it so that they would slowly but surely become a viable source of income. It took Danny DeMichele and his team less than the six month plan he had set up and my sites were showing up on the search engines and getting lots of good hits too.
I wrote down the whole experience and always give a copy of it just before I tell them that they should call Danny DeMichele and see if he would like to go to work for them. I have never had anyone tell me that they would rather not have help in getting their sites turned around.
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12/21/2009
The last thing that we need this week is for one of the poweredge servers to go down, and it seems like that is going to be inevitable. The oldest one has been going offline by itself all day and we have to keep resetting it. I think that it is only a matter of time before this office comes to a complete halt.
I have tried to call the dell repair man that has fixed it before but he is not answering his phone. I think that since it is so close to the holidays, he may have taken a vacation or something since he has always been easy to reach before.
If the poweredge servers do go down before the end of the workday, then I am planning on just sending everyone home early for Christmas break. It will probably upset some of my workers who cannot afford to lose and hours of pay during this time. It is possible that we may just have a miracle and the servers will stay up and running for the rest of the day and then I can possibly find a different dell repair service to come in before we get back up and running after the holidays.
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12/16/2009
The system x servers that I priced at the computer store were about twelve hundred dollars more than what they were on the computer site I found that sells refurbished ones. I had never thought to buy refurbished system x servers, but it makes sense. The company takes them and replaces anything that may be wrong with them and cleans them up, then sells them back to the public. I am looking forward to getting them to see if they are as high quality as they are advertised to be.
The refurbished xseries servers may be the way of the future; I do not think that enough people know about them yet. Maybe if more computer technicians offered refurbished xseries servers to their clients then more people would be more apt to replace the old ones that they have now. The technicians may be out of work if that happens, and therefore is probably the reason that they do not openly discuss how you can save thousands in repair bills by just purchasing refurbished xseries servers and having them installed in place of the old ones.
I for one will be telling anyone that I know about the deal on the servers that I found. If I can help to save anyone any sort of repair bill money, then I will be doing it.
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12/15/2009
The last time that I hired a house painting company was back in the sixties. Since then, most of the homes that I have owned were either brick or had vinyl siding on them. I recently bought some investment properties and they are all wood sided and in need of some major TLC.
I found the name of a local house painting company in the phone book and asked around to see if anyone had ever used them before or not. I was surprised to find out that they seem to be the only exterior painting company in the area and everyone uses them. They supposedly do a fantastic job and they are very fair in their prices, even though they have virtually no competition. I called to have them meet me at the first of the five houses that I needed spruced up and they were on time.
The price of each house was very similar and the owner of the exterior painting company told me that if I hired them to do all five houses, they would give me a twenty percent discount. I knew that they did not have to do that, because I would have a hard time finding anyone else to do a professional job in town.
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12/02/2009
The wood double hung windows that we put in our barn make it look much better. We had originally had casement windows with no screens in it and we were always afraid of one of the kids going into the loft and falling out of them. The wood double hung windows lock too, which the old casement windows did not do.
The day that our twin two year old sons started walking was the day we knew we had to replace the casement windows in the barn. Up until then, we had kept them very close to us while we were outside. The fact that they were walking, made us realize that they would be running soon and want to go out and play in the back yard without us shortly after that.
The company that removed the casement windows, and installed the wood double hung windows told us that it was a very wise choice to replace them when we did because two of the casement windows had very tiny hairline cracks in them. If someone would have just leaned on them, they may have broken. I was happy to hear that the new windows were much safer and the company also showed me how you could clean them inside instead of standing on a big ladder like I used to do with the old ones.
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12/01/2009
A home remodeling Colorado company just left my house after giving me an estimate of what it would cost to completely replace my entire roof. It seems that they think the whole entire roof needs to be torn off and replaced all the way down to the studs. There is apparently some dry rot that they located above the family room that was probably caused by the tree that hangs over it.
I know that I need to have this done by the home remodeling Colorado company but I have no idea how I am going to pay for it. I was thinking of asking my bank for a home equity loan but these days, I am not sure they will approve me. The belts have been tightened on any kind of loans that are out there.
I just paid to have a Denver siding company replace all the old vinyl siding, which was not a necessary thing. This whole roof deal is something that is very necessary. I am sure that the Denver siding company will not understand if I ask them to come and take back the new siding and put back the old with a complete refund.
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