February 8th, 2010
I have been looking into a web design company that I found online that offers award winning custom website design for half the cost of many of its competitors. I keep thinking that the whole thing must be too good to be true but cannot find any clients of theirs that are unhappy.
I would love to have this web design company work for me and make a custom website design just for my company but I just keep waiting to find out what the catch is. My secretary keeps telling me that I better call them before they decide to get smart and raise their prices. I know that she is probably right but need to discuss the whole thing with my wife and then make a decision.
I am taking home all of the information from the web design company and all of their clients that I have compiled over the past month to show to my wife. I have even come up with what I think would be a really nice custom website design for her to see if I am on the right track with colors and text or not.
By this time next week, I will either be working with the web design company that charges less, or looking for someone who will do a good job but charges a little more for their time.
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January 31st, 2010
The sites that I found that sell coins, are really easy to navigate. In fact, I was looking for a rate silver coin that was missing from one of my many collections and I found it on the site within about twenty seconds. You just type in what you are looking for and if it does not have it, it will show you something similar but if it does then you can ask the owner who is selling silver coins to take the offer you make them or give you a counter offer.
Most times the people who are looking to sell coins know the exact value and so do the buyers so usually they come to an agreement pretty quickly. I have only had one deal where the guy selling silver coins had no idea what the coins he was offering were worth and was asking an outrageous amount of money. Quite a few really well known collectors had to set him straight and I withdrew all of my offers with his coins.
Since you do not actually meet the sellers face to face, you do not really know any of them but I have had long conversations on the phone with a few and feel like we are good friends all because we have the same interests.
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January 13th, 2010
I think that there are a lot of people out there designing their own websites on what they think looks good and not even thinking about how to get it to rank on the search engines. I used to be naïve like they were and thought that if you built a website, automatically you were going to be rich and would never have to worry about money again. I was very wrong in my thinking and not until I learned all about SEO marketing, did I fully understand how the search engines rank the sites.
I hired an SEO marketing company to help me with whatever they thought I needed to do to make my site rank better and in turn, hopefully produce more sales. I was paired up with a very knowledgeable SEO consultant that laid out a six month plan to get things rolling. When the six months was up, I was starting to see some results and asked the SEO consultant to continue working with me until I felt the site had reached the top of the point on the search engines where it could not go any higher.
The SEO marketing company and my person SEO consultant worked really hard on getting my site to rank on the first page and my sales have tripled since then. I am glad that I discovered the truth in website marketing.
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January 13th, 2010
I wanted to put up iron doors and my husband wanted to save money and install vinyl doors. He is always worried about money and I am more worried about safety and the look of the house. Everyone has vinyl doors these days, and vinyl fencing and gates. I want my house to be different and not be a cookie cutter house.
I have tried many ways to explain this to him but I am having a hard time getting him to change his mind. In fact, I think that he may have gone behind my back and actually ordered vinyl. I checked out credit card statement and there is a purchase from the home improvement store that I did not recognize. If he did this, then I can only respond one way. I am ordering the iron doors and the iron gate that I wanted as well. Two can play at his little game.
I am hoping that the iron gate and the iron doors arrive earlier than the vinyl crap he ordered and then I will just instruct the contractors to install them and he will have to return his stuff when it comes in. I just know that once he sees them installed, he will agree that it was the right choice, no matter what the cost was.
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January 4th, 2010
The dell repair contract that we had with the company has expired. I think that they want to renegotiate a new one but I have heard that they have raised their prices considerably this year. I wanted to use them again but think that I may need to start searching for a smaller dell repair company that is willing to deal, to have our business.
The company we used to have, had to have come out here at least ten times a month to repair something and each time we called them they charged us a trip charge. I would think that since we bought two new poweredge servers from them, they would be more likely to give us the prices we had before.
I am going to put all of my thoughts in a letter and then fax it over to the salesman who is in charge of our account over there and remind him of the great commission he made on the poweredge servers. I am hoping that he can set the prices or convince whoever is in charge that we deserve to have the prices from before or else we will have to take our business elsewhere.
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December 23rd, 2009
I was rather proud of my new website and had been handing out business cards all that week with the name of our site on them. My friends would just wish me luck and then tell me that they would check it out when they got a chance. Since I handed out about two hundred cards, I was expecting at least one hundred of them to go to the site and buy something.
I was disappointed when I only had four sales over the next six months and did not know what to do. I started searching the web for someone or someway to turn it around. I found Danny DeMichele and emailed him to see if he thought he could help me even though my site was fairly new. Danny DeMichele sent me an email back that explained a plan of action to get me more sales.
I was really excited about the plan and knew that if it worked, that I would not need the help of my friends to buy anything from me, since it looked as though they were not going to help out anyway. That was two years ago and my sales have been consistent ever since. I am a true believer in whatever Danny DeMichele does and I know that it will work.
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December 22nd, 2009
I started looking into which brand of computer equipment my office should switch to since we had not had any luck with the stuff we had currently. I wanted to make sure that there were plenty of repair men in the area who could fix the brand too.
I decided to order some used sun equipment to give it a try. I did not want to order new just in case it did not work out for us. I was shocked that the used sun equipment arrived so quickly after placing the order but it did. I found out from the technician that installed the used sun hardware that this brand was very well known for not having many repair problems. I asked him how he knew that and he told me that most of the offices in town have sun products and they hardly ever call for repairs, so it must be true.
I knew then that I could move forward with the buying of all new used sun hardware and not worry about a thing. It has been about six months since we switched completely over to used sun hardware in the office and there have been no problems thus far.
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December 21st, 2009
I was so happy to finally have found a company that understood that dell servers were the only way to go. I have been in the computer repair business for ten years now and most of my customers shy away from installing dell since it is a little more expensive to install initially. That has changed though, over the years with many companies offering used dell products.
This is not the case with the company that I serviced last week though, the owner knew the value and reputation that dell has been proven over and over again. He had installed some used dell computers in his offices and also some dell servers about five years ago and has not had a problem until now. I guess that his new secretary had spilled some coffee on his laptop and he was wondering if there was any way to retrieve the information from it or fix it somehow.
Since this was not something that I deal with every day, I had to call into the office to see if they could give me any suggestions. In the end, the laptop dried itself out and the man was able to use it again.
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December 2nd, 2009
I was looking online for a NC roofing contractor that would donate a new roof, or at least some of the materials, for our church. Our church roof was starting to go downhill fast. If we got a really bad rain on Sunday morning, there were some pews that people could not even sit in because of the leaking roof. I typed NC roofing contractor into the search bar, and found a list of so many names, that I knew I could not contact every single one of them. My only hope was that one of the first ten companies would say yes.
I had done this when our church needed window replacement also, and found a company to donate all the replacement windows, and install them for free. I only had to contact four different window replacement companies before I found one to say yes and do the work.
If I can get the fourth NC roofing contractor to say yes, then we will be in good shape and we may be able to get everything taken care of by the end of the month. If it takes a little longer, I am not sure if we will be able to have services on days when it is raining.
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December 1st, 2009
I was so happy to find out that my site had moved up from a page rank six, to a page rank four. I had never had such a big jump but I think that I owe it all to my web company that put me on this very intensive one way link building campaign for the past year. I have a standing order with them for one hundred one way links every month and it is really starting to pay off.
I have to think that the thirty percent increase is coming from the better page ranking and that can only be explained by the one way link building campaign since nothing else has changed. I would like to think that maybe just more people are out there talking about my products but that is really not realistic.
I am hoping to be a page rank three by the end of the year, or at least by early next spring. If my sales continue to grow then I may move to one hundred and fifty or two hundred one way links per month from the web company to insure that I reach my new page rank goal.
If you want your site to rank higher on the search engines then I suggest that you look into having one way link building done for you. My site is defiantly proof that.
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