Archive for February, 2010

Recommending A Kitchen Cabinets FL Company To My Client

Monday, February 22nd, 2010

My client wants to have a kitchen cabinets FL company that is owned by her brother put in her new cabinets. I would not have a problem with it, if I had ever heard of them. I did some online searches and some yellow page searches for the kitchen cabinets FL company she told me about and I cannot find them anywhere.

I called my client to let her know that I was having trouble finding her brothers company and she gave me the phone number to their office. The secretary told me that they were getting ready to close their doors for good but that they still wanted to do the job for the owner’s sister.

I laughed after having the conversation with the secretary and called my client to let her know that there was no way that I could sign off on using her brothers company that was going out of business. I suggested a few other cabinetry FL companies and she said that she would think about it.

Thank goodness that my client came to her senses because she went with one of the cabinetry FL companies that I recommended for her and now I feel great about her kitchen getting done correctly by a company that is going to be in business for a long time.

Tampa FL Lawn Care Found The Pests

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010

Calling all over town to find a pest control Tampa company that can come right out, has proved to be rather difficult. When the lawn treatment Tampa FL company was here yesterday, they noticed quite a few wasps nests around the building. I know that my boss is very allergic to wasps, so I need to have this issue treated very quickly.

My boss comes back from vacation in three days and so that is the time frame that I have to work with. I have called about ten different pest control Tampa companies and it seems that each of them is already backed up. My next thing to do, is to scour the internet for additional companies that do not advertise in the phone book.

If it was not for the lawn treatment Tampa FL company finding the wasps nests then I am not sure what could have happened. I am starting my vacation, the day that my boss is coming back into the office. It is possible that had we not found out, that he could have been stung while I was not here.

I am hopeful that three days is enough time to find someone, get them here and have them treat all the areas that need to be treated. I am going to have to offer them more money for making this matter a priority.

The Office Supply Store Charges For Delivery

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

The office supplies that I got from the online office supply store were much cheaper than what I usually get from the local guys. I had heard from a colleague of mine that many companies were switching to online office supply store sites to save money, so I looked into it last week. I took the prices that we usually pay and compared them to the ones on the site for the same exact office supplies and saved forty percent.

The savings was not the only thing about the office supply store site; they delivered right to our door and did not charge any delivery fees since the order was over one hundred dollars. I used to have to send my secretary out to go and pick everything up in the company van and if she was too busy to do it then the local supply store could deliver it for an extra fifty dollars. The local office supply store was literally two miles away and they wanted fifty dollars to bring it to us. They should completely understand why a lot of the businesses in town are turning to the online places; it is not just for the great prices, but for free delivery too.

Looking Into The Custom Website Design Company

Monday, 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.