December 31, 2009
Our reason for buying used servers is pretty much like every other company that I know. The economy is so unstable that any cash that we have must stay exactly where it is and borrowing money for new servers is strictly out of the question not to mention that we would probably never find any banks to loan us the money.
I knew that if we sold the old servers to buy the used poweredge servers that we could use the amount of money in the petty cash and still have some left over. The used poweredge servers seemed to be the ones that everyone wanted these days because they were very reliable.
I placed the order for the used servers and put a rush on it I was happy to see that they would not charge me any shipping and handling and they were going to overnight it as well. I had the computer guys all lined up to get to work the following morning when they arrived on the delivery truck and they did it all within about eight hours without a hitch.
The used poweredge servers have been up and running now for about three weeks and we have seen a big difference in the speed and efficiency of our computer system.
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December 30, 2009
I would love to have been the one in the office getting all of the credit for saving the company tons of money on the used hp servers that we just got instead it all goes to some secretary that has only worked here for about six months. She got a bonus and a vacation as well for finding the website that sold used proliant servers for about seventy percent less than what we have been able to find them in the past.
She sent the name of the website in an email to the big guy upstairs and two days later a big announcement was made and the entire office was invited to a big party during lunch time which was catered by one of the best restaurants in town. I figured that something big was going to be announced but I never figured that it would be about a savings of thirty thousand dollars on used proliant servers.
Everyone cheered when they found out how much the savings was and that the used hp servers were going to be installed over the next few weeks with minimal interruptions in service as possible. I was happy that our office would not be having servers go down anymore, but very jealous of the big bonus and cruise the new secretary got.
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December 28, 2009
I would not have guessed back in my early days that I would grow up to be my own boss but the work I did as a young kid for this web design company really helped to pave the road to who I am today. Without that job, I would not be doing what I am doing and having fun at and making money.
As a teenager only several years back, I worked for a website design company. The experience that I took away from that place was almost priceless. I learned so much about search engine rankings, website building, link building, optimizing, and web designing of course.
It was a pretty large company and still is today. Most of their work back then came strictly from the Internet. As a web design company, they knew how to get their own website ranking good for keywords that people were searching.
That website design company is responsible for me getting into computer programming and software development. I owe it to them for opening the door for me and teaching me so much. I would not have known how much I enjoyed that type of work if it were not for them. I am grateful for that web design company hiring me that faithful day.
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December 23, 2009
I am rather fond of the old style look of wrought iron doors and wrought iron gates. I think that it gives a timeless classy look to your house, if you have them installed. You should never have to replace them since they are made of nearly destructible material. I remember playing at my grandparents house when I was very young and running into the wrought iron gates that were back by the garden, you only do that once, before learning that you do not want to do that again.
I read an article last week that mentioned how the wrought iron door and wrought iron gates were making a comeback. I was happy to hear that and I showed it to my husband who had told me that even if he agreed to it, we would never be able to find those new, we would probably have to go to some salvage yard or antique shop.
I just wanted to prove him wrong, so I searched online for companies that made new wrought iron gates and wrought iron doors and sold them new. I found so many that he had to admit that he was wrong. I will have new doors and new gates in about six to eight weeks.
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I am wondering what kind of plan Danny DeMichele is putting together for my clients. I helped them launch their website about a year ago but they are having trouble getting it to produce the amount of sales that they want it to. I found Danny DeMichele from a website online that talks about how he is a search engine marketing professional.
I am sure hoping that everything this guy’s site talks about will happen for my clients soon. I paid half of the money that he charged them since I feel responsible for the fact that their site does not have near enough traffic as it should. I made the best site that I knew how but just because it is a pretty site, does not mean that it will be successful.
The complimentary 360 Degree Solution that my clients received prior to signing on with Danny DeMichele is one that is very impressive and looks like it could really work. I think that we are giving it six to eight months for things to turn around and then reevaluate the plan. If Danny DeMichele’s plan is working then we will continue with him but if not then we will look elsewhere.
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December 22, 2009
I want to have the reputation of being the best public relations executive in the country, so I hired a ReputationManagers.com company. I have heard that you can start branding yourself on the internet and manipulating the search engines to help you with that. I have only been at the public relations thing for a couple of years, but know that I am really good at what I do and deserve to be at the top of everyone’s list of the best.
I got this idea, from a buddy of mine who had to hire ReputationsManagers.com to help him improve his tarnished reputation due to a bad business venture that went south. He used to be one of the best known guys to come to if you needed business advice but that all went away when one deal out of hundreds, went bad.
ReputationsManagers.com took all the good things that he had been doing and started blocking all of the bad with them. After about four years, he was on his way back to the top. It has been a long road but he said that he could never have done it without help from the ReputationManagers.com team.
I am hoping that since my rep is not tarnished, it will not take as long to get me at the top of the best PR’s list that I desperately want to be on.
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December 21, 2009
Rather than spend ten grand on new poweredge servers, I have opted to go with some used ones. I found a company online that refurbishes them and resells them with a guarantee. As soon as I read the word guarantee, they had me. I had been stressing about how I was going to pay for the new servers since I had not budgeted for that much when I made my business plan.
I had talked to a dell repair man that told me about this website company after I asked him if he knew where I could get some cheaper poweredge servers and he said that the new ones were pretty much all priced the same. I decided to check out the lead of the used ones and was pleasantly surprised with the prices, the quality and the selection of the servers that this company offered.
I was able to get both of the servers that I would need to make my office run more efficiently when I opened it. The dell repair man has already been hired to come by once a month to check over the computer equipment unless we call him sooner. I am hoping that we do not have to call him very often other than the monthly maintenance schedule.
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December 16, 2009
The system x servers that we bought four years ago have gone down. I have called in some expert computer technicians and they seem to think that even though they can probably fix them, that we should consider buying some new ones. I guess that the probability of them going down again very soon is high.
The computer techs said that with the amount of business that our company does, it is a wonder that the system x servers have lasted this long. I asked them to recommend a company to get the new ones from and they wrote down the name of a website that has some good refurbished xseries servers that would work well with our system.
I decided to get online and order the new xseries servers right away so that we may be able to possibly avoid another round of the servers going down and having to have them repaired. I had the new servers shipped express priority so that they would get here very quickly. I wanted to make sure that they arrived before the weekend and this way the installation could take place while no one was here but the computer team and a few of the big bosses to oversee the job.
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