12/28/2009
I have thought about hiring some new guaranteed SEO companies to handle my accounts. I have been with the same companies for the last two years and it seems that they are not doing as much for me as they were in the beginning. I wanted to fire them, but that would be silly if I did not have a good SEO marketing team to take their place. I think that maybe if I call and tell them that I am thinking of dropping them that they will step it up and I will see some results again.
I know for a fact that one of the guaranteed SEO companies that I currently have, only has four accounts and mine if the largest by far. I understand that they have other clients but I do not think that my sites should suffer because they put someone else first and that is what it seems to me that they are doing.
I am first going to find some other guaranteed SEO companies and then I am going to call the old ones and see if they tell me that they will work harder on my SEO marketing plans to keep me there.
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12/23/2009
The only thing that I asked my husband for, for Christmas was new iron entry doors and iron gates that they have at the local home improvement store. I have written down the make and model so that he does not get confused but I am still a little worried about him picking the wrong ones.
I am thinking that if I go to the store today and take some pictures that it may help him out a little bit more. I wish that I knew when he was going to go to the store and then I would call and ask for the manager and make sure that he helped him in purchasing the iron entry doors and iron gates that I want. I think that there are four other models on the floor but I do not like any of them.
Two of the other iron entry doors and iron gates at the store, are brown and one of them is the same exact kind that my neighbor has. I would never pick out something that someone in my neighborhood already has. That would be very tacky.
Not to mention, the set of iron entry doors and gates that the neighbors have is very ugly and I would rather have no doors or gates, than have those installed on my house.
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I guess that maybe Danny DeMichele understand that even the little guys running the smallest of websites needs help too. I have looked into many different companies that promise to help you with your site, only to find out that their fees are so high, that there is no way the average Joe could afford to hire them.
I did not want to believe that there were no good companies out there willing to help out the little guy for a reasonable amount so I kept on searching. I found Danny DeMichele by chance when I was just messing around with different terms in the search engines.
The ad that came up for Danny DeMichele, that I saw had some sort of wording that said something about how they have helped out big corporations and also mom and pop sites. That was the thing that caught my eye. Finally, a company that also helped out the people with smaller sites, as well as the big fortune 500 companies that can just throw around hundreds of thousands of dollars to make their sites work.
I called and asked for the complimentary plan first and then after receiving it and looking it over, I was able to choose a plan big enough to be effective, but small enough for me to be able to afford.
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12/21/2009
The only way that the dell repair man would come and fix the poweredge servers last night, was if I agreed to pay the extra fifty dollar trip charge because it was after hours. I had to have the servers up and running before everyone came in to start work again, since we lost about three hours yesterday when they went down.
I agreed to the trip charge amount, because I really had no other choice and the dell repair company knew that. I had tried to find a different repair company to come out and it seemed that no one else knew how to fix poweredge servers. I did not think that they were rare or anything, so I am not sure why no one else knows how to repair them.
As soon as I am able to afford some new servers, I will be buying them. I will have to make sure that I call around to the different repair men to see what is more commonly used and buy those, so that I am not taken advantage of again by the dell repair company that knew I had no other choice and let me know it. I will never call that place again for anything.
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12/16/2009
The system x servers, the owner of the coffee shop picked out, were on sale, and he got free shipping too. I only know this, because he has told every person who has walked through the door this morning that same story. I am not sure who would care, but actually a couple of the customers have asked him the name of the company that he got the system x servers from and they wrote it down.
I decided to just jot down the name of the site, just for the fun of it. When I got to work that morning, my boss was rambling on about how he was never going to be able to afford new xseries servers that the computer company told him he needed. I asked him how much servers usually were and he told me. This is when I pulled out the site address I had jotted down at the coffee house and looked up their price on xseries servers. I was happy to see that this site sold them for half price and included free shipping with every sale.
When I showed my boss the computer screen with the information about the price of the servers on it, I thought he was going to kiss me but instead he just told me to order them right away before the priced changed or something.
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12/15/2009
The exterior painting company that my neighbors hired has really taken their time in prepping the house before they paint it. They have made sure to cover every window with plastic and also all of the landscaping. My neighbor told me that they would be here sometime this week, and I had been expecting them. They were much quieter than what I thought they would be but almost too quiet, I forgot several times during the day that they were even there.
They finished the entire house painting in less than eight hours. I guess when you bring that many workers and you prep the house so that you can just continuously paint then it helps you do your job more efficiently.
When my neighbors returned home that evening, I bet that they were surprised to see that the house painting was complete. The house looked completely different and I am sure that they were probably very proud of the house now that it looked completely different in a good way. It had needed a house painting for about two years now and I knew that they did not have the money until recently when one of them got a big promotion at their job.
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12/02/2009
I asked my mother if she thought I should get new efficient vinyl windows installed in my house, and she said that if it would help with my energy costs then I should consider it. She had put new basement windows in last year, and could not believe how much lower her heating bills were. She had not realized how much cold air was seeping into the house until she had the new basement windows put it and felt the difference.
I called the same company that she had used and scheduled a time to meet them at my house to do an estimate. I let them know that I was very interested in having efficient vinyl windows put in my house and told them also who had referred me to them. I think they send the person who referred me a gift certificate from a local restaurant or something.
When they showed me the estimate for the new vinyl windows, and then projected how much I would be saving on my heating and cooling bills by installing them, I could not pass it up. The salesman who did the estimate told me that he remembered my mother and asked if she was satisfied with her new basement windows. I informed him that she was very satisfied, and that was the reason why I was having them do the work for me.
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12/01/2009
I was happy to see the Colorado remodeling contractors at my house bright and early on Monday morning. I was hoping that they would start the job today and get it done by the first snowfall. Fall was definitely coming to an end and I wanted to have the addition done before it got too cold. I knew that the Colorado remodeling company had told me that they would not have any heat in the new room for about two weeks after it was started. That would put it at about November 15.
When the remodeling crew was almost done I was supposed to call the Andersen Windows Colorado company to install the same windows that were in the entire house into the new addition. The remodeling contractors that I hired did not offer Andersen Windows, so I called the company that I knew did offer them. I had hired them about a year ago, and they completely replaced every window in my house. I could not have anything but Andersen Windows in the new room or it would look strange.
I am excited to have some extra space in my house. This new addition is going to be a huge family room and entertaining is going to be a lot easier once it is done.
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