How Much Search Engine Marketing Are You Doing?

February 2nd, 2010

I had to look up what search engine marketing was when the lady from the new website company asked me how much we pay a month for it. I guess if I do not know how much we pay, it is because we pay nothing. She told me that if I just started spending a little bit of money with her company to do some search engine marketing, that it could help my site to start ranking better.

I liked the sound of us ranking better and I know that you have to spend money to make money but I had already spent so much on just having the site built that I was afraid to put in anymore. She talked me into just signing a contract to buy social bookmarks and go from there. It was only five hundred dollars to buy social bookmarks from her and she told me that I should see some results, not big results, but some results.

I have let my secretary know that we will be getting an invoice for five hundred dollars and she should just go ahead and pay it since I approved the purchase myself. I explained how I was buying social bookmarks and she told me that she had heard of that, but thought that it was much more expensive than five hundred dollars. I guess that I got a good deal.

Selling Silver Dollars Online

January 31st, 2010

I am thinking of selling silver dollars that I have had for about thirty years. I really need the money and know that they are just sitting there collecting dust. I had a lot of fun in my twenties and thirties collecting them and really did it for fun but if they can help me out of my current financial situation then I will let them go gladly.

I decided to look online about how to sell old silver dollar collections and there were several ways it recommended you could do. I guess that the number one way, was to search for another collector in the area who would be willing to take your coins off your hands for a good price. I have met only two other serious collectors in my area and they both have already informed me that they too might be selling silver dollars that are in their collections to make some money.

The other way to sell old silver dollar collections that the internet suggested was to put them up on an auction site or a real auction consignment store if one is close to you. I am opting for the online auction site to handle the selling silver dollars that I need to do.

They Will Offer Discount Office Supplies And Furniture

January 18th, 2010

The discount office furniture is going to start offering some discount office supplies next month. I always thought they should do that anyways, but they had a hard time getting the owners to agree to put up the cash to purchase it.

I guess that they usually spend about three thousand a month to buy discount office furniture to have in the showroom and the discount office supplies would actually double that amount. After asking some of their customers if they would use them for some of the things they use every day in their offices, they had a really good response. They are centrally located in town and have a really nice showroom that they used to display their discount office furniture, all they really need to do is add a few shelves and they would be set.

I made sure to get a list of all the discount office supplies that they would be offering and a price list so as to compare it to what I currently pay for the same items from my provider. I will definitely use them if their prices are better but I cannot see switching to them if it is going to cost me more money.

Setting Up Affordable Life Insurance First

January 12th, 2010

I wanted to start with getting affordable life insurance and then move up to the big things like writing my will and deciding who I think would be a good person to raise my children. I figured that the whole affordable life insurance thing would be extremely easy compared to the will.

I called and talked to my local insurance guy and he explained the many different kinds of life insurance to me and then I asked him to write up some quotes for the different kinds and I could look them over. I then called and scheduled a meeting with my lawyer and explained how I wanted to get my finances in order a bit and get the life insurance all squared away and then meet with him to write the will.

My insurance agent sent over three different insurance quotes for me and I spent a few hours comparing them and reading all the fine print. I chose the no medical life insurance policy which was slightly higher than the others, but it would be the easiest one to implement and then I could move onto other things. My agent told me that no medical life insurance policies are becoming more common, since people are just too busy to take time to run to the doctor for health screenings and physicals.

My Friends And I Installed Used Poweredge Servers

December 31st, 2009

My best friend asked me to help him install a set of used servers. I had never done anything like that and told him that he should just hire a professional. He told me that he could not afford a professional and had bought the used poweredge servers because they were really all that he could afford.

I called a coworker of mine and asked him if he knew how to install used poweredge servers and he told me that he had done it once before but that it takes a long time. I asked him how much he would charge me to do it and he said that it would not be too much as long as I helped him out. I explained the situation of my friend and the cheap used servers that he had bought and that he did not have much money for the installation fees but I would make up the difference.

We started the work on the installation of the used poweredge servers the next morning and it took us about twelve hours to get all the lines run to the right spots and then to get everything hooked up where it should be. My friend did not have all the necessary materials, so a couple of trips to the store were included in the twelve hour installation time as well.

The Used HP Servers Boxes Were Damaged

December 30th, 2009

The used hp servers that were delivered today came in boxes that were all banged up. The company that we had bought them from had asked us if we would like to insure them and since we had never had anything delivered to us damaged before, we did not buy the insurance. I sure wish we had, since five of the six used proliant servers all had something wrong with them.

When I contacted a manager at the computer company, she was very nice but also informed me that once the used hp servers left their warehouse, they were not their concern anymore. I wanted to reach through the phone and smack her but that would not have done me much good. I called two local repair shops that fixed computers and explained the situation to them. They asked me what kind of servers that they were and I informed them that they were used proliant servers.

The guy was very nice and said that more than likely; the insides of the used hp servers were fine even if the outside had been dinged up a bit. He told me that we should try and install them first, before just assuming that they might now work.

A Website Design Company Should Know Better

December 28th, 2009

I do not know who built my competitions website but I am grateful that they are not very good at custom website design. They actually are pretty bad at it to be honest about it but for me that is a good thing. My competitor’s website looks horrible in my opinion and will not get him many leads at all.

It is not very professional looking and I do not think I would hire a contractor that owned a website like that. It just looks like he is a fly by night company and does not do professional work. I know he does good work but for someone that does not know him and too see that website first is not a good thing for him.

Another thing that I noticed about his new website is that it does not rank very well. There are certain keywords and keyword phrases that we have to target in our industry and right now his website only shows up on the second and third pages in the search results.

I know for a fact that you have to be in the top five results to expect any leads from it. Being that far back will not generate leads for him and is a poor job by that website design company. I think he will be disappointed when he notices is lack of ranking good.

Glad I Found The Guaranteed SEO Services Company

December 28th, 2009

I was happy to have found a good SEO services company that offered a guarantee. I had only seen four companies online that put a guaranteed SEO services claim on their front page but I decided that it would be silly to not go with them and pick someone who did not give you that kind of a promise.

I laid out exactly what I wanted to happen with my site and the person who handled my order, told me that their SEO services gold package would be the best bet for me. I paid her with my credit card over the phone and was excited to sit back and watch the money start rolling in from the increased sales that I should be getting from having this guaranteed SEO package going into effect.

It took three months, but I was finally starting to see the rewards of hiring a professional team to handle all of my SEO services. They had even thrown in some things that I had never even heard of and that made me very happy to have hired such a great team. If anyone ever asks me who I would recommend to do SEO services, I would give them this companies name and tell them not to look at any one else.

Iron Entry Doors And Gates Going In The Garbage

December 23rd, 2009

I would not want to throw away iron entry doors and iron gates like the guy next door just did. I guess that he wanted to change the look of his house on the outside and removed everything from before and was starting with a clean slate. I remember when the previous owners of that house had those doors and gates installed just four years ago and how much it had improved the curb appeal of it then.

I had even watched as four more houses on our block had also had iron entry doors and iron gates put in right after that. I could not afford it at the time and since everyone else seemed like they were going to do it, my husband did not want it to look like we were copying all of them.

I had secretly still always wanted the wrought iron doors and gates but knew that he would never go for it. I wonder though, that since there is one less house on the block now with them and we could probably even buy the ones that the neighbor is going to just throw away for really cheap, if he would go for it now.

Reading The Danny DeMichele Book Instead Of Taking Classes

December 23rd, 2009

My brother was looking to get into some internet marketing classes at our local community college. I told him that he could learn more from reading the book that Danny DeMichele wrote than all the classes at the school combined. I believe that you can learn more from someone who is a professional than from text books that only talk about the way to succeed.

Danny DeMichele is a proven professional many times over and when professionals give away their secrets, you are crazy if you do not use it all to your advantage. I told my brother to hold off on enrolling in the classes, till I could send him my copy of the book.

Two days later, he called to let me know that he was rather impressed with the book and is now thinking that starting on the ground floor at a local internet marketing company will teach him better hands on skills than taking some classes at the local college. I am glad that he changed his mind and has a job that will keep him leaning and interested in his career choice.

I am going to check in on him in a month or so and look for more literature written by Danny DeMichele to keep sending to him. I want him to stay inspired by one of the most professional search engine marketing professionals in the business.