The Phoenix Website Design Company Helped Us Out

Posted February 8th, 2010 by
Categories: Webmaster Related

The amount of money that we have been paying the Phoenix website design company to market our site has been paying off. In fact, our sales have jumped up sixty percent from where we were last year at this time. I knew that hiring a good experienced website design company at the exact time we did, was a good idea.

There were a few people in the office who did not agree with spending the initial cost of paying the Phoenix website design company to get us up and running but they were outvoted. We all knew that the economy was not doing so well but if our sales did not start to improve, we would have been lucky to keep our jobs for another year.

I knew that the local businesses that used to be our bread and butter were having trouble and they would not be using us as much if at all. The website design company put together a plan to market our existing site and guaranteed us that we would start to see results while they were revamping the way we market. They were true to their word and we now have many clients who would have never found us had we not put money into having a great site that ranked really well.

Selling Coins To The Library

Posted January 31st, 2010 by
Categories: Jewelery

I am selling coins to the local library for them to display. I put together some rather impressive coin collections over the years and now do not know what I want to do with them. I thought of just donating them to the library but after sitting down and figuring out what I actually probably gave for the entire collection, I need to get at least half of that money back.

The library actually contacted me about selling old coins to them to add to their already massive display, since someone who is a close personal friend knew that I had many in my home. They had a list of the different coins that they were looking for and I had all but one of them. I would have to break up my collections, and did not want to sell old coins on their own so we came to an agreement of terms for me selling coins to them.

The library would take all the collections from the coins they wanted and I would only charge them half of what they were worth. We would both be getting a good deal and I may even take the money and start to build another new coin collection.

I Am An SEO Marketing Consultant

Posted January 13th, 2010 by
Categories: Internet & Web Services

I have always been really interested in computers and websites and figured that I would just go to college to design websites or something very similar. When I was in college, I found myself looking for something else and found it when I discovered SEO marketing. SEO which stands for search engine optimization is the way of the future and pretty much the fastest way to getting websites to shoot to the top of the search engines.

Who would have thought that I would be an SEO consultant someday after spending all that time taking computers apart and putting them back together? I only miss those days sometimes but when I help a client reach the top of the search engine, for some keywords they chose, I remember why I chose this path instead.

I opened up my first SEO marketing office, three years ago and have grown about three hundred percent since then. The general public is starting to catch on and realize how important and SEO consultant can be to the success of their websites. We do not even have to advertise locally, everyone knows what we do and how well we do it. We rank on the first page of the search engines for SEO marketing specialists too.

The Contractor Helped With Storm Doors

Posted January 13th, 2010 by
Categories: Home & Home Improvement

I called and asked my local contractor, who has done tons of jobs for me in the past if he knew of a good company that I could order some new storm doors from. He asked me if I wanted just regular old vinyl storm doors or decorative wrought iron doors. I of course was drawn to the word decorative and asked him for names of companies where I could find either or both to compare the prices.

He told me that for white vinyl storm doors, I could just contact any old home improvement store or lumber yard. If I wanted to look into wrought iron doors then I would have to go into town and check out the only two stores in town that sold them. He suggested that I try the one that has the big orange sign out front, because they are easier to work with and he thinks that they do better quality work.

So, I checked out the prices of the vinyl storm doors first and found that they are very inexpensive. I even found one that was pretty nice that I liked. I then drove into town and went to the shop with the orange sign and fell in love with about ten different styles of the wrought iron doors. In the end I did go with wrought iron and they look great on my house.

Poweredge Servers Were Priced Too Low To Pass Up

Posted January 4th, 2010 by
Categories: Computers

The salesman from the dell repair store has offered us a great deal that is just too good to pass up. He has two fairly new poweredge servers that he had to repossess from a company that had not made their payments on time. I think that the company had actually closed their doors prior to the dell repair salesman taking them away.

I asked him if I could discuss buying them with some of the other partners in the firm, before making a decision and he said that he would give me twenty four hours, and then he would find someone else to buy them. I called a very quick meeting in the conference room for all the partners, over lunch to discuss if we wanted to buy the poweredge servers or not.

It took the partners ten minutes to discuss the price, the need and the kind of servers we were talking about and we came to the decision that we could almost not afford to buy them. I think that we all knew that these were being offered at a very low price and even if we did not need them at this time, we would in the future and we would not find them this cheap then.

Applied The Danny DeMichele Methods and More

Posted December 23rd, 2009 by
Categories: Advertising

When I was trying to increase the traffic and the sales to my site, I was able to move myself up two pages and that was the end of the high search engine climb for me. I knew that I needed professional help and called on Danny DeMichele to help me out. I was first drawn to Danny DeMichele when I read his book about internet marketing last year.

I think that it was the book that gave me the confidence to try and work on increasing my traffic myself. It worked a little bit but I do not think that Danny DeMichele put all of the secrets in that book. He is not that crazy, he still has to make a living. When he laid out the plan for my site and how to increase traffic and converting more of that traffic to sales, I was impressed.

Danny DeMichele took everything from the book that I had already done and just added a little bit to make it all pop. Within six months, my sales were where I could be happy with them and I even hired Danny DeMichele and his team to continue to help me climb the search engine rankings.

Used Sun Equipment And Hardware Purchase Saved Thousands

Posted December 22nd, 2009 by
Categories: Computers

When our company decided to switch the servers out and put in bigger ones, I suggested that we save some money by getting used sun equipment. I had recently seen an ad in the paper for a new website that sold refurbished used sun hardware and guaranteed the products that they sold too. My boss was very impressed with my knowledge of the used sun hardware and put me in charge of finding out all the prices of the items we would need to switch the servers.

I took the list home with me and started the weekend by spending four hours on the used sun equipment site figuring out all the different prices. I compared those prices to a list of new equipment and it looked as though we could possibly save over ten thousand dollars by purchasing the refurbished used sun hardware.

At work the following Monday, I reported back to my boss with the itemized price list. He was very impressed with it and ordered the computer department to use the site I had found for the server switch. I was glad to have made such a big contribution to saving money for our company. The economy today does not warrant spending money on things that you do not have to.

Attending The Big Used Dell And Servers Sale

Posted December 21st, 2009 by
Categories: Computers

The computer store across the street has been advertising a really big sale that they are having this weekend. They apparently are going to be offering some used dell computer equipment for half price and some dell servers for about seventy percent off of the suggested retail price. I heard one of their associates talking with my boss last night and he said that they found a new supplier that has such great prices that they can offer these great low prices and still make money themselves.

If this company can offer such great low prices on used dell computers and dell servers than they just might become the number one computer store in this town. I do not think that they should be telling everyone all about this supplier though, so that the stores that are their competition do not find out and start using them too. You should never reveal your hand to anyone else and if they are not careful about whom they talk to, they just might do that.

I am thinking of going to the sale and getting a new used dell computer and printer. I have seen the prices that they will be charging in the advertising and you would be crazy to not buy one at that rock bottom price. I do have a feeling though that the line of people who will be there to get the dell servers will be extremely long.

A Vinyl Siding Contractor Who Installs Windows

Posted December 2nd, 2009 by
Categories: Home & Home Improvement

My father asked me to find him a good company to put in vinyl replacement windows for him. I had not heard anyone lately discussing any good contractors, but I told him that I would ask around and then get back to him later in the week. I asked my neighbor if she had heard of any reliable and fair priced contractors that could handle the vinyl replacement windows for my father and she told me to call her son because he was starting up a construction business and he may be able to help me.

I called my neighbors son who told me about a vinyl siding contractor who was getting into doing windows and doors as well as vinyl siding. I thanked him and then made a call to the vinyl siding contractor to come out and do an estimate for my father the following day. The estimate was within my father’s price range and he hired them to do the job.

The vinyl siding contractor installed the vinyl replacement windows for my father in the timeframe that he told him it would take. He also charged him exactly what he had quoted him, sometimes contractors try and charge you more after the job is completed.

Thinking About Doing Some One Way Link Building

Posted December 1st, 2009 by
Categories: Webmaster Related

I have been researching how one way link building is done and am still deciding if I should pay someone to do it or me or not. My site does pretty well but of course increased traffic, would mean increased sales and that would be nice also. I always thought that link building was frowned upon but with so many companies offering it and showing proven results then how can you not try it.

I have talked to my business partner about the link building and she has informed me that if I think that it will increase sales then she is all for it. I am not sure if our web company offers this service but I have emailed them and asked. When they respond then I will make the final decision to move forward or not with a one way link building campaign. I would think that if they do offer this service though, that since they built the site and maintain it that we may be able to get a discount on the cost of the link building.

If they do not offer it then I will contact the company on the web that has their proven results published on their site along with the cost of the different packages of link building that they offer.