Saturday, November 8, 2008
I don’t know where I was that I missed the announcement that Wal-Mart would enter the investment services market. Wal-Mart has long had an interest in entering the financial services market. Despite all the recent bad news about how Wall Street has hosed the country, financial services are still a very profitable sector. Wal-Mart has [...]
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
I have been using HighriseHQ for over a month now. Today, I noticed a new feature that I had not seen, called Deals. I don’t think it was there when I started using the service. Highrise is very easy to use; but its simplicity also gave it some limitations on its use as a sales-oriented [...]
Recently, my thoughts have turned towards the feasibility of keeping a virtual assistant on the job, if the economy decides to slow down a bit. If you follow this blog, you may remember that I hired a Virtual Assistant on a monthly basis back in January of 2008. It has now been a few months [...]
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Lately, while going from one client to another, it has occurred to me that I have been fortunate to get clients despite my marketing, rather than because of my marketing. Usually, when people ask me what I do, I tell them that I fix computers and do some web work. My intent has been that [...]
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
NOTE: Skip to the 4:00 mark. I had my mic turned off for a full minute after the intro.
Heather Solos and Ivy Brown of Home-Ec101.com join me on Tuesday, April 22 at 8:30 am CST to discuss how to save money at home with some useful tips and simple techniques. A little here and a [...]
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Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Husbaldo Salazar is an agent for Farmers Insurance in Mission, Texas. He shares his expertise and some insight into what kinds of insurance the small business owner should have and why. Join us on April 28 at 8:30 CST to learn about what insurance products are best suited to your small business. You are welcome [...]
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Why you are in a much better position to weather economic downturn as a freelancer. None of this is new if you have read the following books.
The show is on the air from 8:30 am to 9 am CDT, Monday through Friday. You can call in to (646) [...]
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
I have been vacillating between going to PodCamp NYC and not going. John C. Havens, one of the co-organizers of the event, invited members of the San Antonio Podcasting and New Media Group to present at the event about our experience in organizing PodCamp San Antonio. For those of you who travel, you know that [...]
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
If you are providing retail computer services to the general public, you need to keep a couple of things in mind, the price floor and the price ceiling. By price floor, I mean that you have to keep in mind that you have to make money. You can’t give away your services. You have to [...]
There comes a time in every computer’s life when it seems to struggle with some of the tasks that were once a breeze. We all know that it’s the constant creep of software updates that makes your once kick-ass computer into a lame-ass computer. Computer guys like me are not immune to this. I have [...]
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