Been a while since I posted. Sounds so cliché. Been working on several projects for my clients and am finally wrapping them up this week. Come Friday, I will be offline for a few weeks. My wife is having major surgery this and wont be able to do much for a while. My health insurance runs out this month as well, so its kind of ironic she had to do this now.
Still looking for a full time job, just nothing out there right now that will start me even remotely close to what we need to get by on. I may just have to take a minimum wage job so we can get health benefits again, but not sure what will happen to us at that point. We are barely getting by now on what I’m brining in, so if I cut that income by a third we’ll pretty much go bankrupt, but at least well have our health
On the Business front:
I’m looking into how much it will cost to start advertising in our local area. One of my ideas is to try and get us on the little place-mats they use at restaurants like Denny’s and such. They always have ads for local businesses, and this would probably help 10 fold with getting our name out there. Just have to shift focus now. We started out as a PC Repair shop, making house calls, and remote help desk type of services with Web and Graphic Design on the side, but it seems the Web and Graphic design end of things are what has really kept us afloat at this point. No one seems to need PC repair and if they do, they seem to be dumb enough to take their machine to Best Buy.
Why for the life of me I cant understand people would do this, other than it still being under warranty, but Best Buy isn’t going to even try to recover your files for you. In 99% of the cases they will either replace your HDD and reinstall windows, or just format your old one and reinstall windows. They charge like $300 to both destroy your data, and then sell you a new HDD you didn’t need in the process. They have no concern for preservation of your systems files or important data. Don’t expect to get all your photos and music back when you take it in to them or your important business documents. Hell, if your one of the unlucky ones, they just might turn around and sell your HDD, while telling you the old one was bad. Don’t belive me? Ask this guy how he feels. Not fun.
Speaking of not fun, went and visited a friend in the hospital. He had his prostate removed because of an enlargement and they found cancer cells in it. Really not fun. Turns out, statistics are showing that 80% of all men will end up with some form of prostate cancer later in life. Guess there isn’t much hope for men. Better screw your brains out now and make all the babies you can. No telling how long your prostate has left. (I’m kidding)
