I appreciate the suggestion though in my case this wouldn't work.
We carry NO inventory. Fortunately we are 3 miles from ourwholesaler. They obtain half of their items directly from the manufacture, and the other half they make or have manufactured for themselves. They carry 5,000 to 10,000 unique items. They may have 1000 units of a certain item, and in five minutes have a backorder of 500 units. We stock only the items that are the biggest sellers, but even those we occassional sell out of.
Because of this it would be vital for post-processing of payments. I am sure that every store has their unique needs which require out-of-the-ordinary processing, pre-processing (authorization or approval), post-processing (actual charge, actual weight, and more) therefore a more flexible system is needed. PayPal seems to have become comfortable in its position. No competition causes companies to become stale and rarely move forward in developing new features for the mere benefit of the consumer, unless it will increase their ROI and line their pockets with more green.
I've also noticed that roughly 10% of customer that checkout, will not finish the process once they see that they are paying through PayPal. PayPal, as well as eBay, have not made good names for themselves. Increased fees for the people that are generating the sales for them. In the first month of launching our website I made more slaes that generated a higher gross profit than I've ever done on eBay - with the main key being with about 95% less effort. Due to past business relations, my colo is free for my freebsd server; which I own. So I have literally no overhead. Every sale I make is profitable, and I wish to expand on my offerings and capabilities to keep cost as low as possible for the consumer. The less time I spend dedicated to processing refunds the more time that can be spent on the web site, advertising or talking with customers. Oh, correction - my only expense is the Google AdWords, though this is obviously by choice.
Anyway, back to the original issue. Google would have the best chance at going head to head with PayPal, there is zero chance of Google folding, their advertising presence is vast and I feel people would trust Google more than they current do PayPal. Sure, the PayPal love/hate may be related to the old Chevy/Ford debate, it all has to do with your personal experience - regardless, PayPal has become inadequate.
I hear what you are saying as I feel that I am in the same boat. I have a website where my wife an I sell primitive countr crafts. We're averaging $2000.00 to $3000.00 in gross profits per month, netting about half of that. We are currently using paypal as well, though out largest problem is refunding. Items become out of stock and with the current paypal system the customer is charged immediately upon checkout. That leaves us with estimating S&H and providing refunds when only partial shipments can fulfilled. I feel that this leaves a unprofessional after-taste in the consumers mouth (and wallet). Some previous businesses we've had were good, other not so good, and with previously being divorced, our credit is not stellar. This poor credit holds us back from obtaining a virtual terminal; which would allow us to process CC's after the sale when we know the exact correct amount charge. Out efforts to provide our custoemr with more accurate (and sometimes lower rates) are shot down by our credit. So as it stands the consumer is the one that hurts the most, and becomes a mere inconvenience for us.
A non-interactive virtual terminal would suit the industry much more. Example: Paypal system current use their (PayPal's) trustworthiness and not the business, since it hides the consumers CC from us. A virtual terminal would need to be approved based on such things as credit ratings to avoid shady business from over-charging or errounously charging customers CC's because with a Virtual terminal we (the business) have the CC # in order to process this.
What would be more beneficial would be to have a combination of the two - allowing the customer to check-out, provide their personal information and CC information. Then when we've determined tha exact amount to charge, we'd access the limited virtual terminal. Enter the amount to be charged, the customer receives a confirmation email asking them to accept or deny the charges. They accept and we get paid.
I'm sure this has potential holes in it yet, but the foundation of what it could pave in regards to new doors opening for lower level new businesses, and home based businesses that have concepts that are working, but do not have the credit history to back it up with conventional means.
For the professionalism alone I'd pay.25 extra per transaction. The demand is there, it's just time until someone with the large bank account can deploy it. Hopefully this will be Google.
"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side."
For atleast 20 years this type of beverage has been around. When I was in my late teens I dated a spanish girl who's family first introduced me to "malta" (sp) a Goya Product. It's found in the international section of the grocery store. It's coffee flavored soda - carbonated coffee flavor beverage.
This is nothign new. Personally I think it horrible - though I don't not care for coffee all that much either. To each their own. I'm sure that it will take off with a mianstream company such as Coke marketing it - seems as though they are attempting to compete with things like RedBull, Nitro2Go and others.
What's more weird is that the need for new articles causes dupe's. trip's and quad's, but yet I submitted an article for posting and it's in pending... sure no big deal.. but look at the pending status 04:50 PM -- Wednesday July 06 2005 Pending
I posted 4 months and 13 days ago!
I think it's been hyperthreaded into hyperspace. OH... and I've checked.. my submission is not a dupe! Go figure!
I manager of *ANY* business or supervisor of any team (or subset of employees) needs only one skill - the ability to delegate. Delegation of employees is diffult - to stern and your an asshole. To relaxed and your a push-over. The in-between grey area is difficult to master but when found and perfected can be a motivational power for any company. Employees that look up to and confide in their boss while also getting optimum output in their work. Your bosses lack of IT knowledge is not important. Unfortunately he does seem to be "getting on your nerves" therefore he obviously lacks manager skill, which is what makes him incorrect for his position.
This would be considered 'Green' would be if heAfter all that shopping and sweating in that "hot" room he should have stopped over analyizing a solution and go back to basic. Fill the garbage can with ice water, get naked and jump in. Will drop body temp at a much faster rate and will mostly likely last just as long. Hell, get a $20.00 inflatable pool for Toy's 'R' Us and invite over a few friends to discuss the nipply occasion.
WARNING: Above events may cause uncontrollable shrinking of your 'package'. Please wait 30 minutes before checking if you can find your jewels and have begun to drop. Repeat this step every 30 minutes for up to 2 hours. If jewels are unable to locate your balls and they seem to have totally disappeared.. call 911 immediately!
Actually I do/did realize that. I was making a comment in jest - insinuating that this is where the inspiration came from. I'm also well aware of monocrhome monitors - I have ancient systems sitting in my basement, various tandy's, commodore's and many others... I appreciate the input in an attempt to enlighten me, though I as stated - it was all in jest.
If you look at the three monitors in the pictures, you'll see they ALL have blue screens. This must have been the moment of inspiration for the Blue Screen of Death. It was that common that they had to implement it as a feature of the OS. That way he could explain it as an 'innovative' feature. Of course, in the first picture he looks like he's strung out on a weekend party binge. This must have been in the 'early' days. The microsoft manual on the desk in front of him hs about four pages in a 2-1/2 binder. Oh, and the large floppy he's tossing in the second picture, I wonder what is on that! Maybe destroying evidence of their source code - ummm I mean Apple OS.
One thing I must admit, is that I beleive his site goes into a lot more than what most sites do. As a person wanting to learn more towrad the inner workings of electronic (Boards, circuits etc...) I see that most sites simply spit out. "Remove the T4-dydro disk, and replace that vaule with a n^4/5! to determine the new disks speed. OK.. next step..." And with that I'm already lost. While this site describes it down to how many screws your gonna remove... like baby step for those of us new to it. And I'd much sooner take my trail-and-error period of learning this and use it on a TI calculator and not a $2000 computer. I say bravo!
I also remember certain #'s on irc. #warez and man others, that had hundreds of users in them, though always password protected. I would try and try to get in... but to no avail. I even went as far as setting up a bot network and when the irc split, I jump in and took it over, frantically posting whatever I could think of to get them to allow me to stay. Problem was.. with hundreds of users already having access, I got stomped with other splits by several hundred bots. I lastest but a glorious few seconds. Ah, but those few seconds were the best seconds of my life... those few seconds when I was, for a vague moment, 'in' one of the channels.
Anyway, I always wondered that is they kept things such a secret, how does *anyone* find out about them, or get access to them, etc. I used to own a local ISP, had dual T1's and dealt with thousands of users and net-friends, spent sleepness nights +O on numerous icr #'s/ctcp &/dcc and fserving what I could get and give back... but nothign worked. And hell, at that time I was merely looking for early release of OS's, prior to buying them so that I could get a techincal jump on questions from customers who were running those OS's. I always bought my software, I merely liked being ahead of the game.
Since I honestly do not think I've ever made an international call, I can assume that I would rack up quite a phone bill for the first 20 times of trial and error before finally being connected.
Therefore I would do the only sensible thing there is do do - I'd go to my parents house to make the phone call:)
If you read the article completely, you see that it states
"Hundreds of volunteers from JPL, Caltech, their families and friends, and some local high school clubs are decorating the float. It is covered from head to toe with flowers, seeds and other natural materials. Decoration takes place at Rosemont Pavilion, next to the Rose Bowl. Today and tomorrow crews are working from 8 a.m. to 11 p.m. (PST), and on December 31, as late as needed, to complete the float. Caltech manages JPL for NASA."
Furthermore, it also states " Resembling a giant transformer toy, the massive float...'
This robot is a float shaped like a robot, not an actual working, moving, talking robot. Other than 'smoke and mirror' FX, it smokes from the rocket launchers and the cam is remote controlled.
Apple may not have invented it - I'll give everyone that. They sure in hell Perfected it though! Microsoft saw this as an opportunity and copied it, unfortunately they failed in it's eye-candy (3.1 - 3.11 etc..). As Apple continue to become better, MS would release more versions, updated to compete. I remember seeing the early screenshots of OSX on rumor sites and then during keynotes. Sure enough, XP was out the door. In fact if I remember correct there were early basic versions of XP released - it would seem that MS wanted to make the general public beleive they were first at bat... Apple Music Store, Microsoft Music Store - QT, Win Media Player - If you see Apple release something, MS is not far behind to release the same thing. It suprises me that MS even bothers to change the graphics from the apple logo to their own.
Oh.. I love my unix (any and all flavors - it simply can't be beat), and I use Win 2k mostly due to work requirements, so the Apple Fanatic clause does not apply here. It's merely the facts - MS has historically repeated itself with copies. I can't remember the last thing that MS released first - actually thought it up, developed it, revised it and released it.
And it's not just Apple that MS does this to. Look at the recent Search Engine Wars..Google, Yahoo and MS.
Oh and lets not forget how MS pushed the whole USB is great.. it will be the standard! It supports so many things on the chain... ummm, but Apple always did this... In "The Day" I remember having modems, printers, FM Radio Tuners, Graphics Tablets, Keyboards and Mice all on a single chain.. no problem for Apple. At the same time USB was widely wupported by Microsoft (the company) Firewire was also debuting... Looks like Firewire won.. Apple won, again.
And for a company that everyone seems to down all the time - I must give it to Apple, last year (I beleive it was a year ago) it was reported that they became debt free - as far as I know they are the only one that can say that. Other than operational expenses (day to day) they owe no one.. zip, zilch, nada, zero. They must be doing something right. 10 years ago everyone said Apple wouldn't make it, they be closed in a year.. the saem thing again 8 years ago, then 5 years ago, then two years ago.. and then less that a year ago.
Fact is, despite Linux, MS needs Apple. Without Apple MS becomes a true monopoly. Hence the reason for MS's developement departments for Linux and Apple - They need competition, without it they lose!
I understand that and I have always told everyone I know that. She has two accounts, one at peoplepc and another with comcast. She always gloating about how it worked when I said it wouldn't. You do have a good point, and while I believe comcast may have something installed to deter spam, I don't see poeplepc having this - I'll check it out. I'd love to be able to justify my opinion on this to her.. but this will be it:)
Actually I used to agree with you on the 'Spammers use this link to validate your email is active.'
My wife (non-technical) prefers to go through her spam one by one (She actually loves porn, so it's a treat when she get the spam and a treat for me when she done looking at all of it:)... anyway... One day I noticed that she was hardly getting any mail at all. I asked her what happened to her spam... she said she was getting SO much of it nearly 1000 a day that she started to click on the unsubscribe links (even though I had previously warned her about do this).. and what do you know? 3 months later.. and to this day, she still lucky if she get 2 or 3 a day.
That's a huge difference for simply clicking on 'Unsubscribe'!!!
I hadn't tried this method myself in fear of it not wokring for me...
Is there a mirror for this software? I couldn't access the site yesterday due to a good./ing. and today it only says 'Stay Tuned" - I'd love to get this up and running - and information (ie: guide to the file location, direct path, mirror, etc.) would be extremely welcome. TIA
My father and I once owned a successful local ISP - We resently sold the business, though due to the offer - not by problems caused due to our working together.
We had one problem with my sister working for us. We later determined the reason.
It was not caused by her work duties, moreso due to the lack of specifying her duties.
When my father and I started the company we knew exactly (to the letter) what each of our responsibilities were. He handled receivables, billing, banking, and purchasing in regards to available monies, overhead etc.
I handled all administrative duties, patching, programming, upgrades, analysis, determining expansion requirements for growth and current loads, etc.
We evenly divide client support. and jointly decided on possible advertising ventures to increase client base - though the final word in this was his. My final word came in the form of implementation, how to, the means to achieve it on a broad ratio.
Advanced or trouble tech support issues fell toward me to finish them up and bring them to a close.
When my sister came aboard with a wide range of experience, we simple dropped her in the middle of it, had a single current chore that she needed to accomplish, though after that we constantly felt she wasn't doing her part. We later determined that the flaw was that her duties and responsibilities were not defined, nor were deadlines sets.
As long as you specifically indicate what each person has on their 'virtual' plate, what their deadlines are - and what vocal power they have in choices made (whether none or only in certain areas of the business), then I do not see an issue.
Tardiness is something that you should be able to determine ahead of time. Do the family members current work? Have they been previous let go because of missing work? If they been at their job for year, then most likely you won't have a problem. Though in order to curb this, set a mandatory morning meeting every work day. Specify that the meetings are mandatory and missing or being late for more then two a month will mean immediate termination.
Another possiblity, if you perform a lot of on-site work, schedule these service times at the beginning of the day. The customer will let you know if the person is late or didn't show up. Then if you need to terminate you can say because the client requested that they have someone different service their needs. This takes some of the wieght off of you and puts it directly on the shoulders of the offender.
Require you girlfriend to do banking first thing in the morning. Banking statements will have time stamps on them and you'll know if she there on time. Let her know that it is mandatory that the banking be done first thing to ensure all cash and deposits are avaiable as soon as possible.
Working with family provides an immesnse amount of closeness and fun time. I've share numerous times with my father that lead to hours of laughter. Good Luck!
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We carry NO inventory. Fortunately we are 3 miles from ourwholesaler. They obtain half of their items directly from the manufacture, and the other half they make or have manufactured for themselves. They carry 5,000 to 10,000 unique items. They may have 1000 units of a certain item, and in five minutes have a backorder of 500 units. We stock only the items that are the biggest sellers, but even those we occassional sell out of.
Because of this it would be vital for post-processing of payments. I am sure that every store has their unique needs which require out-of-the-ordinary processing, pre-processing (authorization or approval), post-processing (actual charge, actual weight, and more) therefore a more flexible system is needed. PayPal seems to have become comfortable in its position. No competition causes companies to become stale and rarely move forward in developing new features for the mere benefit of the consumer, unless it will increase their ROI and line their pockets with more green.
I've also noticed that roughly 10% of customer that checkout, will not finish the process once they see that they are paying through PayPal. PayPal, as well as eBay, have not made good names for themselves. Increased fees for the people that are generating the sales for them. In the first month of launching our website I made more slaes that generated a higher gross profit than I've ever done on eBay - with the main key being with about 95% less effort. Due to past business relations, my colo is free for my freebsd server; which I own. So I have literally no overhead. Every sale I make is profitable, and I wish to expand on my offerings and capabilities to keep cost as low as possible for the consumer. The less time I spend dedicated to processing refunds the more time that can be spent on the web site, advertising or talking with customers. Oh, correction - my only expense is the Google AdWords, though this is obviously by choice.
Anyway, back to the original issue. Google would have the best chance at going head to head with PayPal, there is zero chance of Google folding, their advertising presence is vast and I feel people would trust Google more than they current do PayPal. Sure, the PayPal love/hate may be related to the old Chevy/Ford debate, it all has to do with your personal experience - regardless, PayPal has become inadequate.
A non-interactive virtual terminal would suit the industry much more. Example: Paypal system current use their (PayPal's) trustworthiness and not the business, since it hides the consumers CC from us. A virtual terminal would need to be approved based on such things as credit ratings to avoid shady business from over-charging or errounously charging customers CC's because with a Virtual terminal we (the business) have the CC # in order to process this.
What would be more beneficial would be to have a combination of the two - allowing the customer to check-out, provide their personal information and CC information. Then when we've determined tha exact amount to charge, we'd access the limited virtual terminal. Enter the amount to be charged, the customer receives a confirmation email asking them to accept or deny the charges. They accept and we get paid.
I'm sure this has potential holes in it yet, but the foundation of what it could pave in regards to new doors opening for lower level new businesses, and home based businesses that have concepts that are working, but do not have the credit history to back it up with conventional means.
For the professionalism alone I'd pay .25 extra per transaction. The demand is there, it's just time until someone with the large bank account can deploy it. Hopefully this will be Google.
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Is there possibily somethign wrong with the "Submit Article" function.
I submitted an article and here is the status
04:50 PM -- Wednesday July 06 2005 Pending
That's 7 months ago. Is something stuck in my profile? Or is the article submission that far behind in being approved/denied?
Thanks for attempting to be more active so that simply questions and matters such as this can be addressed.
Henry
Their website press release states it is called ZU, not Blak Press Relase HERE
For atleast 20 years this type of beverage has been around. When I was in my late teens I dated a spanish girl who's family first introduced me to "malta" (sp) a Goya Product. It's found in the international section of the grocery store. It's coffee flavored soda - carbonated coffee flavor beverage. This is nothign new. Personally I think it horrible - though I don't not care for coffee all that much either. To each their own. I'm sure that it will take off with a mianstream company such as Coke marketing it - seems as though they are attempting to compete with things like RedBull, Nitro2Go and others.
What's more weird is that the need for new articles causes dupe's. trip's and quad's, but yet I submitted an article for posting and it's in pending... sure no big deal.. but look at the pending status
04:50 PM -- Wednesday July 06 2005 Pending
I posted 4 months and 13 days ago!
I think it's been hyperthreaded into hyperspace. OH... and I've checked.. my submission is not a dupe! Go figure!
The Hitchhiker's guide has the obvious answer - a towel is the most essential thing you can have no matter where you go.
I manager of *ANY* business or supervisor of any team (or subset of employees) needs only one skill - the ability to delegate.
Delegation of employees is diffult - to stern and your an asshole. To relaxed and your a push-over. The in-between grey area is difficult to master but when found and perfected can be a motivational power for any company. Employees that look up to and confide in their boss while also getting optimum output in their work.
Your bosses lack of IT knowledge is not important. Unfortunately he does seem to be "getting on your nerves" therefore he obviously lacks manager skill, which is what makes him incorrect for his position.
This would be considered 'Green' would be if heAfter all that shopping and sweating in that "hot" room he should have stopped over analyizing a solution and go back to basic. Fill the garbage can with ice water, get naked and jump in. Will drop body temp at a much faster rate and will mostly likely last just as long. Hell, get a $20.00 inflatable pool for Toy's 'R' Us and invite over a few friends to discuss the nipply occasion. WARNING: Above events may cause uncontrollable shrinking of your 'package'. Please wait 30 minutes before checking if you can find your jewels and have begun to drop. Repeat this step every 30 minutes for up to 2 hours. If jewels are unable to locate your balls and they seem to have totally disappeared.. call 911 immediately!
If they were slick they would have printed the "3." on the label of the CD - thus 'techincally' including it.
Actually I do/did realize that. I was making a comment in jest - insinuating that this is where the inspiration came from. I'm also well aware of monocrhome monitors - I have ancient systems sitting in my basement, various tandy's, commodore's and many others...
I appreciate the input in an attempt to enlighten me, though I as stated - it was all in jest.
If you look at the three monitors in the pictures, you'll see they ALL have blue screens. This must have been the moment of inspiration for the Blue Screen of Death. It was that common that they had to implement it as a feature of the OS. That way he could explain it as an 'innovative' feature. Of course, in the first picture he looks like he's strung out on a weekend party binge.
This must have been in the 'early' days. The microsoft manual on the desk in front of him hs about four pages in a 2-1/2 binder.
Oh, and the large floppy he's tossing in the second picture, I wonder what is on that! Maybe destroying evidence of their source code - ummm I mean Apple OS.
Oh No Mr. Bill!
Poor poor Bill.
One thing I must admit, is that I beleive his site goes into a lot more than what most sites do.
As a person wanting to learn more towrad the inner workings of electronic (Boards, circuits etc...) I see that most sites simply spit out. "Remove the T4-dydro disk, and replace that vaule with a n^4/5! to determine the new disks speed. OK.. next step..." And with that I'm already lost. While this site describes it down to how many screws your gonna remove... like baby step for those of us new to it. And I'd much sooner take my trail-and-error period of learning this and use it on a TI calculator and not a $2000 computer.
I say bravo!
That picture lacks the true depth of the crater. Check out THIS PHOTO for a much more accurate detail
Anyway, I always wondered that is they kept things such a secret, how does *anyone* find out about them, or get access to them, etc. I used to own a local ISP, had dual T1's and dealt with thousands of users and net-friends, spent sleepness nights +O on numerous icr #'s /ctcp & /dcc and fserving what I could get and give back... but nothign worked. And hell, at that time I was merely looking for early release of OS's, prior to buying them so that I could get a techincal jump on questions from customers who were running those OS's. I always bought my software, I merely liked being ahead of the game.
Therefore I would do the only sensible thing there is do do - I'd go to my parents house to make the phone call :)
"Hundreds of volunteers from JPL, Caltech, their families and friends, and some local high school clubs are decorating the float. It is covered from head to toe with flowers, seeds and other natural materials. Decoration takes place at Rosemont Pavilion, next to the Rose Bowl. Today and tomorrow crews are working from 8 a.m. to 11 p.m. (PST), and on December 31, as late as needed, to complete the float. Caltech manages JPL for NASA."
Furthermore, it also states " Resembling a giant transformer toy, the massive float...'
This robot is a float shaped like a robot, not an actual working, moving, talking robot. Other than 'smoke and mirror' FX, it smokes from the rocket launchers and the cam is remote controlled.
Microsoft saw this as an opportunity and copied it, unfortunately they failed in it's eye-candy (3.1 - 3.11 etc..). As Apple continue to become better, MS would release more versions, updated to compete. I remember seeing the early screenshots of OSX on rumor sites and then during keynotes. Sure enough, XP was out the door. In fact if I remember correct there were early basic versions of XP released - it would seem that MS wanted to make the general public beleive they were first at bat... Apple Music Store, Microsoft Music Store - QT, Win Media Player - If you see Apple release something, MS is not far behind to release the same thing. It suprises me that MS even bothers to change the graphics from the apple logo to their own.
Oh.. I love my unix (any and all flavors - it simply can't be beat), and I use Win 2k mostly due to work requirements, so the Apple Fanatic clause does not apply here. It's merely the facts - MS has historically repeated itself with copies. I can't remember the last thing that MS released first - actually thought it up, developed it, revised it and released it.
And it's not just Apple that MS does this to. Look at the recent Search Engine Wars..Google, Yahoo and MS.
Oh and lets not forget how MS pushed the whole USB is great.. it will be the standard! It supports so many things on the chain... ummm, but Apple always did this... In "The Day" I remember having modems, printers, FM Radio Tuners, Graphics Tablets, Keyboards and Mice all on a single chain.. no problem for Apple. At the same time USB was widely wupported by Microsoft (the company) Firewire was also debuting... Looks like Firewire won.. Apple won, again.
And for a company that everyone seems to down all the time - I must give it to Apple, last year (I beleive it was a year ago) it was reported that they became debt free - as far as I know they are the only one that can say that. Other than operational expenses (day to day) they owe no one.. zip, zilch, nada, zero. They must be doing something right. 10 years ago everyone said Apple wouldn't make it, they be closed in a year.. the saem thing again 8 years ago, then 5 years ago, then two years ago.. and then less that a year ago.
Fact is, despite Linux, MS needs Apple. Without Apple MS becomes a true monopoly. Hence the reason for MS's developement departments for Linux and Apple - They need competition, without it they lose!
I understand that and I have always told everyone I know that. She has two accounts, one at peoplepc and another with comcast. She always gloating about how it worked when I said it wouldn't. You do have a good point, and while I believe comcast may have something installed to deter spam, I don't see poeplepc having this - I'll check it out. I'd love to be able to justify my opinion on this to her.. but this will be it :)
Actually I used to agree with you on the 'Spammers use this link to validate your email is active.'
:) ... anyway... One day I noticed that she was hardly getting any mail at all. I asked her what happened to her spam... she said she was getting SO much of it nearly 1000 a day that she started to click on the unsubscribe links (even though I had previously warned her about do this).. and what do you know? 3 months later.. and to this day, she still lucky if she get 2 or 3 a day.
My wife (non-technical) prefers to go through her spam one by one (She actually loves porn, so it's a treat when she get the spam and a treat for me when she done looking at all of it
That's a huge difference for simply clicking on 'Unsubscribe'!!!
I hadn't tried this method myself in fear of it not wokring for me...
Is there a mirror for this software? I couldn't access the site yesterday due to a good ./ing. and today it only says 'Stay Tuned" - I'd love to get this up and running - and information (ie: guide to the file location, direct path, mirror, etc.) would be extremely welcome.
TIA
umm... can you hook me up... for say $20 :)
My father and I once owned a successful local ISP - We resently sold the business, though due to the offer - not by problems caused due to our working together.
We had one problem with my sister working for us.
We later determined the reason.
It was not caused by her work duties, moreso due to the lack of specifying her duties.
When my father and I started the company we knew exactly (to the letter) what each of our responsibilities were. He handled receivables, billing, banking, and purchasing in regards to available monies, overhead etc.
I handled all administrative duties, patching, programming, upgrades, analysis, determining expansion requirements for growth and current loads, etc.
We evenly divide client support. and jointly decided on possible advertising ventures to increase client base - though the final word in this was his. My final word came in the form of implementation, how to, the means to achieve it on a broad ratio.
Advanced or trouble tech support issues fell toward me to finish them up and bring them to a close.
When my sister came aboard with a wide range of experience, we simple dropped her in the middle of it, had a single current chore that she needed to accomplish, though after that we constantly felt she wasn't doing her part. We later determined that the flaw was that her duties and responsibilities were not defined, nor were deadlines sets.
As long as you specifically indicate what each person has on their 'virtual' plate, what their deadlines are - and what vocal power they have in choices made (whether none or only in certain areas of the business), then I do not see an issue.
Tardiness is something that you should be able to determine ahead of time. Do the family members current work? Have they been previous let go because of missing work? If they been at their job for year, then most likely you won't have a problem. Though in order to curb this, set a mandatory morning meeting every work day. Specify that the meetings are mandatory and missing or being late for more then two a month will mean immediate termination.
Another possiblity, if you perform a lot of on-site work, schedule these service times at the beginning of the day. The customer will let you know if the person is late or didn't show up. Then if you need to terminate you can say because the client requested that they have someone different service their needs. This takes some of the wieght off of you and puts it directly on the shoulders of the offender.
Require you girlfriend to do banking first thing in the morning. Banking statements will have time stamps on them and you'll know if she there on time. Let her know that it is mandatory that the banking be done first thing to ensure all cash and deposits are avaiable as soon as possible.
Working with family provides an immesnse amount of closeness and fun time. I've share numerous times with my father that lead to hours of laughter. Good Luck!
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