Neato Thought for the Day

No economic slowdown on the Internet! Mercury News Frank Davies reported that Internet commerce continues to grow according to his source Google's chief economist. Electronic commerce has grown about 22 percent in the past two years-Hal Varian, the economist that spoke on the state of the Internet economy at Google's Washington office. The chairman of Electronic Retailing Association said online sales jumped 17 percent in the first quarter of this year!
Makes me think, what can I be doing to help my clients increase their sales. Using the radio station's websites is a great way to augment their current advertising and help them branch into Internet advertising - a venue that perhaps they might not be comfortable attempting.

Even if companies don't have anything to sell online for E-Commerce, promoting their business, concert, restaurant online to an audience that fits the target demographic, like a radio station website makes great sense. More businesses are starting to realize the full potential of the Internet, and it is my job to help them feel comfortable investing in their website and promoting it.

What have you done today, to increase your web presence for potential clients?

Missy Alwais Neato thought of the Day

Greetings. I am going to try to post something thought provoking each day. Today, I went to see Jeffrey Gitomer at a seminar. He was absolutely amazing. My favorite book of his is the Yes! attitude. I found several ways to incorporate his thoughts on the subject into my daily life, not just work life. This is what is most important to me. So in his seminar today, when he said we should all be focusing on having fun and laughing. I am going to make an effort, to laugh twice each day at work, and continue to laugh at home as I do everyday...sometimes at myself, and sometimes at Jeremy or the dogs- I always laugh at home!

Make the effort to see humor in situations, work and home. Laugh- I love it!

no man left behind

as i am still in cancun, i would like to congratulate my friends sara and shawn, they received power today and no longer have to stay in our tiny house :) i do not know if my other friend Robert has received his power yet, but i know that he is hoping he will soon. the chapter is almost closed on Ike. we just need to return the generator and the room air conditioner to our kind fantasy football friends that let us borrow it. i hope everyone else is doing ok. i will continue to blog, just not sure what i am going to talk about :)

POWER TO THE PEOPLE!

hi gang! as of 10:45 today, we have power at 1725 viking!!! can you believe it. i am so happy, the lights work, air conditioning everything... it is amazing. we can put water bottles in the refrigerator. i am so happy! thanks to all of your support. it looks like finally, 2 weeks after IKE, it is finally over! have a great weekend!

sunday sunday sunday

hi all. looks like sunday is the latest time line for the power to our house. we will only hope that it is true! jeremy and i are headed to cancun on friday afternoon and will be back on tuesday, if we dont have power by then...heads are gonna roll! not really, there is not anything we can do about it. thank you to our friends for offering their home, watching our dogs, generator, gas cans, fans, laundry services, etc. we are so grateful for your friendship and your stuff :)i will bring pictures of what air conditioning looks like :)

looks like schools are opening up this week so the kiddies will be back at school and hopefully the mess of traffic should be resolved soon. i feel badly for the people who live out near where we used to live, it is taking 1 1/2 hours to 2 hours to get to work! nasty. i am only 7 miles from work and it usually takes 10-15 minutes, lately, it has been 30 or so. gross!

make sure you get your flu shots, flu season is coming up!

OMG the mosquitoes here are terrible, talk about Texas sized. they are HUGE! and all over the place. normally they dont get me too badly, but they are all over the place and biting at all times. the bugs really like gervin, so i dont let him out there for too long, must be because he is so sweet!

have a good day!
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update from centerpoint

hi all. new update map from centerpoint came out tonight...we are no longer thursday, we are sunday! it keeps moving and that is not good. such a bummer. well, jeremy and i are headed to cancun friday and back on tuesday, so hopefully by the time we get back we will have power and HOT water. i am so disappointed in the city of Houston for allowing all of the outlying areas to get power and the actual city of Houston to now have power. i am turning into a royal bitch about this. sorry :(

if they are going to pass along some kind of charge to users to pay for all of this crap, then they should charge more and put the power lines underground! lets not go two weeks without power and then not make any improvements.

i met a couple of electric people that are from independence MO today and they said that the neighborhood was in a lot worse condition than they expected.

who knew?

who knew that camping could be so much fun! thanks to brian and his generator, i am the only camper with a fan and a 42" LCD flat panel tv :) he also gave us the room air conditioner and we are using that at night (trying to conserve gas) but if it gets too hot, we are not afraid to bust it out during the day! tomorrow is fantasty football friday, and we will have our NFL sunday ticket, our flat panel and our laptops, just like nothing happened, except that if you need to go to the bathroom, you will have to take a flashlight with you! we are not running the fridge on the generator because we dont want to overdo it, plus we just have drinks and luckily we stopped at walgreens today and they had the hottest thing next to gasoline... ICE!

this is something i have never experienced before and i really appreciate everyone checking on us, and offering help. things are definitely not back to normal, and we are not expecting power until thursday, good news is, we are going on vacation on friday :) cancun. should be fun,but it would be nice to have power before then.

have a great sunday everyone!