Archive for the ‘Lessons’ Category

Danger of the Week Award - Cowboy Contractor

Saturday, March 1st, 2008

Can you guess what a Polish flooring contractor and these damaged gas pipes have in common. It's easy! One of my long term clients hired three workers to put down his new solid wood flooring. When they finished their regular day jobs (putting down flooring) they came by to do ...

Demon Really Are Demonic

Friday, February 1st, 2008

About two months ago Demon Thus made the business decision to cap my service due to what they said was a misuse of my privilages. See my original BLOG on the subject HERE. They can of course make any policy they want and customers like our business will either have ...

Goodbye to Bill Gates

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

It is with a sad heart that we say goodbye to Bill Gates. It's been an affair that stretched twenty seven years. But like all good things it finally had to come to an end. I'm not shedding any tears though as Microsoft has cost me dearly in the past ...

Company Capped, Crippled and Cut Off by THUS/Demon

Friday, December 7th, 2007

This is an article I never thought I'd have to write but I thought it wise to alert other small businesses to the concept of the ever lower and creeping broadband usage bar being undertaken by not only my provider THUS/Demon but others as well. In a shocking discovery that ...

Collecting Bad Debts Can Be A Nightmare

Thursday, November 15th, 2007

Do you run a small business? Are you so busy that its hard to follow up on poor payers? Have you had a client play the game of putting off payments for so long you feel like your head is about to explode? Me too. So I did something about ...

THE LAW OF VALUE - John Ruskin 1819-1900

Saturday, November 3rd, 2007

Quote by John Ruskin, English Philosopher (1818-1900) "It's unwise to pay too much...but it's unwise to pay too little. When you pay too much, you lose a little money...that is all. When you pay too little...you sometimes lose everything... because the thing you bought was incapable of doing the thing you bought it to do. ...

My Mentor

Wednesday, September 5th, 2007

When I was a young man no one could tell me anything. I new it all! At least I thought I knew it all and wouldn’t be told anything by anybody. The recipe was and for many young people today is a recipe for disaster. I was lucky. One man ...