Houston PC Guru is a full time small business computer consultant who spend evenings and weekends doing side work for home based entrepreneurs. We take care of:
Cleaning virus and malware
Upgrading software and systems
Software and Maintenance training
Purchase and set up of new equipment
So for your computing needs in Northwest Houston, please call 713-553-5364 or write to john@houstonpcguru.com
LeeWards Photography is the best family photographers in Houston, TX. They take family portraits at your home or your favorite location. If you have a favorite park or place and want your family pictures taken there, they can arrange it. They also do pictures for weddings, graduations, parties, and can even put your pictures on greeting cards. This is very popular around the holidays. They put the picture on the cards and mail them to your family, friend or associate. One of the people set up the people, background and props and the other takes the picture. Great team. If you ever need pictures in the Houston area, I highly recommend LeeWards Photography.
For more info visit www.leewardsphotography.com or info@leewardsphotography.com
How cool is this? You can take all those digital pictures you took with your digital camera and put them on real greeting cards. You can even add a boarder around the picture, input text or put a cartoon bubble. It’s a lot of fun. If you want to give it a try, write to appreciationmastery@gmail.com and ask for a free demo.
If your PC ever crashes or you just want to rebuild your system, you will need three things:
1) The original system disks including the Operating System and Device Drivers.
2) The program disks, which are all the programs you had loaded on the PC.
3) Your data like letters, word processing documents, spreadsheets, pictures, music or what ever else you have created.
When I rebuild a system I always wipe out the hard drive, reload the operating system, reload the programs and copy the data from a backup location. The reason you have to reload all the programs is so it will update the registry. The important thing is to understand the difference between data and the operating system or programs.
I know a lot of people buy hard drives that are supposed to “back up everything”, but usually when you rebuild a system it’s because it is having problems or has a bad virus. So it makes no sense to restore a problem to a new computer or hard drive. You will find that most PC technicians will reload a system as I have described. Keep in mind, some PC’s have a restore partition so you can actually revert back to factory default.
Some of you can backup all your data to a CD or Thumb Drive. Others will have to have an external hard drive or off-site backup service. That all depends on how much data you have. If you store all your files in your “My Documents” or similar folder, go to that folder and right click. It will tell you how many MB or GB of data you have, then you will know what kind of back up media you need.
I use an external hard drive for all my data and special programs I have on my system. But all my most important data can be backed up to a 4 GB Thumb Drive. Buy two and keep one in your office and one in your safety deposit box.
This has been presented as educational information only. If you are going to do something on your computer you are not sure about, please hire a professional consultant to help you do the job right.
Simplified….Appreciation Mastery is getting really good at showing appreciation. Not just for business and sales, but also in your personal life. We have been programmed with the “what’s in it for me” mentality. Appreciation Mastery can mean doing something or showing appreciation even when we know we will not profit. Just to be nice to people and make them feel special.
Through the Law of Attraction we know that what you put out into the universe comes back to you. So learning to get really good at showing appreciation means good things will come back to you…and not always where you expect them from. Even something as simple as sending someone a nice card in the mail (not ecard or email) can brighten someone’s day. You would be surprised.
So of course, being an expert in Computerized Marketing I have found a great system for sending real cards. I type it and the company prints it and mails is. This makes it so I can send a nice card to someone day or night. Sending cards and gifts are nice. Also, an unexpected phone call just to say “hi” can help build relationships. Not a sales call, but just call to see how their business is going, how their kids are doing on their sports team or how big of a fish did they catch last weekend.
So that is a little bit on Appreciation Mastery. If you would like more info, please email me at appreciationmastery@gmail.com.
We have found the ultimate system for building customer relationships and getting good business referrals. Showing appreciation to your customers can make the difference in one time or long term repeat sales. You have to do something unique, special and personal. Sending a real gretting card or gift can do the trick.
You type it and the company will print it and mail it for you. Real cards to your clients, not ecards. So act now and do something special for your customers.
For more info and a free system demo contact me at appreciationmastery@gmail.com
Business blogs with Search Engine Optimization are great for getting the word out about fund raising. You can direct people to your website, advertise events, and tell contributors what is going on in the fund raising effort.
If you pick a blog with an affiliate program you can have member of the team join and then they promote the system to others. All the profits will go to the non-profit organization. Make sure it’s a good service that people will want to use.
Once you start the blog for the fund raiser, you will want to post a couple of blogs about the groups activity and up coming events. Then send the link out to all the members of the group and ask them to forward it to others who might be interested in contributing.
In the mean time, the SEO will be working for you in the background. When people do searches on the Internet, they will be able to find your blog entry.
So give blogging a try for your next fund raiser, but just make sure the blog has great SEO.
I use two products for Computerized Marketing:
http://www.pcguru.ismyblogs.name
This is a business blogging service with great SEO (search engine optimization). With the right metatags I have been able to get ranked #1 & #2 out of 1,520,000 and ranked #1 out of 918,000 in under 5 minutes each on Google. This just happened this week so I’m still pretty excited. This helps people find you without having to redo your website all the time. You just post what is going on in your business that week/month and have a link to your website at the bottom of the blog.
http://www.socretail.com/pcguru
Send Out Cards is an online system I use for sending REAL greeting cards and gifts to customers. The are not ecards. These are real cards. You type it and the company prints it and mails it for you. Great for showing appreciation to clients which gets them talking to their customers about YOU! The have a huge selection of gifts, 10,000+ greeting card designs and you and also do Postcard Marketing. You can put a logo or digital picture on the front of the card and have it in your own handwriting. Cool system!
I hope these can be of help. They are working out great for me!
John Lee
http://www.houstonpcguru.com
I’m a small business computer consultant and have done computer work for Steve a couple of times. When he called me and told me about the card system, I knew right away I wanted to use it. I had priced different ways to do postcard marketing not too long before his phone call and this was by far the best price. After doing a couple of postcard marketing projects and liking the results, I started looking into using the system for Thank You cards, Gifts to customers and as Contact Management Software. It worked great and I started talking about it to other business professionals. As I started talking to more and more people about the system, my part-time business started to grow into a secondary income. I enjoy sharing the system and also having two sources of income. The system and business are both fun, easy to learn and effective in business.
John L, Houston, TX
www.houstonpcguru.com
Getting noticed on line will make or break a business these days. You have to get noticed and you have to let people know what you are doing and how you can help them. Business blogging is the best way to let your clients come to you for information and so people searching the Internet can find your business. There is much competition on the Internet so you have to get to the top of the major search engines for new customers to find you. With our SEO technologies we can help you get to the top of the search engine web pages. Once they click they will be able to access your information and learn about your business.