Session Start: Wed Apr 23 21:58:55 2008

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[22:00] <Ed_Bremer> hi Tim

[22:01] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> hi ed

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[22:03] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> hi jonathan, dayle,

[22:03] <Dale_Cable> hi everyone

[22:03] <Jonathan_Myers> Hello all

[22:03] <Ed_Bremer> hi Jonathan--Dale

[22:03] <Jonathan_Myers> any progress Tim?\

[22:04] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> jonathan is it coming up for you yet, middletownportal.com

[22:04] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> my cache may be hanging

[22:04] <Jonathan_Myers> no, just checked

[22:04] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> ok, hopefully tommorrow then

[22:04] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> sorry

[22:05] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> usually we can get them to resolve immediately

[22:05] <Jonathan_Myers> np

[22:05] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> this happens about 1 out of 10 times

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[22:05] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> hello alan

[22:05] <Ed_Bremer> Alan

[22:05] <Dale_Cable> hi allen

[22:05] <Alan_Currie> Hi, Guys

[22:05] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> ready to get going eh jonathan?

[22:05] <Jonathan_Myers> yes, I have good luck with that on the sites I put up on my reseller hosting accounts

[22:06] <Jonathan_Myers> itching.....lol

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[22:08] <Alan_Currie> Tim, I posted another problem with the rotator in the support site. just thought I would let you know.

[22:08] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> alan, ok, thank you,

[22:08] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> Welcome to the chat Kwirc. If you click on the gear at the top you can change to your first name, please.

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[22:10] <Alan_Currie> Lively bunch tonight

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[22:10] <John_Gosselin> Hi everyone!

[22:10] <Alan_Currie> Hi John

[22:10] <Dale_Cable> hi john

[22:10] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> hi john

[22:10] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> alan, seems everyone kicks in about 20 after or so

[22:11] <Alan_Currie> seems like it

[22:11] <Alan_Currie> They are all out there inputting to their portals

[22:11] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> kelly and naomi say the test with the telemarketing i did for them is going extremely well

[22:11] <Alan_Currie> Thats Great

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[22:12] <Alan_Currie> They are working so hard they don't have anything left to come here.

[22:12] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> alan, that is true, plus Kelly was not feeling very well today

[22:13] <Alan_Currie> Excitement got to her.

[22:13] <John_Gosselin> Tim Do you want a ticket - and which group should I put it in?

[22:14] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> John, a ticket for what sir?

[22:16] <John_Gosselin> our chat

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[22:17] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> hello bob

[22:17] <Dale_Cable> hi bob

[22:17] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> john, i already have the info

[22:17] <John_Gosselin> Ok - wasn't sure - TY

[22:17] <Jonathan_Myers> Hello Bob, longtime no see...

[22:17] <Alan_Currie> Hi Bob

[22:18] <Bob_Lazor> Hi Everyone

[22:18] <Bob_Lazor> Jon what have you been up to?

[22:19] <Jonathan_Myers> trying to find something that makes money online

[22:19] <John_Gosselin> Hi Bob - training a sales rep and trying to fix some technical issues - You?

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[22:19] <John_Gosselin> Hi Mickey

[22:19] <Dale_Cable> hi mickey

[22:19] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> hi mickey

[22:20] <Mickey_Mixon> Hi John, Tim, Dale, everyone

[22:20] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> so how has your week been this week, everyone?

[22:23] <Bob_Lazor> Mine has been pretty good wrapping up the sale of my screen printing business sfter 6 months

[22:24] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> long process selling a business

[22:27] <Bob_Lazor> And the economy sure hasn't helped

[22:28] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> Here is a quote you will want to read 4/14/2008:  "Among the players battling over Yahoo, there's a likely common assumption: Major brand advertisers are gearing up to move big chunks of money from traditional ads including TV commercials and glossy magazine spreads to online outlets such as

[22:28] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> video-sharing services and Web sites for women. Although online ads garnered only an estimated 7% of total U.S. advertising dollars last year, Internet companies believe the percentage will increase sharply as Americans ratchet up their daily use of the Web and advertisers gain confidence in the medium."

[22:28] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120787106613306483.html?mod=e-commerce_primary_hs

[22:29] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> also NEWS ALERT from The Wall Street Journal April 14, 2008 U.S. retail sales took a surprising turn upward during March, a promising sign for the economy given the punishment consumers have absorbed. Retail sales increased by 0.2%, the Commerce Department said.

[22:29] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> For more information, see: http://wsj.com?mod=djemalertNEWS

[22:34] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> you are a quiet bunch tonight

[22:35] <Alan_Currie> Well, its been a long day and I just about fell asleep,so, better take off.

[22:35] <Jonathan_Myers> I had a very long and trying day in the Fed Ex truck

[22:35] <Alan_Currie> Goodnight all

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[22:35] <John_Gosselin> gn Alan

[22:36] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> jonathan, i bet,

[22:36] <John_Gosselin> I'm off too - Thanks Tim for looking into the issue  - gn

[22:36] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> jonathan, is that a high pressure job?

[22:36] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> gn john g

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[22:36] <Jonathan_Myers> but I did make some valuable business connections :)

[22:37] <Jonathan_Myers> the biggest issue I have is with people not willing to post readable address numbers so that I can find them easily

[22:38] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> jonathan, i thought it was all on a computer

[22:38] <Jonathan_Myers> every minute I spend searching for an address, is one more minute I spend in the truck.....lol

[22:38] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> i thought it was all on a computer, addresses, routes,

[22:39] <Jonathan_Myers> yes, the stops are, but I still need to find the front door of the address

[22:39] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> oh posting on the huose

[22:39] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> house

[22:39] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> i thought you meant the package

[22:39] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> yes i know what you mean

[22:39] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> when i built my telemarketing company we delivered packages with our own delivery staff, I had 200 drives.

[22:39] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> drivers.

[22:40] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> some of them developed a sixth sense

[22:40] <Jonathan_Myers> the few I don't have memorized really create havic for me

[22:40] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> have you read the history of your company?

[22:41] <Jonathan_Myers> my route includes over 25,000 physical addresses, and I can go straight to most of them by memory now

[22:41] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> wow

[22:41] <Mickey_Mixon> Tim, did you have a chance to address my billing question in the 24 hour support area? I checked again tonight, but I don't see an answer. When you answer a question, is your answer below the question as in the other support areas?

[22:41] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> mickey it is in the same area, i did not answer it, so sorry, i will go in tonight and do that

[22:42] <Jonathan_Myers> from that 25,000, I deliver to about 120 stops each day

[22:42] <Mickey_Mixon> ty

[22:43] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> your founder got a C on his business plan for fed Ex when he was in college,

[22:43] <Jonathan_Myers> luckily there is a lot of return customers, so I deliver to about 15 of those nearly everyday

[22:44] <Jonathan_Myers> goes to show the entreprenuerial spirit can overcome traditional thinking

[22:44] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> In the beginning, at one point they did not have enough money for payroll.  If he could not cover it he knew he was going to lose the company.  He had $27,000 which was not near enough. He got on a plan to vegas, put it on roulette, I believe, on one roll, won, took the money went back home.

[22:45] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> he figured he was going to lose the company anyway, even if he did not gamble the $27,000

[22:45] <Jonathan_Myers> I'm not quite that adventurist

[22:46] <Jonathan_Myers> I am conservatively independent

[22:46] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> nothing wrong with that

[22:46] <Jonathan_Myers> it's the farmer instinct

[22:46] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> He did not see it as a gamble.  he had a 100% chance of losing the company without going to vegas.

[22:46] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> by going and taking that 1 chance, he increased his odds of not losing his business.

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[22:47] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> hello traci

[22:47] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> how are you

[22:47] <Traci_Benoit> Hi Tim. Great. Busy. lol

[22:47] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> Traci, how are the sales and leads going for your husband and you?

[22:47] <Dale_Cable> hi traci

[22:47] <Traci_Benoit> I left a note for you in the support area under emergency

[22:47] <Traci_Benoit> Hello everyone

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[22:47] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> apparently i am behind on emergency, i will go in and catch up tonight

[22:47] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> here is my support helper,

[22:47] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> hi mario

[22:48] <Mario_Torres> hi everyone

[22:48] <Traci_Benoit> My husband took a day off from work and visited about 25 businesses

[22:48] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> mario how are you

[22:48] <Dale_Cable> hi mario

[22:48] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> Traci, how did that go?

[22:48] <Mario_Torres> fine thanks

[22:48] <Traci_Benoit> I'm getting them entered in as listings. Many good responses

[22:48] <Traci_Benoit> I plan on going out myself next week, even though I am NOT a salesperson

[22:49] <Traci_Benoit> The couple of salespeople we hired only want to do this part time, so I'm also looking for more salespeople, lol

[22:49] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> keep at it

[22:50] <Jonathan_Myers> never say you aren't something, always you have yet to explore that possibility...!!

[22:50] <Traci_Benoit> My husband went to mainly automotive dealers. A lot of them said to come back next quarter because they are having a low right now.

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[22:50] <Traci_Benoit> lol, that's good Johnathan

[22:51] <Jonathan_Myers> can you guess that I am a natural positive thinker?

[22:51] <Traci_Benoit> That is a good thing to be

[22:51] <Traci_Benoit> I usually am also, I am just a quiet person

[22:52] <Traci_Benoit> I was always voted the nicest person in school. Only because I was so quiet, lol

[22:52] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> ha ha

[22:52] <Jonathan_Myers> you have to understand that all negatives have a positive somewahere, and that is what you need to express

[22:52] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> good quote jonathan

[22:52] <Traci_Benoit> I know the ins and outs of the portal and all of the great reasons businesses should join, I just am terrible on the delivery

[22:53] <Jonathan_Myers> it will come with the first individual sale as a confidence booster

[22:53] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> practice

[22:53] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> you have to make mistakes if you want to learn

[22:54] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> learn, fail, come back and tell, and we will help you.

[22:55] <Traci_Benoit> thats the plan now, lol

[22:55] <Traci_Benoit> brb

[22:55] <Jonathan_Myers> one thing I learned in 22 years of tree service is that you can't glue a limb back on, so not much margin for mistakes

[22:56] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> i thought they had tree glue

[22:57] <Jonathan_Myers> not so much, and waaaaayy too expensive....lol

[22:59] <Jonathan_Myers> only used to avoid lawsuits.....!!

[23:00] <Mario_Torres> be right back  having problem with the computer its freezing rebooting

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[23:00] <Jonathan_Myers> hope the domain resolves sometime soon, I'm itching to go....

[23:01] <Jonathan_Myers> btw, who was the former PD in Chandler, AZ?

[23:02] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> jim mcmichael

[23:03] <Jonathan_Myers> ok, not who I thought it may have been...

[23:04] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> well, I am giong to log out for the night and catch up in the 24 hour suppport area

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[23:04] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> mario, thank you for helping me in the 24 hour support

[23:05] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> gn everyone

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[23:05] <Mario_Torres> back

[23:05] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> mario how have you been doing

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[23:07] <Paulette_Nurse> Hello everyone!

[23:07] <Jonathan_Myers> Bob, PM

[23:07] <Mario_Torres> I got a deal this weekon a new discotech I promot them and they are going to promot me and next week I have an interview with a radio station

[23:07] <Dale_Cable> hi paulette

[23:07] <Mario_Torres> for the new banner

[23:08] <Mario_Torres> hi Paulerre

[23:08] <Paulette_Nurse> Great news mario

[23:08] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> mario, very good!!!

[23:08] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> thats good news

[23:08] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> hi paulette

[23:09] <Bob_Lazor> Hi Paulette

[23:09] <Paulette_Nurse> What did I miss tonight, sorry I'm late

[23:09] <Bob_Lazor> Kind of quiet

[23:09] <Paulette_Nurse> Hi Bob

[23:11] <Paulette_Nurse> Its tax time here on Apr 30, mine not done, franticly getting everything together

[23:11] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> paulette it was kind of quite, i had actually said good night and was logging out

[23:11] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> fun

[23:11] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> well everyone, i am going to log out this time

[23:11] <TIm_Drobnick_Sr> gn

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[23:12] <Paulette_Nurse> I'm going to say gn too, see you all in a couple of days, cheers

[23:12] <Mario_Torres> gn Paulette

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[23:15] <KWirc_855> gn all tks

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[23:15] <Mario_Torres> gn

[23:19] <Jonathan_Myers> I'm heading to bed also, gn everyone

[23:19] <Mario_Torres> gn Jonathan

[23:22] <Bob_Lazor> I think I am out of here for tonight GN all

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[23:23] <Mario_Torres> yea gn all

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