Daniel Maloney from YourTechie.ca joins us this week.
Running time: 57:25 Added: 4 Jan 2009
Topics discussed:
Building a successful business
Improving the customer experience
Being friendly with you customer
Diversify your services, such as reselling internet, or acting as an intermediary to other service providers
Getting a commission when referring jobs
Improving the image of your company or building your brand, through logos, car signs, billboards
Daniel gets booths at local farmer's markets with his sign and meets clients there
Memorable logo design and company naming
Selling yourself as an expert
Free computer seminars at local community centers, Volunteering time on radio station talk shows, newspaper columns
Maintaining enthusiasm for your business
Voicemails/Emails:
Warranty service for the "red ring of death" on Microsoft's XBox 360
Steve-o ran into the TDL3 rootkit, he used the Kaspersky boot CD to combat it, and later found a variety of .bat files on the C: drive from the virus writer threatening other virus writers, eventually was removed with Hitman Pro. More discussion of this can be found here in the Podnutz Forums
Steve's hoping to ready his website products in January
Ray asks for suggestions on building his Home Theatre PC(HTPC), Daniel brings up the Popcorn Hour device
Peter asks about Billing Boss with free online invoicing
Dark Overlord recommends cleaning out a water drenched laptop by disassembling it and cleaning with deionized water
DoorToDoorGeek talks about a Toshiba laptop that had a reboot problem that was traced to a bad battery problem, and discusses using OEM and retail disks for re-installing Windows
Steve is offering a discount code on his Laptop repair Videos with the promo code of "happy holidays"
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