A little shout out to HTD and Harris Loeser, great article.
Jun/090
I just spent a long weekend moving my kids’ high tech Grandfather (my Dad) and low tech Grandmother (both 88 yrs old) from their condo of the last 15 years to an assisted living facility. In the course of this move, I re-learned one key lesson which made this move go relatively smoothly.
Allow me to explain that my Dad is not a technologist, but a lawyer and a gadget freak. So, he has three Macs, wireless, dynamic digital photo albums on the apartment walls, sets up his own Tivo, has his iPhone automatically synching with his Prius, and he knows the guys (and gals) at the Apple store by first name.
As most of you can imagine, moving house at 88 is fairly traumatic for many reasons, not the least being the disruption in carefully remembered locations of everyday items, both digital and physical.
In this case, we hired a “life transition” consultant who arranged the move and all the details of cutting their household belongings in half. This was done highly competently and with almost no glitches.
Buy Smart. Buy S smart.
Jun/090
This is a quick list of things to think about when dealing with a sales professional. We aren’t talking rocket science here, but it is a way to socially engineer the outcome of a sale.
1. Experienced sales reps want to feel like they are adding some value the may dictate the outcome of the sale and the always do add value in the form of explaining the offering you are looking at. If you can exploit this, you will have an advantage.
2. Experienced sales reps know every trick to get your pricing down. Let them negotiate with their leadership for you. You’ll want to give them a budget to work with and ask them to do their best. You’d be surprised what happens. Do your homework and come up with a realistic budget. Experienced and successful sales reps will usually cut you a break because you have given them the tools they need to win your business.
3. Apples to Apples. Make sure you know what you are talking about. If there were one gray area, don’t hesitate and estimate competitors prices based on fluff — a good sales rep will laugh you right out the door if you float a price that seems unreasonable. A bad rep will start to sweat and try to find a way to meet that price.
Out.
iPhone 3.0 Update
Jun/090
So Ive been hotly anticipating the iPhone 3.0 upgrade for a few months and its finally here. I even woke myself up at midnight to see if I could download it from home, but Apple apparently considers 10.07 AM pacific standard time the start of the day. I do know an apple developer, so I can relate as he doesnt get into work until almost noon.
1. Been watching twitter via my new tweetdeck installation. A ton of people are talking about the mysterious release time. PC world tried to start a rumor that its late and pushed off until the 18th due to some Singapore users being 12 hours in the future from the apple centric center of the universe.
2. Started my SYNC and download. Im jazzed up about this.
3. Wow, Im in! Lets run this thing.
4. So many new things, first two I noticed were copy and paste and search. Woot.
5. Gcal with push, gotta love that.
Wordpress: Why I love to hate you.
Jun/090
As an amateur admin, I’m learning a lot through wordpress. I thought I was supposed to be able to waive my hand above my server, drag some icons, and then be able to spend the rest of the night changing my background image. Not so much.
On the road.
May/090
Sf Techcrawl is slowly reviving. Ive been off the radar due to an accounting error, more specifically, I wasnt actually paying for my sever space and they shut down the server. Well, Im back.
Tweets
- MrBuelow: http://bit.ly/17nOH7 "bankslaughter" a brilliant solution to future crisis. July 3, 2009
- MrBuelow: RT @jesserobbins: noticing a sudden spike in PR-Spam... the economy must be recovering. July 2, 2009
- MrBuelow: @delong Thanks for your post today on your blog. It encapsulates why we use technology - community! http://bit.ly/GCej9 July 2, 2009