Fun Fun Friday

Today I fought through my listings to the bitter end!

Here is what I managed to get listed today:

1.) Cisco Molex 74577-0054 9346280 30 AWG 40" Device Stackwise Switch Stacking Cable

2.) APC TJ187 AP7901 AP7900 DB9 9 Pin Female RJ12 28 AWG Black Serial Console Cable

3.) Dell Generic 5313118052F0 Male to Male 6 ft Black Audio NEW Cable

4.) Dell Generic 5313118052F0 Male to Male 6 ft Black Audio Cable

5.) Chenrol LL78304 DB9 9 Pin Male RJ12 28 AWG Grey 6ft Serial Console Cable

6.)  Copartner HD383 LL84201 DB9 9 Pin Female RJ12 26 AWG Black Serial Console Cable

I wanted to try and push to at least 8 - 10 listings but a lot of these really slowed me down. Over half of these listings were nowhere to be found on Terapeak and eBay (and there was very little if any information if any at all on Google) which slowed my pace down just a bit.
I'm confident that I will pick back up and begin going supersonic speeds again soon!

Off to lunch!

-Spencer

More Stuff!

After revising and dealing with eBay glitches for a confusing hour or so I finally got to crack away at some listings woo!

Here were my listings for today:

1.) (10) Dell Hotron 6ft DVI - D AWM 6 ft 18 Pin Male Monitor Graphics Cable Lot

2.) Dell Hotron 6ft DVI - D AWM 6 ft 18 Pin Male to Male Monitor Graphics Cable

3.) (10) Dell 0R215 3X14 AWG 10ft Heavy Duty Thick Standard Power Cord Cable Lot

4.) Dell EMC 038-003-387 1 Meter 27 AWG HSSDC TO HSSDC Fiber Optic Channel Cable

Due to the chaos of glitches, corrections and other road bumps this was as far as I progressed for today, hopefully I can at least double this number of listings tomorrow!

Shopify and other~

Within a couple days here, we should be fully functional on Shopify.com, and I've been asked to upload 5 *test* listings to make sure the site is up-and-running. Hopefully that will all work out fine, and we will be fully functional. Then I've got to improve the aesthetics of the website, and make sure the shell is fleshed out with information and pleasing to the eye.

As for "Cyberinfinity", which is now budding into it's own unique individual presence, I need to work on some more postings [preferably in different categories - I have a couple "technology" category ideas] and get some more traffic coming to the site via advertising on facebook.

--Austin

New Strategy for Amazon Listing!

Well I was looking around for info on Google for a listing on Auctiva one day, and I noticed there was an Amazon listing that showed up on the search results.  I thought it would be worth looking at for some specs on the product and to keep note on its standing in Amazon.  I then noticed that the Amazon listing said "Currently out of stock"- and it clicked!  There must be thousands of listings just sitting there, "out of stock", that will never show up on the "Add a Product" search.  Why Amazon doesn't bother to include these is quite strange...  Anyways, this discovery has proven to be very helpful in uncovering listings we didn't not know existed and allows us to "sell (ours) here" more often.

Morale of the story? DON'T USE THE AMAZON "ADD A PRODUCT" SEARCH FEATURE, JUST USE GOOGLE.  Amazon's search engine is hardly functional anyways.


Also: so i herd you liek dubkipz?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHZ7ogeVC4E

List It Like You Mean It!

Hello and good day dear people of the interwebs!
I'm gonna go ahead and post my goals for today, maybe some listing times later if I get the chance.

Goals:
 - As a company, to reach 1900 listings (we're currently at 1875).
 - 4 or 5 (or more) perfect listings per hour.
 - Check and finalize bid spreadsheet (add in offers).
 - Assist with/observe product purchasing (learn).
 - All around improvement in efficiency and quality.

More to come soon!

- Spencer

Satisfaction

About that time, 'eh chaps?

Goal: 15

As of 1:20 - 5

2:58 - back

7:48 - 15

Goal: achieved.

-ST

Block Recount

Hello and welcome back to our blag! Today I will be posting more goals and records of/for my listings!

Goals:
 - At least 4 listings an hour
 - Accomplish miscellaneous tasks in a timely manner
 - Update the Blag (obviously)
 - Listing perfection as usual!

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Records:
 Pre lunch (10:15 - 1:15):
 - 10 listings (mostly misc. cables and a video card)
 - Test 5 new memory card/stick readers for each workstation (only seem to work with one camera). The product was mislabeled on eBay as a SDHC card reader when it cannot even fit that type of card (seller contacted).
 - Scheduling
 - Organization
 Post Lunch (2:47 - 6:00):
 - 8 listings (gold scrap, misc. cables)
 - Restock DVI-D splitter

Recount

Goals 8/4/11:

    5 listings an hour (or better!)
    Perfect listings
    Clear space in the hallway'

1.) 10:03 - 10:24 2

- Cable listings (single and lot)

2.) 10:26 - 10:35

- Cable listing

3.) 10:37 - 10:55

- Cable listing and edit to all listings.

4.) 11:00 - 11:25

- Cable listings (10 lots of 5 and 10 lots of 10)

5.) 11:29 - 11:54

- Cable listings (4 lots of 10, 5 lots of 5, 13singles)

Log lost after this point.

Moar expectations.

THINE NOOOOOOOOODLE

I guess I should do a blog for the day, cataloging how many listings I do,
even though the accounting department now keeps a list of who does <X> Number of listings per hour.
/day.
[And Week.]

Regardless, I'll find a way to keep this interesting and talk about the FSM some.







Moar coming, throughout the day, of course.
--Austin

Record

 Today we are rolling out our new daily/hourly goal project with our blogs! I'm interested in seeing how much I speed up or slow down with each given factor and time of the day. Wish I had more time to blog about this new feature and the rest of today's excitement (checkout the YoutTube.com/austincybershop page). More tomorrow, Gnight guys!

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My Goals:

• At least 4 listings per hour (including distractions, bathroom breaks, restock, etc).
• Fix unlaunched cable listings from yesterday.
• Clear inventory out of this room (big boxes of cables).
• Update blag.

1.) 4:17 - 4:23: Dell U0842 128Mb nVidia Quadro FX500 AGP Video Card listing
 - Time: 6 Minutes 30 seconds (approximate)
 - Price: $13.99 with shipping

2.) 4:24 - 4:39: Resort cables from failed/poorly sorted approximate cable lot.

3.) 4:55 -5:40: 4 listings (about 11 minutes 15 seconds per listing counting moving around).
  - New Dell 2 Prong Big MF235 AC Laptop Power Cable (singles) $2.99 each.
  - (10) New Dell 2 Prong Big MF235 AC Power Cable Lot (lot of 10) $14.99 per lot.
  - New Dell 2 Prong Small GU952 AC Laptop Power Cable (singles) $2.99 each.
  - (10) New Dell 2 Prong Small GU952 AC Power Cable Lot (lot of 10) $14.99 per lot.

4.) 5:40 - 5:45: Move inventory to accounting office.

5.) 5:50 - 6:05: Blog

-- Spencer

Expectations. [August 2nd 2011]

Let's hope this all goes well, shall we?

We've been instructed to make individual postings tracking the speed at which we are listing items,
as a matter of personal record and for future reference.
In all fairness, we've been asked to do this every hour on the hour, so I would like to make a point that this first one is running 20 minutes late. Not sure when this will get posted, because I'm editing as I go.
The current time is 4:19 PM.
I would like to manage four listings in the next forty minutes.
Let's begin.

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• 4:30PM 

            [Helping Spencer to sort cables.]

• 4:39PM 

           [The sorting of power cables is finished, but the urge to void my bowels has come over me.
            Dear merciful flying spaghetti monster... WHAT DO I DO?!]

5 listings complete.

OUR
TIME
IS
RUNNING
OUT!

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Mario just asked for me, so I guess that's all I've got from 4 - 5 PM, today.
Pulled off 5 listings in 40 minutes, about 200-300 dollars of inventory, I think.
5PM updates incoming.
Gonna shoot for the same, this time.

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• 5:09 PM

WE BEGIN AGAIN.

2 complete. :[
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Okay, that was awful.
I guess sometimes you run into tricky items that are hard to find.
:/  Never documented that, before, but from experience - it's definitely true.

Gonna shoot for 5 listings, again.

Here comes 6-7PM...
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4 complete





--Austin

The Week of Great Accomplishments!

This week is full of goals and surprises. Austin, Spencer, Vincent and Sal are in for some roller coaster challenges.

Where to start?

1. Achieve 2,000 listings by weeks end. Totally possible with the amount of inventory and the addition of 1 more hand.
2. Vincent will get us to that magical 500 listings on Amazon by weeks end. A nice welcome back goal.
3. Spencer and Austin will be running timed listing races all week long. Lets hope there listing rates per hour
continue to spiral upwards.
4. Sal will be help us with the battle of the bulge as we sell out of perc scsi cards this week. I just know Liz will close the next big one.. she's got a lot of cards played and one hand is sure to bring in the big fish.
5. Cyberinfinity will start coming to life as an entity. Taylor will have the shell wrapped up and we get to populate it this week in between listings. I will be answering most of the emails and asking for help every once in a while.
6. There will be a minimum of 10 new youtube videos added to enhance our existing product lines including at least 5 more gold scrap listings videos. I really love the speed at which the one we had up and running sold in less than 2 days.. Great Job Spencer and Austin.
7. Prezis there will be blogging each and every day by all listing people.... no exceptions. This means your goals must be blogged daily. Non-negotiable. Your future job descriptions are detailed in how quickly and accurately you achieve your goals. Your future is being written.
8. We will meet Greg this week. ( Spencer)
9. There is a rare chance that the boss will surprise you guys with something really big this week. ( Just waiting for more info )
10. And finally, we will be Happy at the end of the week after achieving all the goals the boss set for us as well as the goals that we set in our daily blogs. Please make your blogs accurate and professional. Other decent people just might be reading our blogs and find encouragement in this most bitter and painful economy.
Mario

                                                              So says .......,
                                                              The Boss!!!

Cash Crop

Though I will try to remain from flaming
with the wrath of Lord Inglip.

This is not a blag post meant to entertain.  


 I would like to address a question recurring within our youtube videos from subscribers [and not subscribers alike], regarding the selling of gold scrap from Austin Cyber Shop.
Some of which, are quite harsh.

• First question -

YES, our boss is aware we sell gold scrap.
Now then, that has been taken care of.. 

• Second off, and more importanly--

Do you people have any idea how much time and effort it takes to refine large amounts of gold?
To isolate and remove it from all those boards?
No?

Well, we are continually asked by youtube users why we don't just take all the gold off and sell it that way, or keep it for ourselves.
Allow me to explain, dear reader.

Gold refineries are huge.

Dangerous?

Places where gold is scrapped and melted down are hot, sweaty, dangerous environments, and require many trained workers.

We simply don't have the labor for that. 

Yes, we could probably sell this office and move into a warehouse and melt gold all day long, but we simply don't have the experience for that. We sell and play with electronics, not molten metals.

We're not simply going to do away with the whole business, hire talented and skilled workers, and then become the world's largest distributor [or hoarder] of gold, instead of pens.

Do you have any clue how much work it takes to refine elements all day?

Look, gents, the fact of the matter remains that it is dangerous to spend all day in hot warehouses and in tight, enclosed spaces with lots of hydrofluoric acid and various vapors and extreme temperatures.

Not to mention that it is also quite profitable to sell gold scrap to people.

We leave the dissolving and reverse electrolysis and the melting to the consumer, while we find the faulty electronics to distribute.

Granted, 85% of the people sending us messages about gold scrap are complaining and trying to get the scrap from us for lower prices,

but the 15% that don't complain are the returning customers who know what they're doing and continue to buy from us.

Have a nice day.

--Austin

Innovation

In the past hour, I've listed 5 items.

^ Business blog, complete.

Hopefully I will be able to increase this...

The more listings you have, the more inventory there is available for someone to buy. 

Which is a good thing.

NOW THEN;
I would like to take a moment to kill a little time and talk about innovation.

Yesterday, I talked about how to enhance material to get a consumer to pay more attention, but today...

Today I think I would like to chat about HOW to do this.

Sure, there's always updating listings, perfecting, and enhancing with colours and fancy card tricks,

but sooner or later we will need to flesh out inventory. People will not be wanting to buy motherboards and video cards when the world is rushed into crystalline data storage, space faring craft, non-moving HDDs, and biological machines.

Or build a hovercraft from the engine, and sell that, instead.

...Granted, some of that is still far away, but evolution of product is better than extinction.
In other words, you could sell a vacuum cleaner to a man - or you could scrap the vacuum altogether, and build something interesting from its individual parts, be it a broom, joystick for a computer game- 

So I think you get my point. 

If you can sell a vacuum cleaner, that's great - but what do you do when everyone has a Roomba with cats riding on them? You take apart the old vacuums you have sitting in storage, and you find a way to make people want them. You build hovercraft.

So, what can we do with our older listings? Some of these motherboards will be useless within a few years, with the rise of the tablets and "smart" phones.

Regardless of where I think overpriced and out-dated hardware belongs, people will always want their smart phone and their tablet.

I think that at a certain point, it would be interesting to do more than just recycle and gold scrap out old product ~
when you could take those products and build something new.

--Austin

Woohoo...

This morning we were tasked to keep track of how many listings we complete in an hour....  I was able to complete a whopping 5 listings..  Sooooo tired..   /)-_-(\ (headache)

On a lighter note, Auctiva has proven to be a very nice upgrade from the old Turbo Lister program we used before. And it was totally my idea to switch.  Go me.  <(^-^<) <(^-^)> (>^-^)>

-Sasquatch

01 : 02 : 04 : 21 : 53

It's been a brutal week.

The good news is that the next nine days will go by, quickly. Soon enough I can actually have something to do in free time, again, other than sleep in a tree. :3

The Texas MoBo Massacre.

Between all the blogging about bubble wrap and the massive influx of video cards and new inventory, life can be tough.
Spence is trying out some new VLog thing, but personally, I like this more. The ability to write and entertain is much more... interesting to me than a VLog, though I see the attraction, since most of consumer america is more interested in quick-and-easy entertainment than actually enjoying some good literature.

So, tonight, I shall vent not the stresses of my day, but merely the monotony that happens when you throw a few dudes into a room filled with video cards and a need to push product.



What makes a good blog?
Wit, I think. Witty remarks, and a bit of humor, mixed with a sarcastic and optimistic view of life.
Yeah. That's the stuff. Literary skills will get you somewhere, but more often it appears to be that you have to flood a page with entertaining words and pretty colours to grasp the attention of an audience - and on stage that is simply a beautiful thing ~ but what happened to literature?

I guess I'm asking myself the same thing about consumers, now.
What do you have to do to grasp someone's attention on eBay? On Amazon?
Do you have to flood your listing with pretty colours? Do you need explosions in the background to sell an old Radeon card?
Is it necessary to blur all the images and burn the edges to attract hipsters?

At what point are you no better than Michael Bay?
When has the prostitution of a product gone so far that you're no better than...well...






If I can mesmerize an audience with some spinning lights synchronized to a musical score -
then surely I can mesmerize an audience with words.

Surely a consumer will read text, and care only about the truthful information given to him -
he shouldn't need explosions and lies and bribes to make his way to our online store,
he should be attracted simply by seeing through google search results who we really are.

The World's Leading Supplier in Ball-Point Pens.

--Austin

CRANK

I love the feeling of popping bubble wrap.

Those little hexagonal pods, resembling that of a hive of bees or a colony of creatures creating something as gorgeous as a coral reef, are truly a mystery to me.

It may sound absurd, but those little pockets of joy are so tender and silken to the touch of a finger, they excite the nerves and provide just a little taste of heaven - but they're so tiny and soft, it's easy to pop them, on accident or not - and just enjoy the satisfying *SNAP* that echoes about the room.

It doesn't help that we have bubble wrap lying around everywhere, especially the 50 or 60 feet of it rolled up in the bathroom, as it tends to sit there as a silent temptation, ultimately destroying the lives of those spending thousands of dollars monthly on expedited shipping to have these gargantuan rolls of marshmallowy goodness brought to their front doors, like some kind of rare Egyptian lace.

Of course, all is for naught, as these rolls, these beautiful bubbling creatures of anti-static material are ultimately destroyed and thrown into a recycling plant - only to be melted down and recreated, reborn, reincarnated, again and again and again as gargantuan beasts, containing small windows into the glories of the universe, defending small [and large] delicate materials with their very lives, as cruel human captors snap them one by one, releasing those dear secrets of the heavens they beheld, and sending them as vapor and gas escaping into the air around us, enlightening us, but taking a shred of magic and mystery away from the world with every little crackle, be it accidental or malicious.

If it weren't for the creation of bubble wrap, a substance more addictive than most club drugs or hard-lines, then wizards, witches, and even hogwarts itself might exist amongst us.

Faeries might still exist. Mushrooms in magical forests standing millennia tall and wide might dance and sing and illuminate the night with beautiful bio-luminescence to show the way for creatures large and small that frolicked through this ancient and undisturbed meadows, a land before time, hidden away from man.

Bubble wrap is a wretched and beautiful creation,

and I have an addiction.

--Austin

Exciting Happenings!

We have a potential client coming in today to have lunch with Mario and man am I excited.
Why? Well it's not just because they are having some lean chicken, lightly breaded, with a soft cream orange sauce that makes it melt in your mouth so that...Anyway, this "potential client" has bought a few bulk items from us in the past and he may just be interested in cleaning out some of our older inventory. Can't wait for them to get back so I can hear the hopefully good news!


- Spencer

Wonderful-Wednesdays

We've had another exciting day here at the office!
We finally finished PCI/Wireless card (Dell) perfection today! I made a new table/chart/guide on how to look up drivers for the cards and got it into all of the (Dell) listings in one day! WOO (Of course I had some wonderful help from Vincent and Sal)!
We are just about ready to branch back out our brokering department with Mario, Austin, and Myself making personal emails to customers in order to help them with their many problems and to also offer better deals on bulk items (send us a Yahoo! IM at cyberinfinityemail@yahoo.com for more information).
Tomorrow I really hope we can get another good chunk of the mini PCI/Wireless card expansion project out of the way (if not total completion) and to (hopefully) get through Laptop Inverter expansion (already perfected for the most part) either entirely tomorrow or toward the beginning of Friday.
Yay progress! July fourth is just around the corner as well.
Well I wish all 4 of you reading this a wonderful Wednesday and hopefully a good Thursday and Friday as well!
- Signing off
- Spencer

T-Rex Tuesdays

Rawr.
- Today I got some more packaging/shipping training/stuff done toward the end of the day (we're going to work backwards on the blag), which mainly involved me re-packaging the same thing twice before I realized that I had only done half of the order and had to not only start over, but remove the 5 layers of tape (no exaggeration here folks) that I used to mummify the already beaten box before I could even re-package it.
- Before this: I finally did it. Went insane you might ask? No, not quite yet my dear person. I finally finished setting up our in-office, Yahoo Messenger network (feel free to contact us at austincybershop@yahoo.com or more preferably at cyberinfinityemail@yahoo.com)!
- Even before this I furthered my work with perfecting the mini PCI/wireless card listings by adding in driver information.
What a day, almost half way done with this week!

-Spencer

Force

Not even the best can always bend everything the way they need them to be.
:/

Got Adobe DreamWeaver CS5 installed today, worked on a template a bit, did a WHOLE lot of copypasta -
which pretty much fried my already boiled down mind.
Sorry guys, no jokes, today!

Checklist:

--SKU's copypasta'd
--CS5 installed
--Contacted imaginationunlimited
--moderate perfecting
--worked on switching around some passwords to improve security


errrrrr
All I can think of, at the moment.
Time to go deal with tech support outside of the office, and get some actual sleep.
--Austin

To my New recruits!

Like a proud Papa, I am very proud of the progress these young'ins have brought to our company. They are a delight to work with and it's been a very long time since I have seen soo much energy exerted in one place.
There are so many goals to achieve before the summer ends and I'm quite sure that with this crew, we  will be able to achieve them all and that makes me VERY HAPPY! They haven't achieved their full potential yet in life, yet one could not tell from the amount of enthusiasm that radiates from their smiley faces that they weren't already upstanding professionals. I look forward to challenging them to their wit's end and making fine officers of my young staff. Keep me smiling! That's good for me, that's good for you, it's good for Austin, and it's good for AMERICA not to mention your future earnings within this company. I hope to send you off to college with a lot more than you ever expected from a first Boss.
We still have a long way to go before summer ends!
Mario

Revisions!

Today I got the privilege of adding links/embeds into our eBay page descriptions, sounds easy right? Yes, it actually was; there was a near total of 96 total PCI/Wireless card listings that required a link to a Dell compatibility database and a personally embedded YouTube video using HTML instead of Java (each one embedded with more 'love' and care than the one before it). Of course I found my short cuts and got in a pretty good groove, but this project just ate away at over two hours of my heart, soul, and my very being. I hope that my work will help us get a few more sales along with many more satisfied customers.
Also, I now (and tomorrow) have to do the same thing but with custom crafted links routing to all the specific drivers of nearly every Dell Mini PCI/Wireless card. Oh woe is me.~

...Oh, and everyone else in the office did some stuff to.

- Spencer

What a Week!

Wow, where to start:

1.) We all started a new company project of going through all of our Ebay listings for mini PCI/Wireless cards and expanding the original listing as well as expanding and creating four new similar listings for each original. Let me explain this using a numerical standpoint: We had 168 original listings and had to have a total of 5 new listings for each of those (most of them), so 168 X 5 = 840 listings minus the original 168 equals a goal of 672 total listings just under the PCI category (we have around a total of 1500 listings at the moment). Thus far, we have 215 done, so 840 - 215 = only 625 left! It's progress.
2.) We began expanding our horizons by teaching many of the newer members (poor Austin is out of town) how to package and ship sold items. Personally I must say that I find it fun much to the dismay of my coworkers.
3.) CLEAN UP ALL THE DEAD ROLLY-POLLIES THAT ARE APPARENTLY EVERYWHERE.
4.) General projects have been on the agenda as well:

• Austin: Google Adsense, general ads, misc. coding, listings, idea factory, planning (went out of town halfway through the week).
• Spencer: Social networking/management, expansion to LinkedIn, adding ease-of-use links and YouTube videos into listings via HTML coding, PCI card expansion project, writing a script for and filming a video about compatibility of Dell PCI cards for different computers (starring our own Vincent Martinez). Which, in retrospect, seems like a lot of work, but it actually was decently easy (I'm just that good haha).
• Vincent: Amazon stuff, Ebay stuff, expansion stuff, listing stuff, video/acting stuff, more stuff.
• Mario: Oh captain, our captain. 
• James: Shipping stuff, teaching monkeys to ship stuff, expanding listings, correcting listings, revising and checking listings, and listings...I see a trend here.
• Last but not least, Accounting: Chrisse and Liz have knocked out a ton of sold stuff that needed to be prepared to be shipped. They have managed the accounts and acted as (and always will be) the backbone of our operation.

Have you ever tried writing and un-biased article where you only know the gist of what everyone else does on a daily basis? Well this is the results, whether you are at a party or a funeral, we hope you all have an amazing weekend!

- Austin Cyber Shop
- Spencer

Rest in peace Bruce Dinkins and Travis Sultemeier you are in our hearts and minds.

Amazon......

Well, I've been working on Amazon for a couple of weeks now... It has its perks, but is flooded with a plethora of inconveniences for a not-so-humongous company like ours.  Unless you're willing to throw down the 800+ dollars to obtain a UPC coding system, you're stuck sorting through your inventory, finding products that happen to already have a listing on Amazon.  This means it also has another competitor on Amazon.  So it's almost impossible sell any product without competition.  We don't intend to charge a ridiculous amount should we be in that position, but it is still nice to have control over a product that, in all other markets, we already have control over. 

Despite the hindering system Amazon has set up, I've managed to create around 150 listings.  It was a pain individually sorting through our eBay listings, but I've gotten through a good third of our inventory.  The Amazon search engine is hilarious though.  There were a good 3 or 4 times I lol'd when it said "Displaying listings 21-20 of 22 results" and it only actually came out with 1 result.  The key word system is also very annoying.  It seems to search through all of the mother listing, and each of its derivatives.. so if there happens to be your search words in any of the listings, that parent listing shows up.  This makes searching for certain part numbers (Dell ones in particular) very annoying.  I'll type in DW454 and 30 books, a GI-Joe, and 25 power adapters will show up.....

                                                                                         -Vincent (Sasquatch)

Social Expansion

Social expansion in the modern world (or at least for the purpose of this blag) refers to the expansion of social networking within the field of business (for the sake of simplicity we will refer to just this one field). In modern business, image is everything; if you want your business to be successful, whether it be small or large, you must devote a portion of time and money toward how you present yourself as a company. Therefore, the investment of a small portion of time toward social networking, logos, websites, is almost invaluable. All of these tasks take very little time, cost very little money (when done correctly), and can help companies expand both their total revenue and the size of the company dramatically. Social networking provides connections to workers, consumers, possible customers, rival companies, and investors. Social networking is available to almost everyone and anyone which, in turn, allows almost everyone to be connected to each other. Overall the most valuable aspect of networking is that it is almost always free (however this depends on your definition of free as their will most likely be ads). This is how people receive information in the modern world; this is how people, organizations, and companies become well known and supported. It's time to get connected to all of the potential possibilities.
-Spencer

I Am A Turtle.

So today comes another major overhaul.

Connecting eBay account to other stuff,
synchronizing feeds,
etc. etc.

It's gonna be a long friday.

Let's hope I don't spend three hours staring at co- oh wait here comes the code.
:/

Now staring at code...

Now what did I do with that file...?

Also, for today's entertainment...
Go look up "Gloving".


--Austin

My Code's Compiling

So while we chill over here in a new blag post,
I guess I'll just make a weekly report of everything I've done this week.

Hopefully; other people will start using this blog and my boring work-related posts won't be quite so alone
and then it won't be so awful in here.

Anywho,

Monday- Tech support. Migrated some DNS over to eBay so that Austincybershop.com = our prostore.

Tuesday- Tech support. Migrating the DNS screwed our email mailboxes,
so I had to get the MX records from our network hosting provider and update eBay's, and now that all that garbage is done the email works again.
Talked to a really nice Techie from eBay, [Darlene] who rather enjoyed the three...[or six] hours that I spent talking to her over the last few days. She was pretty cool. Everybody else from eBay was pretty dumb and had no idea what I was trying to get them to update, and I'm sure me and that fem-techie got along just fine because I could thoroughly explain and listen well.

Wednesday- Despite doing ridiculous amounts of work, I feel like I did nothing this day because I was only at my computer for about three hours.
Things I did on wednesday:
-finish fixing emailboxes
-talk to Darlene some more and removed cyberinfinity from ebay's DNS records
-did some more stuff
-listened to Mario
-implemented what Mario said
-Went to Discount electronics, almost bought everything
-networked all the printers
-considered making a prezi advertisement
-began storyboarding for a series of how-to videos on scrapping different models of computers
[which will hopefully be on youtube soon, as I won't be in the office for three days next week]
-got a cheeseburger
-fixed a massive issue with a data feed on googleBase, which was not fun.
Vincent + Spencer's help shrunk the workload down to about two hours, though.

^ That's about it.
Fast-paced day, man.

Today's rockin' playlist:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXamGOxsyaU
--Austin

Dear Interblag Gods

We need your assistance, man.
Major overhaul taking place in every category available.

Going to try and revamp the entire system, basically. Let's see if we can get this ball rolling...
NEED MOAR MOMENTUM!
Also,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-Ephl0PyB8

--Austin

First Day on the Blag.

Hey, all.
I'm currently the in-house tech-support for Austin Cyber Shop.
We're looking for new ways for our customers to keep in touch, so here's what we've got so far.

Austincybershop.com

Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Austin-Cyber-Shop/109933392430701

Twitter:
http://twitter.com/#!/AustinCyberShop

Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/user/AustinCyberShop

And now, instantaneous chatting with on-site representatives,
 [including technical support, trust me, I'm the nicest one!]
via Yahoo IM:
"austincybershop" <===username


Hope that everybody finds this Blag useful, as I'm sure I will find it interesting to create and collaborate on.
Be sure to expect photos of big lot buys, future products, etc etc.
We just scrapped about 30 towers, so there's some new inventory floating about. Go check it out.


--Austin