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
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Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
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
- 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
:/
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
Monday, June 27, 2011
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
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
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
Friday, June 24, 2011
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 Cyber Shop
- Spencer
Rest in peace Bruce Dinkins and Travis Sultemeier you are in our hearts and minds.
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.
- 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)
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)
Monday, June 20, 2011
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
-Spencer
Friday, June 17, 2011
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
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
Thursday, June 16, 2011
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
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
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
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
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
Monday, June 13, 2011
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
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
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