Direct MP3 Download: Podnutz Daily #211 – Overly Polite, But Too Cool
Daniel Maloney from YourTechie.ca joins us this week.
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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Music provided by Evan King
Notes by Mike Evans at datamike.net
