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Professional Phone Greeting

Apr 4

Posted by Daniel in Blogroll, Random, work | No Comments

At work, I was moved to a different location in the building. With the move, someone accidentally deleted my voice message recordings. With that said, I had to redo mine and with this opportunity I went ahead and polished up my message. This is what it is now:

Thank you for calling the Southwest Riverside County Association of REALTORS®. You have reached the desk of Daniel Brincat. I’m sorry I was not able to take your call. If you will, please leave your name, phone number, and a brief message and I will get back to you as soon as I can. Or you may email me at Daniel Thats D – A – N – I – E – L @ S – R – C – A – R – . – O – R – G. Thank you and have a great day.

Thank you for calling (COMPANY NAME). You have reached the desk of (YOUR NAME). I’m sorry I was not able to take your call. If you will, please leave your name, phone number, and a brief message and I will get back to you as soon as I can. Or you may email me at (FIRST PART OF EMAIL ADDRESS) Thats (SPELLING OF FIRST PART OF EMAIL ADDRESS) @ (EMAIL DOMAIN SPELLED OUT). Thank you and have a great day.

So yeah, there you have it. I’m interested to see what other think of this.

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New Building

Oct 26

Posted by Daniel in building, moving, work | No Comments

So the company I work for is looking for a new building to move into.  My boss was talking about this in the kitchen and so one thing led to the next and the next thing I know we’re walking to the building in question.   We talk about all the pros and cons of it, parking, how much remodeling would need to be done to be done, how much it costs. Its a newer building, with very little parking up front, but lots of parking on the side and in back of the building. The front of the place gives a very nice, sophisticated look, with a nice row of windows with a solid glass door. It looked really cool.  On one side was a solid wall, and on the other side was a loading dock. The back had some more dock space with with some other doors. It looked like it had a pretty good sized warehouse which would be cool for storage.

If we moved there, I would finally get my own office which I’m pretty happy about.  I would have a full server room compared to my server closet… Closet…. Uggg. But yeah, that would be pretty nice.  I’m just worried about internet connectivity. The best that I could get is DSL 1.5 up and down. Not that great especially when you have our entire office on that connection all day, and trying to run a web/email/etc server on it too. So I will have to confront that issue. Maybe just get two separate DSL connections. One for the office, and one for the servers only. We’ll see.

I’m hopeful. Our current situation is not working anymore, so hopefully this can materialize soon.

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2007 CAR REALTOR® Expo in Anaheim, CA – Tech Tuesday

Oct 9

Posted by Daniel in srcar, travel, work | No Comments

CAR_Convention_2007_001_1.JPGSo here I am at the Anaheim, CA Convention Center attending the 2007 CAR REALTOR® Expo Convention. Today is known as Tech Tuesday where they spend all of today geared toward conversations for the more tech savvy or inspiring tech savvy individuals. So my schedule looked like this today:

  • Registration at 8:30AM
  • 9am-10am: 411 on Blogging: Turning Online Leads Into Profit with Kevin Boer, Butch Grimes, Pat Kitano, and one other lady that I cant remember her name (But I have her photo). In all honesty, this didn’t really meet any expectations of what I thought it was going to be. The event didn’t have very good flow. Butch Grimes, and Kevin Boer both were great, but the other two didn’t really offer anything insightful.
    • You know the old saying “Its not what you know, its who you know.” Well, Butch Grimes took it one step further: “Its not what you know, its not even who you know… Its who knows YOU!” Think about that. This statement is very true. How do people remember you? How do you get people to remember you? Did you make that lasting impression, and was it good? I really like how he took that statement and expanded on it.
    • People are lazy. They don’t want to read. Podcasts are getting so much more popular because its easier to capture an audience with audio and video. People are lazy when it comes to reading, but they will listen and watch. So keep that in mind.
    • So a question was brought up, how do you know what to write about? People want to read things that will educate them, inform, and current news for a few examples.
  • 10am-11:30am: Tech Tuesday General Session: REALTOR® 2.0: The next big thing.
    • I sat in this class really looking forward to hearing what these people said.
    • About 20 minutes into the session, I got a text saying my package that I was waiting for arrived. So I left to get my new LCD screen for my laptop.
  • 12pm-1:30pm: Tech Tuesday Luncheon: The Medici Effect: Ground-breaking Innovation at the Intersection of Disciplines, Cultures, and Technology. Featuring Frans Johansson.
    • This was a great session. It was an inspirational session on how to think outside the box and take several things and apply them together to be different. For example: termites and architecture… What do they have in common? Well, nothing really. But if you examine how termites build their colony’s you can learn something about it and apply it to our (human) world. Think about a building with no air conditioning. Termite mounds don’t have AC either, surprise! But they do maintain a constant temperature in their colonies. So we learn how they do that, and apply it to our buildings.
    • Thats a perfect example of what Frans was talking about.
  • 2pm-3pm: Website Transformation: Satisfying the Demands of Today’s Internet Consumer.
  • 3pm-4pm: SEM (Search Engine Marketing)

And thats all for now. Now I’m headed to the EXPO… I’m gonna go get me some Pens.

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Bye Bye Kramer Computers Services

Mar 10

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Well, I officially do not work at my old job anymore. I just left like 20 minutes ago. Im kinda sad, but at the same time very excited about my new job.

humm.

I always hate it when people say “Lets have a talk”

Feb 24

Posted by Daniel in Random, work | No Comments

We have a “talk” today… The (ex)boss and me. Wonder how this is going to go? I’m really not to worried about it.