By Valerie on Oct 20, 2009 in Travel | 0 Comments
One of the best things about our small family is that we stick together through thick and thin. Over the course of the last year, our finances haven’t been so great and therefore we had to sacrifice some things in our lives – but no one complained.
But things have turned around over the course [...]
By Valerie on Sep 24, 2009 in Travel | 0 Comments
If you have ever worked in any kind of coffee shop, retail store, or any business where you are selling a product or service to customers, chances are you have heard of up selling.
In a nutshell, up selling is when a sales person tries to get a customer to buy more through such things [...]
By Valerie on Aug 24, 2009 in Entertainment | 0 Comments
When I visited Tennessee for my two sons’ Destination Imagination competition, I fell in love with the South. I’m a California girl, but I’m so tired of western or Mexican themed things that I could just spit! I really want to go back some day.
We stayed at the University of Tennessee both times we were [...]
By Valerie on Jul 26, 2009 in Business | 0 Comments
I’m a high school drama teacher in Castle Rock, Colorado. I know how to deal with all aspects of production, but I’ve got to tell you, I really fall short when it comes to graphic design. Whether it’s painting particularly artistic pieces of the set, or maybe just coming up with the art for a [...]
By Valerie on Jul 22, 2009 in Business | 0 Comments
One of the biggest problems that modern businesses face is document storage and retrieval. The traditional way is to stick a document into a file and then stick the file into a filing cabinet. And for decades this was pretty much the only choice businesses had. And over the decades filing systems advanced very little.
But [...]