Word: phoned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Senator Smith on the phone, who informed me he didn't need my help. "Given all the people I have to hire, I don't think I can afford a joke writer," he said. "I think I need a fund raiser before a joke writer." So for now, Smith is going to continue writing his own gags. I'm going to refocus my efforts on the next most likely candidate. And I've got some Quayle jokes he's just going to love...
...shrimp, live Maine lobsters and even Alaskan king-crab legs. Just as importantly, from Hanson's point of view, taking orders over the Internet has freed up some of his 30 employees to help customers at the store's counter. "I couldn't afford to have people on the phone all day processing orders," he says. "The website is a gift from the heavens...
...familiarized yourself with the Web, figure out what you want to do with it. Some small businesses are satisfied with e-mail only--it's extremely cheap and opens a new form of communication with customers and suppliers. Others prefer to provide a little information like phone numbers and an address in a kind of virtual yellow pages. A website can be the equivalent of a single page or a thick magazine. A brochure-ware website, for example, holds roughly 10 megabytes of memory or enough space for, say, a page or two of photographs of the store along with...
...home in 1995 developing a small, bare-bones website for his company. It simply explained what the company sold and where it was located. A couple of weeks later, a customer in Meridian, Miss., liked what he saw online and proceeded to place an order over the phone for a Takamine guitar. More orders flooded in. "We realized people liked sitting on the computer buying things, and that's what got us to go big time," says Spremulli. He invested $3,900 with Web consultant Blacksheep blacksheep3d.com and two years ago set up www.norwalk music.com The website, which gives customers...
...ANCESTRY FAMILY HISTORIAN'S ADDRESS BOOK by Juliana Szucs Smith (Ancestry). Whether you're looking for the phone number of the American Historical Association or the Jewell County, Kans., Historical Society, you'll find it here...