If you are a techie because you love it and want to expand your knowledge, send your resume to jobs at entechserv dot com.  You must be facile with Windows desktop/servers.  Some familiarity with Linux is a plus.  Include what scripting and other languages you have learned — what you want to learn.  We are looking for someone who can go into an unknown situation and solve problems on the fly.

NO AGENCIES!

It is refreshing to work with PDG’s clients, since these people are ALL devoted to Steve Simon and to Rich Lederer.  Whatever magic they do, they do it well because their clients have been with them for a looooong time and are very, very happy.  This makes the work we do so much easier.

Imagine the honor we felt when we received this today:

Cedric, Dan, and Susan,

We are particularly happy to have found technical service that has such high standards of knowledge and communication. Rich and I feel that we are giving a gift to our customers by recommending you.

Regards,

Seth describes arrogant as being a hair’s breadth away from having “the confidence and attitude that goes with bringing a new idea into the world”.

Someone who has enthusiasm for a passion and shares that enthusiasm can only be called arrogant by the misinformed.

This definition is what I think of when I meet someone who is truly arrogant:

ar·ro·gant adj.

1. Having or displaying a sense of overbearing self-worth or self-importance.

2. Marked by or arising from a feeling or assumption of one’s superiority toward others:

We’ve all met the arrogant guy – the one who will have a conversation with you explaining how he is all and you are nothing.  The slightly derogatory tone of voice.  The aloof demeanor.

The person this definition describes is someone who is actually only talking to himself.  You are right in front of him, his body, mouth, eyes are all pointed in your direction.  Words come out of the mouth, but they are not intended for you…they are directed only toward his own inner dialogue.  No one else really exists.

Unfortunately for all of us, this has been erased by the Department of Transportation earlier this morning but the sentiment still lives on…

NY Daily News

And just for the record…We here at Entechserv do not sanction any abuse of tourists but we sure think this is hilarious!

He wanted a fast solution for email; we migrated all of his old emails onto our Collaboration Suite and set him up with an email with his own URL.  His Blackberry has become his mobile office:

• Our spam filter is so advanced, he can easily access his real emails so that he can answer them instantly.
• Appointments and deadline alerts are with him wherever he goes,
• He sets appointments and new tasks from clients’ offices as they are created, rather than using an appointment book or waiting until he gets to his office.
• He sends and receives email confirmations for all appointments from his phone or from his desk.  No more wasted time on appointments that clients forget about.
• He stores important, confidential documents on the web client to be accessed and downloaded from his client’s office, enhancing security.

This is just what he has raved about — since the collaboration suite is part of our lives we don’t know what other parts of it he is using.

The result of his new-found efficiency? He started hiring employees and we just installed a new server and workstations in his office.

People considering starting their own businesses often have no idea of how to begin and what business to get started in.  I have tried to help by tritely asking, “What are you the most passionate about?”  Wrong!  From now on I will ask, “How do you most effectively help?”

I attended a seminar featuring Marc Cenedella,  the founder of TheLadders.com.  The most subtle, yet most obvious thing about this man?  He was exalted!

The word needs defining:

exalted adj 1: of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style;– WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005)

and exalt:

1: laud: praise, glorify, or honor; 2: exhilarate: fill with sublime emotion; 3: inspire: heighten or intensify;4: raise in rank, character, or status; –  wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

Before the seminar, I fully expected to hear about how Marc made all of his money, how he advertised in this way or that, how he did some kind of viral thing – but he either ignored that area, joked about it or skimmed over it.

The message conveyed by Marc was that he loves to effectively help people, and increased his ability to do that by increasing the number of people who came to him for help.  He now gets to indulge his joy any time he wants – the result?  He’s generally exalted.  The side effect is that he’s rich.

Have you ever met someone who worked just for the money?  Totally miserable – probably an alcoholic – at best, impossible to enjoy being around.  Many entrepreneurs started out with strong ideals about delivering a product or service that would benefit others, then lost sight of that goal in the face of unpaid bills or “unsolvable” problems.  The goal changed to finding clients who would pay them money.  Desperation set in and then they failed.  That failure was blamed on the economy, the product or any other reason other than that the original ideal was lost.

We met the owners of Universal Processing (now our clients).  These guys are the cleanest, brightest young men I’ve met in a long time.  They are ethical, excited about their product and they create their business because it is an honest alternative to anything else that is out there.  They help people.  They work to find more people to help and to create more effective ways to help businesses.  If you get a chance to talk to any of the owners of this group, you’ll find they are exalted.

By the way, if you don’t know us personally and meet any of us from Entechserv, you will find that we are (almost always) exalted.  Our clients know this and they know why!

I met Ellen DePasquale, The Software Revitalist, at a NY Entrepreneur’s Business Network seminar.  Her presentation showed how to use Social Media to prospect – it was brilliant and she gave tons of information, but that was just the tip of the information mountain from this amazing lady.

I started checking out her blog and found she also instructs on how to save employers time and money.

Ellen DePasquale has written a white paper on the overwhelm employees experience when they don’t know the software they are using.  She writes a blog about ways to automate your systems (huge time-saver) using the common programs we all share (like Office).  Her book,  It’s About Time – Time Management Tips From The Software Revitalist, goes into detail on how to make our tools work for us (rather than the reverse).

She is definitely the other side of our coin.

From your document, click “File”, “Print” and click PDFCreator from the drop down menu in the Print dialogue box.

When I get this screen, I click “Save” because I’m inherently a pack rat.  After you click “Save” do the standard “Save As” thing – name it and decide where to put it.

We have found that the resulting .pdf is usually smaller than the one made from that other company that charges you to do this…

This update from Dan Lawson, our tech guy:  Many times the resulting PDF won’t be smaller.  Recent versions of Adobe’s software creates PDFs by saving the text as text, etc.  PDFCreator saves it as one big image.  Not a bad method, but not necessarily smaller.

Play around with it and let us know your results.