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News Carol | 20 Mar 2008

New Studio Update

Studio II

New Studio Design

This is a rough sketch (you can click to see it larger) of our new reception room. The walls are already done, but the mouldings, ceiling tiles/track and part of the floor are rendered in by computer to check our design ideas. You can see that some of the switch plates are missing and construction is going on in Rick’s office.

~~Carol

Business & Information & News & Technology Carol | 20 Mar 2008

Technology: @#$%^*!

There is not much that can hurt a business more than having the phones out for a day or longer.

Unless your phones do not go out, but parts of your service do not work and there is no way of knowing it, unless you call yourself. And who does that?

Our voice mail has not been working properly for weeks… Continue Reading »

News Carol | 07 Mar 2008

Small move, Big changes.

Right before Christmas last year, one of the tenants here in the Elias Building moved out, leaving Rick with a vacancy. Because of the large size of this particular office, one of the frequent discussions - and drawbacks - is that it needs to be divided to accommodate multiple people. Rick took matters into his own hands and decided to divide it, himself, and upgrade it, with the possibility that it would rent faster - since nobody would need to divide it - and fetch a much-deserved higher rate.

Meanwhile, we would sit where we are today, and when/if the new tennants across the hall moved, we would move there temporarily to remodel our space.

My response to that was…. well I am sure I looked… confused. After a couple of hours, the discussion about how to best divide the office and have it be very elegant turned into “Why don’t we just move in, ourselves?” Continue Reading »

News Carol | 05 Mar 2008

Discovering New Tools: An “Aha!” Moment at Elias Photography

Elias Photography: A Step Forward in Our Website Technology.

Some people are just not technically savvy. In our business, technology comes in slowly and with a great deal of consideration and effort. We keep our eyes out and when something becomes available and seems to fit with what we are doing we have a look.

Today is one of the days where we have found something that we hope will solve a myriad of problems. This is the slide show that we have in our front window:

Yes, indeed, a slide show on our new Web Site is a good thing!

~~Carol