Lois McBride

A fairly important holiday is coming up in the next month or so, I am not sure exactly how far away it is off of the top of my head. But this is the time of year that we traditionally send out little presents to our clients, as a token of our appreciation to them. So we are trying to find a company to make corporate gifts in Singapore for us to send to those clients.

We have not completely decided on what we want to do in terms of the gifts, but we have some different ideas that have been floating around the office. We want something that is branded with our company’s name and logo, but has some functionality or value. At the same time, it can’t be a gift that is worth very much money, because we have a corporate policy against giving anything more than a modest gift. I believe that there are price limits, but I am not sure what the limit is, and I would have to check our global procedure database for that. Anyway, we can’t exceed those limits because we are restricted from giving even the appearance of impropriety, or conflict of interest.

That is because our company does a lot of third-party testing, which is supposed to be completely neutral, and therefore our reputation hinges partially on our ability to appear to be a neutral party. Anyway, that was a bit of a boring aside, because I started typing this to try to figure out what we were going to get for gifts to our clients, and instead I spoent a lot of time talking about what we could not do for presents. Anyway, I just found the contact info for a local company and I am going to give them a call.

The costs of producing something on video are not cheap. Anyone who is making a professional production video realizes that they need an adequate budget to get the job done right. However, even if you have what amounts to unlimited resources to get your video done, you can still make a big mistake if you do not pick a fantastic production team to get it done. There are all kinds of production companies out there, but we decided to go with Big 3 video production, especially after a tour of their facility in Toa Payoh. The people, the equipment and the dedication let us know they were the ones to handle the story we wanted to tell.

We were developing a video that told the story of our company that started with the childhoods of each of our founders. We are a family company, so including the raw emotions of the reality of their home and family life as children was very important. We had pictures, old videos and even some silent 8mm film that needed to be incorporated into the production. Some of the photos from one of the founders were old black and white pictures taken on a camera that was made in the 1950s. Later images and video snippets are from cell phones and high-end DSLRs. We needed plenty of footage shot from the present day too with all of it being turned into a a 4K video.

We needed the technical and artistic capabilities of the Big 3 video production team to produce our corporate video that was going to be used for some time to come. We only wanted a high-end video made. This required a team of writers, producers, animators, directors and more. We needed technical as well as artistic experience to get the job done. The whole process was very professional, and we are more than pleased with the end product.

I went to Singapore a few years ago with a group of friends. There were six of us total, and we just went for the sake of going. We had never been out of the country, and we decided that a trip to Singapore would be both inexpensive and fun. When we first got there, we spent the first two days on the beach. Then, we decided to start exploring some of the delicacies there. I did a search for Spanish Tapas in Singapore on my smartphone because the desk clerk at our hotel had told us that if we don’t try anything else before we leave, that we have to try that.

I have heard of Tapas, but I had never eaten them. I honestly didn’t even know what they were, exactly. When I did my search, the first result was for a restaurant called La Ventana. It was not far from our hotel, so we decided to go there for our first dinner out, since we had just been eating from the hotel for the first couple of days there. It was fun getting dressed up and hitting the town too!

When we first walked into La Ventana, the staff was so friendly and great. It did not take us long to get seated at a table, and the waiter was very helpful in explaining what different things were. We all decided to try the Tapas, and he suggested several for our table to get. My best friend loved the Roasted Octopus Tapas, but I much preferred the Strawberry Gazpacho and King Crab Tapas. Our table was split down the middle on which one was better, which actually worked out since we all got more of the one we liked. It was so good that we went back there two more times before leaving Singapore!

I have just started to invest money in the stock market, and I really think that it is something that I should have done years ago. But I am only now managing to save up enough money to invest. Before, I was not living paycheck to paycheck, but I was too close to doing so for my own comfort. I am reading reviews on Quicken 2016 because I am thinking about using it to track my finances and also my investments. If I am going to invest money then I need to do it right and that means that I am going to have to keep a very keen eye on my investments, and constantly track what is going on with them.

With any luck, by being super attentive to the stocks that I purchase, I will be able to avoid any serious problems besetting me. I know a lot of people lost a great deal of money in the stock market during the Great Recession of 2008. I am glad that I was not among those people, since I did not have enough money at the time. I guess that it would have been nice to have had enough money to invest back then, but it is fairly likely that I would have lost the money with all of the damage that happened to the economy during that period in time.

I am hopefully going to start investing within the next week. But I need to do a good bit of research before I do anything. I just want to make sure that I am being fairly careful with my money. I definitely do not want to risk losing it over a poorly-researched investment decision. So I am going to do everything I can to avoid anything like that.

After working for my boss for far too long, I finally had enough of him recently. I walked into his office and gave him my two week resignation notice. I think he was surprised only because I stayed for so long, but he also knew that I was leaving because of him. As soon as my two weeks was up, I spent my first day at home getting ready to start my own freelance business. I needed to find a good invoice generator and my own work line for clients to call me on. I needed to work out the rates that I would be charging and so much more.

I have been doing bookkeeping for the past 15 years and have known for a very long time that I am good at what I do. I even got a degree in bookkeeping so that I would never find myself struggling to get a job due to lack of experience for some companies that demand a high degree of experience. I figured that between that and working for some place long enough that I would be able to strike out on my own. I was just glad that time had finally come.

The first thing that I worked on during my first morning alone was finding the right program that would allow me to generate invoices easily. I attached it to a payment website that most people use, and it will allow all of my new clients to pay me at the touch of a button. It will be so much quicker than needing to wait for payments in the mail. My dad is also a freelancer, and I have seen him waiting as long as 60 days for his customers to pay him and get a check in the mail to him.

When times got tough and our mortgage payments every month seemed like we were trying to pay off the National Debt alone, we knew it would not be long before the house was either sold or we defaulted on the mortgage. We were doing everything we could to avoid foreclosure. We were running one and two months behind on our mortgage. At one point we got three months behind. We had tried to sell the house but could not. We were under water with the amount still owed now, so we looked into short sales in Brooklyn NY to see what could be done.

Of course some buyers are interested in a short sale. They get a property for less than its value or at least get a really good deal. They can walk away with a property with no outstanding liens with the bank being happy. We needed to protect ourselves in the short sale as well. We were not going to agree to owing anything after the sale, and we did not want our credit further damaged beyond what it already was. The banks and other creditors all agreed to the short sale details. The buyer got a nice property, and we were able to get out from under a very bad mortgage that we should not have gotten into in the first place.

We were younger and made mistakes with our available credit. We were living from paycheck to paycheck just barely making payments on things. There was no money for savings for those rainy days everyone warns you about. Being young is all sunshine and rainbows, or just looking through rose colored glasses at the world around you. Then you slowly become aware of financial facts. Simply put, the math can’t be ignored. You either have enough money or you do not. At least the short sale kept us from total financial ruin.

I have been really intent on trying to save more money over this past year. In the past, I was really bad on budgeting and making sure I got the best prices on whatever I purchased, but that has been different this year. I had already switched to another electric company, and now I wanted to see what other Internet service providers were in my area to see if I could get a better cost savings there. I had even switched grocery stores and gas stations to get lower prices as well, so finding a cheaper online service was just a natural progression for me.

It is important that I have high speed Internet. I really do not want to waste more time online that is necessary due to crawling at low speeds online. So, I knew that if I could not find a lower price with speedy service, I would need to stay with the company I am with now. I figured some new company would start offering lower prices at a later date if I could not find anyone now.

I was not too surprised to learn that there is more than one new company offering service in my area. I found several pages stating as such within only seconds of searching online about it. I love DSL service, and one other company in the area offers it. I checked out the different plan prices they have and then gave them a call.

The customer service with the company I have been with for years has not been bad at all. So, I needed to make sure that a new company would have great service as well before getting rid of the first company. I have now had my new service installed for three weeks and I have been using it exclusively. The price is much lower than what I was paying before, so I just put in my cancellation order with the first company today. I’m very happy about it.

How do you do effective SEO? I have been looking all over the internet to try to figure that out. In fact I probably would not really know whether or not I was having much effect by myself. There are a lot of things I am good at and a lot of things that I understand, but this is not one of them. I did find this offer, which seems pretty good, if it is true. It is at this SEO based forum, http://www.warriorforum.com/warrior-special-offers/641310-premium-seo-service-get-ranked-page-1-money-back-guarantee.html. Of course I understand the underlying concept of the Google Page Rank. You have a keyword that you are interested in, for instance if you sell widgets that you want to be able to reach the person who searches for widgets. How common the keyword is makes it a lot more difficult. For instance if you are selling burgers, then you have to go up against McDonalds, Wendy’s, Burger King, Hardee’s and so forth. A person who is searching for a burger on his phone is going to find all of those place. You just want to make sure that you do not get pushed off the first page.

Being on that first page is the critical factor, especially if you have a lot of competition. If you were the only game in town it might not matter so much. However if you are selling something that can be bought in a lot of places, like a burger for example, then the buyer is going to find a seller rather easily. It is a matter of price and convenience for him. He obviously does not want to drive all the way across town for a burger and he is not going to want to pay ten dollars for a burger that some other place would charge him five for.

I never thought I would see myself going back to school at my age. I had been married when I was 18, and I was a wife and mother for 22 years. I am still both of those things, but I have a lot more time on my hands now that all three of our children are out on their own. I quickly grew bored staying home and cleaning, even with my occasional outings with friends. It was during one of these outings that my best friend suggested I look into a part time degree in singapore.

She knew how bored I was, and she encouraged me to look at the different programs available. She went the education route rather than the family route when we were younger, so she knew what she was talking about when she said that companies are hiring older workers too. I figured if I went part time, I would still be able to take care of my family and other responsibilities, but I could also embrace a new life for myself too. I looked at the different programs, and I saw where they have an extensive culinary division to the school.

I have spent over half of my life in the kitchen, and my friends and family have all told me that I am an excellent cook. Knowing that I could study culinary arts and get a degree in a field that I already enjoyed so much sparked an interest in me. I read everything I could on it, and I knew that it was where I was meant to be at this stage of my life. It is exciting being back in school, even if I am doing it at a slower pace than others. I feel like I have a new purpose to life, and that is simply thrilling.