By Sara on July 15, 2011
A week ago a potential iPad Engraving customer of mine expressed concern at sending me his expensive electronics. He wanted to know if I had a way to reassure him that everything about my company is legit. I was just a tiny bit annoyed, but this has happen before, so I knew what to send [...]
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By Sara on November 9, 2010
This post feels very ironic to write. I started it on the business site but decided it was too non-businessy to put over there. So I have a laser engraving business. I have two domain names that go to the same place, InAFlashLaser.com and iPadLaserEngraving.com The idea for iPadLaserEngraving.com came to me back in March (2010). [...]
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By Sara on October 29, 2010
So as a business owner I’m learning a lot about customer service. I may occasionally express my frustration about some of my customers to my very very close friends (hi mom), but I ALWAYS try to do everything in my power to help them have a good experience dealing with me and my businesses. Having this [...]
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By Sara on September 22, 2010
The past week and a half I’ve been emptying the garage to turn it into a true studio to work in. This was prompted by a trip to Ikea. I took a before picture: And that led me to notice how awful the place looked… even not counting the mess of stuff everywhere. I made my plans for [...]
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By Sara on September 22, 2010
So it’s been over 4 months now since I quit my job. Regrets? Not yet! The business is going really well. I’ve engraved lots of iPads and need to do an exact count at some point but would estimate 100-150 or more. iPad cases are catching on lately too. For a brief period of time I [...]
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By Sara on April 30, 2010
This started as a Facebook status update but got way too long. I haven’t annouced it here yet have I? May 14 is my last day at USJ. People seem to think it’s Rupert’s “fault” that I’m leaving but it’s really not that specific. I like what I do here and I’ve worked for a lot of [...]
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By Sara on January 10, 2010
Ever since I started ‘chatting’ on the internet back in 1995 or 96 I’ve been a multi-tasker. My mom and I chatted, my friends at college and I chatted, I even IMed with my roommates when we were in the same room. The reason this works so well is that it allows us to have [...]
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By Sara on November 12, 2009
Getting sick of these posts yet? I keep posting them because this is something I feel strongly about. I enjoy my job but I don’t enjoy being tied to a desk all day. I want a job that encourages me to work efficiently and lets me decide the best way, place and time to do [...]
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By Sara on September 11, 2009
Let’s see how I do with my last post’s list. I’m going to take CI/hearing topics today. 1. 4 months with CI That’s right. I was activated way back on May 4th. I’ve been in for just 3 mappings since then at 2 weeks, 1 month and 3 months (though all were a bit late). My audiogram has [...]
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By Sara on September 11, 2009
This is a blog post to document and hopefully help people who find themselves with the problem I had today. You’ll also get to hear a little about my job. Part of my job is to witness, photograph and take video of shock testing that we do for the Navy. We have a medium weight shock [...]
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