How To Make A Wood Z Frame Gate

The Technology of Business

Technology sure has made things a bit easier for the small business owner to feel like a huge business owner.

With the addition of a little device known as, "The Square", Fix-A-Fence LLC will now be able to accept credit cards.

It is actually a milestone for this little fence company. With only a 2.75% on the transaction, life for this small business owner is getting more convenient. Now customers will have another way to get their fence repaired besides having to come up with the cash right away. Convenience. 

I knew about The Square but really never put two and two together until this one estimate not to long ago. He wanted to use his credit card and I told him that it would leave me out because the fence company isn't set up for receiving funds from credit cards. He began to explain the benefits of having this tool. I went home that night and signed up for The Square. 

The next day he called me back asking for the numbers on the estimate and after I gave him the damage report he told me that I was the one he wanted to hire. So needless to say I will be able to use The Square on the person that wanted me to sign up for it. Nice!

Just wanted to give a update of the milestone achieved here at Fix-A-Fence LLC

So until the next post

The How To Make A Video Go Viral Camapign

So the video on stretching tension wire I have been using for a campaign on, "How to make a video go viral" has brought in over 17,000 views in 39 days of posting on craigslist so far.

Not bad for a simple how to video, Check it out

Started the campaign with only 10,000 views, I decided to start this video campaign when posting for free fence estimates was getting routine. Thought I would spice things up a bit.

Got to work at Rossi Farms the other day. Was hired to set fence posts for some gates and then was called back to install the gates

Quite on the set please

Can't even tell there is a gate there. Learned a tricky way to hide a gate in a fence line.

What is good about taking before and after pictures like this is for advertising on the internet. Sometimes I will take some pictures and use photoshop to use for my craigslist posting's. 

Like these here

Let the pictures do the talking

Like this video link

I have been told to keep my day job 

So if you live in the Portland, OR area you can help by calling for your free fence estimate

That's where it all begins

So until the next post 

Remember 

And always 

Removing Old Wood Fence Installing Old Chain Link Fence

This project here was like trading in one old looking but dis functional fence for another old looking fence and functional. The existing gate was literally hanging by a thread.

The fence fell apart as soon as I started working on it. Pulling the existing fence posts out was very easy because there was no concrete. So setting the new posts was even easier than pulling the existing posts.  

This is a gate that was in the yard just waiting for an application like this. The gate was donated by a previous customer as well as most of the posts and hardware. The chain link and posts are all from other fence projects of previous customer donated material. I love it when a fence comes together.

By the way this was a returning customer from the internet. A returning customer that I have never met in person. That's the beauty of the internet.

As far as the, "How To Make A Video Go Viral' campaign goes it has been bringing in over 100 views per day. Sure I have to put a daily post out but we only reap what we sow. Ten minutes a post times two a day is not that hard to accomplish. Adsense dollars have been adding up in the account. I am thinking about starting a computer class at church. Gotta talk to the elders first.

Until the next post remember to always keep

Smiling!!!

An Internet Star Without Going Viral

When I went on an estimate the other day the customer greeted me with, "So you are the internet star for fixing fences huh?"

I just grinned and and then started laughing, it was hard to get a thank you out.

Landed the job to tear out and haul away some existing chain link fence for the customer.

This is what it looked like when I began today 

And this is what it looks like after I was finished today.

Took the scrap home and put it out along the street and it was picked up within minutes. I wasn't even done unloading the truck when a scrapper showed up.

Here is a new video I produced that may have some potential at going viral,...check it out!

Click Here To Help This Video Go Viral

Someday,...

Until the next update 

And remember to always

A Closed Mouth Is Never Fed

It's been said that a closed mouth is never fed. With that being said, I would like to open my mouth and ask for every one that reads this post to view the video link posted and help make it go viral. It's a simple how to video on installing tension wire for a chain link fence and it is informative.

It has occurred to me to seek out the possibilities to help make this video go viral. This blog is just one small possibility to help with it's success.

Here is the link to the video,...How To Install Tension Wire

This video already has over 10,000 views and counting so it would need just 990,000 more views to get there. With your help in viewing and sharing with your family and friends then there shouldn't be any reason why it shouldn't reach that mark and milestone for Fix-A-Fence LLC

Every view gains a $0.03 deposit into the bank account so you can see why a video would need to go viral to reach a milestone. Everyone could use a vacation and this is one way to at least ask for a little help from the social media world. Anything could happen,...who knows this may be the next T.V. reality series.

Thanks for your help in viewing the video link above, and remember to always keep smiling

An Attitude Of Self Improvement

Even though that the government wants their money for being in business as a small business owner building and repairing wood and chain link fences. The venture has proved successful and I am a much happier person working for myself. I have learned more than if I was working for someone else that is for sure, but if I had never worked for someone else I wouldn't have figured out what it is that I want for myself.

Spending 15 years under one roof of employment has it's advantages within one's self. Definitely instilled endurance and self-motivation to seek for more. Sure there were the mistakes along the way, but if I had never made them I wouldn't be where I am at in the business world today.

Self improvement is always on the top of my list to endure anything in life. Attitude of self performance is another, I like to see people smile so I have an attitude to do as such. It only takes four muscles to make a smile and 27 to frown. So I really don't have to work to hard at making people smile.

This year has gotten off to a great start for Fix-A-Fence LLC. Work orders that started the new year, the class taken at the SBDC, increasing the web site from one page to five, adding videos and testimonies to the web site, having my granddaughter fill out the mailers from five different segmented zip coded areas from Angie's List, adding fresh content to the blog, and making a few more videos.

Speaking of videos, a great way to start a revenue stream is to have Google adsense connected to the videos. Since I started the video campaign in 2009 Fix-A-Fence LLC has had two checks sent from Google. The first one was a surprise and the next ones I am seeking to increase in digits before the decimal point. I have told myself if I can just get one video to go viral that had a adsense ad connected to it I would be able to afford a nice vacation and even the remodel on this old house of mine. Check this out at just  $0.03 per veiw with 1,000,000 views the check deposited into the account would be $30,000.00. Imagine having two or even three million views in a couple of weeks time.

Now we know the real reason behind all the videos coming out with ads connect to the videos. It is a great source of additional income to the small business owner that likes to play around making videos that bring value to another person's life or business.

So,...until the next blog post. Keep smiling and get a video to go viral with adsense connected to it. You won't regret the digits in your account.