Saving Money - No Debt - Just Like New

Here is a little bit of more fresh content,...

With over 350,000+ miles on the original engine in my Ford F-150 XLT 4 x 4 Fence Truck it is time for a motor with a few less miles on it.

First I thought I would see about a loan,... just to get another truck that is a bit heavier duty and in size. The company grew by about $20,000 last year and I have a credit score of 748. However with a debt ratio of 78% the bank wouldn't let go of a $4,500.00 loan for a $140.00 a month payment. So after being turned down I started looking up at just replacing the motor.

My nephew works at an auto wrecking yard and found me this motor with only 140,000 miles on it and is going to put it in for me while I go on a men's retreat called Round-Up.

The motor was only $500.00 and his labor is the same and with parts for another $300-400.00 that's like a new truck for only $1,500.00 and I didn't or won't have to go into debt. I wonder how the back will factor that into their debt ratio figures? 

I like saving money and I also like helping out my family. It is nice to have a mechanic in the family. 

The motor that is in the truck now has a constant ticking sound that gets really loud going up hills,...as a matter of fact it really doesn't like hills at all. I have to try and avoid hills which makes estimating and hauling materials to and from the job site that much harder because I have to go the long way around. With the newer motor I will or should be able to get around town and the outskirts of town much easier. This is going to be a lot nicer and quite a bit quieter. 

So until the next bit of fresh content and even an update on the new motor install

Remember to 

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