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So I get a call from a lady who says she wants me to build her a vanity and some other things.
I think “Great, I wonder who refered her to me”. She leaves her phone numbers — work and home. As I’m writing them down I realize that there’s two groups of three numbers before the group of four numbers. “Huh?… what kind of communist is this lady,” I think to myself, “Must be one of them area codes that I keep hearing about… What is she calling from Knoxville or something? When did Nashville get a second area code? Maybe she’s just over the line in Kentucky, I did a small job up there a while back, maybe she’s a neighbor of those nice folks with the bad dogs…”
As I pick up the phone to call her back, the curiosity is killing me, so I thumb through the phone book looking for the area code. Roanoke, Virginia.
Roanoke? Hmmm I ran out of gas there one time when I was in college. How did she find me? And what does she want with me?
Turns out she found my site through Yahoo! and fell in love with a vanity that I designed and built and have picture of in my bathroom gallery. She’s renovating an 1850’s Colonial and wants me to build her a copy of that vanity to fit her space. I guess I’ll ship it to her, but am tempted tomake the drive up to Virginny in celebration of my first internet sale.
Heck, it was only meant to ba an online brochure for prospective clients. It wasn’t supposed to sell anything!
Hee hee hee,
Dan
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Congratulations!
If business picks up you might need to switch to power tools to keep up. There are lots of folks here who can explain the concept to you :)
*Good for you Dan. I'm bidding a house for someone who stumbled across my site. To say I,m stunned would be understated...
*I hope you don't have any Barbie snuff pictures on that site.
*Uh oh...I hope Adrian (King of e-cabinetry) doesn't see this thread. Invading his virtual turf could start a war that would put the pro/con vent discussions to shame. Congrats, Dan. Oh, and deliver the items yourself.
*I'll go you one better. I hired my good plumber (after firing the incompetent one) by spending some time at http://www.plbg.com on their message board. These boards are a great way for potential clients to evaluate contractors. The only hitch is that the internet is worldwide, you have to be lucky to find somebody local.-- J.S.
*Bravo...Dan...Take a bow...super././.near the stream,ajnice cab,,,
*Nope, that was the House of Screams site Crazy Legs. Although I've been thinking about loading it onto my new space...
*Thanks AJ
*Power...tools?Power corrupts sir, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.Those rolling blackouts in California are for their own good.Dan
*Dan,Very nice site and cabinets!KK
*Killer vanity, Dan. You won't be far from here after you drop it off, y'all come see us...BB
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So I get a call from a lady who says she wants me to build her a vanity and some other things.
I think "Great, I wonder who refered her to me". She leaves her phone numbers -- work and home. As I'm writing them down I realize that there's two groups of three numbers before the group of four numbers. "Huh?... what kind of communist is this lady," I think to myself, "Must be one of them area codes that I keep hearing about... What is she calling from Knoxville or something? When did Nashville get a second area code? Maybe she's just over the line in Kentucky, I did a small job up there a while back, maybe she's a neighbor of those nice folks with the bad dogs..."
As I pick up the phone to call her back, the curiosity is killing me, so I thumb through the phone book looking for the area code. Roanoke, Virginia.
Roanoke? Hmmm I ran out of gas there one time when I was in college. How did she find me? And what does she want with me?
Turns out she found my site through Yahoo! and fell in love with a vanity that I designed and built and have picture of in my bathroom gallery. She's renovating an 1850's Colonial and wants me to build her a copy of that vanity to fit her space. I guess I'll ship it to her, but am tempted tomake the drive up to Virginny in celebration of my first internet sale.
Heck, it was only meant to ba an online brochure for prospective clients. It wasn't supposed to sell anything!
Hee hee hee,
Dan