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Why Beat Up Your Computer? When you can Upgrade it.
I have customers that have , thrown their computer out back doors, windows, front doors. Toss computer in trash cans and much more. The main thing, you have to have patients when you are working with any kind of machine. Remember this is not a child, where you can tell it what to do, when , how, jump. It ’s always good to call your local computer repair shop, or fix the problem yourself. there are thousand of place where you can buy parts to upgrade your computer if you are willing to do it yourself.

Like ComputerGeeks.com, Tiger Direct, and many more. You can use the web and find a list of places just by typing in computer parts or used computer parts in the address bar of your internet browser. Thousands of venders, internet web shop will be at your finger tips.

Use your local telephone book, for the vender Need you. Never work on a computer when you are angry. You cause more harm than good.
Walk away for a few minutes a hour and so on until you calm down.
For those of you that are new to computers and want to work on them yourself. The Internet, library and book stores are great resource tools.

Here is a good story. One of my customers runs a small business out of her home on a little table in a corner. Well one day, she was doing the laundry in the basement and her little 6 year daughter was playing in the back yard. Well the little girl must have been bored. So she brings her toys into the house and began playing in the living room. Well as the mother tells it. Things were to quite. She came upstairs into the living room to find with shock madness in her eyes. That her little darling, the love of her life was in the middle of the room with mommies computer on the floods surrounded with toys. Mothers little darling got bored and place the computer on the floor with toys. Mommies little darling filled every hole that was on the computer with her own recipes. One cup dirt. One cup water. Two spoon of jelly in the cd drive, floppy and zip drive. I wonder where she got those cooking recipes from. But that was just the beginning. As mommy stop Her. She Was just finish cleaning up the computer with a dish cloth and water, which she poured all over the computer and inside. As mommy tells the story, her darling daughter looked at her and smiled with the following words “Mommy I’m just like you”. The real sad part about this story, the mother got so mad about the computer. That she kept a corner of the basement for three weeks before she called me. In all my years working on a computer. That was the worst thing I have ever seen. And for this person to call me to fix this computer was crazy. When you get mad at you computer, step back and calm down.

Chubby's Computers 24 Hour Service

Hello , sorry for the long delay in posting to this blog. been under the wealther lately. but we are back on our feet. Now you can reach us 24 hour s a day and by email: services@chubbyscomputers.com and phone 202-213-0903 and now you can come right in to the web conference room. www.chubbyscomputers.com/webconferenceroom.htm alot of the time, I'm in the field working (on call out side the office) so if you ever give us a ring or email us or come into the web room leave a message with your email or telephone No.# or leave a text message in the web room just to say hello. If you have a problem with your computer, we can help. Oh yes I forgot to tell you about our new Web Classified site. for all you people out there like me that are self employed or work from home, that need affordable site to place your classified ads. Norris Classified Page > www.chubbyscomputers.com/Norrisclassifiedpage.htm stop by some time and take a look. It's nothing Fancy like the Big Boys site. But it gets the job done. send me a email and let me know what you think. Or post a comment on my blog. I don't remember if I told you about the new forum web conference I'm start in January 2007. It' call Business to Business round table. A Live forum. Where people from all walks of life come to talk give advice and meet other people that are in business. The home business person like my self will enjoy this,recieving freash new ideas. Their will be people that are looking for opportunities, maybe investment. Meet new contacts it just endless what can happen there. But the main objective is to talk, chet and bring new ideas on the way you can start a business , run your extising business , meet new people that can boarden the mind. Well in January, we will get together on Monday - wensday and Friday at 7pm to 9pm. We will talk about any subject that will help be a benifit in your daily work schedule. learn something that will help you and others in business. That's what the Business to Business round table is all about. helping each other succeed. So the web site address is www.chubbyscomputers.com/webconferenceroom2.htm hope to see you there one day. If you have any question about the Business to Business Round Table or need more info . fill out the form link below. I will be starting a News letter that will be answering your question . And on this blog too. So until I write again, Have A Very Merry Christmas with all the Joy to you and your Family a Very Very Happy New Year.

What's Happaning to My Home Town Washington DC

Pleas could someone tell what the H is happening in Washington DC. Close to a Billion just to build a Baseball Statium. Is there something wrong with this picture. Don't get me wrong I love baseball. But when dose baseball come before Education, building and repairs to schools, Keeping our Fire departments and Police department up with the best possible tools they needed to run. A few years back they where closing down fire station, Libaries and etc because we did not have the money, but we can take almost a Billion Dollar to build a Statuim & buy a team.

why did the Mayor close down DC General. Oh it was costing to much money to keep up. Who do you think is going to be footing the bill for the new statuim in the long run. Yes the People That Live in Washington DC, not the people that come to the game. To be the Nation Capital, we have the worest school in the naton. If you come to the nations capital come see the schools that should be repaired or need to be put down. You ask yourself, where is the money for the schools. Why is city Not getting the teachers they need. Yet every year the Mayor can travel out of the country when he want. Why do we have to worry about the drinking water . We are the National Capital, it should'nt be that way. I so proud of Maryland & Virginia, because they saw that the children came first. The children are the future. Higher education and a better life for the citizen of Maryland and Virginia. The Mayor of the Nation capital should have learn something from that. Stop rasing the taxes trying to running the family out of DC that have been here years. Most family members have no choice, but to sale their home or have the city take it. Now Mayor Anthony Williams says he not running again. I look at the blue skys and put my hands together and say" THANK YOU GOD, OUR HEAVEN FATHER" THANK YOU. I would rather have the control board or a Republican as mayor than to see Anthony Williams in one more term. For

DO THE BEST WITH WHAT YOU HAVE, "MY LITTLE CORNER"

In the earlier Blog I mention that I would put of pictures of my small corner office space, in the bedroom. Below in the basement of my house ,we are building a workshop and office space for my business. I move out of the office Downtown into my bedroom until the project is done. the space I have is 5 feet wide and about 5 1/2 long as you can see in the picture I put up Drywall and a frame to divid that little corner space for my little corner office. Now you see the first picture. Where the white stud is at. My office will begin their and work its way forward. Next to the office will be closet space, then the restroom (AKA "bathroom full and across from it will the lanunary area. Most of the work I' doing myself and having it check after I finish, by a master plumber amd eletriction.I budget my money and can complete this task under $5000.00 . Now the other pictures is the work area at my desk. I have 5 Servers ,only two of the are working now and two computers conected to the network with one wireles Notebook. 2 telephone lines and server line. I got just the basic items. all of whick I built from scratch. Even the hp computer I gutted it and replace everything. When I first started out , I did not have the Fax machine you see now.I went to the flee market and bought an old 386 computerand went to office depot and boughta color printer. Now I took all this with the 386 computer and place windows 95 and a software call Quick fax. I believe you can still down load the software. it turns your dos or windows computer into a fax machine. Just set in up with the color printer and scanner and you will recieve faxes automaticaly. remember the sofeware's name Quick Fax. Remember to Save your money and spend it wisely on your business.I work from 8 to 16 hours a day some days more. That driving force won't let me stop. Now you see my little corner office of my bedroom. I should be moving into my basement office sometime on the 20th of November.

How Did Chubby's Computers Begin?

Chubby's Computers Began in October 16 1998, in my home basement in Washington DC 1501 E Street SE. That part of Washington DC is call
Capital Hill. Our purpose is to provide great service and products to the Washington DC Metro Area. Do you know that their are billions of people in the world that do not have a computer and do not know how to use one. Did you know that United States is One of the worlds richest country in the world, Yet we have millions in this country that can't afford a computer or use one. There are small areas in this country where some schools are lucky to have 4 to 8 computers to use for the whole school. Or their budjet is so tight ,they can't afford to fix the one that are broken. In Washington DC. we do have people that can't afford a new computer and monitor and so on. And I notice this as I fix computers in my home for friends and neighbors I asked myself how can I provide a service
and product and yet make a income to live on. The first thing I asked myself, What amount of an income did I need to live comfortable on. I made notes and figures. I talk with some people and friends that had business. I came up with a figure that I could live with. My figure was
$49,600 to $85,000. I believe it to be a comfortable living to start off. Maybe a little higher as the business grows. But this was it. I made mistake on the way and I learn from that. So once I started Chubby's Computers, I had to put the word. That means ADVERTISING. Do not go out spending alot of money like I first did. that was my first mistake. Yes the name was out there, but had no money to work with. If you going to start a business. Start off dirt cheap. Newspapers,flyers, and even tv. I start off with flyers. Now to get the most out of your
money, make a flyer with postcard ads 4 4x5 in size. Use Microsoft publisher or any freeware you can get from download.com or shareware.com . Now I will tell you why this is so great. Now I have 4 4x5 post card ads on one sheet of paper. this is my master sheet. Now take your master sheet to Staple or Office Depot to have them copied. If you get 3000 sheets, it's cheaper and more cost affective. Price would range from 3 Cent to 5Cent a sheet. Between $95.00 to $120.00. Now remember that you have 4 4x5 postcards on the sheet x 3000 will give you 12,000 flyers to place on doors cars or hand them out. You can get kid in the neighborhood to cut them and pass them out. The Next is cheap news papers in your area or internet posting of your ads. on the Internet, Most city and states have a directory that you can place your
business on. Most are free or a small fee. Us it you can't go wrong with it. Another Advertising route is TV. I know you are saying ,"Tv is very costly. Now when I started off advertising Chubby's Computers. I try radio. Too costly. But late nite TV ads ran about $3.50 an ad at 30
second. Just let the agent know what your budget is. If you can handle $250 t0 $400 try it. Don't place the ad every month to start. Try every 3 to 4 months. And place the ads between 1:am and 5 am, 30second ads. Time frame before or after that will cost you more money. Remember tell the agent you are on a budget. The only high cost will be the designing
of the Ad. do not make it fancy .The more fancy it it the more it will cost. Remember KISS ALWAYS ( KEEP IT SIMPLE AND SMART) depending on the location that you are at designing your ad will cost about $400 to $1000. That is the biggest cost of all. The Work space I started
Chubby's Computers was in a corner table in the living room. Started part time My first year or second I made between $5000 to $8000 that was on a corn table taking computers apart and repairing them. Now This is were you make mistake. I thought I could get a office. I thought it
was time for it. I was wrong. that office expense started to take away from my profits to a point I had to close it down. If you not ready for the big move, don't rush it. Take you time it will come. Work on the corner table or take a spare room and make it your office. You can
write off that section off as business expense. Always keep good record. Now that I move out of my office. I took part of my basement in my house. I going to build a work shop. So until it is done. I build a wall in my bedroom to make a small tiny office space. Will move into my
new office and workshop on or about November 10 2005. Here is the first picture I took today of the basement AKA Workshop to be.