Category Archives: Business

Day 2341 – I LOVE That I Can Still Network With Other Vendors!!

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One thing that I love to do is network with wedding vendors…and all business type people, really. I LOVE talking about business! When I knew I was transitioning out of photography, I thought, awwww man! I have no reason to go to these networking events anymore! But then I started working for other photographers and it makes SO much sense for me to go! This morning, I went to a brainstorming event led by the amazing Carly Fuller of Carly Fuller Photography. I have to say it is THE best networking/business event I’ve attended in all my years of networking. So many great business owners and discussions. Today did not disappoint!

I, of course, had to take my ring photo with the giant Christmas ornament!

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Day 2327 – Behind The Scenes At One Of My Jobs

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As you know, I’m no longer a wedding and portrait photographer. I now work for two amazing photographers. One is a wedding/event photographer and the other is a pet photographer. Yes my friends, I get to look at pictures of weddings and animals for my job. I LOVE it! Yesterday, I was working at the pet photographer’s office and I got to open client orders. Lori does AMAZING work. I can’t get over how her colors pop and the fun expressions she gets from the animals! She asked me to take some behind the scenes photos of the big, canvas prints we unpacked. While I was taking them she said, take them like you take your ring shots! Then I said, I WILL take a ring shot and blog about it! Doesn’t she have beautiful work???

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Day 2313 – When You Make A Desktop Your Laptop…

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As my laptop has been making is slow than really fast decline into the world of “not working at all, don’t even try,” I’ve had to improvise.

Yesterday was my scheduled “work at my client’s” day. Since a computer is pretty integral to our work, I thought, hmmmm, my laptop is no good….my old laptop is not even turning on….I guess I have to take drastic measures.

So, Sunday night, I packed up….wait for it….my desktop computer. Now, this guy is no small desktop. I have a tower and a 23″ monitor. It took two bags to get it all there, but I did it.

I set everything up on “my desk….that I’ve only used once,” and plugged in my 36′ Ethernet cord and got to work. I have to say, it worked just fine! It was great having my big screen….versus my only slightly smaller 17″ screen on my laptop. 🙂

I had to laugh at myself after it was all set up though…but hey, you gotta do what you gotta do, right?

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Day 2309 – Who To Call When Your Computer Goes Haywire

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I mentioned that I had a crazy computer day on Wednesday. Well, now is the time for the full story.

Ok, so I bought a great new PC laptop in January. My previous laptop did a great job for many years, but after seriously hampering my ability to work over Christmas vacation, I knew it was time to upgrade. Thanks to the insurance money from the truck, I was able to get it without worrying about the money. (Thank you God for providing what we need!)

My poor laptop had a rough start. But after getting the CD drive fixed, everything was working great for about 8-9 months. I’ve got a great mobile office setup going on. I can work from either of my clients’ homes or the library or Panera. It’s been working swimmingly.

Well, about a month ago, my laptop started acting funky. It would pop up menus, it would type when I wouldn’t want it to. It was just all around possessed. After an unsuccessful exorcism, I just tried to work with it. On Wednesday, I started a system restart…instead of working for two hours before a business meeting, like I intended to do, I sat staring at a progress screen. I posted on Facebook about my woes, made a side comment about converting to a Mac (don’t tell my laptop and desktop). In the comments that followed, I had a long time friend pipe in and say, and I’m paraphrasing here, “Hey, dude, why didn’t you just talk to me about this when it started….I am an IT guy.” So, I gave him a little blurb about the problem and said he’d be the first to know if I needed help.

Wellllllll, 52 minutes later, he got a nice long FB message from me. Throughout the rest of the day, this guy remotely logged in and checked things on my laptop. When things weren’t working later that night, he remotely logged in again and made some modifications. Thankfully (and this is the biggest reason why I needed a working laptop), Bret and I were able to watch The Walking Dead and The Talking Dead (dudes, I don’t know what y’all are talking about….last week’s episode was NOT boring….amazing acting and great story. Talking Dead was top notch too….)

Everything was wonderful and amazing and awesome…..until I went to try out my laptop again yesterday…AND here are the menus popping up again. Thankfully, my friend has room in his schedule to take a look at the innards of my messed up laptop….because this seems like an internal problem (but aren’t all our problems on the inside?)

So friends, if you are pulling your hair out over your computer woes, please reach out to Chris at Qtek Technologies. He works with residential folks and small businesses. He can do on site or remote work. His email is support@qtektechnologies.com or you can call him at 410-206-8851. Let him know you heard about him from me!

Don’t worry little laptop (no….big laptop, sucker has a 17″ screen)….we’ll get those demons out of you soon.

Soon we’ll be hanging out in our favorite library without a care in the world…

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