Business owners do not post their businesses online, no addresses, current web-pages information are outdated. When trying to Google for something as simple as “near by” hospitals, hair salons, or generic everyday services there seems to be nothing found.
I build affordable web pages for living. Moved to PR last year in Nov-2008. I’ve have tried to educated all levels of business owners on how to get their services online, create optimized options for clients to know more about their businesses online, have their businesses integrated to Google search engines and increase the business flow for the new “ERA” online users. I’ve did 6 free websites during my first 3 months here and 90% of the clients did not follow on their web pages feedback. I created 4 proposal for property management, for large sub-divisions who needed a web page to cater to residents on their community, new visitors, rental prospects and to help manage their administrative offices with tools that could easy their paperwork loads, notifications, collection of monthly and yearly fees as well as created a simple business plan to increase their funds up to $5,000 per year. No one paid attention nor follow up on such innovative ideas presented to them in basics.
This happened just recently in Carolina. On January of this year, I went to a large community that holds 900+ Walk-up units. I presented an outline sheet to build a website that would benefit their administration on handling maintenance fees, keeping track of all unit owners comments, complaints and security issues. They manage 900 units all in paper. All residents names are logged on a notebook and as visitors go by security they search on then note book and write down information. Well… on March, someone lost the security notebook with all of the residents information on it. They had to go door by door to try to collect all of the residents information again and wait for residents to submit the forms to the administrative offices. That could had been done online, saving printed paper cost, waiting time while keeping the confidentiality of the residents. In July of this year, news came out saying: Robbery, Assaults and **** took place at this place! So where is the notebook?
Polls have shown that talking tough about Russia standing up to foreigners strikes a chord with millions of Russians who yearn for the Soviet Union’s once mighty superpower status. (Writing by David Cutler and Richard Balmforth, London Editorial Reference Unit) – (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin was named Time magazine’s “Person of the Year” for 2007 on Wednesday for bringing stability and renewed status to his country.
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Putin, 55, whose party recently won a big victory in parliamentary elections, is riding high on an oil-fuelled economic boom and soaring popularity from a no-nonsense approach that has restored national pride with a big military build-up and verbal attacks on the West reminiscent of the Cold War.
Here are some key facts about Vladimir Putin:
* Putin was born in October 1952 in St. Petersburg, then called Leningrad. A former KGB spy in East Germany, he rose to head the KGB’s successor organization, FSB, before being chosen as prime minister by the late President Boris Yeltsin in August 1999.
* He took over as acting president when Yeltsin stepped down in December 1999. After a huge public relations campaign to build a profile for the relative unknown, he was elected president in March 2000.
* He has overseen a steady concentration of power within the Kremlin walls, sidelining the political opposition and imposing tight control on the media. This has caused his Western critics to question his democratic credentials.