Rob’s Blog and Flog

We`re currently interviewing for salespeople at Virtual IT. What a joy. So many people think they can sell, and perhaps they can. But selling yourself if the first step. Here`s the exact text of an exchange I had with one candidate. Needless to say, they didn`t get the interview.
My first mail to her:

Good […]

I’m going to try to update the Real Estate section of the blog at least bi-weekly, now that I’m actually a property owner again.
On March 3rd, I closed on a triplex in Hamilton. The circumstances surrounding the purchase were complicated, but the short version is I was quickly going to need somewhere to live, […]

From 1995 until 2001, I had the pleasure of building and owning one of Hamilton, Ontario’s largest independent ISPs - NETinc. Yes, back in the old days, before high speed. It was high speed, in fact, that was the major factor in us shutting the doors in 2001 - I’m a margin hound, and when […]

I read a bunch of blogs daily, and comment on them quite a bit. But I’ve never used Wordpress’s Trackback feature. I just read a great article at Problogger which describes how to use them. I’m using this as a blatant test to see if it works. Sorry for the commentspam, Problogger!

I made the decision when I returned to Canada to optimize my finances. One of those optimizations was to buy a used car. I looked at all the new ones, and then I found my baby… a 2001 BMW 330i. Very nice, two sets of wheels (winter / summer) including rims, very low […]