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Text Box: With summer half over, here a few tips, best practices and interesting info along with a little useless info just for fun!  Enjoy!    - Ernie  

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Text Box: See you next issue! Ernie ernest@ealewisconsulting.com

Text Box: Fun Stuff Funny Bumper Sticker Slogans   This funny list of bumper sticker slogans was sent in by Jen in Tampa. Thanks Jen! Source is: http://www.funmeme.com   If you can read this, I can slam on my brakes and sue you!  100,000 sperm and YOU were the fastest?  Your gene pool needs a little chlorine.  You're just jealous because the voices are talking to me and not you  Don't piss me off! I'm running out of places to hide the bodies.  You are depriving some poor village of its IDIOT  Forget world peace. visualize using your turn signal.  My Hockey Mom Can Beat Up Your Soccer Mom  Grow your own dope, plant a man  All Men Are Animals, Some Just Make Better Pets  Some people are only alive because it is illegal to shoot them.  I used to have a handle on life, but it broke.  WANTED: Meaningful overnight relationship.  If you can read this, please flip me back over... (seen upside down, on a Jeep)  Please tell your pants it's not polite to point.  GUYS: No shirt, no service. GALS: No shirt, no charge.  Impotence: Nature's way of saying "No hard feelings"  Heart Attacks...God's Revenge For Eating His Animal Friends  Your ridiculous little opinion has been noted.  Try not to let your mind wander. It is too small to be out by itself.  Everyone has a photographic memory, some just don't have film.  Just because your head is pointed, doesn't mean you're sharp.  Don't like my driving? Then quit watching me. 

Text Box: Customer Service is Vital Last November, the Better Business Bureau released the results of the first BBB/Gallup Trust in Business Index, where the Gallup organization interviewed over 1,200 U.S. adults. Some of their findings included:   • One out of two consumers have a great deal of trust in the companies they do business with on a regular basis with ethics and honesty the two most important things in business today. • Two out of three consumers prefer working with small businesses.   • Grocery stores and pharmacies are the most trusted types of businesses. • Women are more likely than men to have a great deal of trust in financial institutions, department stores, home improvement stores, and wireless service providers. • Types of businesses that all consumers trust the least are real estate brokers, furniture stores, health care insurers, auto dealers, wireless service providers, and gas stations. • Consumers age 50 and older are more likely than age 35 and younger to have great deal of trust in the companies they do business with. • Consumers with under $30,000 in annual household income are more likely to have very little trust in businesses.

Text Box:   Can You Find It?   Study this paragraph and all things in it. What is vitally wrong with it? Actually, nothing in it is wrong, but you must admit that it is most unusual. Don't just zip through it quickly, but study it scrupulously. With luck you should spot what is so particular about it and all words found in it. Can you say what it is? Tax your brains and try again. Don't miss a word or a symbol. It isn't all that difficult.       * Answer at the bottom!

Text Box: In This Issue a) Customer Service is Vital b) More Facts and Stats on The World Today c) Brain Teaser: Can You Find It? d) Are You Having Computer Problems? Here’s a Laugh! e) Notable Web Site - changethis.com f) Fun Stuff: Funny Bumper Sticker Slogans   With quotes on Success by Brian Tracy and Tony Robbins.

Text Box: Success   “The predominant quality of successful people is optimism.... Your level of optimism is the very best predictor of how happy, healthy, wealthy, and long-lived you will be.”   - BRIAN TRACY, Focal Point   From Notable Quotes at http://www.notable-quotes.com

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Text Box:   “Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.” - Anthony Robbins, quoted in 101 Best Ways to Get Ahead   From Notable Quotes at http://www.notable-quotes.com

Text Box: Are You Having Computer Problems? Here’s a Laugh! Recent computer glitches helped this joke, emailed from Sandy in California, hit home for me. Thanks Sandy! It also reminds us we might be getting a little older each day!   “I was having trouble with my computer. So I called Eric, the 11 year old next door, whose bedroom looks like Mission Control and asked him to come over. Eric clicked a couple of buttons and solved the problem. As he was walking away, I called after him, 'So, what was wrong? He replied, "It was an ID ten T error." I didn't want to appear stupid, but nonetheless inquired, "An, ID ten T error? What's that? In case I need to fix it again." Eric grinned.... "Haven't you ever heard of an ID ten T error before?" "No," I replied. "Write it down," he said, "and I think you'll figure it out." So I wrote down: ID10T