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Sep
25
Posted by James Lupori
Realty Operating Control Services was originally founded as an alliance to raise the professional level and performance of real estate agents. We soon discovered that ALL small businesses are facing similar challenges, especially in the current market.
I’d like to highlight ROCS IT Services in this post. Today, businesses depend so much on technology that the proper functioning of their computer systems is essential. ROCS offers IT Support Services to meet your every need.
Our Director of Technical Services, Boyd Hatch, can analyse and solve most of your computer problems via Remote Access. If you have more complicated issues, ROCS IT Support can help with office systems, hardware and intranet challenges.
Our pricing is highly competitive: $80 per hour. We also offer a basic subscription at $30 per month for on-call help. You can reach Boyd at 206.861.2250 or email him at boyd@gorocs.com.
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Sep
23
Posted by James Lupori
This article is a reprise of my story posted on July 18th. As you will see, small businesses often have a HUGE story behind them.
Her smile is infectious and her enthusiasm is inspiring. As a customer, you always leave her dry-cleaners feeling as if your day is only going to get better. Meet Ki Suk Lim, the Owner of Fabulous Cleaners in Kenmore, WA. I’ve been bringing my dry-cleaning to her shop even before she took over ownership of the business on August 24, 2006. She remembers that day well because she only had $57 of sales. Mrs. Lim is philosophical about owning her business: “Someone up there is looking out for me!”
As an immigrant from Seoul, S. Korea Mrs. Lim’s story is quintessentially American. Having arrived in America 40 years ago, she first lived in Kentucky and then moved to Oklahoma. As a city girl from Seoul, S. Korea moving to KY was a major transition. It was a totally different world: cows, farms, outhouses….. From Oklahoma her family moved to Los Angeles having heard about more opportunities there and the large Korean community. Unfortunately, they didn’t find LA to their liking. After only two weeks, they picked-up and headed for Utah because a friend told them it was a nice place to live. Fate had a different plan for them. They just happened to drive into a little place called Las Vegas and ended up purchasing a dry-cleaning business there. Knowing nothing about the business, they quickly discovered how difficult running a dry-cleaners can be: aging equipment, bills, employees, cash flow problems. Mrs. Lim said that one of the cleaning machines actually blew up and almost killed her husband: “It was in the papers it was so big!” Fortunately, they managed to become very successful in the dry-cleaning business. After her son came to the University of Washington, they decided to move to the Seattle area.
Today, Fabulous Cleaners is doing much better than that first day last August but Mrs. Lim says there are always challenges. Recently, the construction on SR522 has slowed traffic to her shop. It took a lot of hard work to rebuild a clientele after taking over the business last year. She now has many accounts with local schools cleaning their uniforms (Inglemoor HS, Bothell HS, etc.). She now has four employees and things are going well. Please support this great local business!
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Sep
22
Posted by James Lupori
Thank you for visiting Kenmore Merchants Undressed. You are viewing THE cutting-edge, 21st Century method of promoting your business to clients and customers who count: your local community. As a sister blog to KenmoreUndressed.com, participating in this “virtual community of businesses” will help your customers learn about you in a more powerful way than the usual print/internet media. To help you better understand how you, as a business, may appear on this blog, my colleague, Jim Warner a Realtor and author of www.lynnwoodundressed.com has graciously allowed me to share his blog post about Northwest Processing Solution:
“My Friend Nathan Vorwerk stopped by to see me the other day. I was really glad to see him. Nate is a bright young fellow, a graduate of Seattle Pacific University with a degree in finance and a guy who, like many other SPU Alumni, is exploring his options and choosing his own way. Nate took a break from his latest gig and spent a good part of the summer working on cruise ships in Alaska; Everyone should get to do that once in their life.
I met Nathan a couple of years ago by way of an acquaintance who told me Nathan wanted to get into land development and real estate so we chatted some at the time about his options and have kept in touch since. Nathan had some good success in land development before the market turned and we all had to go find something else to do.
Nathan is now working for Northwest Processing Solution a little south of Lynnwood, in Seattle. As a matter of fact, I am pretty sure he is working his way into an equity position with the company, which is how it should be for a young man with a lot of talent and drive. NWPSolution as they are called handles Merchant Card Services also known as merchant services or credit card processing services for Businesses, e-commerce sites and Non Profits in Seattle, Bellevue, Washington State and Nationwide.”
If you’d like to reach Nathan, his contact information is:
If you click on the Northwest Processing Solution picture above you can see the whole article. Thanks again for visiting.
