Peanuts to Profits With Thor Schrock
Peanuts to Profits With Thor Schrock

If you frequent the Schrock Innovations Computer Repair website you may have noticed a new graphic on the bottom left corner of all of our pages. This is a tool provided free of charge by AltaVista that will allow you to instantly translate any page on the Schrock Innovations website into 8 different languages!

Since the launch of the Do It Yourself Computer Repair section of our website, we have been getting an ever increasing number of visitors from outside the United States. While our primary concern is always our local Nebraska customers, people outside of Nebraska and outside of the US also have computers and need help too.

I am proud to announce that the National Council on Economic Education has selected Schrock Innovations to perform a significant upgrade to their website, http://www.econedlink.org. The NCEE website allows teachers to look for or submit lesson plans for multiple grade levels designed to educate kids about economics.

Schrock Innovations placed a bid with the New York non-profit organization to rewrite their current ColdFusion website in PHP with a MySQL backend. We will also be developing a new lesson plan development tool that will allow NCEE employees, volunteers, and interns to design web pages that display lesson plans in a WYSIWYG (What You See is What You Get) environment.

Schrock Innovations is proud to sponsor the Deer Park Neighborhood Association’s new tshirts! The shirts will feature the slogan, “A Rich Past – an Exciting Future”

The Deer Park Neighborhood Association is one of Omaha’s most active neighborhood associations. The Association recently raised over $125,000 to build a brand new park in Omaha off of 13th and I-80. It was impressive to see so man families picnicking there this holiday weekend.

The Schrock Innovations newsletter has started to hit the homes of our customers (I received mine yesterday). If you have not received yours yet, or you are not on the Schrock mailing list, you can download and read an electronic copy at www.schrockinnovations.com.

The newsletter is in PDF format, so you will need Adobe’s Acrobat Reader to open it. You can download Acrobat free on the Adobe website at www.adobe.com.

I am proud to report that for the first time ever the Schrock Innovations website at www.schrockinnovations.com has had more than 10,000 visitors in one month. That means that between May 1 and May 16 more than 10,000 unique individuals (not just hits, but unique hits) took advantage of the free services on the Schrock website.

Our second newsletter of the year has been printed and is ready to be mailed. Keep your eyes on your mailboxes in Nebraska and Iowa next week because this newsletter has more tips and coupons than ever!

For our spring newsletter we are (appropriately so) featuring the the top myths about surge protectors. For example, did you know that it is better to have no surge protector hooked up to your computer than to have a damaged one that *might* be good?

The Spring edition of the Schrock Innovations newsletter is off to the presses, which means it should be in the mail by next week. If you have ever done business with Schrock in the past, or if you requested to be added to our mailing list, you should get a copy. Once they start hitting mailboxes around Lincoln and Omaha, we will also make the newsletter available on the Schrock Innovations Website.

Industry wide, April is typically a slow month for computer repair. For the past three years, Schrock Innovations has braced for a slow April as people get out in their yards, start taking their children to practices, and generally spend less time at home in front of their PCs.

This April has been very different. There were two massive spyware outbreaks with the SpyFalcon and MoviePass infections that caused annoying pop ups and threatened to damage consumer’s credit reports. Additionally, the sudden increase in computers with the “missing windows/system32/config/system” error brought us a workload that we haven’t seen in many moons.