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

Local in Lincoln, Ne you can call 489-1240 or #1240 from your Alltel wireless between 10 and 11 AM, CST. If you are outside the Lincoln area, you can listen online for free at http:/www.kfor1240.com and call into the show toll free at 1-800-825-5865 (1-800-TALK-UNL). You can also email your questions to computethis@kfor1240.com.

This week we will be live taking calls, talking about the Ultimate Upgrade Sale at Schrock Innovations, and about the new upcoming Internet Explorer 8 and why your website may not be ready for it.

Brad Donner is the latest addition to the Schrock Innovations team in Omaha. Its no secret that I have been getting pummeled with video production, graphic design, website design and proposal requests lately, so we brought Brad on board to help get things caught up and on time again.

On my radio show last Saturday I launched a PC Maintenance Checkup sale for 9.99. My Service enters took in around 160 computers for maintenance in four days. We have 20 bench spots for computer repair, and a checkup takes about 8 hours to do, so you do the math on how hard we are working right now 😉

Schrock Innovations went head to head against Washington DC design firms to win the bid to do Phase 1 of Mike Johanns’ 2008 US Senate Campaign Website!

For the first time ever, Schrock Innovations will be holding a launch event open to the media to kick off our 2006 Holiday PC. The Holiday PC Launch Event will be held on Friday, November 3, at the Villager Inn and Suites in the Lincoln Ballroom from 2-4 PM. We will be giving away special discounts to those in attendance and there will be a drawing for a free weekend in a Branson, MO condominium!

We will have a number of awesome speakers present interesting content including Coby Mach – the host of 1400 KLIN’s Drive Time Lincoln, Mayor Colleen Seng (or a representative from her office), Rod Scher, Editor of Smart Computing Magazine, Gene Hanlon with the city of Lincoln Recycling Office, and of course, Thor Schrock from Schrock Innovations.

I have been invited to speak to a rotary club at the Knolls Country Club today. This is the second time I have spoken to this group in the past five years, and they always have excellent questions afterwards.

I will be talking about the importance of considering a Modular PC when it is time to buy a new computer. Rather than heading to the box store and buying a “canned” PC, consumers can get an amazing value by choosing a Modular computer.

The average consumer can save more than $1,000 over the course of 3 years by buying a Modular computer. Most consumers and businesses upgrade or replace ther computers every 2-3 years. By selecting a computer that is designed t be upgraded the costs of maintenance and upgrades can be significantly reduced.

Maybe this is just something that gets techies like me excited, but I was very pleased to see that today the Schrock Innovations home page received a Page Rank of 6 from Google!

Page Rank (PR) is what Google uses to measure the value of a webpage on the Internet. The scale offers ratings ranging from 1 to 10, with one being irrelevant and 10 being extremely relevant. Each time you go up one number, it becomes exponentially more difficult to move up again.

What is a Modular Computer?

For almost 2 years customers have mentioned that our Service Center is difficult to find the first time around. We have wanted a larger sign for some time, however the covenant in our business park heavily restricts what signs may and may not be posted on the office building.

After 4 months of negotiations, design submissions, and design revisions, we finally have a prominent sign that will help our customers easily locate Schrock Innovations. The new sign features channel cut letters mounted on aluminum rails. The rails will reduce the number of holes we will need to drill in the building facade to achieve a secure mount.

There will also be an SI logo that will be back-lit at night by embedded LED lights. The light should be soft and gentle so as not to disrupt the homes that face our office to the south at night. We are also posting an updated door logo and are replacing our old, handwritten hours sign with vinyl lettering.

Similar changes are also being implemented for our Omaha Service Center (although that location is much easier to find than our Lincoln Service Center).

The sign is being installed as I write this and as soon as the installation is complete, I will post pictures for here, and on the Schrock Innovations contact page.