Office1000 Blog June Archive

You Can Shine with a Red Telephones, Even if You Aren't Commissioner Gordon

By Brian K White at 06/28/2007 14:25

Your business can't survive without telephones, but even if you have the traditional black, beige or gray variety, you need to consider the many benefits of having a handful of red telephones around. You'll feel important, elite, and extra special, and your clients will see it coming from miles away.

The main advantage to having a red telephone is that they are popular, and a best seller of ours. That means that your competitors have them, and they aren't crazy. Much the way a red neck tie speaks power on tap, a red telephone tells people that you have power, prominence and importance. They're just like the ones you see in Cold War movies, except that your call is more practically important, because it leads somewhere more viable than to the guy with his finger on "the button".

These "hot line phones" are not too expensive, but they are very popular. They are cool, sexy like a sports car, and speak of importance like little else. You can pretend you are the president awaiting a call from the Vladimir Putin letting you know that nuclear war has started, or you can just link them from your sales line to your shipping office, so that your clients can know that the people with their fingers on the profit (sales), has direct, unbridled contact with the people who handle the merchandise.

That means that your Red Phone will be more than a hotline between Batman and Commissioner Gordon, it's the very lifeline that connects one line of contact with another. If you have a lobby, you can program it to connect directly to customer service, shipping, or whomever else it is that means so much, just by picking it up.

Besides, come on, it's a red telephone. How cool is that?

Creative Product Uses; Poly Zip Bag to Pill Box

I had a customer call today to assist them in ordering a C-Line product. That in itself is not unusual, but the use for which she intended the product I had never considered.

Her husband apparently takes different medicines a few times per day and she puts his pills in the reclosable bags for each time of the day. She says they are incredibly helpful when traveling, because she doesn't have to lug around all the medicine bottles.

These bags come in different sizes, but the ones she ordered were 2" x 3" poly zip bags. You can write on them in the white write-on identification panel. They are air tight and water tight once sealed. They are called small parts bags, but this use might be something to consider.

I started organized my home and ended up decorating it at the same time

I wanted a new idea to help my kids hang their posters on their walls in their rooms and organize their books and stuff. I found some good alternative to all those nails, tacks, and tape marks on the walls.

Reveal makes a poster display that is wall mountable. Their posters look fantastic!

While I was at it, I also found a magazine rack that matches and they put their books or magazines in it on their dresser, and it looks neat and organized. Go mom!

How You Can Improve Your Life and Profession with Fancy Erasers

Erasers are incredibly important to math students, those with day-timer dates only semi-reserved for people you may or may not like, and anybody else who uses a pencil. If you're using a pencil, and you can admit that you may be somehow fallible, consider that what you need isn't just a pencil eraser, but a dedicated eraser, and a deluxe eraser at that.

For every person and every purpose, there's a different sort of eraser.

• Your pencil eraser is ideal if you love convenience, make very few mistakes, and don't mind the additional smudge offered by the world's very cheapest of erasers.

• A dedicated eraser is also good, since you might make more mistakes, but also favor a cleaner, more refined mark after the fact.

• A deluxe eraser, or an assortment of deluxe erasers is perfect if you know you aren't, you want a clean erase, and you want to make a character impression with those you work with, for, or against.

Think about it. For an investment of a couple bucks (maybe $20 if you really go hog wild,) you can make a statement about who you are, how you operate, and for those who never see the erasers, you can show that your works are cleanly covered and otherwise corrected in ways nearly flawless. Or you can just keep on smudging your papers, not making any statement about yourself, and abiding by your regular work-a-day life. Odds are your office manager will pay for these supplies just the same, so why not make the most of it. Enjoy your new life, and feel free to thank me on the other side.

Trying to impress your peers around the conference table?

If you want everyone to notice you at that big meeting, try buying a fancy fountain pen to sign and write with. There are pens that eyes cannot not help but stray to.

Namiki makes some very fine pens that are hand painted or inlaid with abalone and gold. Of course, you will want to pick a design that is right for you....what guy would want to write with a Flower Basket pen. Get something manly like a Crane and Turtle, Golden Pheasant or maybe the Chinese Phoenix!

Of course you could also choose the handsome sterling silver dragon fountain pen. They come in a rollerball also if you prefer that style. You will have every eye green with envy with your fine fountain pen.