Posts Tagged ‘general_contractors’

I love Christmas time . . .

. . . and so does Bill.  This is the one time of the year that I am glad he does what he does.  What exactly does he do?  He’s a project manager for an electrical contractor.  What that means is that every time I go somewhere with him, he asks me if I want to know how much that light fixture is (and the answer is usually no, I really don’t care).  He works with a lot of suppliers, and we get things every so often during the year.  He usually goes to a Chicago White Sox game once a year on one of the suppliers.  We do the same for people Bill works with (like general contractors and such).

This time of the year Bill gets a good amount of free stuff from the suppliers, and it started already.  Yesterday, I guess he got lunch bought for him, a clock, and 2 Best Buy gift certificates.  We don’t know how much is on those certificates, but we are guessing probably $25.  We could have used that last week when we bought camcorder, but what are you going to do?  I can’t wait to see what else we are doing to get!  I know that Christmas isn’t about the gifts and all that, but it is nice to get stuff.

Business Card Reader

Every so often I come across a product that Bill could really use at work. Since it is a smaller company, sometimes they actually take our suggestions. The product I saw today was for a business card reader. As a project manager, he has hundreds of business cards that he keeps in a file. He has business cards from general contractors to suppliers to customers (and about a hundred other people that I am missing). Finding the card he needs when he wants it can be somewhat cumbersome. He doesn’t have a secretary, so currently, if he wants the information in the computer, he has to type it himself. However, this scanning software solves that problem for him. The scanner scans the card in less than 5 seconds and then creates a record in Microsoft Outlook. It can get both the data and any images on the card. Instead of having to carry a huge binder with cards in it, he can just bring his laptop (which he usually has on him anyway). It looks way more professional in my opinion. The cost for this product is $179 which is way cheaper than his company hiring a secretary to do this for him. I plan on showing this to him later to see what he thinks. In my eyes, it is a definite time saver.

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