by Ted Pitts | Mar 29, 2011 | Business
I was curious how many jobs had been scheduled through our servers. So I checked the numbers this afternoon. We have well over a million jobs, over a million quotes, and nearly 10 million scheduled activities. If you’re curious, the median number of activities...
by Ted Pitts | Mar 4, 2011 | Business
In case you don’t want to read the whole article, I’ll put the answer key right here at the top. WRONG A) Buy a new machine from a vendor WRONG B) Listen to a couple speakers and rush back to your office RIGHT! C) Talk to your peers to generate new ideas...
by Ted Pitts | Nov 30, 2010 | RemnantSwap
When you have a remnant sitting in your shop, it has 3 possible fates: Use it on another job Sell it to someone else who can use it Let it collect dust, until you finally pay for disposal Option 1 is the best case, and the remnants you use yourself are the most...
by Ted Pitts | Nov 17, 2010 | RemnantSwap
Harry and I came up with the idea for RemnantSwap when we were at a conference in Boston. Through a series of conversations with other software business owners, we started thinking about building a site for countertop fabricators to sell granite remnants to each...
by Ted Pitts | Jan 9, 2010 | News
The phone started ringing today with about 10 people who suddenly couldn’t connect to JobTracker. That was strange because the servers were fine and everyone else was connecting just fine. What was special about these few? Luckily there was a work-around: they...