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Laser Cutter:

One of our clients is a franchise which would like to both grow and expand their current product line. I can not offer much information about this project due to a sensative nature and the client will not allow information to be given out. Here are the basics, 40 locations throught the USA, retail store, and soon to double that number. Needs small units to cut wood, plastic, and thin metal. Size, 14 inches square.

CNC Router

One of our internal web project is a web site which help people start new business, one of the most requested businesses is a sign macking business. We are looking for a partnership, we offer the refferals and recieve a refferal fee. Note, we will need to try the units, this will require you to send a unit to Kauai Hawaii for the trails, we will no longer except demo signs as an illistration of ease of use.

If you would like to submit a CNC machine for this RFP, then we will need advanced notice. Please send an e-mail to gbrown@geeks-in-paradise.com

Color Laser Toner supplier:

We have a large collage which every few years replace all their color laser printers, and they figure this keeps their cost of operations lower because they are able to have their staff trained in repair of one model of printer, and buy large amounts of supplies. They are now looking for color toner supplier.

CISS Ink Supplier

For the same client above, they need a good supplier of the highist quality ink, there is a need for a wide range of inks. We do reuire a small sample (1 liter) of inks to test before any orders will be placed. Currently a supplier is be actity researched for a supplier of OEM quality of the following printers:
HP i9900
Epson R320

CISS Continuous Ink Supply System:

RFP for CISS units
We have a large number of schools as clients who would like to find an easy and cheap CISS units, most of the schools have a large number or different printers. Often they will buy 10-30 CISS units for one printer model.
Currently we have the following open RFP for the following printer models: Epson R320 Canon I9900
The Epson R320 RFP-050107a-CISS A local school has 6 locations and 30 class rooms, each class room has one printer in the R300 line, the computer lab has an additional 10 printers total is just under 200 units. The current objective of this RFP is to reduce their ink cost over all. Each unit will need a starting supply of 1 liter of ink, and and easy injection system. Each CISS system will need the unlimited self-resetting chips. Please provide the following, cost per unit, which would include CISS unit, with reset chips and 1 litter of each of the 6 colors. We will purchase a total of 200 units in one lot. In the bid I will also need size and weight of the purchase. If you have a inexpensive freight option please provide this in your bid.
NOTE: If you submit a written bid on this RFP, if you are within the RFP range, then you must also be ready to submit one free of charge and freight with ink, instructions, and packaging to be shipped to Hawaii. If you win the RFP then we will pay for this sample unit. PLEASE DO NOT SUBMIT BID if you are not ready to send a sample unit.

Canon I9900 RFP-050107b-CISS This is for only 50 units, this is a major print outlet and has 50 units which would like to reduce the cost of operation for graphic design proofing which will mean a very reliable CISS unit. This unit needs the 8 color CISS unit. If you are interested in submitting a RFP for this, we are willing to purchase an additional 50 units to offer on eBay and will sell the as one unit at a time. Please provide the following, cost per unit, which would include CISS unit, with reset chips and 1 litter of each of the 8 colors. We will purchase a total of 100 units in one lot. In the bid I will also need size and weight of the purchase. If you have a inexpensive freight option please provide this in your bid.
NOTE: If you submit a written bid on this RFP, if you are within the RFP range, then you must also be ready to submit one free of charge and freight with ink, instructions, and packaging to be shipped to Hawaii. If you win the RFP then we will pay for this sample unit. PLEASE DO NOT SUBMIT BID if you are not ready to send a sample unit.

RFP Request for Purposal ~ New products

Greetings,

We are a small firm in Hawaii which help companies in China offer their products to companies in the United States of America. When we look for new products we start when we get a request from one of our clients. We often get request to find either products which will reduce operting cost, or product that our clients would like to offer to their clients as an add-on to one of their current product or product lines.

Here are some the products we are researching for our clients:

CISS Continuous Ink Supply System:
We have a large number of schools as clients who would like to find an easy and cheap CISS units, most of the schools have a large number or different printers. Often they will buy 10-30 CISS units for one printer model.

CISS Ink Supplier
For the same client above, they need a good supplier of the highist quality ink, there is a need for a wide range of inks. We do reuire a small sample (1 liter) of inks to test before any orders will be placed. Currently a supplier is be actity researched for a supplier of OEM quality of the following printers:
HP i9900
Epson R320

Color Laser Toner supplier:
We have a large collage which every few years replace all their color laser printers, and they figure this keeps their cost of operations lower because they are able to have their staff trained in repair of one model of printer, and buy large amounts of supplies. They are now looking for color toner supplier.

CNC Router
One of our internal web project is a web site which help people start new business, one of the most requested businesses is a sign macking business. We are looking for a partnership, we offer the refferals and recieve a refferal fee. Note, we will need to try the units, this will require you to send a unit to Kauai Hawaii for the trails, we will no longer except demo signs as an illistration of ease of use. Click her to read more about CNC routers

Laser Cutter:
One of our clients is a franchise which would like to both grow and expand their current product line. I can not offer much information about this project due to a sensative nature and the client will not allow information to be given out. Here are the basics, 40 locations throught the USA, retail store, and soon to double that number. Needs small units to cut wood, plastic, and thin metal. Size, 14 inches square.

Welcome to Paradise

Aloha,

I would like to introduce Geeks-In-Paradise. This is not a web design firm, nor is it a web marketing firm, and yes, it is not a search engine optimiaztion firm, nor a training firm. It is all of these and more.

See, if you have only one of these parts to work with you to create your web presence, you will have only one peice of the jig saw puzzle. I do not know you, but I will tell you that it is a pretty boaring puzzle. The more peices you can put together at one time, and in one place, the easier it is to get a complete picture.

We are located on the Island of Kauai, Hawaii. Therefore we specialize in that area. Here is the proof in the pudding. This page is setup to show you examples to help you choose our firm to bring your web presences to the finish line.

We work with small businesses on Kauai, many artist in Hawaii, and we bring many products via the interenet to the mainland from Hawaii. So let's take a look at those examples!

1st, you need a name. What is in a name? Is a rose by any other name less sweet? Yes. On the internet often times the name is what will make or break an internet venture. First Google, MSN and Yahoo all look at the name as one of their first steps to give you a ranking. If you go into MSN and type in where to eat on Kauai, you will find my first example, http://www.on-kauai.com. See, I know that MSN and Google both take in to account the name as part of the search. So, in the phrase "where to eat on Kauai," it sees the "on-kauai.com" as a big part. Also, what is in a name should be easy to remmeber, say over the phone, and easy to read in printed materials. More about this later.

2nd, you will need hosting. So, we have our own hosting services. We host for on average $9.95 per month. It's not the cheepest on the web by far, but would you like to know that your Doctor is the cheepest in the USA? This is paid for a year at a time, so your total yearly cost is $119.00.

3rd, You will need to figure out how much you want to learn, and how much control you want over your website. I believe in the "teach the man to fish" axeium. Therefore, here is the basic break down. Easy to use and maybe 8 hours of training, but very structured. That would be a PHP Nuke site. The site you are currently reading is a php nuke site. Or here is another PHP nuke site http://www.all-about-training.com. PHP nuke sites are normally used for conveying infomation. My site http://www.on-kauai.com is also based on the PHP nuke software.

Then there is Zen Cart. This is the same as Php Nuke, but it is based toward selling. Please note, you can still give lots of info, but it is still a shopping cart. Examples are http://www.on-hawaii.com, or http://www.on-oahu.com.

There is a software package made by FrontPage which makes it like you are working in MS Word, but with many tools to enhance the web side. Examples would be http://www.george-brown.info. This is fairly easy to use, but unless you want to be your own webmaster, and have time to do so, please note that a lot of people find it harder to work with.

Then you can move into a customized package like http://www.on-line-branding.com. This is a custom made website with custom code. I know you are now rubbing your hands together and saying "now that's what I am talking about." But note, this would cost about $8,000.00 and 3 months to create. I love these sites, but they are very graphic intensive and hard to peice together.

There is also flash based websites, which are not Search engine friendly, but hey are cool looking. Here is one such flash based website, http://www.starting-a-new-business.info. or http://www.hawaiianphotoshoot.com.

There are many packages out there, and many of them can be used to create websites. I would recommend you look at their example site, and see if they would appeal to you. When ever I look at a site, I ask myself, "could I stay here," Then I ask, "What would I change?"

I have seen posters at local health food stores, which makes me laugh when I see someone puting up posters for web design. Thay look like they were made on a cheap printer, and yet they send you to site that is not well designed at all either. One person told me "but they are cheap." $300+ a day is not cheap, and they are not trying to work with you. I have the same problem with those who put say they are graphic artists and print a business card the incorrect size, and on a home based printer.

4th, we move on to SEO. Search engine optimiaztion. This iswhat gets your websites to the tops of the search engines and keeping them there. Here is a great example. Go to both Google and MSN, and conduct a search for where to buy art on kauai. Guess who is #1 in both? Yes, you guessed it. The site http://www.on-kauai.com is found in over 800+ search phrases. Go into MSN and do a search for where to eat on Kauai. We are also #1 there too.

If this is not enough, go to Google and do a search for motivational skills my site http://www.all-about-training.com is either #1 or #2 it is a matter of which day of the week it is, That is out of 1,460,000 page that is almost 1.5 million pages and I am on the top 2.

5th, once you have these things in place you then need to use the website, so we also offer business consulting on how to best use your site, and we will create a print package which would include full color business card, and brouchures. And we have many other things to help you get more business via the web.

Please take a look down the left side of the site and check things out.

Mahalo,

George Brown

Zen Cart Training

This is a 1-on-1 training, over the internet, via VOIP Voice Over IP, or internet phone. While you sit in front of your computer, I sit in front of my computer and I see the same things you see, and you get a real time training session.

So you think you would like to use Zen Cart or this sort of software package. But what I hear everyday is "But I don't like how it looks." So in this training package you will learn how to create a totally new look for a Zen Cart site.

Did you install or have installed a Zen Cart site and they told you to go to your admin page, and after you saw all the blocks and modules and activate this and deactivate that, and add a calendar, and you would like a shopping cart, and you still want it to look cool? Well, you found the right place to help with your Zen Cart site.

Right now are you saying to the screen;
"Oh, did I mention I have no money to get web design, so I have decided to do it myself and I found a good FREE software package, Zen Cart, BUT I can't figure out how to do it, So I am back to; did I mention I have no money?"

Well I wish I could say the training is free also, but Zen Cart takes about 4 hours to learn with a person who is use to helping you make a site, find the graphics you need, get which modules and blocks you need and once you have the "look" then you just need to know how to add new articles, and how to do general maintenance. All this takes about 4 hours. Yes, I know, you are saying, well you will need at least 4 hours time. Sorry not true. I have taken grandma who asked where is the "any key" on the keyboard, and they are selling quilts and having long distant quilt sessions in their own chat rooms on their sites. YOU CAN DO IT TOO!!

Zen Cart training for only $250.00

$250.00

Additional training, which you may want to do is in units of 2 hours; at a rate of 120.00 per 2 hour session

$120.00

If you have questions or comments please e-mail them to: George Brown

Student Testimonial:

Kudos to George Brown for his excellent PHP-Nuke tutorial! This was my first website, and being ignorant of just about everything website related I was skeptical about the process and daunted by the timeframe to set up a site that was actually functional.

However, after discovering George’s one-on-one customized tutorial, I was able to get a visually pleasing and functional Nuke site running in just over 4 hours of phone consultation. Not only that, but I now feel 100% more comfortable with the process of editing code, installing new modules, and working with existing Nuke capabilities.

George’s friendly, casual, and patient attitude in guiding me through the nuances of Nuke helped me to achieve a level of comfort with Nuke I didn’t expect. George was both flexible in his availability for training and prompt in his communication via email. Perhaps most impressive is George’s willingness to assist me even after the training sequence was completed. Like any real professional, it is clear that Mr. Brown genuinely cares about his students and that relationship forming, not merely padding his wallet, is the priority.

I would highly recommend George Brown’s PHP Nuke one-on-one tutorial to anyone seeking to better understand the creation, maintenance, and optimization of a visually appealing, functionally sound Nuke website.

Cordially,

Daniel Kerr

The Website Guy

Why should I use Zen Cart

Zen cart is a free base code shopping cart. I have been working with zen cart for over 2 years and find it to be an easy platform to work with.

Zen Cart™ truly is the art of e-commerce; a free, user-friendly, open source shopping cart system. The software is being developed by group of like-minded shop owners, programmers, designers, and consultants that think e-commerce could be and should be done differently.

Some "solutions" seem to be complicated programming exercises instead of responding to users' needs, Zen Cart™ puts the merchants and shoppers requirements first. Similarly, other programs are nearly impossible to install and use without an IT degree, Zen Cart™ can be installed and set-up by anyone with the most basic web site building and computer skills.

There are hundreds of shopping cart programs available, but none come close to offering to level of options, features and support available with Zen Cart™. Even the commercial programs have a hard time competing.

Designed with shoppers in mind.
Developers and designers love it.
A long list of features.
Strong, growing, helpful online community.

Just a few of our features...

easy installation
multiple customer modes
unlimited category depth
multiple sales and discounts
multiple display modes

and...

XHTML template system
unlimited extra pages
multiple ad banner controller
multiple shipping options
multiple payment options

plus...

newsletter manager
discount coupons
gift certificates
featured products
quantity discounts

...and more!

Designed for online merchants

Designed with shoppers in mind.
Developers and designers love it.
A long list of features.
Strong, growing, helpful online community.

Just a few of our features...

easy installation
multiple customer modes
unlimited category depth
multiple sales and discounts
multiple display modes

and...

XHTML template system
unlimited extra pages
multiple ad banner controller
multiple shipping options
multiple payment options

plus...

newsletter manager
discount coupons
gift certificates
featured products
quantity discounts