Rob was looking at the stats on the monitor looking at close rates. This is the amount of calls/sales. He said he got some heat from Vancouver saying that my close rate was way to high last night at 21% He wasn’t upset with me or anything but brought it to my attention. So I thought about how I could tweak my pitch for a greater success rate. I added a couple of things and even though I started out slow. I got a complement card from Barbara from the back 20. She’s a nice 16 year old kid. I ended up by break with $435 by break. I borrowed a $1.15 from John MC D for some chocolate raisins. I’ll give it back to him tomorrow. I should have brought the other $5. No credit card sales in the first half. In the 2nd half Anne called late and I had a brief chat with her. I ended up with 1 credit card sale, actually 4 in all. Plus another $1,040 night. All in all, I had a pretty decent night.

I managed to get my pay cheque as well and I got $291 including my bonuses. I get $90 out of that. Plus the $5 COH makes it for $94. I got the train home with a seat by myself and some cans and bottles home. We were playing complement cards. Every credit card sale we could give someone we knew only on the other system. I received one comp card and I gave out 4. I didn’t win and neither did anyone else I gave them to.

Anne came home just now needed a $20 from our rent money. She gave me $80 and went to the Superstore to change a $20. That’s good. I caught the bus at Clairview for home along the short end this evening.

I found out more info on White Smoke and it’s an online service. I checked out the forums and lots of people are complaining about using it. Based upon this, I decided against ordering it. It’s not really a grammar checker and that’s what I was looking for. Someone mentioned in the forum about Style Writer. I checked the website out and it does the same thing as WS but a bit better. At least SW is a physical piece of software but they want $199 for it. Yikes. Then I got the idea to check out a Bit Torrent version and sure enough it listed but to utilize this Bit Torrent site I need a credit card. A 3 day trial is something like $5 bucks. I can get a pre loaded credit card today from Money Mart for $10 and try this out. The rest I can download some stories from Amazon’s Anthology builder J was talking about the other day. I’m still paying for SW but this way is a lot cheaper and more affordable for me. If it doesn’t work then I’m only out $25 bucks but I could end up getting SW.

Anyway Bloggers, that’s all for now.

e. Jim