"You know, dog shoes," said Trevor Frandsen, shoe salesman turned
repairman and co-owner of Olde Towne Comfort Shoes and Repair. "When
your dog chews your shoes up real bad and you come in and say, 'Oh, my
God, my dog.' And we say, 'Boy, what can we do?'"
For Frandsen,
there is no greater challenge than dog shoes, and no greater feeling
than when he brings back your favorite pair from the drooling jaws of an
over-enthusiastic mutt - like the time he found just the right leather
to match a pair of green boots gnawed nearly beyond recognition.Why does
moulds grow in homes or buildings?
"The
lady - she gave me such a hug," Frandsen said. "She said they were like
brand new shoes. …I love it when a person comes in and drops something
off and comes back and says, 'You do beautiful work. We didn't think it
could be fixed.' It's the customer."
It's a side of the business
he couldn't fully appreciate as a shoe salesman. For years, Frandsen
just sold shoes - in fact, all three previous owners of Olde Towne Shoes
worked for the same shoe wholesaler where Frandsen still works today.
Hearing
those men talk about their work piqued his interest enough that
Frandsen started working part-time at the shop. Eight years ago, when
the business went up for sale, Frandsen and his wife, Mary, stepped in.
Today,
the Frandsens and a team of four employees take on everything from dog
shoes and worn out heels to leather repair and broken jacket zippers.
They even sell shoes.
Still, shoe repair is what drives the
store. And these days, with the economy still creaking back to life,
it's a pretty brisk business.
"When the economy is bad, repairs
are busy. And September - when the kids go back to school - until about
February is my busiest season.Explore online some of the many available
selections in floor tiles. We get 30 to 60 drop-offs a day. And that's just for shoe repair," said Frandsen,We offers several ways of providing hands free access to car parks to authorised vehicles. who opened a second location in Oconomowoc two years ago.
Then
there’s people search. Despite Facebook knowing all the intimate
details of your friends or people you’d want to connect with, its people
search feature is pretty terrible. The Find Friends browser is buried
several tiny links deep within the Friend Requests interface and doesn’t
exist in its mobile app. That makes it very tough to track down
real-life contacts you want to friend unless you know their full names.
Helping people forge these connections locks users into Facebook and
delivers them more content so they visit more frequently.
It’s
also tough to sort your existing friends. You’d think it’d be easy to
search for all your friends who currently live in a certain city so you
could contact them while you’re in town. It’s not. Facebook gives you a
mix of strangers and friends. You can also only sort existing friends by
location, education, and work place. That means there’s no way to
search for friends in New York who Like Mumford & Sons so you could
find people to go to their concert with. You also can’t just look up all
your single friends in your city when you’re feeling lonely. A major
revamp of Facebook’s internal people search might not bring tons of new
monetization opportunities, but it would sure make the service better.
While
we’re on the subject, Facebook definitely needs a search engine for
Timeline. It should be simple as pie to pull up your old posts by
keyword, location, or which friend you tagged. Right now you have to
comb through your whole Timeline month by month. That’s kind of
ridiculous. If it’s worried about making it too easy for employers or
other sensitive people to dredge up your embarrassing moments, make it
so we can only search our own Timelines.We have brought a large range of
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Beyond
search, a big gripe I hear from developers is that people don’t know
where their non-Facebook app activity ends up on their Timeline. A more
predictable layout of what you’ve done across the web and your mobile
apps on your Timeline could make Facebook feel even more like the center
of your digital life.
Finally, I still feel like my Timeline is
too rooted in reverse chronological order. I wish I could pin my
favorite links, photos, and status update to the top. The Timeline Cover
could host a collage of these things, or it could just sit above my
recent posts. Facebook could surface my posts that got the most Likes
and comments to make it easy for me to grab my best content. Flexibility
in what I show on my Timeline would let me give a more accurate
representation of my identity to those who come to my profile.
Over
the years, most people have added friends they aren’t really friends
with — at least not anymore. This clogs up your news feeds with
irrelevant stories and makes Facebook feel impersonal. It’s also opening
Facebook up to disruption by more intimate social networks and
communication apps like Path and Snapchat.
Facebook’s attempts
at a solution include Groups, Friend Lists, and micro-sharing privacy
controls. Groups work for specific topics or established sets of people,
but aren’t flexible enough and notify the members of their inclusion.
Friend lists are tough to manage over time and are too buried.
Micro-sharing through privacy controls is unintuitive, easy to screw up,
and easier to forget about entirely.
Suggestions of who you
probably don’t care about and an option to mass-hide them from your news
feed (but not defriend them) would be great. The current option to hide
people one at a time is a chore and requires too much thinking.
Facebook should just tell you who you don’t Like posts from, chat with,
get tagged with, or live nearby and let you banish them from the feed.
Sharing
to different sub-sets of friends is a tough design problem, but there’s
got to be a way to remind you that you can do this so you share more
intimate or interest-related things more frequently but to fewer people.
One was recording a voice message and sending it to a friend
nearly hands-free instead of typing a message or SMS to them,Wholesale
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Tiles Suppliers. which would certainly be helpful while driving. The
other was the ability to send long, complicated messages such as driving
directions via voice instead of text, which drivers could listen to
rather than having to take their eyes off the road to read. Facebook
also began testing VoIP in Canada, which could let people have full,
two-way conversations via Messenger with friends they might not have the
phone number of instead of making a standard voice call. Drivers could
use this to chat while on the road.
Facebook could release
either a version of Facebook Messenger for cars, such as through the
Ford developer program. Alternatively it could use some Bluetooth system
to tap Messenger into your car’s technology and speaker system. We
received an anonymous, unverified tip that Facebook was working on this,
possibly for an upcoming launch.
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