Articles by Alexandra Townsend
Cover Picture: Microfluidic Device Using a Gold Pillar Array and Integrated Electrodes for On‐chip Endothelial Cell Immobilization, Direct RBC Contact, and Amperometric Detection of Nitric Oxide (Electroanalysis 8/2019) - Townsend - 2019 - Electroanalysis
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Microfluidic Device Using a Gold Pillar Array and Integrated Electrodes for On‐chip Endothelial Cell Immobilization, Direct RBC Contact, and Amperometric Detection of Nitric Oxide - Townsend - - Electroanalysis - Wiley Online Library
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Optimize Routes to Build a Better Portable Restroom Business | PRO Monthly
Interested in General? Get General articles, news and videos right in your inbox! Sign up now. General + Get Alerts The backbone of a great portable restroom company is built by the strength and efficiency of its service routes. Yes, there are so many other important working parts of a successful company. You need amazing staff, great resources and the money to back it all up. But if your routes are a mess, trust me, your company is suffering. Every company in our industry has routes.
Cut Through the Hassle of Pursuing Government Contracts
Working with the government can be tricky. The bidding process is lengthy, the customer is demanding and the payments are very slow. But in some cases, a government contract can fill huge holes in restroom service routes, as generally government work is highly concentrated depending on the type of job it is. So where do you start? The first place to look for this kind of work is online. Building a database of bid or procurement websites can take time.
Model a Positive Attitude Toward the Portable Restroom Industry When… | PRO Monthly
New employees are a blank slate for your portable restroom company. You never know what they will achieve or do while they are with your company. The way you onboard them can have a huge impact on that. Onboarding also can provide them with a positive first impression of your company and, most likely, of the portable sanitation industry too.
Now Is a Great Time to Take Stock and Plan for 2019
By the end of the summer-fall busy season, I feel really burnt out and ready for the break winter brings to portable sanitation. My brain has been going 100 mph since March, I have been working long hours and I am really tired. If I feel this way, I can only imagine how my drivers feel. The quiet that comes with the impending new year is a huge relief.
The Winter Doldrums Are a Good Time to Take Stock of Your Portable… | PRO Monthly
Interested in General? Get General articles, news and videos right in your inbox! Sign up now. General + Get Alerts By the end of the summer-fall busy season, I feel really burnt out and ready for the break winter brings to portable sanitation. My brain has been going 100 mph since March, I have been working long hours and I am really tired. If I feel this way, I can only imagine how my drivers feel. The quiet that comes with the impending new year is a huge relief.
Not Every Portable Restroom Client Is Worth Keeping
By now I am sure you have realized that not every customer is a good fit for your business. In the beginning, we all believe that you take any customer you can get. But after a couple years, you realize that some customers are abusive, bad payers or the like. More important, these bad accounts are taking up time that could be spent on good customers. When you acquire a new business that is one of the things that will take you some time to figure out.
Divide and Conquer: Making the Most of Small Business Acquisitions | Pumper
When you purchase another company, your customer base can double overnight. Through careful planning and strategy, you can easily fold these new customers into your current business. But it will take a lot of planning and hand-holding to make it a successful transition. It can be a little overwhelming, so I prefer to break the new customers into three groups. This makes the whole project more manageable. Especially when we bought a portable restroom company that only had paper files.
Make the Most of the Off-Season
When the fall finally rolls around, I am thrilled. Not just because I really love candy corn and pumpkin spice lattes, but also because I am so ready for the busy season to be behind us. Don’t get me wrong; I love to be busy. A great weekend in my books is an almost empty storage yard and all of my drivers hating me for the ridiculous work I have lined up for them. But as the weather gets cooler, I am ready for the pace to slow down a little.
Don’t Be Caught Unprepared in an Emergency
At a recent meeting with our new insurance company, the agent asked if we had practiced fire or tornado drills with our staff at A Royal Flush. Yes to the first, but no to the second because this isn’t Kansas — right? However, after that meeting we started thinking of all the ways we were unprepared should a storm like Hurricane Sandy happen again. Almost six years ago, Hurricane Sandy rocked the Northeast.
How to Ensure Your Business Expansion Goes Smoothly
It’s different for every company, but inevitably your business will reach a point where you start to think about expansion. Whether you’re looking to branch into a new state or trying to increase your market share in your current territory, it’s a big step and will be a lot of work. In some ways, buying another company seems like the easiest route to expansion. You are removing a competitor from the market. You are instantly acquiring trucks, portables and other equipment.
Divide and Conquer
When you purchase another company, your customer base can double overnight. Through careful planning and strategy, you can easily fold these new customers into your current business. But it will take a lot of planning and hand-holding to make it a successful transition. It can be a little overwhelming, so I prefer to break the new customers into three groups. This makes the whole project more manageable. Especially when we bought a company that only had paper files.
Use of 3D printing and modular microfluidics to integrate cell culture, injections and electrochemical analysis
Fabrication of microchip-based devices using 3D printing technology offers a unique platform to create separate modules that can be put together when desired for analysis. A 3D printed module approach offers various advantages such as file sharing and the ability to easily replace, customize, and modify the individual modules. Here, we describe the use of a modular approach to electrochemically detect the ATP-mediated release of nitric oxide (NO) from endothelial cells.
Office Tasks to Finish Before Busy Season Arrives
We have been talking about planning for your season recently, and as a small-business owner, you know that a lot of things can fall through the cracks. And paperwork is probably No. 1 on that list. Paperwork is the bane of a small business’s existence. No one likes it; it is time-consuming and frankly probably the worst task at your company. But it is also a necessary evil, so let’s head into a new season with a completely crossed off to-do list. Facing the unknown can be really hard.
Slim Down Business Operations in 2018
For most of us, winter is a time to reset and plan for the year ahead. Business never really stops, but the frantic pace of the summer slows down. As the phones ring less, use this extra time to put a plan on paper. What is it that you hope to achieve this year? Use this time to set goals that you need to work for but that are still attainable. I like to think of the new year as a time of reflection.
Workplace Rumors: Stop Trouble in Its Tracks
At some point in your life, I am sure you have played the game of telephone. You tell a secret to a friend, and they pass it on. The secret is passed on over and over, constantly changing as people misunderstand or mishear the person telling it to them. By the end, the secret is nothing like the original statement. Sounds like a game for children, right? Yet, somehow it still happens from time to time in an office filled with adults.
How to Deal With Unexpected Employee Turnover
Why do employees always quit at the worst possible times? It's the busiest time of the year, the phone continually rings, and suddenly a key employee chooses to leave. Obviously there is never a great time for an employee to leave, but the height of the busy season is the worst. In a large corporation, it is easy to spread that person’s work out over a couple of employees. You have a larger employee pool to select from, so you aren’t necessarily burdening an overworked employee.
Take Control of Your Advertising Spending
When it comes to marketing, more isn’t always better. There are so many viable options out there today and it’s easy to get overwhelmed. Traditional marketing can also be really expensive, so you have to choose wisely when spending your hard-earned dollars. Over the years, we have tried many different forms of marketing. But the core of our marketing plan is Google advertising. This is where I invest around 75 to 80 percent of my budget. When I need clothing, I go to the internet.
Smart Employers Ask These Interview Questions
You have probably done many interviews at this point in your career. You post a job ad, find a handful of good candidates and schedule interviews. Then comes the difficult part. If you don’t ask good questions, you’ll keep repeating this process over and over because you won’t be hiring people who are truly a good fit for your company. But what do you ask potential candidates? Look no further. These are some of the best interview questions you can ask.
Prepare Employees to Make a Good First Impression
“You will never get a second chance to make a first impression.” That famous quote attributed to Will Rogers is why the people you hire to answer your phones and talk to your customers are so important. You want every person who calls your company to have a wonderful experience. You also want them to come back to you every time they need your plumbing services. Business today moves so fast and there are many ways that customers get in touch with you.
Best-Selling Author Pens Coming Out Novel That’s About So Much More
Coming out of the closet is tricky for anyone. It gets even worse when you’re already dealing with terrible grades, your parents’ decision to divorce, and a pregnancy scare with the guy you just dumped! That’s the way things stand for Ash in best-selling author Liz Kessler’s first young adult novel, Read Me Like a Book. Ash, 17, is a tough girl who has never done well in school and doesn’t see the point in trying.
The Truth About Climate Change - How You Can Help
Climate change is very real. The sad truth is that many Americans are only capable of analyzing what’s right in front of them. For instance, few will question the sunny skies accompanied by temperature in the high fifties as we near the end of January. If there is a chance to unbundle, people throw their concerns of our environment out the window. Aside from the many revelations the country has made through scientific studies, there is evidence right in front of us.
Microchip-based 3D-cell culture using polymer nanofibers generated by solution blow spinning
Polymer nano/micro fibers have found many applications including 3D cell culture and the creation of wound dressings. The fibers can be produced by a variety of techniques that include electrospinning, the primary disadvantage of which include the requirement for a high voltage supply (which may cause issues such as polymer denaturation) and lack of portability.
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