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HIGH POWER TECHNICAL SERVICES
ADD AN EXTRA ZERO TO YOUR PAYCHECK
HEY, TECHNICIANS!!! WE
HEARD YOU’D LIKE MORE
MONEY! So, let’s get ya
some! It’s actually pretty
easy! The easiest sale to
make is to ask a customer if
they would like to bundle
their TV with our internet for
FREE! You can also ask them
for referrals! Ask friends, fam-
ily, businesses, neighbors,
friends, anyone!!
When you have someone
interested, give one of our
sales reps a call.
That’s it! It’s that easy!
For every sale you make:
YOU GET $130!!YOU GET $130!!YOU GET $130!!YOU GET $130!!
If you sell an internet and
video together, it counts as
two sales (a “double sale”).
YOU GET $260!!!YOU GET $260!!!YOU GET $260!!!YOU GET $260!!!
For every 5 sales you make
that are installed within the
same pay period, you get
paid the regular sales com-
mission PLUS:
A $500 BONUS!!!!A $500 BONUS!!!!A $500 BONUS!!!!A $500 BONUS!!!!
(No limit!!)
So, let’s run through this:
You’re at a customer’s home
and ask if they would like to
bundle their TV with our
internet. $130 You drop off
information at two of their
neighbor’s homes and one of
them ends up getting video
and internet. $260 Two
more customers end up
wanting to bundle their TV
and internet. $260 One of
your cousins wants to get
video and internet. $260 All
of these get installed in the
same pay period. $500
YOU JUST MADEYOU JUST MADEYOU JUST MADEYOU JUST MADE
$910!!!!!!!!$910!!!!!!!!$910!!!!!!!!$910!!!!!!!!
(In two weeks!!)
Making sales is not hard at
all! You got this! Your pay-
check can be as big as you
want it to be! To contact our
APRIL 2013
Tax liens stay on your credit
report for 7 years. But,
changes in 2011 with the IRS
can actually have paid tax
liens (under $10,000) re-
moved from your credit re-
port! To have the lien re-
moved, you will need to fill
out Form 12277 (www.irs.
gov/pub/irs-pdf/f12277.pdf).
Print the form; follow the di-
rections to fill it out properly,
and mail it to the IRS near
you (http://www.irs.gov/
pub/irs-pdf/p4235.pdf.).
If you owe on our taxes and
agree to a Direct Debit Install-
ment Agreement and have
$25,000+ in assets, you can
request the lien be removed
from your credit report.
Tax liens on credit reports
can affect your score up to
200 points!
sales department, call ex-
tension 4451, or, give your
favorite sales rep a call!:
EmirEmirEmirEmir 4351435143514351
CaitlinCaitlinCaitlinCaitlin 4352435243524352
JulioJulioJulioJulio 4353435343534353
AdalidAdalidAdalidAdalid 4354435443544354
JasonJasonJasonJason 4355435543554355
BrittaniBrittaniBrittaniBrittani 4356435643564356
BethBethBethBeth 4304430443044304
(Julio speaks Spanish, too!)
THE DISH
Got a Tax Lien?
HPTS contact
information:
• Having e-mail issues? Call ABS
at 502.896.2557 ext. one or
e-mail:
service@absithelp.com
• Tech Portal issues?
Contact Steve Rose x4334 or
steverose@hpts.tv
• Locked out of ETAdirect?
303.723.2222 option 4
• Locked out of Hconnect?
Contact Aleta x4343 or
aletashaffner@hpts.tv
• HR questions, reference checks,
employee related issues? Ashley
Bailey at ashleybailey@hpts.tv
• Got a sale or sales question?
Our in-house sales department
can answer! X4451
• Got payroll questions?
Contact Crystal at x4311 or
crystalfeliu@hpts.tv
• Locked out of ETAdirect or
need your password reset?
Call 303.723.2222 option 4
Page 2 THE DISH
Healthy Living: Talk With Your Doc-
When you have a health problem, it’s easy to ask your doctor for a prescription to help you feel
better. It’s not always easy to talk openly with your doctor about your concerns. Yet speaking
honestly about your health gives your doctor important information that can be as helpful as any
medication.
A Patient’s Advice
How do you make sure that you get answers to all of your questions when you go to see your
doctor?
Sandy McDowell, editorial manager at a health communications company and a patient who’s
learned how to be open with her doctor, says, “I make a list of the things I’m concerned about
before I go in. This helps me mentally rehearse what I am going to say and how to say it. Then,
when I’m in my doctor’s office, I say, ‘I’ve got a list of things I want to talk with you about. Let
me pull it out.’ This lets my doctor know that I have things on my mind and allows her to plan
time for us to talk about them.”
Have you ever been embarrassed about bringing something up with your doctor?
Ms. McDowell: “If I’m shy about something, I find a way to let my doctor know how I feel. I
might start out by saying, ‘This sounds kind of gross.’ One time I said, ‘Oh, I really don’t want
to bring this up.’ My doctor always asks nonjudgmental questions. She’s so straightforward that
it puts me at ease. I have learned that I can be in control if she suggests a test I don’t want. I
know I can ask her to explain all my options.”
Do you have any advice that can make it easier for people to talk with their doctor?
Ms. McDowell: “When you go to see your doctor, act as if your doctor is a friend who cares
about you. Assume that your doctor wants to help you. This approach will make a lot of doctors
open up.”
A Doctor’s Advice
Research show that the average patient asks only two questions during a 15-minute exam. Why
don’t people ask more questions?
Geoff Gordon, M.D., F.A.C.P., associate director of the Bayer Institute for Health Communica-
tion, says, “Many people don’t bring up their concerns when they’re in the doctor’s office. It
may be that people feel overwhelmed or vulnerable because they are sick. They may have trou-
ble describing what is wrong with them. Or they may feel like they don’t know their doctor’s
language.”
What do you hope for when a patient walks into your office?
Dr Gordon: “It helps me when a patient says, ‘Here’s what I really need from you today.’ It also
helps if a patient has a realistic idea of what can be accomplished in a visit. If a patient comes to
me with back pain that he or she has had for five years, I can start a process to figure out what’s
wrong, but I probably can’t make it go away in one visit.”
What should a patient do if he or she is worried about asking too many questions?
Dr. Gordon: “Don’t let concerns about insulting your doctor’s authority stop you from asking
questions. You can always preface it with something like, ‘I’m worried about insulting you,’ or
‘Can I ask you this?’ But if you think something is important, you need to get it out on the table
so that your doctor can address it.”
Do you have any advice to make it easier for people to talk to their doctor?
Dr. Gordon: “Ask yourself if there is something you don’t want your doctor to miss. Then, when
you go in, you can tell your doctor what you’re most concerned about. If you have an idea of
what might be wrong with you, let your doctor know that, too.”
Wellness Library Health Ink and Vitality Communications 2013
Most of us are not
getting the daily
fruits and vegetables
we should be. Juice-
Plus+ is a clinically
researched brand of
nutrition enhancements
that “helps bridge
the gap between what
you should eat and
what you actually
eat”. Their Orchard
Blend is made from 7
different fruits,
while the Garden Blend
uses 10 different
vegetables and grains.
Both come in capsules
or chewables (they are
good!!) and deliver
antioxidants to help
reduce stress and
systemic inflammation,
support a healthy
immune system, protect
DNA, and support car-
diovascular wellness,
healthy skin and gums.
JuicePlus+ is less
than $1.50 a day! For
more information,
visit their website:
www.jamjuiceplus.com
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
1 2 3 Eric Miller
(LV)
4 5 Brian Nail
(SSI)
6 Joshua
Lau (FLO) and
Steve Lee (SSI)
7 8 Jason and
Jeremy Mann
(both CAMP) -
Are they twins?
9 10 Barbara
Jones (LV)
and Josh Lin-
don (MOR)
11 Kenny
Fleming (MOR)
and Ladonna
Rogers (LV)
12 13 Edie Ac-
kerman (LV)
14 William
Murphy (SSI)
15 16 17 Tristann
Hoyle (EDDY)
18 Donald
Pettit (MOR)
and Norm
Szabo (LV)
19 Ron
Perry (MOR)
and Steve
Rose (LV)
20
21 Darrin
Turner (SSI)
and Mary
Compton (LV)
22 23 24 25 26 Amir
Zulejhic (LV)
and Crystal
Feliu (LV)
27
28 Matt
Stinson
(CAMP)
29 30
APRIL BIRTHDAYS!!!
ANNIVERSARIES
• 4/01—Richard Nicholas (FLO) - 4 years
• 4/04—Christina Cannon (EDDY) - 1 year; Matt Stinson (CAMP) - 1
year
• 4/08—David Prior, Jr. (SSI) - 5 years; Ron Perry (MOR) - 3 years
• 4/10—Clayton Nail (SSI) - 5 years
• 4/11—Sukhjit Sandhu (SSI) - 4 years
• 4/13—Quilley McDonald (CAMP) - 1 year; Robert Deason (EDDY) -
2 years
• 4/18—Jacquelyn Sosa (LV) - 2 years; Janice Beckley (LV) 8 years
• 4/21– Mike Kemplin (LV) - 5 years
• 4/24—Norm Szabo (LV) - 7 years!!!!!!!!!!!
• 4/27—Eddie Edmonson (EDDY) - 1 year
• 4/28—Amir Salihovic (LV) - 2 years; James Mitchell (EDDY) 5 years
• 4/30—David Manning (FLO) - 11 years!!!!!!!!!!! (HOLY COW!!)
Branden Dobbs * Amy Williamson * Barbara Jones
* Dennis Patel * Justin Benningfield * Devin Mus-
tard * Kayla Mancuso * Nancy Sleeter * Scotty
Goley * Amanda Utchek * Arthur Forren * Kevin
Kidd * Josh Lindon * David Garrison * Michael
Ramey * Jamey Walburn * Derek Mays * Scott
Larison * William Johnson * Joshua French
We’re growing!!!!!!!!!!We’re growing!!!!!!!!!!We’re growing!!!!!!!!!!We’re growing!!!!!!!!!! WelcomeWelcomeWelcomeWelcome, fresh blooms!, fresh blooms!, fresh blooms!, fresh blooms!
So far, in the one month this
program has been imple-
mented, the CAMP office is
stealing the show with 23 days
without any incidents, and 9
days without a damage claim.
That’s 55 days!!
Way to go, Team CAMP!!!
On March 6th, HPTS distrib-
uted Safety Boards to all of the
offices to track how many con-
secutive days each office goes
without an auto, workers’
comp, or damage claim inci-
dent. Each time an incident
occurs, the numbers are reset.
At the end of the month, pic-
tures of each board are sent to
Ashley to determine which of-
fice is in the lead. The num-
bers rollover with each month.
The goal is to get to 365 days
incident free!
Keepin’ It Safe!Keepin’ It Safe!Keepin’ It Safe!Keepin’ It Safe!
Congratulations to Call Center
Rep Lizzie Druschke who wel-
comed this beautiful bundle of joy
on March 19th!!!
Lenix Cora
Pendergrass
weighed a cute
5lbs. 12oz.
Louisville Office Manager,
Josh Thornburgh, and his wife
are headed to Washington DC
on May 5th for the 16th An-
nual Race for Hope. This 5K
Run/Walk draws thousands of
people from around the globe
to join in the fight against
brain tumors. All fundraising
goes to support the National
Brain Tumor Society and
Accelerate Brain Cancer
Cure. For information on The
Thornburgh’s personal story
and how you can support brain
tumor cancer research, check
out the link:
http://www.braintumorcommunity.org/
site/TR/Events/RFH-DC?
px=2914644&pg=personal&fr_id=2021
Don’t forget the tax deadline is
today!!!!!

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April 2013 issue

  • 1. HIGH POWER TECHNICAL SERVICES ADD AN EXTRA ZERO TO YOUR PAYCHECK HEY, TECHNICIANS!!! WE HEARD YOU’D LIKE MORE MONEY! So, let’s get ya some! It’s actually pretty easy! The easiest sale to make is to ask a customer if they would like to bundle their TV with our internet for FREE! You can also ask them for referrals! Ask friends, fam- ily, businesses, neighbors, friends, anyone!! When you have someone interested, give one of our sales reps a call. That’s it! It’s that easy! For every sale you make: YOU GET $130!!YOU GET $130!!YOU GET $130!!YOU GET $130!! If you sell an internet and video together, it counts as two sales (a “double sale”). YOU GET $260!!!YOU GET $260!!!YOU GET $260!!!YOU GET $260!!! For every 5 sales you make that are installed within the same pay period, you get paid the regular sales com- mission PLUS: A $500 BONUS!!!!A $500 BONUS!!!!A $500 BONUS!!!!A $500 BONUS!!!! (No limit!!) So, let’s run through this: You’re at a customer’s home and ask if they would like to bundle their TV with our internet. $130 You drop off information at two of their neighbor’s homes and one of them ends up getting video and internet. $260 Two more customers end up wanting to bundle their TV and internet. $260 One of your cousins wants to get video and internet. $260 All of these get installed in the same pay period. $500 YOU JUST MADEYOU JUST MADEYOU JUST MADEYOU JUST MADE $910!!!!!!!!$910!!!!!!!!$910!!!!!!!!$910!!!!!!!! (In two weeks!!) Making sales is not hard at all! You got this! Your pay- check can be as big as you want it to be! To contact our APRIL 2013 Tax liens stay on your credit report for 7 years. But, changes in 2011 with the IRS can actually have paid tax liens (under $10,000) re- moved from your credit re- port! To have the lien re- moved, you will need to fill out Form 12277 (www.irs. gov/pub/irs-pdf/f12277.pdf). Print the form; follow the di- rections to fill it out properly, and mail it to the IRS near you (http://www.irs.gov/ pub/irs-pdf/p4235.pdf.). If you owe on our taxes and agree to a Direct Debit Install- ment Agreement and have $25,000+ in assets, you can request the lien be removed from your credit report. Tax liens on credit reports can affect your score up to 200 points! sales department, call ex- tension 4451, or, give your favorite sales rep a call!: EmirEmirEmirEmir 4351435143514351 CaitlinCaitlinCaitlinCaitlin 4352435243524352 JulioJulioJulioJulio 4353435343534353 AdalidAdalidAdalidAdalid 4354435443544354 JasonJasonJasonJason 4355435543554355 BrittaniBrittaniBrittaniBrittani 4356435643564356 BethBethBethBeth 4304430443044304 (Julio speaks Spanish, too!) THE DISH Got a Tax Lien? HPTS contact information: • Having e-mail issues? Call ABS at 502.896.2557 ext. one or e-mail: service@absithelp.com • Tech Portal issues? Contact Steve Rose x4334 or steverose@hpts.tv • Locked out of ETAdirect? 303.723.2222 option 4 • Locked out of Hconnect? Contact Aleta x4343 or aletashaffner@hpts.tv • HR questions, reference checks, employee related issues? Ashley Bailey at ashleybailey@hpts.tv • Got a sale or sales question? Our in-house sales department can answer! X4451 • Got payroll questions? Contact Crystal at x4311 or crystalfeliu@hpts.tv • Locked out of ETAdirect or need your password reset? Call 303.723.2222 option 4
  • 2. Page 2 THE DISH Healthy Living: Talk With Your Doc- When you have a health problem, it’s easy to ask your doctor for a prescription to help you feel better. It’s not always easy to talk openly with your doctor about your concerns. Yet speaking honestly about your health gives your doctor important information that can be as helpful as any medication. A Patient’s Advice How do you make sure that you get answers to all of your questions when you go to see your doctor? Sandy McDowell, editorial manager at a health communications company and a patient who’s learned how to be open with her doctor, says, “I make a list of the things I’m concerned about before I go in. This helps me mentally rehearse what I am going to say and how to say it. Then, when I’m in my doctor’s office, I say, ‘I’ve got a list of things I want to talk with you about. Let me pull it out.’ This lets my doctor know that I have things on my mind and allows her to plan time for us to talk about them.” Have you ever been embarrassed about bringing something up with your doctor? Ms. McDowell: “If I’m shy about something, I find a way to let my doctor know how I feel. I might start out by saying, ‘This sounds kind of gross.’ One time I said, ‘Oh, I really don’t want to bring this up.’ My doctor always asks nonjudgmental questions. She’s so straightforward that it puts me at ease. I have learned that I can be in control if she suggests a test I don’t want. I know I can ask her to explain all my options.” Do you have any advice that can make it easier for people to talk with their doctor? Ms. McDowell: “When you go to see your doctor, act as if your doctor is a friend who cares about you. Assume that your doctor wants to help you. This approach will make a lot of doctors open up.” A Doctor’s Advice Research show that the average patient asks only two questions during a 15-minute exam. Why don’t people ask more questions? Geoff Gordon, M.D., F.A.C.P., associate director of the Bayer Institute for Health Communica- tion, says, “Many people don’t bring up their concerns when they’re in the doctor’s office. It may be that people feel overwhelmed or vulnerable because they are sick. They may have trou- ble describing what is wrong with them. Or they may feel like they don’t know their doctor’s language.” What do you hope for when a patient walks into your office? Dr Gordon: “It helps me when a patient says, ‘Here’s what I really need from you today.’ It also helps if a patient has a realistic idea of what can be accomplished in a visit. If a patient comes to me with back pain that he or she has had for five years, I can start a process to figure out what’s wrong, but I probably can’t make it go away in one visit.” What should a patient do if he or she is worried about asking too many questions? Dr. Gordon: “Don’t let concerns about insulting your doctor’s authority stop you from asking questions. You can always preface it with something like, ‘I’m worried about insulting you,’ or ‘Can I ask you this?’ But if you think something is important, you need to get it out on the table so that your doctor can address it.” Do you have any advice to make it easier for people to talk to their doctor? Dr. Gordon: “Ask yourself if there is something you don’t want your doctor to miss. Then, when you go in, you can tell your doctor what you’re most concerned about. If you have an idea of what might be wrong with you, let your doctor know that, too.” Wellness Library Health Ink and Vitality Communications 2013 Most of us are not getting the daily fruits and vegetables we should be. Juice- Plus+ is a clinically researched brand of nutrition enhancements that “helps bridge the gap between what you should eat and what you actually eat”. Their Orchard Blend is made from 7 different fruits, while the Garden Blend uses 10 different vegetables and grains. Both come in capsules or chewables (they are good!!) and deliver antioxidants to help reduce stress and systemic inflammation, support a healthy immune system, protect DNA, and support car- diovascular wellness, healthy skin and gums. JuicePlus+ is less than $1.50 a day! For more information, visit their website: www.jamjuiceplus.com
  • 3. Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 1 2 3 Eric Miller (LV) 4 5 Brian Nail (SSI) 6 Joshua Lau (FLO) and Steve Lee (SSI) 7 8 Jason and Jeremy Mann (both CAMP) - Are they twins? 9 10 Barbara Jones (LV) and Josh Lin- don (MOR) 11 Kenny Fleming (MOR) and Ladonna Rogers (LV) 12 13 Edie Ac- kerman (LV) 14 William Murphy (SSI) 15 16 17 Tristann Hoyle (EDDY) 18 Donald Pettit (MOR) and Norm Szabo (LV) 19 Ron Perry (MOR) and Steve Rose (LV) 20 21 Darrin Turner (SSI) and Mary Compton (LV) 22 23 24 25 26 Amir Zulejhic (LV) and Crystal Feliu (LV) 27 28 Matt Stinson (CAMP) 29 30 APRIL BIRTHDAYS!!! ANNIVERSARIES • 4/01—Richard Nicholas (FLO) - 4 years • 4/04—Christina Cannon (EDDY) - 1 year; Matt Stinson (CAMP) - 1 year • 4/08—David Prior, Jr. (SSI) - 5 years; Ron Perry (MOR) - 3 years • 4/10—Clayton Nail (SSI) - 5 years • 4/11—Sukhjit Sandhu (SSI) - 4 years • 4/13—Quilley McDonald (CAMP) - 1 year; Robert Deason (EDDY) - 2 years • 4/18—Jacquelyn Sosa (LV) - 2 years; Janice Beckley (LV) 8 years • 4/21– Mike Kemplin (LV) - 5 years • 4/24—Norm Szabo (LV) - 7 years!!!!!!!!!!! • 4/27—Eddie Edmonson (EDDY) - 1 year • 4/28—Amir Salihovic (LV) - 2 years; James Mitchell (EDDY) 5 years • 4/30—David Manning (FLO) - 11 years!!!!!!!!!!! (HOLY COW!!) Branden Dobbs * Amy Williamson * Barbara Jones * Dennis Patel * Justin Benningfield * Devin Mus- tard * Kayla Mancuso * Nancy Sleeter * Scotty Goley * Amanda Utchek * Arthur Forren * Kevin Kidd * Josh Lindon * David Garrison * Michael Ramey * Jamey Walburn * Derek Mays * Scott Larison * William Johnson * Joshua French We’re growing!!!!!!!!!!We’re growing!!!!!!!!!!We’re growing!!!!!!!!!!We’re growing!!!!!!!!!! WelcomeWelcomeWelcomeWelcome, fresh blooms!, fresh blooms!, fresh blooms!, fresh blooms!
  • 4. So far, in the one month this program has been imple- mented, the CAMP office is stealing the show with 23 days without any incidents, and 9 days without a damage claim. That’s 55 days!! Way to go, Team CAMP!!! On March 6th, HPTS distrib- uted Safety Boards to all of the offices to track how many con- secutive days each office goes without an auto, workers’ comp, or damage claim inci- dent. Each time an incident occurs, the numbers are reset. At the end of the month, pic- tures of each board are sent to Ashley to determine which of- fice is in the lead. The num- bers rollover with each month. The goal is to get to 365 days incident free! Keepin’ It Safe!Keepin’ It Safe!Keepin’ It Safe!Keepin’ It Safe! Congratulations to Call Center Rep Lizzie Druschke who wel- comed this beautiful bundle of joy on March 19th!!! Lenix Cora Pendergrass weighed a cute 5lbs. 12oz. Louisville Office Manager, Josh Thornburgh, and his wife are headed to Washington DC on May 5th for the 16th An- nual Race for Hope. This 5K Run/Walk draws thousands of people from around the globe to join in the fight against brain tumors. All fundraising goes to support the National Brain Tumor Society and Accelerate Brain Cancer Cure. For information on The Thornburgh’s personal story and how you can support brain tumor cancer research, check out the link: http://www.braintumorcommunity.org/ site/TR/Events/RFH-DC? px=2914644&pg=personal&fr_id=2021 Don’t forget the tax deadline is today!!!!!