Scott Klimt | My Digital Footprint

There hasn’t been much going on lately

G Scott — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 05:30:38 +0000

So I have a beautiful daughter, Anna Grace, now. She’s a few months old and in the complete light of my life.

She’s pretty incredible. I love her to death. I feel the same way about my wife. I’m a LUCKY MAN.

Deceptive Business Practices at Civilzzation Furniture in Salt Lake City, Utah

G Scott — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 17:53:29 +0000

Ro-BEAR aka Bob at Civilizzation got my hopes up with his Going Out of Business ads but unfortunately it was his little marketing trick to get people into his store. When I saw the ads I got excited, hoping that Bob and Civilizzation were actually going out of business. After I posted the horrible service experience my brother-in-law Tony had there people have continued to post and comment how bad their experiences have been at Civilizzation. I’d imagine that a company with such a terrible track record of service and disgruntled ex-employees wouldn’t be able to stay in business as long as they have but I guess stranger things have happened.

You can read my earlier post about Tony’s experience with Bob. It’s pretty astonishing but what is even more concerning is that to date more than 20 other people have commented on my post and even shard horrible experiences of their own with Civilizzation Furniture in Salt Lake City.

I’m hoping to make $100 that Civilizzation stole from Tony the most expensive money Bob ever took. Help me show this immoral scam artist that you’ll support him. Never shop at Civilizzation. Advise everyone you know, everyone you meet, and tell complete strangers to avoid Civilizzation. Never buy anything from Civilizzation.

Neglected and Forgotten

G Scott — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 01:24:49 +0000

It’s not that I don’t want to put stuff on the Internet for everyone who doesn’t care to read, it’s just that I don’t have time right now.

Some New Music

G Scott — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 16:13:11 +0000

Here is some more new music…it might not be new but it’s new to me and so it’s new. Does that make any sense? Guess what, I really don’t care if it does or doesn’t. This is more for me than it is for you.

The Pour: Great great great…what can I say. I like them so much I offered to help get them shows and fans! Check them out and buy stuff when it’s available to buy.

The Gaslight Anthem: I heard these guys on the radio but I hadn’t heard of the band before. The vocalist has a Eddie Vedder-ish tone and sound. The new tune, American Anthem, is great. I think I’ll have to pick up the rest of the album when it comes out.

Two Door Cinema Club: Unfortunately I’m a little late to the party here. I heard them on the radio during and “exposing new artist” segment.

Electric Tickle Machine: This is a band of one of my wife’s good friends. They’re pretty good.

Swingset Committee: I saw these guys play in NYC a few weeks ago. They’ve got a great sound and stage presence.

Neon Trees: These guys have already made a name for themselves but I wanted to share them with you anyway. Their album Habits is great. I met them when they played a show at Graywhale in Taylorsville, UT. They were really nice and very friendly.

Keep Your Ears Open For…

G Scott — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 23:43:40 +0000

I’ve always been a big music fan. My second real job (my first job was bagging groceries-that sucked) was at a music store (which totally qualifies me because I worked music retail). At that time I aspired to become one of those elitist music fans that liked the random obscure bands simple because they were random and obscure. Being able to name these bands before they “sell-out” or go big the crowning achievement of the people. It’s the elitist fan’s way of proving their alpha male dominance over you. Not really much to live for but some people think it’s the only way to go. These people usually wear girl jeans, dye their hair black, and walk around all pissed off. Cheer up emo kid. If it’s not that guy it’s the chubby guy with a beard that just moved his nerd-level focus from comics to music.

Let’s leave the fat guy alone and get back to the purpose of my post. I’ve always felt I had a knack for identifying bands that were really going to go somewhere. I felt I could spot the bands from miles away and tell you if they’d make it or not. Some of the bands I predicted would be big and was told I’ was “crazy” and didn’t know what I was talking about were Dave Matthews Band, Maroon 5, and OkGo. There are a few more out there but I don’t want to brag too much about how sweet I am because it could make you feel bad.

When I was more involved in the local SLC music scene I met a guy named Jayson Haws. At that time he was the front man for The Given. Jayson was born to play music. Ever since the first time I saw this guy play I knew he’d make it some day. I still think it’s only a matter of time for him. Here is a song from his forth coming album. The song is called Stars. It’s awesome.

So I’ve decided I’m going to continue to add bands to the keep an eye on list. Some will be fairly known and others will be groups that you’ve never heard of. Now that I’m back in the music industry (working as a marketing manager for Vocalist-Digitech product line) I’m back doing something that I love in an industry that I’m passionate about.

Keep your eyes open for these bands and/or musicians

Jayson Haws
Matt Calder

Just Sitting At Home

G Scott — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 02:33:37 +0000

I’ve started a new job a few weeks ago. I’m working for a company called Karaktr Media. I’m doing graphic design and web programming. It is a good thing that I’ve got an MBA and 10 years of marketing experience so I could become a graphic designer…have I mentioned that I started teaching myself HTML about a year ago…Odd how thing work out. They did give me a new MacBook Pro to work on so I did fall in love with my job on the first day. I can’t complain because after being out of work for 8 months, I was willing to take anything.

My beautiful wife bought me a surprise yesterday. She bought me Dan Brown’s new book called Lost Symbol. I’ve only read the first 30 pages (in a Dan Brown book that’s like 40 chapters) but I am already addicted. I love it because I suspend reality and just enjoy a good story.

I am looking forward to this fall. For some reason I really enjoy great TV shows and every fall they all start up again. Summer TV is painful. You’d think that someone at the big networks would figure out that people still watch TV during the summer. Maybe they’ll move some of the better shows to summer and not leave it to the reject programs. The worst part about fall TV is the MLB playoffs. Baseball is really lame. We get like two weeks of new episodes and then the baseball playoffs start. For some reason all the TV stations stop playing new episodes for the month of the baseball playoffs and we’re thrown back into TV rerun hell. You’d think it would be bearable with cable TV but it’s not… that just means there are more channels with nothing on.

Civilizzation is going out if business. HA! I hope I my post, Never Buy Furniture from Civilizzation, had something to do with their demise but I think that ship has been sinking for a long time. There is some kind of gratification in seeing a bad owner, manager, boss, and company reap what they sow. I don’t wish ill will on people because it’s not politically correct but I’ll never pity anyone who gets served a bit of their own medicine. I can think of a few other companies that should look into karma insurance.

Small is Good

G Scott — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 18:46:14 +0000

A few years ago I made the switch. You know that switch from crap computers to awesome expensive computers. Making the switch is like trading in your Yugo for a new BMW. The price difference is the about the same too. In 2004 I bought a 13″ Mac Powerbook G4 (I sold it to my brother two years later…it is still work perfectly to this day!). After I bought my new laptop I went over to visit my friend Ben and his wife Melanie. While we were sitting on the couch watching TV I took out my laptop to check email/do homework/ look something up online to prove I knew what I was talking about. As I took out my laptop and began to use it, Melanie came back in the room. She looked at me and said, “Wow Scott. Your…THING…is so small!” I lifted up my head to see her pointing to my lap (where my aptly named laptop was resting). Ben just started to laugh. Mel turned bright red and walked out of the room. I dropped my eyes back to the screen to resume my work. I didn’t argue with her…I really hope she was talking about my new computer.

Daily Web Fix

G Scott — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:37:40 +0000

Here is a list of the websites that I seem to visit everyday.

www.ksl.com
www.facebook.com
www.espn.com
www.twitter.com

I though the list would be longer. I swear there are more but I guess not…I’m so uber-web-savy!

Update (9/16/2009)
I got sick of twitter so I deleted my account. I don’t go to www.twittter.com anymore.

Never buy furniture from Civilizzation in Salt Lake City, Utah

G Scott — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 05:20:22 +0000

Tonight at dinner my brother-in-law, Tony, told us about his experience at Civilizzation, a furniture store in Salt Lake City, Utah. Tony stopped in to shop for couches a few weeks ago without his wife. He found one he liked but learned it was the last one. He put a $100 deposit down on the couch so he could go home and measure the room it was going to be put in and bring his wife back to see it. He received a receipt that said if he chose not to purchase the couch he could use his deposit as in-store credit on any other item. They returned this weekend to the store to discover the couch wouldn’t fit the room he and his wife had hoped to put it in. They looked around the store to find something they could use with their $100 deposit. They found a chair that they liked and when they went to purchase the chair the owner “Robert” (who pronounces his name Robe-air) refused to honor the $100 deposit. Initially Bob tried to lie saying that there was no record of the transaction but when my brother-in-law went around the counter and looked at the computer the transaction of his deposit was on the screen. The two argued back and forth for a bit until Bob ask Tony to come back to his office. It was there that Bob yelled, scream, threw a little bitch fit at Tony. He swore at him, threatened him, and kicked him out of the store.

Now Tony is not a small guy. Had I been in Tony’s place I would have spent the night in jail for beating the shit out of this Bob after hearing about the way he spoke to Tony. Tony asked Bob if he was threatening him and then warned him that if he touched him he would defend himself. That’s Tony’s way of saying “if you get any closer to me I’m going to kill you”. Tony wasn’t talking like kill you/punch you in the face, He’s talking like kill you, you’ll be dead. They exchanged heated words and Tony left. Bob wouldn’t sell Tony the chair, give him a refund, or even honor the in-store credit.

After cooling off a bit Tony returned home and called the store. He wanted to talk to Bob and get things resolved. Tony was happy to pay him the difference for the chair and walk away forever. While Tony was waiting on hold he got another call. He got a call from the SL Police Department. Bob had called the police and claimed that Tony has pushed him but didn’t feel the need to press charges. He just wanted to make sure that Tony knew he couldn’t come back to the store ever again. Tony spoke with the officer and told him his side of the experience. When all was said and done the cops knew Bob was a lying sack of crap.

As of today there are a few ways for Tony to get his money back. One of those ways to help Tony get his cash back is to never buy anything at or from Civilizzation. No customer should ever be treated the way that Tony was. No one should ever be talked to that way. Do not support a company that treats customers as poorly as Civilizzation treats theirs. If you find something in Civilizzation you like contact me. My wife is an interior designer and will find another wholesaler who will get the same furniture for you without having to deal with this horrible company.

One thing was interesting. When Tony started telling the story, Geoff, another brother-in-law, said, “Oh my parents had the WORST experience at Civilizzation. They delivered couches with a hugh tear in them and refused to fix, swap out, repair, or refund any money. In fact they told my dad that if he wanted them to even look at them he would have to load them back up and bring them in to the shop.” Within a small group of 8 adults, there were 2 horrible customer service stories from Civilizzation.

I’ll add Civilizzation to places that I will never spend a dime! Here are a few places on that list. They are all here to my personal experiences or something that I’ve heard from someone else.

Low Book Sales
Orbitz.com
Brent Brown Toyota
Regean Outdoor Media
Civilizzation

Here is the Better Business Bureau report on Civilizzation. As you’ll see, Tony isn’t the only one to have some problems with ol’ Bob and the boys at Civilizzation.

They have had 11 complaints in the last 36 months. You’ve really got to suck to get someone to complain to the BBB
1 regarding Contract Issues, 2 regarding Customer Service Issues, 1 regarding Delivery Issues, 2 regarding Product Issues, 4 regarding Sales Practice Issues, and 1 regarding Service Issues

Do your part to pass the message to people like Bob at Civilizzation that it’s not okay to treat people, especially customers, poorly. Let him know that Civilizzation is a poorly run and poorly managed business. Don’t shop at Civilizzation in Salt Lake or any other market they might move into in the future. Don’t let your friends, family, or enemies shop there either.

If Bob will refund Tony his $100, I’ll take this post down. Until Tony’s money is refunded I plan on using my down time at work to do everything I can to make sure anyone who searches Google, Yahoo, MSN, or ask Jeeves for Civilizzation, furniture in Utah, or many many more keywords related to buying furniture in Salt Lake City, Utah, find out just how bad Bob and Civilizzation treat their customers.

Introducing G. Scott Inc.

G Scott — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 20:44:18 +0000

The logo I designed for my new creative marketing boutique called G. Scott Inc.

It’s official. Since being laid off at Noah’s, I’ve stopped looking for a job and gone to work. I’ve started my own creative boutique called G. Scott Inc. I’ve leased an office in downtown SLC and just got things up and going. G. Scott Inc. is a full service marketing and advertising agency. I do graphic design, copy writing, web design, web programming, strategy, etc. I’m good, fast, and efficient. I can get simple inexpensive sites up in less than two days. It typically costs my clients $250-$1500 for a professionally designed and programmed website. The cost difference is caused by more complex website features and client changes. My company website is www.gscottinc.com. You can see some of my work and read about the services that I offer.

One of the services that I’m starting that I haven’t seen anywhere else is complete brand presence monitoring with integrated online marketing efforts. I’ll over see site optimization, pay-per-click campaigns, email campaigns, search engine optimization, web analytics, web design, web programming, industry analysis with benchmarking, blogging, back link management, trend analysis, online customer engagement, buzz monitoring, and more. I build a website to promote this aspect of my business. The website is www.googlefacetwitterspace.com.

Friends, family, and network contacts are the best way to grow a start-up business. I’m hoping as you work with your clients, friends, and family, when the need arises for graphic design, web design, web programming, or any other service I provide, you’d be willing to share my information. I sincerely appreciate your help and please let me know if there is anyway that I can help you out. As I’m building my book of business and portfolio I’m willing to work with all types of clients. I’ll consider accepting trades of services if someone is strapped for cash. I’m dedicated to making this work and willing to give it everything it takes to get going.

Here is my new work contact information:

G. Scott Inc.

825 North 300 West, Suite 235
Salt Lake City, Utah 84103
(801) 415-9876
scott (at) gscottinc (dot) com