September 12, 2007
I am working towards a launch tomorrow of Katy Johnson Resort Wear. I currently just have a few additional things to do - setting up the payment information and also finishing up pictures and some inventory related things (like sorting through the hundreds of flip flops I have). I am excited. Things are moving along nicely… Now, I only have to get my advertising campaign ready to go ASAP.
I actually helped my Dad work through his internet related woes this evening and the venture was successful. We did not even butt heads in the 1.5 hour long phone call. Hooray. The ENTJ and INTJ can get along, it would seem.
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September 10, 2007
I stayed up all night working on my business website. I am utterly exhausted. I tried to stay awake with caffeine [Diet Coke] which I now dislike with a passion. Never one to really drink soft drinks I must say that drinking enough to stay awake was a rather disgusting experience.
At any rate, my plans to work on my business website were foiled numerous times. First, the ZenCart template was horrible and continued to not do what it should do based on the code. But it appeared that the custom template was making calls to other pages that were inconsistent with what is typical. So, I had to scrap that. I moved on to osCommerce but it was lacking in features compared to ZenCart (it’s sister cart) and I had a number of other problems that I had with ZenCart. Finally, I settled on CubeCart - which I had actually dealt with long ago and did not have a problem with it. It is less robust than ZenCart but that’s not necessarily a bad thing - especially when I am crazy from lack of sleep. Fortunately, I actually have the website operational. I just need to add the stock and photos of the products then I will be ready. I suspect everything will be [properly] finished by tomorrow. I would hate to launch when I am crazy from lack of sleep.
In retrospect, I realize now that I am just too old to pull all-nighters like I used to do as almost everynight.
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August 29, 2007
I have been working on getting my logo finished for the last month. Initially, I used a logo company recommended to me by the marketing/PR firm that I was working with and that turned out to be disastrous. It has taken well over a month to get a pile of crap from them. Fortunately, I found a firm that specializes in taking logo concepts and fixing them. And fix it they did - the new logo is great.
I am also in the market for banner design for advertising on various websites/blogs. If anyone can recommend a good designer for banners I would greatly appreciate it.
Also, in case anyone noticed. I added Sphere content for the website. Essentially, it is a way for you (and me too) to read other blogs or websites about topics that are similar to something I have posted about - check it out.
In other news, I have been randomly ill today for some unknown reason.
I also found out my parents are coming to visit in November. Yay. We will also be staying in Honolulu for a couple of days at a nice resort so I can shop and do some other fun things.
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