Friday, October 2, 2009

Today's work on/in the business - Thurs 1 Oct

1. Investigate back end for CRM v3. (4hrs 55mins)
2. SIGN NEIS AGREEMENT! Hand in paperwork to look our Job Provider know that this is happening and buy some equipment we need for the business. (1hr 50mins)

It's official, as of 15th October we are running a business with NEIS support for 12 months. The reality of this hasn't really hit yet. It's just 'a fact' in my head at this point in time, rather than a truth...hmmm... not sure if that's a distinction that people will understand, but it's right for me... Maybe next week it will feel like the truth.

Our contact at the Job provider asked whether it had gone quickly or not - which is actually a hard question to answer. In one way, it's flown by - weeks filled with classes and research and typing and so on... and in another, it seemed to take so long - at least partly because the classes finished and it's been a week and a half since we handed in the business plan for assessment. Not that things have stopped since then, but the 'formal' part of the process just came to an abrupt halt...

Anyway, now we get to make sure that we do the nitty gritty preparation work - getting the business cards that have been designed for us actually printed, setting up the back office properly, designing flyers for the technical support side of the business, setting up an answering machine, etc, etc, etc.

So stick around - the journey just got real!

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