Today's work on/in the business - Fri 29 Jan

1. Update my record of time worked. (10mins)
2. Invoice reconciliation. (5mins)
3. Work on our new product - details to come later. (5hrs 30mins)
4. Customer site visit - happy customer! (3hrs 35mins)
5. Review the project schedules. Moved both projects out by a week, because there are more forms required for the new software than I originally expected and I am not as far down the road with the CRM as expected, so there is not as much that I can just copy across to the new product. (5mins)
6. Review progress made this week and ensure the schedule is right for next week. (5mins)

Today's work on/in the business - Thurs 28 Jan

1. Record business emails. (5mins)
2. Update my record of time worked. (10mins)
3. Work on our new product - details to come later. (5hrs 35mins)
4. Check whether there have been any updates to client's online survey. (5mins)
5. Ensure accounts are up to date. (5mins)
6. Follow up on client email. (10mins)

Today's work on/in the business - Wed 27 Jan

Well, yesterday was Australia Day and I managed to actually have the day off! :-)

Yes, this is actually a big achievement for me - with all the pressure to find a software platform that our solution could be built on, it's been tough convincing myself that a day off is justified. But having sorted that out on the weekend, I was happy enough to have the day free.

A full day socialising - a bike ride and breakfast with friends in the morning, then home to shower and change and an afternoon in the park at a bbq with (mostly) other friends! Pity that I forgot to put on sunscreen... but I did have a cap on, so it's my arms that suffered. I need to remember that 'I'll do that in a few minutes' NEVER happens if it's me talking about sunscreen...

1. Update my record of time worked. (10mins)
2. Networking - follow up on posts and queries - 2 posts today. (45mins)
3. Look at the statistics that Google Analytics gives you. 77 visits over the last month - this is starting to pick up again, 35 new visits, 50% referrals, but not much searching going on - still a bit of a hang over from business slow down over christmas/new year period, 1 visit from Malta and 1 from Pakistan. (15mins)
4. Record business emails. (5mins)
5. Work on our new product - details to come later. (6hrs 5mins)
6. Ensure accounts are up to date. (5mins)
7. Invoice reconciliation (5mins)

Today's work on/in the business - Mon 25 Jan

1. Work on the requirements of our new product - details to come later. (7hrs 5mins)
2. Follow up on existing customers and prospects. (20mins)
3. Networking - follow up on posts and queries - 2 posts today. (1hr 30mins)
4. Ensure accounts are up to date. (5mins)

Today's work on/in the business - Sun 24 Jan

1. Update my record of time worked. (10mins)
2. Continuing work on the new platform for CRM. Looks like this backend is a goer - answered the last question today in a mostly positive manner... So now I get to just code! (1hr 40mins)

Today's work on/in the business - Sat 23 Jan

Yes - I know it's the weekend, but I'm trying to get to the point I expected to be at by the end of this week - then I can start on the other (smaller) product on Monday!

1. Update my record of time worked. (10mins)
2. Continuing work on the new platform for CRM. Looking for helper add-ons for the last question mark for this platform - one half is really easy, the other half looks more difficult. (2hrs)
3. Ensure accounts are up to date. (10mins)

Today's work on/in the business - Fri 22 Jan

1. Update my record of time worked. (5mins)
2. Invoice reconciliation. (5mins)
3. Ensure accounts are up to date. (10mins)
4. Continuing work on the new platform for CRM. Example now works, so that has gone into the product - progress! (8hrs)
5. Record business emails. (5mins)
6. Review progress made this week and ensure the schedule is right for next week. (10mins)
7. Review the project schedules. I haven't moved this (yet) - I might be up to date by the end of the weekend if I can work on it for a few hours more. (5mins)

Today's work on/in the business - Thurs 21 Jan

1. Update my record of time worked. (5mins)
2. Check whether there have been any updates to client's online survey. (5mins)
3. Continuing work on the new platform for CRM. Of course the example I thought I found doesn't actually work... (8hrs 40mins)

Today's work on/in the business - Wed 20 Jan

1. Update my record of time worked. (5mins)
2. Networking - follow up on posts and queries - 2 posts today. (30mins)
3. Site visit to customer. (3hrs 5mins)
4. Invoicing. (15mins)
5. Continuing work on the new platform for CRM. I think I've found an example that solves my current problem - great! (5hrs 15mins)
6. Follow up on site visit - record outcomes, etc. (15mins)

Today's work on/in the business - Tues 19 Jan

1. Update my record of time worked. (10mins)
2. Continuing work on the new platform for CRM. (8hrs)
3. Look at the statistics that Google Analytics gives you. 62 visits over the last month - this is starting to pick up again, 24 new visits, 40% each direct and referrals, so not much searching going on - still a bit of a hang over from business slow down over christmas/new year period. (15mins)
4. Record business emails. (5mins)

Today's work on/in the business - Mon 18 Jan

1. Update my record of time worked. (5mins)
2. Follow up on existing customers and prospects. (35mins)
3. Continuing work on the new platform for CRM. (6hrs 5mins)
4. Ensure accounts are up to date. (15mins)
5. Invoicing. (30mins)
6. Networking - follow up on posts and queries - 3 posts today. (1hr)

Today's work on/in the business - Fri 15 Jan

1. Update my record of time worked. (5mins)
2. Invoice reconciliation. (15mins)
3. Continuing work on the new platform for CRM. (7hrs 10mins)
4. Record business emails. (10mins)
5. Review the project schedules - added another week as I am nowhere near looking into email processes, which is what the schedule says I should be doing. Moved the other project back a week as I am not yet ready to start it. (5mins)
6. Review progress made this week and ensure the schedule is right for next week. (10mins)

Today's work on/in the business - Thurs 14 Jan

1. Update my record of time worked. (10mins)
2. Continuing work on the new platform for CRM. Having found a document on the coding standards for the new software, I have updated all code to reflect this. (9hrs 25mins)
3. Ensure accounts are up to date. (5mins)

Today's work on/in the business - Wed 13 Jan

1. Update my record of time worked. (10mins)
2. Check whether there have been any updates to client's online survey. (5mins)
3. Networking - follow up on posts and queries - 2 posts today. (1hr 35mins)
4. Download and file business emails. (1hr)
5. Continuing work on the new platform for CRM. Still looking at an open source product that is using the same platform, along with downloading an additional product for that one, so I can look at more features. (4hrs 50mins)

Today's work on/in the business - Tues 12 Jan

1. Update my record of time worked. (5mins)
2. Look at the statistics that Google Analytics gives you. 52 visits over the last month - this is basically December and into January, which we expected to be quiet, 28 new visits, which is over half of the visits, so that's good, nearly 50% direct, but less searches than referrals, so that's not so good, 1 visit from Norway and 1 from New Zealand. (10mins)
3. Continuing work on the new platform for CRM. Looking at an open source product that is using the same platform. (8hrs 10mins)
4. Work to setup the brochure photo, then have it taken. (25mins)
5. Record than at invoice has been paid - thanks! (5mins)

Today's work on/in the business - Mon 11 Jan

1. Update my record of time worked. (15mins)
2. Follow up on existing customers and prospects. (5mins)
3. Networking - follow up on posts and queries - 3 posts today. (50mins)
4. Continuing work on the new platform for CRM. A bit of progress made today. Then a lot of time spent setting up a virtual machine with Ubuntu and an open source product that is using the same platform - this will allow me to look at how they have solved some of the problems and hopefully help with my steep learning curve! (9hrs 45mins)

Today's work on/in the business - Fri 8 Jan

1. Continuing work on the new platform for CRM. Thanks to the mailing list folks and the wonders of the internet, a proposed solution was worked out while I slept! So I was able to get the example process working and then incorporate those changes into my development work, so now we start moving forward again. :-) (3hrs 30mins)
2. Invoice reconciliation. (15mins)
3. NEIS quarterly reporting. Unfortunately, not nearly as much technical support work has been done as was originally planned - BUT we haven't spent as much to set the business up as we originally thought we'd need either. (40mins)
4. Ensure accounts are up to date. (5mins)
5. Start working on documenting my procedures. (20mins)
6. Review the project schedules - added another week as I am nowhere near looking into email processes, which is what the schedule says I should be doing. Unfortunately, chances are that I'll have to push it out again next time too. (5mins)
7. Review progress made this week and ensure the schedule is right for next week. (5mins)

Today's work on/in the business - Thurs 7 Jan

1. Update my record of time worked. (15mins)
2. Continuing work on the new platform for CRM. Not happy - I'm now getting EXACTLY the same error with Linux that I got nearly a week ago with Windows - ARGHHHH! (11hrs 15mins)

Today's work on/in the business - Wed 6 Jan

1. Update my record of time worked. (15mins)
2. Continuing work on the new platform for CRM. Now have Ubuntu (actually Xubuntu) installed as a virtual machine and updated, ready for installing new software). (8hrs)
3. Networking - follow up on posts and queries - 3 posts today. (1hr 15mins)
4. Record invoice paid - thanks! (5mins)

Today's work on/in the business - Tues 5 Jan

1. Continuing work on the new platform for CRM. Not really happy about this at the moment. What I haven't written is that I got to the point of adding another required feature to the system and got errors. Those who are using this could not help me. It was suggested that my installation had corrupted, so the last two days work has been reinstalling on virtual machines - which only gives me a different error! So now I am going to try installing on a Ubuntu virtual machine, in the hopes that this allows me to move forward. As we are planning on offering the software as a hosted solution first up, this is ok - BUT IT'S ANNOYING! (5hrs 20mins)
2. Update my record of time worked. (10mins)
3. Look at the statistics that Google Analytics gives you. 45 visits over the last month - this is basically December, which we expected to be quiet, 24 new visits, which is still good, nearly 50% direct, but the rest evenly split between searches and referrals, so that's ok as well. (25mins)
4. Invoicing. (20mins)
5. Complete the first BAS for the business! Unfortunately, we had to pay the ATO a chunk of GST, but it won't be as much next time, as we bought some stuff in the next quarter, rather than just getting income. (But don't get me wrong - having income that you need to pay GST on is good!) (1hr 5mins)

Today's work on/in the business - Mon 4 Jan

1. Determine whether we met the KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) for December 2009. Thankfully, we met most of them - the obvious one that failed being my requirement to exercise. (5mins)
2. Ensure accounts are up to date. (30mins)
3. Networking - follow up on posts and queries - 3 posts today. We achieved the required rate of an average of 1 post per day for December 2009. (1hr 20mins)
4. Continuing work on the new platform for CRM. (6hrs 25mins)
5. Send out new invoices. (55mins)

Today's work on/in the business - Fri 1 Jan

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

1. Continuing work on the new platform for CRM. (25mins)
2. Update my record of time worked. (10mins)

Today's work on/in the business - Thurs 31 Dec

1. Continuing work on the new platform for CRM. (50mins)
2. Invoice reconciliation. (5mins)
3. Update my record of time worked. (5mins)
4. Continuing to look at reference books available to use with the new platform and associated processes. (1hr 20mins)
5. Ensure accounts are up to date. (25mins)
6. Review the project schedules - pushed out a couple of weeks this time, just in case. (5mins)
7. Review progress made this week and ensure the schedule is right for next week. (5mins)