Today's work on/in the business - Wed 28 Apr

1. Update my record of time worked. (10mins)
2. Website upgrade for new customer. (30mins)
3. Further discussion on issue for new customer re payments already made to other companies. (20mins)
4. Download and sort business emails. (1hr 55mins)
5. Correspondence with customer over server upgrade. (25mins)
6. Reading latest information on product. (3hrs 20mins)
7. Accounting. Still nothing paid. (5mins)
8. Networking - follow up on posts and queries - 2 posts today. (30mins)
9. Record business emails. (15mins)

Today's work on/in the business - Tues 27 Apr

1. Update my record of time worked. (10mins)
2. Follow up on existing customers and prospects. (5mins)
3. Look at the statistics that Google Analytics gives you. 75 visits which is getting better, 44 new visits which is good, 16% search, 28% direct and 56% referral traffic, so search is still bad, but we can't MAKE people search for CRM. 2.84 pages perd visit, which is good - haven't been tracking this. 2:45 average time on site is also good - both these last figures mean that people generally actually read the information that's on the website if they get here, which is important! (5mins)
4. Networking - follow up on posts and queries - 2 posts today. (1hr)
5. Accounting. (10mins)
6. Insurance. (40mins)
7. Record business emails. (55mins)
8. Reading latest information on product. (2hrs 15mins)
9. Further discussion on issue for new customer re payments already made to other companies. (10mins)

Today's work on/in the business - Fri 23 Apr

1. Update my record of time worked. (5mins)
2. Send offer for Zen Cart work to a potential customer. 1 networking post. (10mins)
3. Discussion on issue for new customer. (10mins)
4. Invoicing. No one paid, but 2 follow ups sent. (10mins)
5. Accounting. (15mins)
6. BAS. (5hrs 15mins)
7. Review the project schedules. Haven't moved them this time - hopefully I'll get back to this work next week. (5mins)
8. Review progress made this week and ensure the schedule is right for next week. (5mins)

Today's work on/in the business - Thurs 22 Apr

1. Website upgrade for new customer. (7hrs 15mins)
2. Update my record of time worked. (5mins)
3. New customer investigation and email probable resolution. (25mins)
4. Collect and send screenshots to customer on exporting information. (15mins)
5. Invoicing. No one paid. (5mins)
6. Investigate Zen Cart for a potential customer. (30mins)

Today's work on/in the business - Wed 21 Apr

1. Continue planning resolution of issue with customer's server down and gather information. (3hrs 20mins)
2. Update my record of time worked. (5mins)
3. Invoicing - one part payment made. (10mins)
4. Networking - follow up on posts and queries - 1 post today. (1hr 5mins)
5. Website upgrade for new customer. (4hrs 25mins)

Today's work on/in the business - Tues 20 Apr

1. Update my record of time worked. (5mins)
2. Look at the statistics that Google Analytics gives you. 66 visits which is slightly better, 44 new visits which is good, 18% search, 29% direct and 53% referral traffic. (10mins)
3. Continue planning resolution of issue with customer's server down and gather information. (6hrs 15mins)

Today's work on/in the business - Mon 19 Apr

1. Update my record of time worked. (5mins)
2. Follow up on existing customers and prospects. (10mins)
3. Networking - follow up on posts and queries - 4 posts today. (35mins)
4. Continue planning resolution of issue with customer's server down and gather information. (5mins)
5. Website upgrade for new customer. (3hrs 40mins)

Today's work on/in the business - Sun 18 Apr

1. Update my record of time worked. (5mins)
2. Start planning resolution of issue with customer's server down and gather information. (1hr 45mins)

Today's work on/in the business - Sat 17 Apr

1. Update my record of time worked. (5mins)
2. Record business emails. (5mins)
3. Review the project schedules. Moved both projects out by a week, as I don't expect any work to be done on these this week. (5mins)
4. Review progress made this week and ensure the schedule is right for next week. (5mins)
5. Invoicing - anyone paid us? No... (5mins)
6. Website upgrade for new customer. (55mins)

Today's work on/in the business - Fri 16 Apr

1. Website upgrade for new customer. (5hrs 45mins)
2. Update my record of time worked. (5mins)
3. Invoicing - one sent. (10mins)
4. Accounting. (5mins)
5. Conversation re customer moving from Notes to Exchange. (5mins)
6. Issue with customer's server down and associated stuff. (3hrs 5mins)

Today's work on/in the business - Thurs 15 Apr

1. Record business emails. (20mins)
2. Update my record of time worked. (5mins)
3. Website upgrade for new customer. (5hrs 40mins)
4. Networking - follow up on posts and queries - 2 posts today. (40mins)
5. NEIS quarterly reporting - fill out the forms and sign them. (40mins)

Today's work on/in the business - Wed 14 Apr

1. Site visit. (9hrs 35mins)
2. Update my record of time worked. (10mins)
3. Follow up on website upgrade for new customer and associated work. (5mins)
4. Invoicing - no, no one has paid us. (5mins)

Today's work on/in the business - Tues 13 Apr

1. Update my record of time worked. (5mins)
2. Follow up on existing customers and prospects. (5mins)
3. Networking - follow up on posts and queries - 3 posts today. (1hr 30mins)
4. Look at the statistics that Google Analytics gives you. 60 visits which is still lower than I like - although they were picking up again towards the end of the month, 41 new visits which is good, 22% search, 23% direct and 55% referral traffic. (10mins)
5. Invoicing - one paid, 2 new ones sent out. :-) (40mins)
6. Accounting. (25mins)
7. Website upgrade for new customer. (1hr 30mins)
8. 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 on the business as we thought we'd do either. (2hrs)
9. Check details on costs of website hosting. (25mins)

Today's work on/in the business - Mon 12 Apr

1. Update my record of time worked. (15mins)
2. Site visit. (4hrs 25mins)
3. Website upgrade for new customer - installing test site. (5mins)

Dentist in the afternoon.

Today's work on/in the business - Sat 10 Apr

1. Update my record of time worked. (5mins)
2. Invoicing - identify outstanding work that has to be charged for and send details to my partner so that he can advise what the charges should be. (20mins)
3. Record business emails. (20mins)
4. Review the project schedules. Moved both projects out by a couple of days, as at least 2 days of next week will be used in other work. (5mins)
5. Review progress made this week and ensure the schedule is right for next week. (5mins)

Today's work on/in the business - Fri 9 Apr

1. Update my record of time worked. (5mins)
2. Invoice reconciliation. (5mins)
3. Accounting (15mins)
4. Website upgrade for new customer. (3hrs 25mins)
5. Identify cause of missing images on customer's website, find backup with required information and restore directories. (5hrs 55mins)

Today's work on/in the business - Thurs 8 Apr

1. Update my record of time worked. (5mins)
2. Assist with work on automating customer's backup process. (1hr 40mins)
3. Website upgrade for new customer. (9hrs 55mins)
4. Invoicing - send 1 out. (20mins)
5. Networking - follow up on posts and queries - 3 posts today. (30mins)

Today's work on/in the business - Wed 7 Apr

1. Update my record of time worked. (10mins)
2. Record business emails. (15mins)
3. Invoicing - has anyone paid us? No. (10mins)
4. Networking - follow up on posts and queries - 2 posts today. (1hr)
5. Website upgrade for new customer. (2hrs 45mins)
6. Assist with investigating why images are not loading for a customer's site. (1hr)
7. Assist with work on automating customer's backup process. (7hrs 30mins)

Today's work on/in the business - Tues 6 Apr

1. Update my record of time worked. (5mins)
2. Follow up on existing customers and prospects. (5mins)
3. Look at the statistics that Google Analytics gives you. 61 visits which is still lower than I like, 47 new visits which is great, 28% search, 28% direct and 44% referral traffic. (5mins)
3. Website upgrade for new customer. (2hrs 45mins)
4. Look at Django - can we support sites built in this for a customer? Yes, we can. (4hrs 50mins)
5. Assist with work on automating customer's backup process. Assist with resolving issue where one server was not actually serving its web sites. (1hr 35mins)
6. Networking - face to face. Monthly networking meeting as part of the NEIS support. (3hrs)

Today's work on/in the business - Sat 3 Apr

1. Update my record of time worked. (5mins)
2. Assist with work on automating customer's backup process. (1hr 30mins)
3. Review the project schedules. Moved both projects out by a week, as all this week was used in other work and at least 2 days of next week will be as well. (5mins)
4. Review progress made this week and ensure the schedule is right for next week. (5mins)

No work tomorrow - birthday!

Today's work on/in the business - Fri 2 Apr

1. Update my record of time worked. (5mins)
2. Record business emails. (15mins)
3. Invoice reconciliation. (10mins)
4. Accounting. (40mins)
5. Networking - follow up on posts and queries - 3 posts today. (40mins)
6. Assist with work on automating customer's backup process. (30mins)

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

1. Update my record of time worked. (15mins)
2. Website upgrade for new customer. (3hrs 30mins)
3. Determine whether we met the KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) for March 2010. Thankfully, we met most of them - the obvious one that failed being my requirement to exercise (again). Unfortunately, the requirement to rewrite the CRM software has really hit the whole process for 6 - along with needing to write the new 'quick' software solution - and now a sidetrack into a whole new area - the Plone website work. (15mins)
4. Accounting and bank reconciliation for March. This took longer than usual, but I've reconciled everything possible now in the accounting system, so it should be much quicker next month. (1hr 25mins)
5. Respond to customer email. (5mins)
6. Networking - follow up on posts and queries - 1 post today. Exceeded the target of 1 post per day for March which is great. (25mins)

Today's work on/in the business - Wed 31 Mar

1. Update my record of time worked. (5mins)
2. Website upgrade for new customer. (7hrs 5mins)
3. Accounting - has anyone paid us? No. (5mins)
4. Networking - follow up on posts and queries - 3 posts today. (25mins)
5. Try to work out why a process my partner is testing is not working (unsuccessfully). (1hr 5mins)