Today's work on/in the business - Thurs 30 Aug

1. Update my record of time worked. (5mins)
2. Working on process for new Events setup - enter regular events and review events. (40mins)
3. Review progress made this week. (30mins)
4. Look at the statistics that Google Analytics gives you. 70 visits, 65 new visits - so a good mix of new and existing visitors, 34% search, 22% direct and 44% referral traffic - keyword/site path information shows that current processes are working to bring people to the site, 1.76 pages per visit, 0:48 average time on site - these last figures show people actually look at the site once they find it. (5mins)
5. Further investigations for project costing for prospect - changes required. (4hrs 50mins)
6. Free space on my laptop again. (35mins)
7. Read small business blogs. (2hrs 30mins)

Today's work on/in the business - Wed 29 Aug

1. Update my record of time worked. (5mins)
2. Working on process for new Events setup - enter regular events and review events. (2hrs 30mins)
3. Investigate reported issues for support customer. (25mins)
4. Review progress made this week. (15mins)
5. Further investigations for project costing for prospect - changes required. (2hrs 15mins)
6. Read small business blogs. (2hrs 20mins)

Today's work on/in the business - Tues 28 Aug

1. Update my record of time worked. (10mins)
2. Review progress made this week. (35mins)
3. Further investigations for project costing for prospect - changes required. (6hrs 25mins)
4. Read small business blogs. (2hrs 20mins)

Today's work on/in the business - Mon 27 Aug

1. Review progress made this week. (20mins)
2. Working on process for new Events setup - enter regular events. (25mins)
3. Download and sort business emails. (45mins)
4. Update my record of time worked. (5mins)
5. Working on upgrading our website to a newer version, which will allow easier work on it's design. (10mins)
6. Further investigations for project costing for prospect - changes required. (4hrs 5mins)
7. Assist with work on support customer's server. (1hr 15mins)

Today's work on/in the business - Sun 26 Aug

1. Update my record of time worked. (10mins)
2. Read small business blogs. (2hrs)

Today's work on/in the business - Sat 25 Aug

1. Update my record of time worked. (10mins)
2. Accounting. (30mins)
3. Review progress made last week and ensure the schedule is right for this week. (15mins)
4. Review the project schedules, adjusted all projects based on actual progress and added 1 week to software schedules. (5mins)
5. Invoice reconciliation - 4 continued, 1 completed and sent out. (1hr 5mins)

And then we went to a friend's housewarming party - fun!

Today's work on/in the business - Fri 24 Aug

1. Update my record of time worked. (15mins)
2. Topup mobile phone. (5mins)
3. Review progress made this week. (40mins)
4. Further investigations for project costing for prospect - changes required. (5hrs 25mins)
5. Accounting. (5mins)
6. Working on upgrading our website to a newer version, which will allow easier work on it's design. (1hr 20mins)

Today's work on/in the business - Thurs 23 Aug

1. Update my record of time worked. (10mins)
2. Review progress made this week. (1hr)
3. Look at the statistics that Google Analytics gives you. 69 visits, 62 new visits - so a good mix of new and existing visitors, 33% search, 23% direct and 44% referral traffic - keyword/site path information shows that current processes are working to bring people to the site, 2.01 pages per visit, 0:59 average time on site - these last figures show people actually look at the site once they find it. (5mins)
4. Website upgrade - working on upgrade to next major platform version - test setup ready for customer review. (45mins)
5. Working on process for new Events setup - review access for one person. (5mins)
6. Further investigations for project costing for prospect - changes required. (3hrs 5mins)
7. Working on upgrading our website to a newer version, which will allow easier work on it's design. (2hrs)
8. Topup mobile phone. (10mins)

Today's work on/in the business - Wed 22 Aug

1. Update my record of time worked. (10mins)
2. Working on upgrading our website to a newer version, which will allow easier work on it's design. (2hrs 45mins)
3. Accounting. (10mins)
4. Website upgrade - working on upgrade to next major platform version. (5mins)
5. Work for support customer - more work on new email formats - cut the latest changes to live. (5mins)
6. Deposit cheque. (15mins)

How to derail a day... We went to the welcome home celebration for our Olympic athletes at Federation Square. Absolutely wonderful to be there, but we couldn't help noticing that the crowd was much smaller than the turn out for Cadel Evans' welcome after he won the Tour de France... And including travel time, it ate up most of the working day - but it was great for us to meet up in town and wander around for a while together... Dave got a haircut that doesn't make him look like a thug, which was great - and we deposited both cheques that have been sitting around for a while - so not a total loss!

Today's work on/in the business - Tues 21 Aug

1. Update my record of time worked. (5mins)
2. Review progress made this week. (35mins)
3. Work for support customer - more work on new email formats. (1hr 50mins)
4. Invoicing - nothing paid. (5mins)
5. Website upgrade - working on upgrade to next major platform version. (50mins)
6. Further investigations for project costing for prospect - changes required. (5hrs 5mins)

Today's work on/in the business - Mon 20 Aug

1. Update my record of time worked. (10mins)
2. Review progress made this week. (15mins)
3. Website upgrade - working on upgrade to next major platform version. (2hrs 25mins)
4. Work for support customer - more work on new email formats. (4hrs 15mins)
5. Invoicing - 1 completed and sent out. (25mins)

Today's work on/in the business - Sun 19 Aug

1. Update my record of time worked. (10mins)
2. Review progress made this week. (25mins)
3. Work for support customer - hopefully final work on new email formats. (5mins)

And then we had a girls' afternoon and evening of music, laughter, singing, jokes, idiocy and friendship!

Today's work on/in the business - Sat 18 Aug

1. Update my record of time worked. (5mins)
2. Review progress made this week. (20mins)
3. Accounting. (15mins)
4. Work for support customer - free space on their server (finalised this work now). (4hrs 55mins)
5. Invoice reconciliation - 6 continued, 1 completed. (1hr 5mins)
6. Read small business blogs. (20mins)

Today's work on/in the business - Fri 17 Aug

1. Update my record of time worked. (10mins)
2. Website upgrade - working on upgrade to next major platform version. (2hrs 20mins)
3. Work for support customer - data export. (1hr 30mins)
4. Review progress made this week and ensure the schedule is right for next week. (20mins)
5. Review the project schedules, adjusted all projects based on actual progress and added 1 week to software schedules. (5mins)
6. Download and sort business emails. (45mins)

Today's work on/in the business - Thurs 16 Aug

1. Update my record of time worked. (15mins)
2. Work for support customer - further work on new email formats. (3hrs 25mins)
3. Website upgrade - working on upgrade to next major platform version. (1hr 30mins)
4. Review progress made this week. (35mins)
5. Look at the statistics that Google Analytics gives you. 69 visits, 61 new visits - so a good mix of new and existing visitors, 38% search, 24% direct and 38% referral traffic - keyword/site path information shows that current processes are working to bring people to the site, 1.78 pages per visit, 1:09 average time on site - these last figures show people actually look at the site once they find it. (5mins)

And even though that list shows that it was a short work day, it really didn't feel like it!

Today's work on/in the business - Wed 15 Aug

1. Update my record of time worked. (5mins)
2. Work for support customer - further work on new email formats. (2hrs 45mins)
3. Review progress made this week. (35mins)
4. Website upgrade - working on upgrade to next major platform version. (2hrs 55mins)
5. Assist with remote work on support customer's mail server. (25mins)
6. Calls from support customer re password/access issue. (25mins)

Today's work on/in the business - Tues 14 Aug

1. Update my record of time worked. (10mins)
2. Website upgrade - working on upgrade to next major platform version. (6hrs 35mins)
3. Invoicing - nothing paid. (5mins)
4. Work for support customer - free space on their server. (1hr 5mins)
5. Review progress made this week. (10mins)

Today's work on/in the business - Mon 13 Aug

1. Update my record of time worked. (10mins)
2. Review progress made this week. (25mins)
3. Website upgrade - working on upgrade to next major platform version. (1hr 20mins)
4. Accounting. (20mins)
5. Invoice reconciliation - 5 continued, 4 started, request for details sent to my partner. (1hr 30mins)
6. Site visit to support customer after issue with server, included some basic maintenance that also had to be done. (2hrs 50mins)
7. Work for support customer - free space on their server. (3hrs 35mins)

Today's work on/in the business - Sun 12 Aug

1. Update my record of time worked. (10mins)
2. Website upgrade - working on upgrade to next major platform version. (1hr 35mins)
3. Review progress made this week. (15mins)
4. Work for support customer - free space on their server (except that it decided that the zipped file was too big! Have to divide this one into two). (8hrs 20mins)

Today's work on/in the business - Sat 11 Aug

1. Website upgrade - working on upgrade to next major platform version. (2hrs 5mins)
2. Update my record of time worked. (10mins)
3. Review progress made last week and ensure the schedule is right for this week. (25mins)
4. Work for support customer - free space on their server. (2hrs 55mins)
5. Review the project schedules, adjusted all projects based on actual progress and added 1 week to software schedules. (5mins)
6. Download and sort business emails. (55mins)

Today's work on/in the business - Fri 10 Aug

1. Update my record of time worked. (10mins)
2. Invoicing - none paid. (5mins)
3. Review progress made this week. (25mins)
4. Work for support customer - free space on their server. (1hr 35mins)
5. Send (slightly updated) resume to potential new associate. (25mins)
6. Assist with work to recover data from support customer's external laptop drive after case broke - also setup hard drive in new casing. (25mins)
7. Free space on my laptop to ensure there is sufficient space to verify DVD burned for customer. (40mins)

And then getting ready for my school reunion... an interesting evening... went better than expected, which was nice!

Today's work on/in the business - Thurs 9 Aug

1. Update my record of time worked. (15mins)
2. Website upgrade - working on upgrade to next major platform version. (3hrs 30mins)
3. Work for support customer - free space on their server, further work on new email formats and investigate possible CRM issue. (6hrs 40mins)
4. Invoicing - 1 paid. (10mins)
5. Review progress made this week. (30mins)

Today's work on/in the business - Wed 8 Aug

1. Update my record of time worked. (5mins)
2. Review progress made last week and ensure the schedule is right for this week. (55mins)
3. Look at the statistics that Google Analytics gives you. 72 visits, 65 new visits - so a good mix of new and existing visitors, 37% search, 24% direct and 39% referral traffic - keyword/site path information shows that current processes are working to bring people to the site, 1.76 pages per visit, 1:18 average time on site - these last figures show people actually look at the site once they find it. (5mins)
4. Work for support customer - free space on their server. (2hrs 35mins)
5. Accounting. (45mins)
6. Read small business blogs. (45mins)
7. Website upgrade - working on upgrade to next major platform version. (1hr 25mins)
8. Assist with remote work on support customer's server. (2hrs 20mins)

Today's work on/in the business - Tues 7 Aug

1. Work for support customer - free space on their server, correspondence re data cleansing and further work on new email formats and logos. (9hrs 25mins)
2. Update my record of time worked. (5mins)

Today's work on/in the business - Mon 6 Aug

1. Update my record of time worked. (5mins)
2. Work for support customer - free space on their server. (8hrs 45mins)

Not too happy with my mobile broadband provider... moving around large files, so using the mobile so that our office internet is not all used up - got to about 90% of the file and the broadband dropped out! And no, unfortunately, I can't access it via FTP...

Today's work on/in the business - Sat 4 Aug

1. Update my record of time worked. (20mins)
2. Work for support customer - free space on their server. (4hrs 50mins)

And then Sunday was spent on other things... not work!

Dave raced on Sunday morning, I marshalled and then we went to a lunch organised by our friend who has been staying with us. After, she moved on to stay with another friend, so we had a quiet night.

Today's work on/in the business - Fri 3 Aug

1. Update my record of time worked. (15mins)
2. Assist with remote work on support customer's server. (15mins)
3. Review progress made this week. (35mins)
4. Invoice reconciliation - 2 continued, request for details sent to my partner. (25mins)
5. Website upgrade - start upgrade to next major platform version. (4hrs 30mins)
6. Work for support customer - free space on their server. (6hrs 35mins)

Today's work on/in the business - Thurs 2 Aug

1. Assist with remote work on support customer's server. (1hr 55mins)
2. Update my record of time worked. (25mins)
3. Working on process for new Events setup - review events. (5mins)
4. Work for support customer - further work on new email formats and logos, free space on their server and change setup now that the cause of the 'disappearing' space has been identified. (4hrs 15mins)
5. Invoice reconciliation - 3 paid, 2 completed and sent out, 6 continued, 1 started. (1hr 50mins)
6. Review progress made last week and ensure the schedule is right for this week and next week. (1hr 50mins)
7. Review the project schedules, adjusted all projects based on actual progress and added 2 weeks to software schedules. (10mins)
8. Download and sort business emails. (1hr)
9. Accounting. (30mins)
10. Look at the statistics that Google Analytics gives you. 74 visits, 67 new visits - so a good mix of new and existing visitors, 37% search, 24% direct and 39% referral traffic - keyword/site path information shows that current processes are working to bring people to the site, 1.76 pages per visit, 1:18 average time on site - these last figures show people actually look at the site once they find it. (5mins)
11. Determine whether we met the KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) for July 2012. Thankfully, we met most of them - the obvious one that failed being my requirement to exercise (I am falling back into my old bad habits, but have a closer gym membership now) and we need to work on contacting new prospects too (still). Of course, as I've been trying to catch up after that finished, the online networking KPI was not met - and probably won't be met till later this year either. (5mins)

Today's work on/in the business - Wed 1 Aug

1. Meeting with prospect re project costing and proposal details - some changes to make. (2hrs)
2. Work for support customer - meeting and further work on new email formats, discussion re issues. (6hrs 40mins)
3. Free some space on our Windows server. (5mins)
4. Working on process for new Events setup - review events. (20mins)
5. Assist with remote work on support customer's server. (5hrs 50mins)

Today's work on/in the business - Tues 31 July

1. Assist with remote work on support customer's server. (4hrs 40mins)
2. Update my record of time worked. (15mins)
3.Working on process for new Events setup - work on new web page and check into issue. (15mins)
4. Work for support customer - further work on new email formats, free space on their server and burn backups to CD. (6hrs 30mins)