Right, well, this should make for interesting reading, well at least for some of you. As we’re sure you can tell by now our focus is on launching and creating our business Add Deal. We are working quite hard on this and have been for quite sometime, long before we even knew that ROW80 existed.
So, this week, we have spent sometime working on the social networking and deal sharing website, Add Deal Babies as well as launching our first website, Add Deal.co – yes we registered it to secure our brand. Add Deal.co will mainly be used solely for the purpose of being a company website – there won’t be much fun stuff on there.
We also took part in clear your desk day 2012, how many of you took part in that?? Hmmm, well we found it rather interesting and we certainly made a lot of changes to our desk, in fact as we’re writing this we’re sat behind the desk with the laptop in one hand and a diary in the other (multi-tasking – no bad for a guy huh??).
Anyway, let’s get on with today’s check-in, by now we’re sure you know the drill. If your new, have a read of our initial goals at the start of ROW80. Take a look at the quick amendment we had to make and visit the fist check in we did last week. Once you have visited those you will need to see where we’re up to so visit our check-in for the start of this week.
Blogging
- Blog 5 times a week: Now we are certainly meeting this goal, really well indeed, we’ve already done 6 blog posts for this week which is 1 off next weeks target. We’re thinking of increasing this to 10 blog posts per week – what do you think?? We have plenty to do and plenty to blog about..
- Guest Posts: Ah, we knew there was something we wouldn’t be able to get round too, guest posts, they have fallen slightly by the way side – so we’re on the hunt… if you have a spare slot for a guest blogger we would be interested – e-mail us info@adddeal.com
- Pages: *Har Har – ok maybe not quite a pirate laugh, however, we’ve done it, all of our pages are up to date and we’re pleased with the amount of content that are on our pages, we will be updating them before the next check in with some images…
- Comments: Oh yes, we are making great headway on these, all people who comment on our blog either get a reply within 24 hours or we come and visit your blog and leave a comment on your posts, or both time depending. We have done a good 6-10 comments this week and we’re really pleased with that
Work
Ok, here we go, the goal has always been to launch Add Deal as a business and we’re hoping that you will agree good progress is being made on these goals.
- Business Objectives: All have been completed, well they were set in 2010, we have now added some new goals to our business plan and have amended this accordingly… checkout our blog post about our goals.
- 5 User Sign-up: Hmmm, not much progress here, we’re going to be spending sometime focusing on promoting our website and making the website more interesting
- Add Deal Babies.com – Launch: We are making excellent time on this part of our goals. We have been working towards completing this website since the start of the year. So far the users can have their own profile, login and logout, they can make friends as well as upload and update their own pictures.. plus they can share local deals with their friends and family – pretty cool.
- Loyalty Card Printers: Yes another great milestone achieved, we have made contact with the printers trying to find out about their quantities and also a small bit about their terminology as it didn’t make much sense to us. We have been told someone will get back to us within the next 72 hours… – think a phone call might be needed here.
- Add Deal TV – Progress, the website has been started and is currently having content added as well as a layout being decided upon, as we’re not quite sure if we like it as it is… – will blog about the current layout before the next check-in
- Self-Employment Registration: Well we’re not ready for this just yet… we need to get the websites online first, as well as open up bank accounts for the business.
- Bank Accounts: Got the name for our local business bank manager will be calling him this afternoon, to arrange an appointment for the start of February 2012 as we need to go through and refine our business plan/sales figures
- Offer Add Deal for Free: We were hoping we would be publishing our offer this morning, unfortunately we’re unable to do that due to too much time being spent on our other activities – we will be coming up with our offer this afternoon and blogging about it tomorrow.
There is just one other thing we need to add, we have launched
our company website which can be found on its own domain name – come and check us out and discover what we’re all about.
Exercise
Does walking to the cafe count?? Ok, we’ll be honest, no exercise and too much fatty foods – in fact we’ll go one step further, we did walk to the cafe yesterday morning as we were in town… and we ended up having a rather healthy full english breakfast (sausages, bacon egg), you get the idea…
Think we need to start taking this a bit a more seriously?? Any thoughts…
Photography
We sort of chickened out on this one, my partner went into our local photography shop, Jessops, yesterday, I was a bit more sensible and stood outside. She went in there and got some prices for some digital cameras, I didn’t go in as I didn’t want to be pestered by the anxious 17-year-old looking to sell me a camera.
So she went in and she came out with prices, for a decent camera we’re looking at around £220-£300.. which, all things considered, isn’t a bad price… – I feel an end of the month purchase coming on .
Other
E-Mails: Very tidy inbox at the moment, we have twitter in one folder and that’s where it is staying. We’ll be putting all of our remote e-mail accounts into our software later this afternoon so we can reply to all of you from our laptop.
Music: - No new music these past few days, think we’ve spent quite a bit on iTunes – Apple must love us at the moment.
Movies:- Well as you know we rented our a few DVDs and on Sunday we mentioned we had watched all bar the Hangover 2.. We have now watched it and we have to say it was none stop laughter throughout, if ever you need something to cheer you up after a day in the office it is certainly this film.
TV Series: Ok, bit of an odd twist here, we mentioned at our last check in we were getting into these American comedies. We have now found something a bit more factual, we found ourselves watching David Attenborough, Frozen Planet yesterday evening. Great little series.. although quite frightening in parts – especially with the fact the poles are melting hmmmm – Ice anyone??
Phew!! Considering its only been 4 days we have been certainly very busy.. and we feel we have certainly achieved a lot. The exercise side of things may not be going according to plan – s0 we’re thinking of getting serious with this may be a good place to start…we will also be completing our offer as promises as well as blogging about our banking experience.
Now don’t forget to checkout our initial goals, our quick amendment, our first check-in and finally our last check in… clicking through all of these will help you monitor our progress…
Well done if you got this far
How well did you do??
So today is the day that I started making progress on my way back to University. After giving it all some careful consideration we have decided that possibly looking into the Open University will be a good idea. The main reason for this is because it gives us the opportunity to be able to study at our own pace, with deadlines, and also means that we will be able to spend time on our other areas of interest and our main project, Add Deal.
