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Added a few pages to www.photonow.biz and have made a Facebook page.

The real website is moving along amazingly, the back end is nearly complete and is truly a work of art, uploading images to customers accounts and printing them an ID card to help them log in – is smooth quick. An estimated launch time of 2-3 months! Just in time for Christmas!

Tomorrow I’ll be setting up the studio in Waltham Cross, I’m a little pessimistic about the week, though I’m certain I’ll break even and get a little pocket money the studio really plays best off a two week booking. It will be an interesting test and I’ll use it to advertise the bookings for the rest of the year.

Today I handed out a bunch of leaflets to families, I’ve never been good at this but I managed to hand out 15 to my key demographics. Managed to get Clare’s Accessories to hand out a few more – I was quite lucky, they aren’t meant to do it, but being polite and a nice smile goes a long way.

Clare’s Accessories today was mega busy filled with my KD’s – I really need to come buddy buddy with girls in that store and get them to hand out leaflets for me.

Tomorrow I’ll post my targets and costings for next week.
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Phase 1.9.9 – Getting ready for the next booking, further tests

Things to do:

Design new displays for the studio

Think about home call setup, the equipment needed, marketing, prices and photographers. Most of the homecall stuff is in my head – Just need a photographer!

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New Graphics / Posters

A1 sized poster to show the dates I’ll be working and We’re Hiring!

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A new A1 pricelist with new prices, slight increase across the range, test the water.

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Yo, quick update, www.photonow.biz now has a holding page. The .com version of photonow has been taken, no website on it though a ‘whois’ check shows someone in London owns it, I’ll drop them an email sometime and see if they are up for selling it, when i have some money.

The mini website / holding pages I made them myself, technically very poor, but very pretty, the actual website will look slimier.

I can’t show the real website yet as it’s on a dummy server, not much to look at but the back end is awesome, once it’s more complete I’ll do a step-by-step of how it works, some really cool stuff on it.

I’m nearly ready for my next run, just need to make some more posters and displays for the wall and I’ll be ready to rock. I’m looking forward to making some more money, personally I’m a bit poor, but more importantly I want to get the nasty red figure into the black. I’ll be putting all my profit into a new savings account, to keep an easier track of it, until I get a proper business bank account.

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Phase 1.9.9 – Getting ready for the next booking, further tests

Things to do:

Look for a sales assistant – First week is sorted now, mixture of solo and a friend helping out.
Make a paper receipt for customers – I’ve found a cool duplicate book online,  simple and effective – for now.
Design a new price list / Change the prices
Design new displays for the studio

Think about home call setup, the equipment needed, marketing, prices and photographers.