I felt we perhaps could have done more work yesterday (Wade is up for a limited time) and so it was good to have a meeting with the web designers Online48 today and have a look at progress. We found this company by pure accident and laziness (they were the top hit when I typed ‘Web Designers Liverpool’ into Google and so the first and only ones I set up a meeting with) but right from the word “Go!� (not that we ever said that word – it is an expression) they have been first rate. They are giving us ideas that we’d never have dreamed of, and are potentially valuable. I said to them today, during a great and energising meeting at their new offices, “You’re giving us these ideas, why don’t you just keep them for yourselves and make your own fortunes?� and they said “It’s what you’re paying us to do.�
I think that Online 48 (or ‘Forty Eight’ as the cool kids call them) are more noble than fire-fighters or people that work with special needs children. That is obvious to anyone.
We chatted for about two hours and in our next meeting next week will hopefully be able to ‘sign off’ the business card designs, logo and stationary. We even got a glimpse today at the first designs for the site itself which look very promising. Then we discussed the finished product of this first stage which is basically all mock-ups to take to people (should be done by the end of next month or early January hopefully) and left with a spring in our steps.
There are days when I feel we’re not getting anywhere, which is normally my fault, and I’ve got this terrible condition whereby if progress isn’t made I begin to feel the whole thing is dead in the water. This is nonsense because if nothing else, the Forty Eight lads are working on it everyday, but I need to make sure I but some positive hours in even on Saturdays and Sundays to make sure this works and to keep my own momentum going. Is it common to have the wind completely taken out of your sales if nothing happens for a couple of days?
I know you couldn’t be less interested by this trade marking issue I’ve mentioned recently and went to see the solicitors about, but it is now being addressed. We’ve made contact with the guy who owns the trademark to a similar name with ours in Berlin and we’ve been very honest so hopefully it can all get resolved with a deal that’s fair to us both.
I’m very aware that I’m talking here, day after day, about a product that couldn’t be less interesting to anyone because it doesn’t exist yet, i.e. it’s not online yet, but there’s really nothing else going on in my life and when I tried to think about some amusing event that happened today I drew a blank, as ever, and have just written down what I got up to. I suppose I could have mentioned that after the meeting we both went for a meal at The Quarter Café (it is acceptable for two straight men to go for a meal together and anyone who says otherwise is unsure of themselves and their own sexuality) and whilst looking through the menu the waitress brought over the Specials board for us to peruse. It was an actual chalk board with today’s specials written up in neat hand.
Therefore I could have written today’s entry about specials boards in restaurants. That would have been better, because it wouldn’t have foolishly mentioned a project on the World Wide Net that I’m supposed to not be giving publicity to like an idiot, and everyone could have related to an entry about specials boards. Therefore it would have been a far less boring and self righteous entry too.
I don’t know how the entry about special boards might have gone. It might well have been a bit of a let down and I imagine that is very likely the case. But it would have been a bit more universal that then entry we’ve got, and would probably have had some quips in it about why the chef doesn’t cook the ‘special’ stuff every day and have it on the main menu instead of the normal un-special stuff that they try and palm us off with ordinarily. You know, some sort of weak idea that relies on me apparently misunderstanding the term ‘special’ in a restaurant, thus resulting in humour.
There would probably be a bit about how the chef must hate it if no-one ever orders anything from the specials board because he’s gone to all the effort and they are just being boring and ordering non-special stuff, again relying on the forced misunderstanding of the term ‘special’ in a restaurant environment, thus resulting in humour.
All in all I think you were better off with the boring business stuff.
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