Red Stores Coming To Life...

Both of my designers that were out of Beijing moved – one to the US and one to the UK.   I guess my fate has it that my designers live outside of China! :)

Here is RedStores.com...

Full CEO responsibility...

After nearly 2 years of talking, and 1 month of planning- Lise is now exiting the company at the end of September.    Her exit leaves a  challenge for me, since HR and Finance and Accounting are new areas for me – and yet I’m very excited – since change is good, and to move...

Task tracking...

Just recently I read that nothing makes you as tired as thinking – and I definitely felt it today.   Been absorbed in the branding thoughts and financial thoughts for the better part of the week – and today was ready to take a little break.   Was really supposed to detail out...

Financial Systems...

My theme for the week was learning so I spend a good part of the day going deep into the various corporations that I own – and looking at detailed cash flows, taxation, VAT and detailed financial functions.  The drive for this is to make sure that the system in place can provide me with all...

Branding and Cross Selling...

This week has been dedicated to learning and research.  On this note, I was looking at cross-site traffic flows and cross-branding.     I was shocked to see that NetShops.com got renamed to hayneedle.com – wow.   I’m not surprised in a way,since Carter came over...

Organizing yourself to organize others...

Last few days I have spent seriously looking on how to better organize myself.   I’m looking ahead and can see a LOT of things moving forward – and in order to move forward FAST – I need strong organization.

I have looked at systems to manage my tasks, revamped the way outlook...

What is a CEO?...

When researching the topic as to what a CEO does, there is a large number of opinions as to the CEO’s function.    The definition that I subscribe to is that the job of a CEO  to provide vision, guidance and inspiration.     The work of a CEO is very creative,...