Marketing Testing through action

I missed my evening write up so here is my morning catch up write up! šŸ™‚ The big focus for the day was to complete the RedStores.com business plan (and send it out for peer review with EO).    The Business Plan has been in the works for some time...

Assess, plan, do

I had a great management class 10 years ago, where we did a weekend exercise about executing things.  The first thing was to learn the situation, then plan then do. Iā€™m finding myself following this pattern.  Today was spend on doing a lot planning on HR...

Red Stores Coming To Life

Both of my designers that were out of Beijing moved ā€“ one to the US and one to the UK.   I guess my fate has it that my designers live outside of China! šŸ™‚ Here is RedStores.com card – The mockup of RedStores on v4 now (this is after 10 other versions)...

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 ā€“ and yet Iā€™m very excited ā€“ since...

Task tracking

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

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 ā€“ and looking at detailed cash flows, taxation, VAT and detailed financial functions.  The drive for this is to make sure that the system in...