Feel free to ignore fairly boring job list type post below for my own benefit (I should set up a things to do blog like Merry but fear I would get too carried away with having two blogs and not get anything done!)
Work stuff – for paid employment I must complete this week (and yes I know it’s Friday already!)
competition to send with press release
contact list to be approved of magazine / newspapers / local and regional newsletters / online forums and parenting sites / instore magazines etc to be sent press release
sign off press release submitted as ok with alterations I have put forward
final proof read of website
create email sig / footer for business purposes
I can also tell you all what the business Boss Lady is launching is – well I can direct you to the website and you can all have a peep and let me know what you think (btw it is not my business or my idea or my website – I am simply doing marketing and PR work for it and coming up with further development ideas) so feel free to be critical as it will actually help me in my job if I know what does and does not appeal about it all.
Stuff to do for me / family
re – submit last assignment for online course as have changed the website I plan to design to a different business idea 🙂
Have a bash at creating a home page for said business idea
start that Dr Seuss plan of spin off educational stuff at least on paper with initial brainstormed ideas before I forget them all 🙂
Plot in some quiet time among the madness planned for next week and something to do during that quiet time
contact agency about getting a sitter for one day a week / evening babysitting as and when should Boss Lady’s business take off sufficient for me to earn enough to justify one!
Look through latest edition of local parenting mag and list down all possible clubs and activities for the kids then discuss with Ady what we think would be most suitable – so far suggested – some sort of art class, more formal music based class, drama or dance
Read through all the EO local contact info I have been emailed and try to get my head round it all 🙂
Probably loads more but I think that will do for starters 🙂
The site is lovely – and I’m sure its a very marketable concept. The only thing that struck me (and actually I’m fairly relaxed about the men in Fiestas!), was that in order to actually GET the personalised free story, you actually have to offer a lot of personal info about your child, on an un-secure site. If I *was* worried by the men in Fiestas, I would be concerned about giving not only my child’s first name, location and age, but also details like her friends name, that might make a stranger seem *safe* to her, if they had it. And yet if you don’t, the story is less meaningful. Dunno Nic – what do you think? Is that being overly cautious. But I can just imagine Junior reading mummies all over London buying this, so good luck with it. Hope you get all the work done over the weekend.
Comment by Joyce — 18 March 2005 @ 6:55 pm
very good point – will take that one up with Boss Lady, thanks Joyce.
And yeah those Junior mums are exactly who I reckon to be our market 🙂
Comment by Nic — 18 March 2005 @ 7:30 pm
Indeed, when I clicked on the free story link I just stopped. Whatever the privacy stuff says I just wouldn’t feel happy providing that sort of information in this way. That said, I would think that anyone who would rather read stories like these, rather than the hundreds of excellent stories that exist for kids, might be slightly clueless anyhow 😉
Are the stories each day different, or do they follow on from each other, I could see the novely wearing off pretty quick. Do you have to download it each day manually, or does it automatically email you a file?
Comment by Chris — 18 March 2005 @ 8:25 pm
Hi Nic, finally managed to catch up properly on your blog, AND finished my work just about on time!
I probably would have the same reservations about giving info for the stories business, but it just depends what the target buyers think I guess.
Thanks for your blog, it’s a great read!
Comment by Ali — 19 March 2005 @ 11:43 am
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My main compalint re the website is that is so relient on graphics for navigation it is pretty much totally unusable for any one who is blind/partialy sighted – ,maybe useing a screen reader or has the graphics off for some reason.
This is not just a buisness issue but would be in breach of the Disability Discrimination Act – (it’s only matter of time before some big sites are taken to court over this)
Comment by Chris F — 19 March 2005 @ 4:47 pm
The online shopping doesn’t seem overly secure to me either – there are problems within the cart system for pound symbols, and you can’t tell what is going to happen to your billing info – no mention of secure settings or anything.
It isn’t precisely optimised for search engines either – page titles would come in useful there.
Comment by jax — 19 March 2005 @ 9:11 pm