Solar Dragons LLC

Man, so much has been going on in the last week.

Thursday 7/27:
Matt runs somethings by me that might be decent. I appreciate him telling me. He could have hogged things for himself but he said that its better for the 2 of us to work on it versus him running with it. My dad always said when he was a consultant, “Don’t be afraid to ask for help.”

Friday 7/28:
Met with Vince and hashed out some things for his site. We also talked about starting a window washing company. He had talked to our friend Joel, who broke down the whole business; how to start it, where clients are, everything. So Vince asked him a while ago was he going to do it. He said no because he was getting married and all that stuff was going on. Well now he’s married and Vince brought it back up. We were talking business until 2 a.m. I think its a great idea that everyone can benefit from.

Saturday 7/29:
I started working on my web page design. I worked for 14 hrs. I haven’t had that much dedication to work since Isaac was around. I really think Solar Dragons can take off. There’s a need and I can fill it. My brain was fried by the end of the day.

Sunday 7/30:
Vince and I went to our friend Tracee’s house. People were comming to cool out a bit but me and Vince got there early enough to talk business with her. She has a degree in marketing and a Got Junk franchise. She was telling us about what colors to use and how to attract people to our sites. Most of what she said is the same things I’ve been trying to explain to Vince. Since its his site, I wasn’t pushing the issue. Then she comes and says how we need to stand out in our fields so people can take notice. Now Vince and I have to basically start from scratch so that it will be worth our time making the site. I finally can let loose like I want and throw this conservative crap out the window. It’s just time to be more creative.

She also brought up a point about my company’s name. She said Solar Dragons denotes power, sun and fire and that is what my site should do. Dominate. I never thought of it that way. I let her know that it was just Isaac’s nickname and my nickname put together. She said run with it. So that was cool. I got a lot of good feedback from her.

Monday 7/31:
I designed a completely new page in 2 hrs before I went to work… or whatever you call it. Then I just did research on SEO all day. I found 15 job listings in craigslist.org just for SEO. I googled “professional bloggers” and there are people out there that get paid just to do blogs all day. This one lady’s site is actually pretty good.

Tuesday 8/1:
I was thinking about what Tracee said and all the SEO crap I have to do AND the seo crap I do at work… or whatever and its cramming my brain. I go get some food from this mexican place. I remeber one of the women that work there saying how business was slow. So I thought, “What the hey, might as well ask them if they need a site.” Sure as shooting they were interested. I talked to Leo and Andy, the guys that own the place. They said they were going to fix up the place and then advertise. I told them that everything is digital and you want/need customers now. He agreed. He talked about a restaurant on the corner and how the owners keep changing. He said that business is supposed to be comming into the area but instead its leaving. While I’m talking near the back of the place, some people I know walk in. I’m not facing them but I can see them. They come in and stand there for a second. I wanted to go see them but I didn’t want to stop talking to Andy. Next thing you know, they walked right out. I don’t know why but they did. Had I been over there and they pulled that, I would have looked bad. In addition to that, I would have stopped a business meeting to do what? Escort them out? I’ll bring it up the next time I see them. I had a business card on me from Sunday when I saw Tracee so I wrote www.solardragons.net on the card (its an old card) and he said he would think about it. I think things will work out. I dont think he has a lot of money but thats fine. Solar Dragons can show off some design skill and SEO to help advertise. I’m really working on my credibility right now.

It’s August 1. I’m supposed to start getting paid. Nothing was said about it. I’m not really sweating it because I didnt do anything but research anyway. Matt showed me some mistakes I make in the coding for Modernmirrors.com. I got the site #2 in google under NWI mirror designers or something like that. Except the business is located in Mokena. LOL. While he ribbing me about it, Carl walks in. He’s trying to get in on the joke but flipped it completely on its ear. So Matt explained what was so funny and he sarcastically/seriously called me a “dumb sh*t”. I’m already not looking his way because, quite frankly, I dont respect him. Period. So when he said that, I started thinking, “That’s one…” I don’t get paid as it is. So why should I start to take this crap? I used to work at UPS, Under Paid Slaves, and they didn’t cuss at me. Phyllis didn’t cuss at me when I was making serious loot hobnobbing with senators and whatnot. No way am I gonna sit here and take crap for free. We’ll see what the deal is next week because that’s when everyone leaves. I might be with them…