Solar Dragons LLC

I’ve signed a few more clients on, so things are looking up. Someone I used to work with in Chicago is starting a catering business and is signing on for Solar Dragons services in May. I want things to start expanding a little faster than they are, so I hired a couple of sales people to start after in May. By the time May comes, I’ll be back from my trip and would have redesigned the website.

With the Hispanic population being high in this area and in Chicago, I want to hire someone to translate our site into Spanish. Speaking of which, I need to free up a block of time in my day to learn Spanish. What good is having a bilingual site if I cant talk to clients in their own language?

“Project Icarus” is looking up. Our writing staff is in place and we have a cover artist. I have a contact that can print and distribute the comic for us, so that is working out in our favor. I think I want to keep the comic local and have local businesses advertise in it. We are debating on having a monthly comic or just do a graphic novel. I’m leaning on the novel, just to have a finished product to promote versus a piece of a product. I prefer having a whole product and then have people critique it. Unfortunately, that means there can’t be any room for error. We’re still working on it, so I’m not going to worry about it too much.

Since I’m going on a trip for a week, I’m setting everything up to be ready to go when I get back. I have a client list and I’ll design the business cards for my sales people before I go. Things are looking up so far and here’s hoping they can take off when May gets here.

This month was even more hectic than last month! More people than I expected were still available for me even though I was out of commission for a few months. I am also glad that I have a team to work with. I prefer that for the simple fact that everything doesn’t fall on my shoulders. In addition, we can brainstorm as a group, rather than me sitting by myself burning the midnight oil for a spark of an idea.

I remember when I was getting my A.A.S in graphic art; we had to make a movie. I was fortunate that Isaac was available to help with the movie. About 40% of the movie’s creative look was from other people suggesting a variety of ways to handle a certain scene. I appreciate that those people in my movie really had my back and it turned out to be the best movie in the school. They even took a copy of it to other campuses for Robert Morris. I felt like a celebrity for a little while all because I had a good team working with me.

Now I have a new team. I have a couple of programmers and a guy thats pretty good with flash. This works for now. As things grow, we’ll see how it goes…

Whew… I’m glad this month is over. I went out of town twice and people came from out of town last week. I’ve been trying to contact more people for freelance work but I haven’t updated my site yet. I don’t know if that will have or is currently having a negative impact on my consumer base. I have my energy back, even though I’m still dealing with some throat issues. My wife is going back and forth with being sick, so we’ve been going to the doctor trying to get better.

I started a new project this month. I started a comic with a friend of mine. He liked the basic concept and is scouting artists for us to create the comic. I’m debating over what style and if we want to use color or not. I would prefer everyone to stick to what they are good at, instead of double duty; I.E. me coloring and writing, or the artist penciling and inking, etc. I bought a DVD called ‘Countdown to Wednesday’. It was really informative about how to break into the comic business and all thats involved. We thought we had an artist but he wasn’t up to such an elaborate project. If Solar Dragons has more business coming in, some of the revenue can fund the comic. I’m thinking about sponsors as well, various businesses and colleges in the area. March is right around the corner, so we’ll see how things go.

After being out of touch with reality for so long, I’m glad to be getting back into the swing of things. The meds I was on was messing with my concentration but thats over with. I’m reestablishing business contacts. Matt gave me some suggestions of where to look for potential clients. Now I’ve been going through my files to start redesigning my site… again. February is a busy month. I hope by either the middle or the end of the month I can have my site up and running and then start advertising Solar Dragons again.

I’m debating going to Purdue and/or Robert Morris to try and get some interns. I think about what life was like when I was an inter. I dont really remembering contributing that much. I need interns to spread my name around for the company. Hmmm…. I’m still in the air about it.

Thats about how much better I feel. The meds have helped to some extent but I think there is mold in the house. My wife has started to get sick and she doesnt have allergies. Some business has come and gone but the business thats here hasn’t signed a contract, so I don’t need to pull out my chisel yet. I saw a friend of mine and expanded on the online comic we are working on. He’s getting the artists and I’m writing. He also works for people detecting mold in buildings and homes. So he’s coming over soon. I got a filter that kills mold spores. I put it on ‘HI’ and it worked right away. My wife and I stopped coughing as much and was able to go to sleep for longer than 2hrs. I don’t think I’m going to make my deadline for my site but since business is coming in, I might as well jump on that.