The Clip of the Week (Anime)

Here's a sample of some of the titles that I'm selling on the site. This is from a series called Bubblegum Crisis. It's in Japanese and unfortunately this version does have subtites but the song Rokcs.

Photo Friday (Family Picture gone wrong)

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It because Yadda Yadda

Remember when I said I was going to start with part 2 of the website project. Well I’ve only been at part 2 for a few hours and it already sucks. I know that I have to work at my business before I get rewarded, but I WANT THE MONEY NOW!!! Ok I’m not going to blog about the site again. Instead I’m going to blog about the little toy helicopter that’s on my desk. Vrmmm Vrmmm. Ok, maybe not.

Despite the frustrations that I’ve been feeling lately, I’m still feeling good about myself. Once again, I’ve taken the road less traveled. I’ve always been the person to try something different. I tend to be the guy people know who did something different. I was the guy who went to New York to see Letterman. I was the guy who worked in Television. I was the guy who went out and got a Bachelor of Science. I’m also the guy who sometimes overextends himself. I’ve spend far more on the website than I met too, and I need to see some return soon, say in the next few months, but don’t worry I have other options. I’m not screwed by any means; I just want the business to take off.

I need things to take off so I can relax a bit and start on my next project, another website. I’d be crazy if I thought that I could live off of a single website. Nope, I want to create a series of sites, so I’ll have multiple forms of income.

Aww crap, I didn’t want to talk about the site. I wanted to talk about …the little helicopter sitting on my desk. Wrrmmm Wrmmmm.

Yuck the inside of my shoes smell awful.

The spell check on Word sucks. Sometimes I put the misspelled word in Google and get the right results.

Grrr I’m lost again.

Doh.

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IT'S ALIVE !!!! ALIVE !!!

This is it; the site is now, truly live. This means that I can now accept customers at Space Station Anime. I feel great; I now have a working e-commerce website. The credit card processing works, I’ve tidied the site up, and made a few last minute changes. Now comes the hard part; promoting the site.

There are some friends of mine who want to buy from me, in order to support me. I’m really glad that they’re going to do that for me. It will help me out over the initial launch. Now I need to do A and B. Now I’m not going to tell you what A and B are (at this time), because I don’t want to give out what strategies I know, at least not yet. I’m not saying that one day I will start a “Tips for E-Commerce, blog, but once I’ve come successful; I’d like to be able to help out my friend, real life friends, blog friends, City of Heroes friends. I want to be able to help them out, by doing what I do, but avoiding the pitfalls that I experienced.

I know that there are some people who have been rooting me on and I appreciate the vote of confidence from all of them. Now comes the next step, promotion. Now I know that I wasn’t going to say what A and B are, but the “if you build it, he will come” belief won’t work I’m going to do some free options to promote and as the coin starts to come in, I’ll make some more serious investments into advertising.

The fact that the site is now live and that I can accept customers is a huge weight off my shoulders. Phase 1 is now complete. I still need to add more products, though and that will take time, but the initial step in promotions should be done by the end of the week.

Hopefully, with this behind me, I can go back to posting about my breast fetish, rants about political correctness, and general stupidity, that is until I start working on website number 2, but at least I have the experience behind site one to fall back on.

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Nothing is gonna stop me now

Once again, Vics is poking me. She's such a trouble maker that one. Here's the deal. I'm working at "Officially" launching the site TONIGHT. I'm hoping that I'm happy with things tonight to start promoting it, but if I'm not, then it will be tomorrow.

Bottom line, the only thing that is preventing me to go completely live, a la, accepting customers is ME. No web hosting issues, no credit processor issues, no supplier issue, the only issue is time and my personal motivation.

I now have people waiting to buy stuff now, but I want to make sure that everything is "just right". I don't want any issues to cause grief to my new customers.

So Vics, poke all you want, cause I'm about to become an e-business person.

UPDATE. During testing today the server went down. I'm NOT IMPRESSED.

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