meeting up with dave cunnington - my company secretary - tomorrow. We should have all the documents necessary to apply for the alliance and leicester business builder account.
I've also written back to the tax man and our financial year is from Nov1 to oct 31.
Tomorrow I have a day off so the investor pack will be sorted, plus I have to finalise the covers etc of Kitten 2 and 3
Sunday, 20 January 2008
not such a setback after all
Waterstones will still order the books if you're on their system, and you don't have to be in stock at gardners.
The way ot works is you fill out a waterstones from and send it to garners - then if a store wants a copy of the book, they order it from gardners, who order it from us.
I have now acquireda list of every waterstones and ottakars in the UK.
The way ot works is you fill out a waterstones from and send it to garners - then if a store wants a copy of the book, they order it from gardners, who order it from us.
I have now acquireda list of every waterstones and ottakars in the UK.
Tuesday, 15 January 2008
Bit of a setback
rejected by Gardners - one of the two distributors I was going for. I've written askng for more specific reasons, but it looks like February may be about getting enough online orders to get offline retail to take notice. I will also submit to another few distributors...
Wednesday, 9 January 2008
Monday, 7 January 2008
Friday, 4 January 2008
Thursday, 3 January 2008
A business plan of sorts
After a chat with miles last night I realise we need some definitive goals. Although we need to get the titles out in the spring to get availabilty, the glacier like speed of the book retail industry means that legitimately we're looking at Christmas 2008 as a big target.
As such the plan should be this
1) launch next two books by march with PR campaign.
2) Move heaven and earth to get stock in as many places as possible
3) generate enough money by september to have enought to print and publicise book 4 for christmas (in practice this means £2000 so we have to sell around 300 copies of each book in 6 months - a sales target of around 40 books a week in total!) obviously direct sales, merchandise etc will hopefuly make this an easier target.
As such the plan should be this
1) launch next two books by march with PR campaign.
2) Move heaven and earth to get stock in as many places as possible
3) generate enough money by september to have enought to print and publicise book 4 for christmas (in practice this means £2000 so we have to sell around 300 copies of each book in 6 months - a sales target of around 40 books a week in total!) obviously direct sales, merchandise etc will hopefuly make this an easier target.
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