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august 2009 business plan

june 2009 business plan - products and services for existing vendors and markets (as opposed to whatever was before) vendors and markets: a) filemaker - hosting, development, analysis, passwords, solutions b) moneyworks - consulting, payment gateway, invoice creation, order entry, hosting c) pentaho - development, public data set publishing 0. filemaker theft marketing plan - 100 hours 1. mission critical hosting - practice disaster recovery every week - with report card results 2. free filemaker hosting - filemaker user lead generation - offer products from store - offer services database analysis > training > programming - offer filemaker applications, templates and utilities - launch fm10 hosting 3. investigate investing in becoming a pentaho system integrator 4. price building chat chat quiz for pitching newspapers 5. moneyworks payment gateway - rewrite documentation 6. annual recurring revenue through hosting - fragile data centre philosophy - things fail, practice failing

planning for success!

http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/bregman/2009/07/an-18minute-plan-for-managing.html STEP 1 (5 Minutes) Set Plan for Day. Before turning on your computer, sit down with a blank piece of paper and decide what will make this day highly successful. What can you realistically accomplish that will further your goals and allow you to leave at the end of the day feeling like you've been productive and successful? Write those things down. Now, most importantly, take your calendar and schedule those things into time slots, placing the hardest and most important items at the beginning of the day. And by the beginning of the day I mean, if possible, before even checking your email. If your entire list does not fit into your calendar, reprioritize your list. There is tremendous power in deciding when and where you are going to do something. In their book The Power of Full Engagement, Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz describe a study in which a group of women agreed to do a breast self-exam during a

data integration!

first i tried open talend. free right? training? $12k. documentation? where? what? support for wsdl? forum posts negative. searching - altova from vienna - has mapforce. install demo. save wsdl file to desktop. build mapping. try to run. oops it targets java or c#. install eclipse. install visual studio 2008 C#. 2 hours later - compile c# code - it runs! success!