Thursday, May 20th, 2010 No Commented
Under: Startup Days

Moraga Rocks!

We recently participated in the Moraga Community Faire put on by the Chamber of Commerce. It was an excellent venue to get ourselves out in front of a number of local residents. Thank you to everyone who stopped by our booth! We sold some errand packages, which was great. Now we need to focus on getting our new customers to make errand requests. I'm so ...
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Friday, April 30th, 2010 No Commented
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Happy Belated Earth Day!

Well, things sure have been busy.  We're thrilled to be getting our business up and running.  We've been busy marketing and now we're members of the Lafayette Chamber of Commerce and the Moraga Chamber of Commerce.  Both are filled with *amazing* people who really care about what they do.  I love what we do, and can't wait until it really takes off. Earth day was fun-filled family event ...
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Monday, March 8th, 2010 No Commented
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We got (then lost) our first customer!

Ironically, during our weekend of testing we had our first real customer make a real errand request.  We assumed it was test data, until a week later when we went into Salesforce to do clean-up.  I couldn't figure out who this person was who had created an account.  Then I read the task information only to realize it was a REAL request.  It was a lady ...
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Friday, February 12th, 2010 No Commented
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Get a Gofer

This weekend we'll be putting our website through initial usability testing with our neighbor / friend.  We'll do another round of usability with a wider audience afterwards.  Then we've got to get some friends to use the service (gratis) a few times so we can work out any kinks before we actually 'go live'.  There are still features I want to add to the technology, ...
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Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010 No Commented
Under: Startup Days

Anxious Anticipation

Steven and I have been spending many late nights over the past couple months working on our website.  I thought my part was pretty much done, then Steven inspired me to take the design up a notch.  So we redesigned the site and are now re-integrating all the various pieces.  After so much careful planning we're both anxious to launch and actually start running errands! I'm ...
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Thursday, January 7th, 2010 one Commented
Under: Startup Days

Getting Going

If you're coming across this blog now I'm happy!  We haven't even launched yet and here you are checking us out.  Steven, my husband, and I have been burning the midnight oil trying to get our service launched.  Steven more so lately, since he's the programmer putting in our shopping cart functionality and tying it to our backend CRM.  We implemented Salesforce.com to help us ...
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