Regroup - Installment 8

  Ok, this installment will detail the events that occurred between the last part of June 2009 and the end of July 2009.

  During this period of time, the concept and operational concerns had been pitched to the family and with some reservations everyone was “ onboard “ as long as it didn’t conflict with the bread and butter business of the family (commercial cleaning company). Two family members would volunteer a few hours a week in supporting me with predominately graphic design and IT work, in return for future considerations. Future considerations - think mega bucks if successful; a firm handshake and a pat on the back if not.

  On 26 June 2009, we tentatively contracted with a local web design firm and we successfully registered the domain names we wanted . The official start of www.thepollitbureau.com and www.thepollitbureau.net had been launched. Sidebar- The dot. Net domain is not currently considered to be necessary by us and we have let it lapse, although , when we started , we thought we needed it for some reason. The old adage live and learn applies here. We laid out what we thought was our concept for the website to this web design company and scheduled the 1^st follow-up meeting for a couple of days latter, which they had to reschedule to the 8^th of July 2009. July 8^th arrived with a high level of excitement and anticipation by the family. We had been hoping to see the beginnings of a workable plan and a schedule as to when we would be trained and the website would be designed and finished. We arrived at the Web design company upbeat and energized. We would not leave in the same spirits.


  Within the period of 25 minutes we found out we were back at square one, as far as the website was concerned. It so happened that many internal changes had happened at the web design company and after a cordial explanation of what had happened ( several of their employees had quit) they notified us that they would not be able to satisfy our needs and returned our down payment. Great, another 2 weeks shot and the only thing to show for it was a registered domain name.

  Time to regroup. Regroup would become a word soon to have many meanings within the family. Many times regroup would become very similar to punting in football. Now its time for me to regroup and end this installment..

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