Building a Business Series: July 17, 2008

July 17, 2008  |  By Justin Nowak  |  Articles   

Success!
Coming up with idea’s for posts has been stumping me lately, just can’t get a great idea to expand on. On top of that my son does not really want to grant me the time to write when I am home, he just wants to play or get into trouble! So I have decided that keeping a regular diary about working on a few business start ups would be a great way to keep the content flowing while I am stumped, so here it goes!

PetEcommerce.com

For the last couple months I have been working with YGG’s own Joey Pomerenke on getting his great idea, a store builder and e-commerce platform for people in the pet industry, up and running. This was an idea that was in the back of his mind for quite awhile now and he sold his Pawsuppetsupply.com company to make it happen.

I joined the team in mid February and it has been a roller coaster ride from that day, taking care of the sales department I have been interviewing and hiring people, dividing territories and getting ready to help market this business. Our only problem is getting the site up, there have been a few delays in site design and programming. The programming is a big job and there have been some hiccups in that getting done lately. For a sales guy that is amped up and ready to sell this has been a trying time, knowing there is nothing I can really do makes it even worse.

Right now I will sit and wait until it is ready to go, hopefully soon but I will keep you updated!


RedKiwi Media

Here I am working on a website design and new media agency with a partner I have known for a few months. We are just about to have our full website up and kick it into high gear. We have a client that we are already working on a site for already and looking for more clients as well currently.

I have to say this is the quickest moving small start-up I have been a part of, it was all agreed to and started in a day out of necessity, I needed a site designed and my partner needed some site to design, a match made in heaven! I must commend his fast work, he was able to get a sample and proposal out for my next day meeting to seal the deal. We are also doing print media for our client so they have a single brand identity.

Mutually beneficial businesses that are started out of necessity seems to move quickly and work well!

This is just a bit of history of some of the things I have been working on to get you acquainted with them so that I can add updates regularly and you can keep track if you like. As i write this I realize that I am doing this just as much for myself, so someday I can look back at the successes and failures that I went through, might help in decision making in the future!

So I will add news about both start-up’s regularly, so stay tuned! You can also follow it on my personal blog, along with my other rants and raves, JustinNowak.com

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Justin Nowak
About the author, Justin Nowak
A sales jedi who lives and breathes the process, and longtime member of YGG, Justin has attempted to sell each of you something sub-consciously, you just didn't notice.

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  1.   Codrut Turcanu I Remarkable Blogging dot Com said on July 23, 2008   

    Great to know about it!

    All the best.

  2.   Gregg Blanchard said on July 31, 2008   

    Great post Justin. I personally love to hear the project other entrepreneurs are involved in and learn how they progress. It is interesting to see how your projects differ from mine and other entrepreneurs…sometimes I think that entrepreneurship appears one-dimensional…but there are so many ways to be a part of the scene it really is exciting.

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