- we need a sales and marketing plan - everything starts with a customer - we have to have this to do anything else - we are trying to move the price up - what about all of the pieces we still need? - custom labels - loyalty stuff - discounts and dollars off - state API's - tons of other needed features - try to head towards a more collective effort vs. this guy is building this and that - we are somewhat failing on the sales side - on the inside, keep things flowing as if they are part of the main system - steve is feeling lonely on the sales side of the fence - hard to sell all of the little pieces - we really want to sell the whole package and up the price - we want to go through the whole system and show all of the features... - we would love an interactive tour and be able to see the features - a standalone demo of sorts - sceeen shots, movies, key features - save some time and help people sell themselves - interactive user-guide - be the business owner's best friend - we want to reward loyalty of our existing clients - impossible for us to communicate all of the new changes - the model - build awesome pieces and then provide it as part of the main toolset - if you are part of adilas, then you are family - help our guys/gals get to the level that they want to be, then help others build and do the same - auto pilot - ecomm - self setup - with updates and new features - people have discovered the bank of steve and brandon - we need them to play along with us - keep it simple, the product already has enough variables - push the snow owl theme forward - training and classes - we need to help inform people, users, and business owners - we don't have a handbook for "SaaS" (software as a service) - we are kinda faking it as we go - part of our story is the people that are playing the game with us... - steve would like to set up a trust for the people who are playing with adilas - adilas is more than monies... a lot of it deals with the relationships and how the story plays out - grow slowly and get our people paid - current players - steve - david b - brandon - shannon - shari o. - craig - nick - alan - calvin - bryan - russell - chris johnnie - eric - will - dave forbis - shawn - danny shuford - kelly - outside reps... - we may end up adopting and inviting other people in to the family - keep building as if all of this new development was part of the big family - keep skating towards or where the puck will be... - start scheduling out key pieces and making plans... make time for what we want - brandon is somewhat acting as the internal project manager - steve would love to help in sales - maybe get it more automated, easier, more interactive, etc. - creative and inventive with the tools that we have - dreaming up the next level - captaining the ship - watching out for what is coming - skating towards where the puck will be - vision - we are using shari o. tons and tons - we may need to circle around on the custom label builder project... /// these are general concepts and ideas... - plan it out - budget the hours - break things into smaller pieces - sign it out and have them return and report - i could design it and help plan it out - include the other developers when ready - spec it out - make small key points where we bring things together - we could then sub it out to another developer - will might be the guy for this project (we could sub out small pieces to other developers) - inspect what we expect - we are still actively deciding on things... keep making choices and decisions - we all need to work together to make it happen