Running around town

The days are getting closer. It’s already the beginning of June and we have a NEIS interview next week so hopefully our business planning will be underway soon after. The NEIS (New enterprise incentive scheme) is a company that helps new business owners to develop a detailed business and feasibility study/plan before venturing into the business. At the moment only Stevie can do the NEIS program so we’ve been pretty busy working on the feasibility study. There’s so much to answer on our outline but we’re almost ready for next Tuesday.

Did I mention we have a new square table that cost us a total of $20 from Egans, a office furniture auction warehouse in the Western suburbs. So the table is sitting nicely in the middle of our office and the three of us share this one table. It’s almost like a communal table.

We drove around the city today visiting first ASIC on Collins St, Melbourne, then downstairs to FIDO so we can get our forms to register our company. We then walked to Elizabeth St, to pick up forms on registering a business name. Turns out we already had the documents. But we asked the guy if we could register a name that had ‘deregistered’ listed after it, and he said that we could. So here is a list of the things we need to do… I’m looking at the list on our blackboard…

1. Register ACN
2. Register ABN ? not sure if we need to do this aswell?
3. Register Business Name
4. Register Domain Name
5. Finish feasibility study
6. Finish partnership agreement for NEIS
7. Produce work for portfolio

Last week Mariana and I had several interviews to write into our feasibility document. She spoke to a video producer, graphic designer, and I think the other had to do with video production as well though I can’t really remember now. I had spoken to a lawyer, an accountant and superannuation officer, and also a finance officer. So our questionnares have been included into our feasibility study.B

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Lighting

So here we are, the new and improved and cheap lighting fixtures Stevie hammered together from pieces of wood from Bunnings. Sits quite nicely on the fluro lights and it dimms it down a little so it’s not such a glare. We’ve also just finished the second coat on our blackboard wall so it should be ready to chalk by tomorrow. Unfortuneatly I have work at my other web design job so I can’t be there to witness the writing… However I may pop in later in the evening. Talk about bargain it cost us around $40 for the three lights to be covered with this wood. Awesomely, the art studio’s that we are located in have their own tool shed which is right next to our office.. Keep in tune coz I’ll be posting our new used table that we bought for a bargain price of $20!!!! Thick solid wood aswell..

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Blackboard paint

I’ve posted images of our new office. Too excited about it. That’s the roller door that we normally open a little bit just to let fresh air come through. And thats our little egg window. And thats Mariana and Steven painting our new blackboard that we bought yesterday, and I inhaled a little too much fume and now I’m home with a big massive headache. Not good. It’s fried my brain a little.

We have our first client as well. Even though we still haven’t finished or started our business plan, next Tuesday is our meeting. Hope all goes down well. It’s a big massive office furniture warehouse that auction said furniture at bargain prices. No joke, the other day we went there to look for a table or office chairs, and some guy bought a massive directors meeting table for $60. Pretty good if you ask me.

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