Productivity

Making use of every hour, minute, second of my day.

This is what it felt like today - extremely busy and extremely productive. I wish every day were like that!

I'm currently remaking my schedule to build more predictability into my work + personal life. (I work so much that probably my work = personal life..haha)

Dividing up the hours of my work day to specific areas such as:

• Operations
• Strategy
• Marketing
• Development
• Investor Relations (tons of e-mail correspondence and write-up material)
• HR (yes, even in a company of two full-time and a couple contractors this can be a BIG issue)

...makes my day so much more efficient it makes me smile :)

More importantly I've come to realize that I've been depriving myself of the ME time that I need. Sometimes you can get so involved and into your business that you lose sight of the things that are really important...as my friend said, always look out for #1 - YOU.

Think about it. If you aren't healthy or your mind is cluttered with stress and fragments of your business (ie. you don't have a big picture view of your business where you KNOW where all the pieces fit) then you run the risk of working way too much and losing the ability to guide/focus your company's path.

Sometimes it's necessary to take a step back; I'm glad I did and hopefully I can keep up this super efficient schedule.

Delays

Would you rather throw a product out when you know it's not even bare bones ready to meet a launch date or would you wait another 2 weeks.

I chose the latter option. I just went with my gut.

Our service was supposed to launch yesterday - allowing users to sign up and start putting in transactions.

One hold-up though - server migration. We want additional security for our customer information and our admin system as well, which is why we're moving servers before the commercial launch.

Apologies to those users that tried to sign up on the website and discovered that they can't. We are working night and day to roll out the system because we too, are looking to share what we've worked on for 1.5 years with you.

The system will be up early April and we look forward to getting your feedback at that time! The good, bad and the ugly as long as it helps us progress and improve PeerFX!

Weekend Before Going Live

The past couple weeks have been crazy - or more like Julien and I have driven our development team crazy. We probably spend around half of our work day in our developer's office and now Julien thinks he lives in Richmond.

Now we're getting ever closer to our launch date and I'm excited and anxious. Well, at least now it'll be out on the market and it only gets better as we keep improving it! :)

Two major tasks lie ahead: marketing and operations/development. We're splitting this to make the most efficient use of our time and I'll be taking care of the operations/development portion while J will work around the clock to get customers on board (yes, you will work around the clock and to be fair I will too).

I think one thing that I'm learning to do right now with 500 things on my to-do list is to make decisions fast. This doesn't mean that I don't put thought into it, more like I have learned to listen, digest and process information faster to make the most informed decisions possible given the time constraints. It's fun and suddenly I feel like I'm in another phase of building and running a business - learning how to get it off the ground.

I foresee many busy weeks ahead and I'm so glad that right now I have J to share the burden (yes, that's what I call giving you more than 24 hours of work in a day).

We will keep you posted on our progress! Check out the website and of course we want YOU to sign up to join us in Changing Exchanging!

Learning More Tricks!

Well Hello Again,
Who say's you can't teach a an old dog new tricks! As we're ramping for our PeerFX official launch in April, we're streamlining all our social media tactics to get to create...not ripples but massive waves!
Keep tuned into our blog in weeks to come as we'll reveal the (fingers crossed) success of our efforts and explain our implemented marketing mix.

Thanks for visiting!