Designers Daily Journal 8/28/07

My handyman team is so great! They refered me to one of their clients, whom I met with this morning. Lovely couple who moved here recently, brought their furniture and want to use it in their new place here. Their style is eclectic, and not very expensive but they do have some original modern pieces from the 60's. This is actually a small job for me but still quite challenging trying to make a mish-mash of furniture look good, all while making them both happy when its entirely clear they never agree. However, I told them they have to at least let me try the pieces in some new places even if they dont "think" it will work. I've done this enough times, I have a good eye and a great sense of room balance and I've had awesome results so they will just have to discover this as we go.

Afterwards, I met with Kimmy my web designer and went over some website details. She does great work! It's all Greek to me, but she walked me through it. It's easier just to have her make the changes and me keep to the things I do best. While I was with her we submitted the website to Google and attempted to submit to Yahoo! but registration was required so I didnt feel like spending the time on it then.

Next I went to my workroom to pick up some fabric samples for my client to look at tomorrow.

Finally I came home, discovered a new business social site called linkedIn and it looked worthwhile so I registered for it and found out that many of the people I do business with are already members so I asked them to give me recommendations. Then I sent invites to all the other people and invited them to join - it's free! Finally, I went back to submitting my website to Yahoo! - the hard way, I tried to do it myself. But thankfully I screwed it up and had to call in and got a great gal to help me and she is going to have them do a profile on my business and get the right keywords programmed and have their people get me good positioning so in the end I felt better - during the middle of it she probably should have hung up on me because I was flustered and a bit of a _itch.

Ok, so all this computer stuff I launched on this past week, has been time consuming but it will pan out eventually and it damn well better pay off!