GDM eCommerce

Gary, Dan and Mike get all 1994 and do e-commerce, here are the notes.

Mission

• Provide businesses with websites in a manner that is profitable.
• Make it easy to sell whatever products we come up with.

Tasks

1. Mike: Investigate amazon and yahoo hosting (and possibly inventory) services
2. Mike: Investigate options at 1and1.com and rackspace.com; get a capable (apache, php, joomla, magento/zencart, coldfusion) server set up!
3. Mike: Set up magento (or zencart if magento does not prove worthy); either make it cloneable or use multi-store capability.
4. Mike: Work on Web Apps needed for SCM.
5. Dan : Investigate "SOE"
6. Dan : Fire all customers and move to North Carolina.
7. Gary: Investigate "email marketing"
8. Gary: Get Michael to do any graphics work we need.
9. Gary: Harass Mike to get focussed.
10. Gary: Learn how to spell
11. Consolidate existing customers
12. Get new customers
13. Sell shiznit!

Progress

Here are my most-recent SOE Tips...

Here are Hosting options...

Once I have hosting set up, we can start moving over customers. Possibilities:

• Swift Creek Marketing
• Dan's 2 web sites and 6 domains
• Dan's site to be done August 2007
• Mike's zencart base
• New customers!