Just a quick thanks CEO Ashley Ballbernie and all the staff at the ISPCC who organised the “Childline Breakfast ‘07″, i had the privledge of being the Entertainer (DJing for the kids) in Dublin Zoo yesterday alongside, clowns and Celeb guest Don Conroy from RTE’s the Den.
Great day out and very worthy cause!!
My Solicitor questioning whether the greenogue business park deeds were infact legal if the developer didnt pay stamp duty caused my plans to move the business’s to Greeenogue in rathcoole to fall through, i dont know the legal nitty gritty all i know is i was willing to buy and the bank weren’t willing to lend based on query’s that their legal guys wouldnt anwer. It was an expensive lesson, so if anyone’s looking to buy there have your solicitor ask that question first.
What i find incredible is the number of sales that have gone through there and apparently this has never come up before? Well i guess it pays to have the best solicitor.
The estate agents really werent happy when the deal was pulled
I have my eye on a few new locations so more news to follow soon…. I hope.
Me and Sabrina in army gear… Cute eh?
or Fernanda as a cop??
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We’ll we’ve almost finnished developing the irelandcostumes.com website for the costume business. I’d say about 90% of our market testing is done, i’ve kept the prices relatively low to stimulate sales and reflect that were an unknown brand. Our stock arrives tomorrow morning and we’ve done about 10 orders so far, which for testing a market is pretty great in my opinion.
I’ve been spending time reading some great costume blogs from people in the field Kristen, CostumZee and for those making your own costumes… This guy and this guy are awesome!
So i havent blogged in a week, but with good reason. In my last post i was complaining i couldnt find the halloween costumes i wanted from an Irish supplier. Well I found a solution… or should i say i made a solution. A close friend of mine read the post and late Sunday night (whilst in the supermarket) we hatched a plan to start our own online Irish costume website over the phone. Its wednesday now and later tonight or by the latest tomorrow our site should be fully functional and open for business. We’ve already got about 10 orders from friends who were having the same problems. And our first shipment of supplies will be maufactured and delivered by Monday – fast tracked by excellent suppliers. This is by far the fastest i’ve ever launched a business and its an incredibly fun experience. If this test run succeeds i’ll re-brand it and re-launch on a larger scale for christmas.
Now whilst doing back ground i have to admit i did find several Irish websites, but by then i had started churning idea’s and i believe its possible to compete with them and win.
I’ll post later when the site is up and running. Would love any feedback, suggestions, critique etc.
So Halloween is coming around again and i’m back searching for a costume, this time online. Being in Ireland this is fairly Frustrating as Online shopping here just isn’t what it should be! I found a great costume at BuyCostumes.com but ofcourse they wont ship to Ireland. I reckon there’s a big enough market to make this a very worthwhile venture for someone!
I’ll be travelling a lot in the next few weeks and one piece of kit i definately wont be using is my 3G card. Last month a co-worker got a wopping 216 Euro charge for checking 12mb of E-mails simply for being over the boarder between the republic and northern Ireland.
This really makes my blood boil since it was using the same network – Vodafone (grrrr – their very much in my bad books lately) and there is no possible way they can justify 216Euro’s to use existing infastructure. Its a Ripp off plain and simple… The guy in question put it perfectly himself – “if i had known it’d cost that much i would have driven back down the road and checked my email for free!”
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