Starting To Make Our Move

It seems things are really starting to look promising for "the business," which is more than I can say for my NCAA Tournament bracket (still not sure why I picked Seton Hall to go to the Sweet 16, but I digress). My business partner and I have decided on the legal structure of the business - we're going with a Limited Liability Company, or LLC, but more on that in another business blog - and we have finally found and locked in our domain name (again, something I will share later). We have also narrowed down the list of the legal names for the business, so it finally feels like things are really coming together.

Needless to say, starting a business is a lot more detail oriented than what I'm used to. What am I getting myself into?!?

Thankfully, this weekend we're going to be able to put together a lot of the framework of the site, so I'm cautiously optimistic that we will have a prototype by the end of the month. Keep your fingers crossed.

Now that those important, and might I say daunting, things are pretty much out of the way, I can do a better job of concentrating on finalizing the business plan. While searching the web for good online business planning resources I came across a pretty comprehensive business plan outline that I think will help me bring together all of the bits and pieces I have written so far. I don't particularly like to be told what to write and where to write it, I'd much rather have a general outline and go from there. In that sense, I think this outline is going to be a great resource for me. Either way, I'll let you know.

Last night I spent a lot of time researching search engine optimization and came across a lot of good information. In fact, I came across so many useful resources, that I plan on bringing all of them together and dedicating a post or two to the topic, specifically how I'm utilizing the many tips I've found to help increase this blog's page ranking in Google, Yahoo and MSN, and how I plan to use those methods to ensure my business' webpage consistently ranks at the top of those search engines.

So, that's it for today. Time to watch my NCAA Tournament bracket go up in flames.