Thursday we took more steps toward unearthing our diamond mine in the rough. We filed Articles of Organization for a limited liability company with the Secretary of State's Office. We are told that this offers greater protection to business owners than a sole proprietorship. When we open our ropes and obstacle course, we figured it would be wise to have this.
Today we secured an Employee Identification Number with the Internal Revenue Service. This will facilitate us hiring employees in the future and it also allows us to start selling t-shirts and golf shirts on our website using credit card payments through iPayment.
Because our business proposal was not accepted on the crowdfunding website we had hoped to use, we decided to go ahead and publish our proposal on our website. We had a difficult time with our GoDaddy account, so Thursday we also switched our website to iPage web hosting, which is ranked as one of the top companies. For $3 a month, they will (supposedly) offer a much better website than what we could get with GoDaddy. We made some progress today, but we still have a long way to go. If only building a website were as easy as filing Articles of Organization.
Part of the website we built today was a page featuring the video that we discussed on our blog last week (see "'Wild Man' to the rescue"). Wild Man added our logo onto the end of the video Wednesday, prepared the video file and uploaded it to YouTube. We linked our website to that page today. We can't wait for you to see the video, but we will wait to unveil it when the website is ready to take orders.
Wild Man's dad, the owner of Bennett Design Group in Little Rock, is working to get a few khaki-colored t-shirts on which to print our logo. We will then take photos of them and put them on our website. While we are disappointed that our proposal didn't make that fundraising website, we are encouraged that we are making progress every week.
Thanks for your interest. We are anxious for you to see our new website.
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