How many times have you heard this... We are almost live???

Ok readers... no more joking around, this time we are serious... last night we put a ton of static content on the test site, and tonight we migrate one last time from our test servers into production... the light at the tunnel is visible...

but there is still a ton of work to be done... we are looking to send out a blast to 8800 business owners and use certain social media networking tools to send the same contact out to more than 250,000 business professionals...

Our pre-recorded webinar will be pushed to the site tonight as well... I will make sure I post it here, there, and everywhere...

Keep Saving!
Mike

The Site is getting closer to being live...

Ok, so we are a few weeks late, but a lot of progress has been completed over the last few days... the development team has been working non-stop, and tonight we have been working again non-stop to get the latest code drop on the site... Hopefully by this weekend the site will be "live"... Once we go live then we will be in business!!!

A Great Leader... and a quote to think about..

As some of you may know, I follow several key CEO's and leaders. When I say "follow" I mean I try to read as much about them as possible to try to learn from them through the press they receive as well from their own writings. Jack Welch, Warren Buffett, Michael Dell, Bill Gates, etc... Today in Fortune.com, there is a great article...

In the article - a CEO of one of Mr. Buffett's companies states that he sends this or something similar every few years to his CEOs...

We can afford to lose money–even a lot of money. We cannot afford to lose reputation–even a shred of reputation. Let’s be sure that everything we do in business can be reported on the front page of a national newspaper in an article written by an unfriendly but intelligent reporter. In many areas, including acquisitions, Berkshire’s results have benefited from its reputation, and we don’t want to do anything that in any way can tarnish it. Berkshire is ranked by Fortune as the second-most admired company in the world. It took us 43 years to get there, but we could lose it in 43 minutes.

What I would like to say to our employees is that everyone in Chasing Savings should believe in what is stated here... although we are a start up and can't afford to lose money... Our reputation is just as important as earning money... That every client is a more than just a client, and every member of our website is more than just a "user"... they are both "PARTNERS" in ChasingSavings.com


Keep Saving!
Mike

Another Sunday spent working...

We are getting closer to having a finalized live site...

And we have completed our first webinar... I will post links to it, once i have all the locations... facebook, youtube, microsoft bizspark, etc...

quick post

Just found this great article... thought I would pass it on to you...

If shoppers have money, downturn is a boon There has never been a better time to be a consumer. America is on sale. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33127705/ns/business-personal_finance/from/ET

Chasing Savings - New Account Presentation

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It's been non-stop 18 hour days!!! But we have a live site!!!

GREAT NEWS!!! After 6 straight days of 18 hours, we have a live site... Now we will spend a few days making sure all the feature functions work before we load client advertisements to the site...

Some thanks that need to go out...

Microsoft - Thanks for putting together the BizSpark program... Also - Windows 7 is the best OS since XP... :)

David - Dude, you rocked getting the site live... this guy put in the long hours with Microsoft, the hosting companies - in the middle of deploying the site we had to switch hosting providers due to limitations in administrative rolls on the dedicated servers.

Jessie - Simply an amazing job on everything you have done, from documentation, to project management, to working on marketing material... BTW - thanks for buying David and me lunch today :)~

Jim - Great work today in leading the talk with the potential client... I am feeling extremely confident in our sales team...

Anil -Thank you for all of your efforts in leading the development team... Being a week behind and catching up over a weekend was amazing work.

Development team - The site looks very good, thank you guys...

Our sales team - Go Get Them!!! - Beth, Brian, Erin, Kevin, Jenna, Jerry, Kathy, Kurt, and Michael... All of you are out there trying to make this company a success, I know that you can...
I love the team effort I am seeing, and the creativeness that is starting to flow...

I also guess I need to catch all of you up to date on our progress... so much has been going on, that I had to decide if it was worth getting 20 extra minutes a day of sleep or to post... at 4-5 hours a night of sleep on average, sorry the sleep won out...

As you can see, our sales force has grown... we are now focusing on local, regional, and national accounts, so if your a small, medium, or large business representative, expect a call from someone from Chasing Savings!!!

As mentioned above, two weeks ago Thursday, Jessie determined that we were running about a week behind the project plan - which on our rushed schedule meant that we were actually about a month to two behind... Anil and the development team added more resources and over a weekend basically caught back up for the deliverable time... Very Good Job!!! Anil, you have proven that 1) Jessie was right in recommending you, and 2) you have proven to be an asset to Chasing Savings

Anyway - It is time I get reacquainted with my wife and daughter... everyone have a great weekend... and Keep Saving!!! - Mike Holland - CEO of Chasingsavings.com