the hundred dollar business

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Here we go! The task I’ve been avoiding since February 12th… putting an engraved production schedule together.

Why the avoidance? Who knows. Nonetheless, here it is:

Friday March 2

Split up effort to contact SBDCs for missing states entrepreneur referrals.
Work on my own story.
Copy & paste the remainder of the stories into our Yepic document.
Make a Yepic session schedule with instructions for Yepic & Skype, e-mail to our authors & fans.
Spend 15 minutes developing an awesome marketing strategy for getting the word out to an audience that is national/global enough to find the rest of our entrepreneurs & the 100 customers.

Saturday, March 3rd

Hold the first Yepic collaboration session.
Brainstorm with designer for digital version & make assignments for getting theentrepreneurstory.com site up to host the book.
Work on my own content portion of the book.

Sunday, March 4th

No production. Day off for Carolynn & everyone else.

Monday, March 5th

Second collaboration session.
Determine costs on copies/shipping for book.
Determine actual pricing on book (digital and print).
Announce payment method for digital vs. print methods.

Tuesday, March 6th

Third collaboration session.
Spend time on marketing & sales strategy and implementation.
Finish my portion.

Wednesday, March 7th

Fourth collaboration session.
Spend time on marketing & sales strategy and implementation.

Thursday, March 8th

Final deadline for stories: we will not accept any stories after this date.

Fifth collaboration session: “dress rehearsal”.
Send sales invitation letter to our mailing list, letting them know of the release on Monday.
Spend time on marketing & sales strategy and implementation.

Friday, March 9th

Sixth and final collaboration session (am).
Promote book & site.

Saturday, March 10th

Finalize design elements on digital version, prep & edit site.
Print & ship any printed-version orders. (Hello, all nighter at FedEx!)

Sunday, March 11th

No production. Day off for Carolynn & everyone else.

Monday, March 12th

Proof digital version.
Promote book & site.

Tuesday, March 13th

Release digital version for sale.
Host event celebrating the project.

The Sum-Up

Got lots to do by March 13th! A few of those days are bit slow, but i’m sure they’ll fill up quickly when it gets closer to it.

Please come to our collaboration sessions! The more eyes that can review the book, the better. Let me know if you’re interested in this, and I’ll be definitely be in contact with you.