Business Week 67 - Done deal?
Last week focused on two main topics from the business side of my life - the future of the secret project Strings and purchasing of the office flat.
Last week focused on two main topics from the business side of my life - the future of the secret project Strings and purchasing of the office flat.
It was the first time I was a participant in the flat auction. What's not surprising, due to the clean nature of the flat and attractive initial price there were plenty of investors willing to purchase it. We went prepared setting the initial and the emotional borders upfront.
The business side of life is moving forward in 3 directions recently - preparing an investment in the office flat, solving issues with the payment provider in our online shop, and considering purchasing an investment flat.
We launched our shop at the end of the last week and focused on the promotion of products. The interest in our products was not as huge as we expected based on our previous tests with Facebook selling. The only good thing about it is the fact that it suddenly occurred that our payment method was suspended by the payment operator due to a lack of some formal info on our website and we were not notified about it for nearly 24!
A set of phone calls, a bunch of mail discussions, and a couple of discussions over coffee and it all ends in the lack of transaction (for now). We considered buying some flats both from a developer as totally new ones and from the previous owners in buildings from around 1980. We failed to negotiate a single good deal.
We are considering buying a small flat in the neighborhood for office purposes...