Archive for May, 2008
Saturday, May 31st, 2008
This weekend is still a marketing weekend here at RightSite -- getting ready for our email campaigns, preparing our promotional materials, and making sure we have all those tools we need to show how sexy industrial property can be.
And I'm getting this done all by myself.
Well, not really completely on ...
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Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
Today was a weird day at RightSite. Something was missing. Everything seemed changed.
After eight weeks of daily meetings, we have now finished the planning stage of our site development. So today was the first day since April 7th that we did not have a conference call with our ...
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Sunday, May 25th, 2008
Continuing our ongoing RightSite saga, we reached some big milestones last week and are ready for more action in the days to come.
The big event happened on Friday the 23rd, when we received our company chop and the official copies of our license documents. For those of you unfamiliar with ...
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Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
This strays a bit from our usual Mingtiandi vein, but I just received a scam appeal to entrepreneurs that I thought might be worth warning folks about.
I received two emails inviting me to an "Exclusive business breakfast meeting by invitation only!" from something cheesily called the "XL Results Foundation."
It seems ...
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Monday, May 19th, 2008
Damn all this prosperity! Overly optimistic fools drive up the cost of office space, you need to book a table even at bad restaurants, and even the dark blue taxis are hard to catch. For any business owner in Shanghai right now, however, the biggest shortage seems to ...
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Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
Catch the excitement! RightSite.Asia is taking shape as we watch.
Attached is the latest design from our web designers. This is still not a finished product - we expect to go through several generations before we get to a final version, but the design has started to improve on ...
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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
It has been a busy few days here in the RightSite Idea Factory, so apologies for not posting earlier.
The big development since our last post has been the choice of a RightSite layout concept. Thanks to all of you who have provided input on the different design options and ...
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Thursday, May 8th, 2008
We have disappointing news today for any of you tuning in to find out how today's web design focus group session progressed. The meeting was called on account of typhoon, or cyclone, or whatever you call that really big storm earlier today. So we had a team pizza ...
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
Before I learned to read Russell Baker over my oatmeal, my primary morning reading centred on reading up on my recommended daily allowances of niacin, ricin and riboflavin on the side of the Freakies cereal box. (It came with a free Freaky figure in each box, so don't knock ...
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Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
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For the past month we have been planning and designing RightSite every day. But it has all been through words.
Today we got our first look at a visual plan for RightSite, and what we saw was the future shape of our website. The approach that we are taking to design ...
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