So for the fear of boring my one potential reader to death I have decided to stop with the backdated posting from the last week and get with the times, plus its really draining having to recount the last week over and over again. So here I am, present time.

So whats happened over the last week? I finally got that jolt of inspiration needed to name my company. It came in the form of a late night G-Talk conversation with a very talented Mr. Roed from World Wide Creative. I asked Fred if he could do it all over today, what would he have named his company? Fred being the kind of guy that he is probably just blurted out the first thing that came to mind but it was brilliant and I loved it. 

A quick trip to godaddy.com and the domain was registered. I was in business. The lesson here is that when you undertake to start something new you should look to friends and colleagues and run your thoughts and ideas past them. Fred solved something that caused me almost 2 days of agony, and I was nowhere near anything that I was happy with, in a minute.

Im also going to take this little lesson with me in moving forward. I dont think that I can ever be 100% happy with any ideas that dont have at least some input from someone other than myself.

Thursday was spent finishing up on my first paid-for project. After I finished the job I sent it off to the client and continued to work on some branding ideas. I ran with a few different logos and ultimately left the fine tweaking up to the awesome community at dribbble.com and forrst.com. The input I got from Forrst especially was awesome and it allowed me to finalise the logo in an afternoon. Awesome!

It might seem like Im rushing things a bit but let me tell you this: If I dont get a half decent site up and running by the next 3-4 days then I probably never will. I have already put a few solid proposals out there and I have at least 2 awesome ideas that I want to work on for potential annuity income. Project work will always come before personal branding because that pays the bills. Personal projects, however awesome the idea, will always come stone dead last in the list of priorities. Maybe this is something I need to address.

If your aim is to freelance purely to service clients then ignore my previous statement but I am not in the solo game just to make a few pretty websites for my clients. I am here to do something that will buy me some level of financial independence. And the only way I’m going to get to work on those personal projects is if I get my own housekeeping in order.

So in the first week I have managed to procure enough project work for the next 2 months and I have a solid base to launch a company website from. Not bad but not good enough either. If I had things my way I would have had that site up already.