September 20, 2010
Today is the first day of the rest of my career…
This is my Linked in post that I shared with my network on Monday morning…
Today I permanently transition from a corporate drone to a truly Independent Consultant, with the grand opening of my web site, which I bought from myself on Friday, am creating today on Monday and debuting on Tuesday at our monthly AITP meeting. I hope to see most of you there, and if not, I’ll send out my website link when I complete it tonight. (Yes I’m starting with a blank page at 10am today and will have a completely functional website by midnight tonight.)
Read more on my blog, which I’ll be updating throughout the day…
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Alex C. Elie
ACE Consulting Expeditors, Inc.
Expediting your consulting needs since 2009…
My transition started after my job was displaced at CitiGroup in December of 2008, reinforced with a mutual decision to terminate my consulting contract at Cablevision and culminating with last Friday’s AITP meeting when I decided to go for it and sponsor a table at next Tuesday’s AITP Battle of the Operating Systems meeting to launch my Website and Consulting Company to the world.
Look out world, The Consulting ACE is here to stay…
I called the WebCenter Design Center at 10:51 and started working with my WebCenter Specialist Michelle. Since the demo site I utilized was a Real Estate site, she deleted all the pages and we are starting off with a new template, more closely resembling a consulting firms layout. I described the general idea that I had for the site and emailed her my company flyer and brochure for her to use to set up my website. She was also checking on my 10 domain names that I created on Friday to see if they were ready to use. I then left Woodhaven and ran some errands. I needed to return a Belkin router to Costco that I couldn’t seem to set up properly and pick up a DVD player to show my WebCenter Presentation at the AITP meeting tomorrow. I’m updating this blog from Johnny Rockets at the Broadway mall, thanks to my optimumwifi connection, getting ready to call Michelle to see where we are at.
I bought the website & domain on Friday, www.TheConsultingACE.com and jotted down ideas for my website over the weeked and on Monday @ 10:51am est, I started to work with my webcenter design team to start building my website. I gave Michelle my idea’s over the phone and emailed her my business flyers and the CYO Hoodie flyer & she went to work. We had a few calls throughout the to clarify what I wanted and add new pages to my site. I finally freed up after 10 pm to look at what she did and send her comments to she could update the site prior to my Noon launch. Turns out she forgot to publish it and it was still in her development workspace, so I couldn’t see what she did yet. When we last spoke, she said that she was going to have someone finish my ACE Commerce Express Page to sell the CYO Hoodies and when she got in at 7am, we could make some last minute changes, see if my domain name was ready & link it to the site. I woke up at 7am to call Michelle to publish it when I realized that she works in Las Vegas, which translates to 10am est, 2 hours from my launch & I was planning on getting to & setting up for the AITP Sponsorship table at the Huntington Hilton from 10 to 12.
I tried to call Michelle, hands free, from my Company car, and got a different Michelle from the design center. She tried to find the first Michelle but she was already usy with another client and she offered to help. I explained my delema and she published the site and we walked through the site over the phone, made additional changes and republished. My domain name was finalized and she was able to associate TheConsultingAce.com to my new website.
I got to the Huntington Hilton with Sally, my Market America business partner, and at 11:15 am. I was finally able to see my site after setting up my table, at 11:51 am, 25 hours after I started with my Michelle’s from the MA Design Center Team. This is the version that is up and running right now. The only thing missing was to fill out a form with ITransact to accept credit card payments and let the know which bank account to deposit the payments.
Please give me your impressions of the site as it is now and any suggestions you have would be appreciated as I get ready to customize and grow the site.
If I could do this over the phone in just 25 hours, imagine what I could do in 25 days with a computer.
Keep checking back as I will blogging about the next 25 days of updating my website for it’s official grand opening 25 days later on October 22, 2010, the day before the Sayville Fall Fest on Saturday, October 23rd, 2010 in Sayville, NY.
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