New Client and Fun Things

It's been a busy week.

Good Stuff
My first client.
I IMed a friend to ask about hosting a site and what that means.
I didn't realize the company he owns is a hosting company. He offered tohost my website for free. I offered my writing skills for their nextbrochure or whatnot.

Talked to friend who is doing my business cards and coding my websitefor me. He's still happy to do it and appreciates all the buddy passesI've sent his way.

Four people are writing testimonials for me.

Artlyn yelled at me today for not asking her or Kyle to design mybrochures, biz cards, logo or website. She's like hello, we're bothgraphic designers stupid. I didn't want to ask them because they aresoooooo busy. Wohoo. My shit's gonna look sooooo good.

Was trying to decide whether to use my name or have a company name.DIdn't want something cutesy like "Write Connection" or "WriteSolutions" but don't really like the idea of just using my name.So, here's my company's name-iiiiiiffffff I can get the bastards thatare parking my domain name to sell it to me for a reasonable price.

To Do/Issues to Resolve

Domain name
Body of brochure, website
Logo design
How the hell am I going to pay for all this?
Gotta get my taxes done
Call client and get work started
Quickie prelim business cards

To answer some questions:The monetary goal of $20,000 is both realistic and unrealistic. Incommercial copywriting, it can be realistic because the per projectfee is far higher than say a freelance article. It's not enough to paymy bills but a more tangible goal than "to make enough to make endsmeet." I didn't want to create a goal that was a lot lower, say a fewhundred or thousand because I needed a goal that seems impossible butnot. Kind of like nanowrimo's goal of 50,000 words in a month. Seemsimpossible but isn't but is enough of a goal to kick your ass. I needan ass kicking.I think I will try and post semi-weekly progress reports to keep me onmy toes and also so I have something I can look at to see myprogress.