It's Amazing what you can learn from shovelling snow!

Hi Thomas,

Thanks for the update! Sounds like your company Elysium is growing steadily. (Elysium was actually the name of a night club here in Canada)

With all the Snow up hear, It is sometimes difficult to imagine that in your neck of the woods, Students are on summer vacation.

Especially when some of my friends are complaining about having to go back to school.

Here in Canada school the school year is from Sept. - June (for highschool)

I look forward to hearing about your companies progress.

Continued Success!

Duane Adolph

> Duane,

> As Dien has mentioned, I decided to delay
> the All Ages Party as my target audience
> (primarily grade 11 and 12 students) were on
> holiday or about to be when I thought about
> it, so targetting them through schools,
> being what I think is the most effective
> medium to reach them, would be unavailable.

> As such the thought was to delay it until
> April or May, when school is back on and
> perhaps try to hold it during the first term
> break, using the time before that to somehow
> use schools (or their Student Representative
> Councils) to promote the event.

> In the meantime, I've been focusing on a new
> company I set up called Elysium Distributors
> Pty Ltd, which distributes Pyrod-branded
> blank CDs to retail stores throughout the
> Melbourne Metropolitan area.

> Originally I was just acting as an agent,
> but recently I've taken over handling of
> stock and delivery also, which is a fair bit
> of work, so I've been concentrating on how
> to do that efficiently.

> In the next 2-3 weeks I'll be moving into an
> office & warehouse to set up a more
> permanent base, which is also on my mind. At
> the moment I effectively work from home.

> It's going fairly well so far. There are
> lots of orders, and I'm employing one full
> time salesperson with plans to hire 1-2
> other people in the next month, after the
> office is fully setup.

> My goal is to establish a set structure and
> system whereby the company operates
> smoothly, and we have a regular customer
> base to deliver to. From this point I can
> then expand into additional product lines,
> and perhaps expand interstate. We'll see.

> Once this structure is established, my plan
> is to get in additional staff to be
> responsible for most of the tasks, to
> minimise my personal workload and allow me
> to concentrate on more expansion planning,
> and also on university studies, which I
> return to in March.

> But I'll let you know how it goes. :) Thanks
> for asking. :)

> Best Regards,

> Thomas.