Day job is still as tedious as always, but at least the pressure crunch of a looming deadline has passed. As I mentioned before, we were late, but it’s over. I’ve moved on to another project and the cycle begins again.

The software I’m writing is real close to official release now. (Those who want a sneak preview, please email me!) Just putting on the finishing touches to the website and affiliate program and working on the marketing plan. I probably should have the marketing plan finished first, but what can I say? This is my first time doing this and I’m a techie at heart.

This past week, I also opened accounts with several wholesale suppliers of wedding accessories. I’m in the midst of adding their products to Elegant Wedding Shoppe, along with my fiance’s hand-crafted products. You may notice that I ported the website over to Zencart. I was using a home grown system before, but with the addition of more products, it was necessary to use a database-backed website. My home grown system was adequate for half a dozen products or so, but did not scale well to dozens or hundreds of products. Zencart makes it very easy to add products to the site, change pricing and, with its shopping cart, I no longer have to use Paypal’s shopping cart which made for an awkward user experience anyway.

Between Zencart and drop shipping suppliers, it is so easy to open up a retail shop on the Internet with no need for inventory that I’m considering other retail niches. As Mark Cuban said, “You only have to be right once!”