Business (Ad)venture countdown T-2

This is part 7 (step 10) (not all the steps have blog entries against them) of my blog recording the count down to setting up my own business. With any project it is good to have a set of milestones, and these blog entries record some of these milestones

• Step 1 – Draw up a list rough list of what needs to be done
• Step 2 – Identify any knowledge gaps
• Step 3 – Identify a suitable training course
• Step 4 – Attend the course T-8 – notes can be found here
• Step 5 – Learning all about business accounts T-7 – notes can be found here
• Step 6 – Finishing and passing the course T-6 – notes can be found here
• Step 7 – Deciding the format of how the business will trade T-5 – notes can be found here
• Step 8 – Finishing the Business Plan T-4 - notes can be found here
• Step 9 -– Getting the Bank Account sorted T-3 - notes can be found here

As we still have not heard anything about the grant other than that they want more information, we have gone through the process and agreed our business designs – step 10 on our critical path

• Step 10 – Agreeing Business Designs T-2
• Step 11 - Grant Application results T-1
• Step 12 – Start Trading
  

Hungry Giraffe Logo

Initially we were going to have a series of separate businesses but on advice we decided to merge them all into one, and as such wanted a catchy name, that would allow various different brands. Also a name that would tie in with one of our wild-scape images. So we came up with the name Hungry Giraffe

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fullers FOLIO Website

As we had already come up with a series of interrelated names for the various now brands within Hungry Giraffe

• fullers FOLIO
• fullers WEB
• fullers IT

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fullers WEB Website

We choose a palette of colours based on the colours being used to make the Hungry Giraffe logo mainly yellows, browns and green.

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fullers IT Website

Originally the Hungry Giraffe site was also going to follow this colour collection, but probably due to the enormous amount of rain (and snow) that there has been recently, it has shifted slightly.

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Hungry Giraffe Website

The main home page has three images that reflect the three brands then blue for water, green grass and the dark night skies predominate the rest of the site. Hopefully giving a stunning clean clear look to it, which can be easily merged with our existing documentation.

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