Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Staples High School Meeting

I recently met with the Principal of Staples High School in Westport, CT (where Miles and I both attended school before college) to conduct some market research to see if they would be interested in our product and service offerings. The discussion went well and he was pretty interested in our ideas. He was also excited to meet with me becuase he is some what of an entrepreneur himself as he just patented an invention for hanging picture frames. I might actually end up helping him develop a plan to get his product out into the market, so that is kind interesting. But anyway, he said that the Westport school system is actually actively searching for both of our products that we are looking to offer them. I was pretty estatic when he mentioned this; however, this also means that we have a limited time to capture their interest and sell them our services before they choose someone else. Since he doesn't make any of the decisions pertaining to the technology the school uses he directed to two people in Town Hall who are in charge. I really wanted to immediately head over afterwards, but I really want to prepare some sort of presentation or at least a brochure to leave them with. Its hard to start the selling process without an actual ready product to show people, but we plan to start soon anyway just to gain information on who would be interested and who would want to be kept updated on the status. So, once we have things a bit more together we'll likely present to them. If we do contract with them, we would likely be serving the whole K-12 school system. It would turn out to be a pretty substantial deal.

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