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Assigned To: Brandon Moore
Created By: Brandon Moore
Created Date/Time: 11/8/2024 8:46 am
 
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Time Id: 11513
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Title/Caption: Team Meeting for Canada Project
Start Date/Time: 11/12/2024 1:45 pm
End Date/Time: 11/12/2024 4:30 pm
Main Status: Active

click to enlarge - photo by: Brandon Moore - Small to do list from the Yogen Fruz guys. Page 1 of 2.
click to enlarge - photo by: Brandon Moore - Small to do list from the Yogen Fruz guys. Page 2 of 2.
click to enlarge - photo by: Brandon Moore - Quick list of some pros and cons - this is Brandon's list


Notes:

Meeting prep. As the meeting got started, we had Sean, Cory, Alan, Steve, and I on the meeting. Here are some of my notes: Kinda all over the place.

- Sean has set up the logins for the new users up in Canada.

- Looking at what it will take to come up with an MVP (minimal viable product).

- Steve bought some new hardware. He will be playing with it and getting it all wired up and configured.

- How do we keep pushing the ball down the road?

- Setting up limits. We want to play but don't want to get ran over.

- Going over a list of to do items.

- Steve really chimed in on where he thinks that we are at. He really took the ball and ran with it today.

- Risk vs Reward - We spent quite a bit of time going over options.

- Steve is excited about the number of items that the Canada company has. It's really pretty small.

- Number of locations - lots of potential there

- Steve was talking about a book - "The Art of War." - Making deals and business stuff.

- Show what we have done - clover integration - $23K, features, advantages, and benefits, list out an MVP, show a percentage of what we have to still do, things that are not on the list... wishes, future desires, tablets - online orders and delivery, website, ecommerce, we do the POS software. We can help with hardware but that's not our specialty.

- We have some depth - adilas - operations and accounting

- Look at what we can help them with...

- Mission statement - help your business succeed

- Could be some scale problems as we go along

- Promises made and expectations

- Deployments - it can get dicey (interesting)

- We have... list it out - we have a solution

- Get them talking and thinking about something else - distract them what they are worried about - sometimes, what someone is worried about, they are not as big of thing as you think. However, if all you ever do is just think about that one thing, it can change your focus. You aren't taking in the whole picture. Get them seeing the whole or bigger picture.

- Hardware - pros and cons - come up with a valid solution and then allow them to choose, buy, or configure their own system

- We can see our way through a bunch of things - looking down the road

- We can setup corps... we haven't really done much mirroring of corps and settings

- Alan - Sunk costs, new costs, and building going forward

- Alan - Getting direction (where are we going as a company?) - He likes where we are going

- Cory - He (Aaron - owner) needs to invest in us. Money and time - how long will it take and what do we need to still build out?

- Steve and Cory going back and forth - nice little volley back and forth - risk and reward stuff.

- We want Eric to ask for his other stores to be on adilas. Eric is a store owner.

- Alan - Once they are up and running, they may not need more right away

- Steve - We can build anything... there is a line or an end zone - a goal is in sight

- Goal - What will it take to get this thing to launch?

- Alan - Questions about customer support and server up time

- Alan - Other possible services - customer support, training, etc.

- Alan - They are trying to see how serious we are? Almost a test on us

- Alan - We get our hardware stuff up and running and we show that we have a solution

- Steve - Give us a list and we'll cross it off

- Steve - Like a game of football - How much time is left in the game and what are our plans?

- Steve - Pushing this company further down the road

- Steve - This could be our golden ticket - Let's punch it!

- Alan - If we don't do this, then what? Let's use our current team and get it done.

- Alan - this is not vaporware... this is right here in front of us

- Steve - They could be the last client that we ever need

- Helping them see the future and wanting to stay with us

- Steve - What about global ecommerce stuff and then locations where people could pick things up

- Steve - They, are looking for us... they hate some of the competition

- Cory - We may need to fake it (customers, gift cards, and loyalty points) - We have all of those pieces, they are just at the corp and cross-corp levels. Not at the enterprise level yet. If needed, we could just have them run per corp until we get the other pieces. That's our fall back.

- Alan - Just noting that we only have some data (not all of the locations). If needed, we could do it per location

- Cory - Wanting to setup some action items

- Steve - Wants to start a list, send it around, tout our horn, and show who is doing what

- Steve - Assume the sale

- This is a test

- If you are going to fake it until you make it, you need to pretend that it really works and it already exists - smoke and mirrors. We've been at this for over 20 years. There really is a lot there.

- Alan - We can't over promise - stick to the basics

- Steve - We are working on... Steve-hardware, Alan-enterprise, and Brandon-reporting

- Communication - short and sweet but keep it moving

- Steve - Asking about customers... direct vs enterprise

- Sean - On new customers, they just need a few fields... such as: first name, last name, email, cell phone

- Alan - Let's do the customers and gift cards at the corp level - We'll clean-up later

- Steve - He is planning on using one printer to handle both receipts and cup labels - sticky receipt paper

- Steve will work with josh a bit to help with direction

- Alan - Enterprise is a value add-on piece. We need to figure out the pricing structure there.

- Alan - We will gain some momentum as we keep doing the enterprise stuff - this is where we are heading.

- Alan - We add a lot to adilas but we never up our prices - We need to manage that better to recoup or get ROI - Dynamic billing

- Steve - no Metrc (statewide compliance system), under 100 items, not even tracking inventory yet - Let's do this thing!

- Sean - On ecommerce, they aren't really tracking inventory, they just need to use their menu and go for it.

- Steve - simple on what they need, scale on the reporting and needs - here we go

- We are figuring out where we are going... Okay, let's go!