Meeting with Cody and Alan over a GoToMeeting session. Alan had to join us by phone. We were talking about teams, budgets, and vision. Here are some of my notes:

- Frankenstein computer project. Mixing and blending different styles and such.

- Specialists and filling in the gaps (in our teams). The ideal would be working in Parrell vs just one person on a single project.

- We would love having a known frontend designer. We do have a guy, Chuck and Piper, but both are only doing less than 10 hours a week. We need someone full time.

- Small teams of two

- We spent some time talking about timing, when to push and when to chill.

- A real need for direction (a goal and vision). All going together towards that goal.

- Eye candy, graphs, charts, buttons, containers, widgets, and such. Helping people to get more info graphs and quick summary information (dashboards).

- Sometimes, cool isn't useful... to certain people. Cool can help sell things.

- Cody was talking about adding graphs and charts to the custom homepage builder. That would be super cool.

- Finding out what would be beneficial to our users. Fill in the gaps. Ease of use to help train people. Seeing information, counts, and summaries quickly.

- Talking about visual homepages for all of the main players.

- From Alan - eventually using web sockets to show real time data and changes.

- Ideas on new homepages... we could take all of the old ones and turn them into an old or basic home, add new graphical homes, and maybe the last 15 entries of the data for some super simple home pages.

- Focusing on manager type tools. Top paying customers, group counts, bestselling products, busiest times, etc.

- There always seems to be some stress over money and budgets.

- Cody was grateful for the time to meet with Alan.

Alan had to drop off, we (Cody and I) then switched over to the adilas label builder and talking about direction and eye candy options. We are going to try to help focus on some tools and visuals for manager's and help them save time or feel like adilas gives them some time savers... One of our main goals is helping people out.