So. I woke up the morning of Sept 16th and told my wife about a new business idea I had hatched that morning.

The basis for the idea was Kennedy Huber. I was thinking of how I wish I had visited her grave more often. No excuses only regret.

So the idea was a gravesite maintenance business. Arizona is home to many “snow birds”. These are people who come down for the winter to escape the cold of the north or midwest. We are the new Florida.

Now these “snowbirds” are old read: close to death.

So when your loved one dies in AZ and you are from Minot, ND you have a good chance of burying them here in AZ. You fly home for the summer and regret leaving your loved one behind with no flowers (its hot in AZ during the summer) and the summer grass growing over the headstone.

That is where Memorial Caretakers comes in. We will clean the headstone, polish it, trim the grass, add more grass seed as needed, and place flowers if you wish. Memorial Caretakers does this for as little as $35 a month.

Check the site out. I have two exceptional students that are creating the website for the business for college credit. Thats right guys – college credit. These guys have been great for a long time, but I just met them last semester. These are the type of guys that end up writing web pages or other programming for 150K a year – 40 hours a week or less.

Anyway they are already working on the site. They are going to do a better job than I could do and learn more than they will ever realize. This is the sort of project that will get them a really good paying job.

So here was the timeline:

7:00 AM 9/16:
Jason Wakes up and tells Carol that he thinks this would be a good business.

9:00 AM 9/18:
Jason tells Scott, a coworker, and Scott seems to think it is a good idea.

7:00 PM 9/19:
Jason informs his class at DeVry University that there is another project available. Jeff and Andrew are very interested and talk about it for a couple hours total.

10:30 PM 9/19:
Jason talks with Carol and they come up with the domain http://www.memorialcaretakers.com
Jason then sets up hosting for the domain at the same location as http://www.modifiedpowerwheels.com

7:00 PM PM 9/20:
Jason talks with Steve, a funeral home professional and Steve thinks it is a great idea.

Jason also consults his father in law and Chuck thinks it is a good idea and we talk about the details a bit.

5:00 PM 9/21:
Jason has paypal accepting credit cards and a 1 800# established for the business.

10:00 PM 9/21:
Jason has google adwords set up for the main keywords that apply to the service we are providing.

5:00 PM 9/22:
Jason has a default page setup for the website
http://www.memorialcaretakers.com
We have also established a dev folder and planned for a staging folder as well.

So in less than a week we are on our way!

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