The Newest Adventure…
After a lot of talking about it and thinking about it we have decided to open a new business in Playa Del Carmen. I know this is going to be a big adventure and somewhat of a challenge, but I am really looking forward to it. This is going to be an ongoing blog topic for me for a while, but for now I will talk about what we have done so far.
My partner in the business and I already have a corporation set up in Mexico, so that is a big step already taken care of. In Mexico as a foreign owned company(possibly any company has to do the same), we have to define the functions of the company upon incorporation. We think the is taken care of, we had some extra bits added to cover almost anything we could think of at the time we set everything up, but we have to meet with the notary on Monday to find out if that is done and if not we will have to add it. This shouldn’t be too much of a hassle, but we will see. We are also going to have to find out about business aliases, because we don’t want to call our new business by the name we set up originally. This should be pretty easy to fix as well. I guess in The States this process would be similar, but it seems so much more daunting here. We shall see, whatever it is it really cannot be as hard as everyone makes it seem.
We have been looking around for a spot and I think we finally found one today. It is about perfect and the price range is right. It is a little out of the way, but I think with proper marketing we will be ok. We have to get the negotiations on this all worked out, we will probably start that as soon as we get the go ahead from the notary. The idea we have requires some space and that is hard to find without paying a ridiculous price. I cannot believe what some people are asking(and getting) for their locals.
Next step of course was to register an internet domain for the business…very important in this day and age. It is funny, in today’s business world we choose our business name based on what we can get as a domain. Anyway, I registered a domain and the site hosting will be active in a few days, I will let everyone know the details later. I am not much of a web developer, but I guess I will get better with every attempt.
We already have some marketing ideas ready, I am sort of skeptical about mass flier distribution, but I think we are going to try it out. It really seems to work well for other businesses that have opened here in Playa. I guess there is nothing to lose by trying.
This is going to be a different work environment than I am used to, for the time I have lived in Playa Del Carmen I have always had sort of a mobile office situation, often I work at internet hotspots or at home, then the rest of my work I do at the various buildings. The big change here is that I will be tied to a fixed location, which I guess will have its perks.
