Andew Woods, my gaming solicitor is coming round to my house tonight with reems of licencing paperwork to fill out. My sister, Patricia, stays at my house on Tuesday evenings and Wedndesday day times every week, so I am unable to do meetings during these times, not a bad thing really, it gives me a break and allows me to review things.
2 years ago my parents and my sister moved next door to me which allows us to manage the transition to Patricia living full time with me, my sister needs a lot of help due to her disiabiility and it makes sense to do things gradually. It also makes it easier to liase with my mum who runs my disabled chairity. I'm terrible for having things geograhically close to me, I even moved the head office of sf group from Birmingham to Nottingham and it is now in walking distance of my house.
I intend to visit the Cincinatti Club, in Glasgow, this weekend to play the £10,000 Littlewoods guarenteed tourney, its a bit of a hike from Nottingham, but after meeting the Jocks at the Blonde Bash, I'd like to support their event. Chubby and Nick should be coming with me and it won't do any halm to see what the clubs like, maybe pick up some advice / tips
Then tomorrow I have a meeting with Richard Altoft, my Nat West bank manager, to sort out the bank account for the club etc. He's a good bloke, although he's not really jumping up and down with excitement about this venture! These types of people are often very safe and risk adverse, but I'm gonna spends some time explaining to him exactly what we are doing, even though we're not asking him for any loans (yet!), Bank Managers just like you to keep them informed, it makes them feel comfortable and you never know when you might need them! No matter how you are doing, going broke can be just around the corner for any entreprenneur, there were times in my recruitment business when I expanded it too quickly that I could not even afford to pay the VAT bill and Richard bailed my ass out many times.
I feel there is a fundamental difference when I do business projects nowadays that make things run a lot smoother, mainly cause I have managed to build long term relationships with accountants, lawyers, banks etc. You need these guys behind you, they ask the difficult questions and cause they have become tied into you financially they actually have your best interest at heart for a change. Above all, they trust you and you trust them, they are more like friends than business contacts. I used to hate paying them extortionate professional fees but now I realise their importance.
Admittedly, the poker business is new to me, and I have found that its been harder to get people to trust me, even Nighfly keeps saying "whats the catch, you gonna pay me more wages and give me my dream job, there must be a catch". Other people I have talked to in poker have also been sceptical about my intentions, but you just gotta gain their trust over time or walk away, as the bottom line is, most employers and business people are actually out for themselves and there is nearly always a price that they will shaft you for, but hey, XXXX them.
Bit of a waffly post today,
