Our motley crew of joiners, brickies and labourours are good at grunt work and taking plenty of tea breaks, but we could never achieive the cosmetic finish that is required, so we need to use a 3rd party in this area and we'll add Regdate the the list of potential contractors.
Nightfly (or Rob from Gala) handed his notice in in Nottingham on Sunday. I doubt whether it will be a suprise to anyone that he is joining Dusk Till Dawn, as I have always had a good relationship with him at Gala. The reason he is joining so early, is to ensure that we do a full and thorough job on planning, designing and recruiting for the Card Room, which is the most important area of the club.
Rob is a very diligent person, and cares passionatley about what he does, although sometimes he takes critism and bit too personally - exactly like me, so we should work well togther.
So, our little new company has now become five: me (finance), Chubbs (Marketing), Shrew (Refurbishment) , Bigpete (our IT guys name on Blonde) and Nightfly (Cardroom). We have a few more potential joiners but nothing confirmed yet. Unfortunately, when I did my budget I started from when the Club actually opens, and ignored the fact we would have to take people on early and pay wages with no revenue coming in, I didn't want to make the figures look even worse...........
Our web site is being written. we looked at the Gutshot, Fox Poker, Full House etc and designed our own. Phase 1 of the web site is just to allow people to provide their details for membership online and we hope to launch this end of January. The rest of the content will be worked on until the club opens in late 2006.
Now Simons job really starts, as he needs to collect the details of members so I can show the Magistrates Court at the end of April 2006 ("prove there is demand"). We have finalised the Standard and VIP membership scheme for Dusk Till Dawn and this will be up on Phase 1 of our web site. I noticed that the Fox Club, who have also applied for a gaming licence, put an article in Poker Europe that they will be charging fees of £275-£475 per annum. This just backs up the argument that a UK legal card room cannot be operated without a membership fee due to the additional costs associated with the Gaming Commission etc.
Cheers and thanks again for the weekend. Hopefully Dusk Till Dawn and Blondepoker can have a close relationship going forward.
