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Can You Maintain JuraganBuku?

juraganbuku.com is doing excellent! with minimum (almost zero) marketing, we have more buyers than we expected. our account credit never makes it past halfway into the month and we have to keep on circulating the money. we plan to open links to amazon.de and japan very soon. amazon has offered to develop an integrated system for us to make it easier to maintain buyers, orders, and payments. we already have a solid customer base and several customers (especially corporate buyers) pledging spendings of tens of thousand USDs.

so what's the problem? there's no one that focuses purely on maintaining juraganbuku. in the beginning we thought sales would be mediocre and myself and several others could manage it. with orders off the roof, its getting out of control because we have to manage communication with amazon, with the customers, we have to maintain the system, upgrade the system, maintain the website, financial management, and the list goes on and on..

with a major contract deal for avevo only a signing away, my time for juraganbuku will be evermore divided. so im planning to rent an apartment or house as a base in jakarta (we currently still do not have a base in jakarta at the moment) and hire someone to maintain juraganbuku. the jobdesc would be but not limited to:
1. Marketing and promoting the site on the web
2. Maintain communication with amazon.com
3. maintain communication with customers
4. monitor the financials

since its launch, ive found that the most satisfying part of juraganbuku would probably be:
1. customers notifying their gratitude and satisfaction of the service.
2. old friends buzzing me on ym saying things like: "hey! i heard the juraganbuku site from my professor at XYZ university. isn't the site yours? wow i cant believe the owner of juraganbuku is a friend of mine!"

okay the last part does bloat up my head, but i cant help putting a wide grin on my face and feel lifted when that happens.

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