What a day behind us! It is even hard to begin, it had been so busy and full of events. As we woke up, we received an email from the landlady saying, that we can meet up at 11 o clock at her sons online marketing office in the 3rd district (Brandlift Online Brand Management), where we get the chance to show our idea and concept of Lost in Budapest. We were already out of the flat at 9AM, being too excited and we decided to go and get a nice breakfast and talk through what we want to say about the bar. Unfortunately after going to the bank and sorting some stuff out, we only had time to get some food quick and headed off to Obuda.
The office is in a really nice building full of new companies, all of them seemed very modern, and the one we went into was especially nice. It had beanbags and even had basketball loop on the garbage bin. We met the son of the landlady, who is the owner of this company, and went into a meeting room with funny quotes on the wall. The first impression for us, was that we found the right people to work with, it was all professional, they gave us a chance to show the idea, that they knew was really good. It was our best decision to work with pages like facebook, blogger and youtube, since it gives you the opportunity to show your statistics so far with the business. Every week it was interesting for us to track from which countries people follow us, and now it became so useful, because we were able to show them, that half of our readers are Hungarians (best group:)), and the other half is totally international. Lets just say, 3 weeks ago it seemed impossible to have 1300 views on our blog and have so many people interested in what we do. In a way every day is an adventure for us, we have never done it before, but we feel privileged to be in this position, that we worked so hard for. Now we truly believe if it is meant to be, it is going to happen. After all we hope we can prove it is not about how much money you have in your pocket, it is about how much passion you put in what you do in life and about the idea you come up with.
So, the meeting went great, and the son said he really liked the brand. It is very good to be in a situation where you can fully express yourself without anyone judging you. It is always inspiring to see a professional person within the industry understand the brand and its future development. After the joint group meeting, we were left alone with the landlady to discuss the contract step-by-step. Scott is really understanding when it comes to the paperwork and it is easier for us to communicate in hungarian. We went through the contract and everything seems to be in place. All parties agreed on the terms of the contract and the Lost in Budapest brand, then we confirmed all with a handshake and a contract signing hopefully on Monday or the latest Tuesday, due to the late license document to be finalised.
Scott suggested that we revisit the bar just so we can take pictures and notes about the place and we can plan our in bar expenses budget during the weekend, to be all ready for next week. He took lots of pictures and videos of the property and we even discussed about the painting of the outdoor wall at the entrance. There is a cake business next door, we already introduced ourselves to them, and the owners agreed on renovating the walls, which is great news for us.
The weirdest coincidence, that leaves us no doubt, that this is all not a coincidence, is that the property just above the bar is for sale. Of course at the moment we are not planning to buy a flat in Budapest, but we called the agency and told them, we would be interested to rent to property on a long term as it would make total sense being the tenants from below. This is surely a project that will be continued.
After we said our goodbyes to the landlady and took a few pictures with her in it as well, we left with total satisfaction, excitement and trust with all that had occurred.
Our main thought was now to get back to the dogs, as we have been out for a couple hours and we left them on their own quite a lot recently because of the bar hunting. But now with all the current events we can relax and sort out all the financial details of the project. We decided to get the final element to our office today,a printer, so we came home fully prepared for the weekend paperwork overload organisation. Todays events are a lot to take in for us, but it has actually helped to ease the stress and give us the time to concentrate on opening Lost on the 1st June!
All this, shorter and in a form of a video:):
Lost In Budapest Blog Adventures Part 11
Lost In Budapest Blog Adventures Part 11
Music support by Jason Bye!!
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