I know things have been fairly quiet on the site (or dead, to be slightly more blunt) since our launch way back in the hotter days of late August. Fotunately the silence around here hasn’t equaled silence behind the scenes, as we’ve been amazingly busy getting our first projects ready for launch, including an online guidebook/news site and a chapbook from one of our favorite authors.
The site, CaliforniaGuideBook.com, is currently up and functioning, but still has a few additions to go through before it is “officially” launched. It is a mere couple weeks away from full functionality, which will culminate in the largest and most comprehensive guidebook and theme park-related news source ever created, in print or online. Topping out at a little over 500 pages, CaliforniaGuideBook.com will feature in-depth reviews of all attractions, shops and restaurants in Disneyland, Disney’s California Adventure, Knott’s Berry Farm, Universal Studios Hollywood, Six Flags Magic Mountain, SeaWorld San Diego, Legoland California, San Diego Zoo and San Diego Wild Animal Park. We’ll also have information and reviews on main points of interests in San Diego, Orange County, Los Angeles and San Francisco. This, of course, will be in addition to recommendations on where to stay and other goodies. So, in essence, a site of this scale on California travel and tourism hasn’t been done before; it’s a ton of work, but we’re excited about it!
The other big thing going on around PackFlat HQ is finalizing design and promo details for the very first book from PackFlat Publications, “Death of the Dream Singer”, by Dave Hart. The work is a chapbook of narrative poems by one of Seattle’s most talented young authors.
On the more day-to-day operational side, PackFlat HQ recently moved to Tempe, Arizona, taking up space inside the offices of redPear, a local start-up specializing in websites, internet applications and dandy iPhone apps (redPear is also the company-child of PackFlat co-founder Brandon Willey). One of the things we love about being in Phoenix and working with the creative dynamic out here is happily extending to our corporate digs – in the same building, we also share space with the talents of Tomas Carrillo (The Closet Entrepreneur), Jack Smith (The Social Latte) and the fine folks over at The Social Media Bible. I still, however, can’t tear myself away for too long from the sweet patio at Coffee Rush).
I’ll be updating our blog here often with updates on what we’re up to, as well as our office neighbors and other cool and fun things happening with PackFlat and in the general Phoenix entrepreneur community. Until then!
-Will