"Go across the strip and turn right on Paradise. If you're going to find customers for online food ordering and delivery this has to be the most fertile recruiting grounds in Las Vegas. Hell, maybe even the whole world." The town of Las Vegas has over 140,000 hotel rooms. Last year it had 40 million rooms rented. The two numbers I shared are by far and away the greatest amount of any city in the country - I didn't know this; but the only city in the world with more hotel rooms than Las Vegas; Paris, France. It has 142,000 according to Wikianswers.
At the time of my statement, I was smack dab in the middle of giving my ex wife (Melissa) the Chinatown tour. "So let me get this straight. You're telling me that you already have ten restaurants in Chinatown signed up and ready to go with another ten more on the hook." Well, ten restaurants and ten more on the hook is being modest about how many could actually go on the site; but for the sake of simplicity I answered her query as follows. "Look, I'm positive that we could sign forty restaurants in Chinatown alone. After that, the sky is the limit! I say this because I'm well versed in how it all works. When I was working for another site. The drawback was I didn't have many restaurants; so a lot of the proprietors automatically start to think you're an amateur and pass on the service. Now, I've got the connections to load Asian restaurants like no one else. So the plan would be to use Chinatown as the jumping off point. Once other proprietors see that kind of volume. They'll line up to sign with you. The Mexican joint, the Italian place, the hamburger stand. The volume provided by the restaurants in Chinatown will give us the credibility we'll need to sign everything else!"
After the visual part of the tour was over, we decided to stop at The Cosmopolitan for a drink. "I see the restaurants and the places to market your service. What would you do for a website?" I answered her question from a voice of experience. "Look, when I was in Texas. We bought a clone site and it was OK. The thing is, I was unable to get all of the other functions going. Times have changed! I'm talking about a massive amount of relevant content now! I'd sleep better at night and so would any potential investor if they knew the site was in the hands of a professional and when I say a professional; I mean someone I know personally. I realize that it might be cost prohibitive in the beginning but I've had a web guy pegged for a while. I'm not sure what his thoughts are. I take that back. I know exactly what his thoughts are. He wants to see investment before he does anything. There's another guy in Las Vegas who would be an ideal candidate as well; but again it boils down to what any potential investor thinks."
After our drink at the Cosmo, we walked next door to watch the fountain show at Bellagio; for those of you who have never seen it; I recommend it highly. As we're standing there waiting for the show to begin, I tell her this. "Look, I know you got it. Tell me you got it." She looked at me and nodded. I then added this, "Grandma was kind enough to throw a starving dog a bone. I took that bone and spread it all around Chinatown. Not only was I able to sign up a number of restaurants. I gained a nice degree of credibility with my Asian partners. Grandma's generosity allowed me to knock on the door, so to speak. If I'm going to keep talking in puns. Think of it this way: If I can find other people to throw me a bone or two. I'll knock the door down on this. The research, the work, the planning, the focus, the vision, it's all there. I just need a stroke of luck soon."
I couldn't make this up if I tried. After I told Melissa that I needed a stroke of luck. The fountain show started. The show is accompanied by a music ensemble and the first song that played was Sinatra's 'Luck be a Lady.' If I live to be a thousand; I will always remember that moment.
I like to end every post of mine with a thought I'm having...Call it the village idiot thought of the day. "Today Melissa and I had lunch before she had to go back to Kansas. She told me something that made me want to both punch myself in the nose and pat myself on the back. 'It's too bad you didn't have your Chinatown idea together when we were a couple. I was making twice the money then. I would have stroked you a check in a heartbeat; but now that's not possible. Don't lose your hope. If you can find the right person with the necessary resources to absorb everything you showed me. You'll make it work."
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