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Website Challenges (9/22/02):
  

One of the big challenges I face with this website is the continual struggle of time and value.  Valuable content normally takes a greater amount of time to write since more research/reading is typically involved.  Additionally, making sure the content is presented in a user-friendly format with proper business principles takes time to implement.  Since this is my first website I have made more than a few errors along the way, which has resulted in a great amount of time being wasted due to rework needed.

If anyone chooses to launch their own website I would HIGHLY encourage them to spend a good deal of time designing the website and determining which tools and business principles will be applied before they launch the website.  It seems like common sense.  Actually.....it is common sense.  

Given my desire to launch this website and that is designed as a non-commercial, information-based website I chose to launch quickly.  However, in making that decision I wasted over $100 on web hosting, the user interfaces weren't the best and the content could be better.  In the last few months I have been correcting my mistakes but it takes A LOT of time to correct past mistakes.  I estimate that I have spent approximately 200 hours fixing problems that should have been designed and executed properly before launching the website.  

I believe that a great deal of the information I present in my articles should seem pretty obvious. Given the way businesses operate today I believe it is increasingly more important to write about common sense business principles.  If the information I present is common sense why are so many companies goofing it up?

I would like to write content that causes you to walk through life and see businesses from a different perspective.  I would like you to see a business and then understand how that business could be operating more efficiently and more profitably. Hopefully you will have the chance to implement some of these ideas with the company you run or work for.  If you don't have such an opportunity get the educational credentials to do so or simply observe........It is such a shame to walk through life without looking at the leaves.

If you liked this article check out the books cited within it:

A timely investment related book to pick up some time.  Deflation will become a more common word in the media in the next five years.  Find out what it is and how it affect you before it is too late!

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The best book on viral marketing.  This book takes "word of mouth" and then applies it to   the business world and how it can dramatically affect a company's growth rate.

Differentiation is the key to long-term profits.  The authors present a marketing-based approach to differentiation that is very insightful. cover

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