If You HAD to Start Over - What would you do Different???

[frugalwench]

Originally Posted by KirkhamsEbooks

Wouldn't you want to slowly add content to your permanent site?

Rick

Yes, I would, but I don't really have over 15 pages of content now. The content is on an article site, and it's linked from my website to there. My true website only has about 3 pages. I need to move the other pages over to make it seem like a real site, not just a landing page to other sites. I hate landing page only sites that lead to everywhere else. Don't know why, but I do, so I don't want mine to be like that.

[bronnamdi]

I will limit myself to only one website until I can earn a reasonable income from that site before getting another one.

[frugalwench]

This may be duplicate content, but I was surfing around looking for a great free content manager today, and ran across this and had to share.

Christopher Heng has a great article on his site about his biggest regrets in starting his sites. I thought it made some good, common, valid points, and it made me feel better. because there's only one or two I'm guilty of right now.

You can read the rest of the article here.

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Linda edited out the 2 paragraphs from the article. At the bottom it says "Please do not reproduce this article in whole or part, in any form, without obtaining my written permission."

[Linda Buquet]

Title: My Biggest Website Regrets and Mistakes
Learn from my mistakes on website design, promotion, income, etc.

Thanks that looks like a good one!

[ExpAds]

You can always do things differently after experiencing various senarios. In my personal business, I havent been doing it long enough to say what I would have done different besides recruit more clients!

[Greenline]

I would not have spent money on buying unresponsive traffic and spent it on adwords instead.

Secondly i would not have become addicted to paid directory submission (one more just one more).

[kbldshmn]

I'd have considered PPC's a lot sooner and not closed off my mind from it. Actually, maybe my answer to this questioni is to keep an open mind to possibilities.

[KirkhamsEbooks]

You know I am simply having no luck with them. Of course it's a martial arts niche so it could be that

Rick

[Linda Buquet]

ShoeMoney talks about what he would do if he had to start over.

"The most common question asked on this blog, interviews, and emails I get is always “if I had to start over tomorrow with nothing what would I do”. It’s a hard question for me to answer. There are an extraordinary amount of opportunities to make 100$ per day. I mean I can think of probably 50 off the top of my head. The problem is those just don’t work for us anymore. I am not a one-person operation anymore. We now have a large office with 5 employees, our own server racks, and many other expenses so that we have to make thousands per day just to break even. So messing around with things that make 100$ per day just no longer works for us."

As Success Grows Opportunities Shrink - ShoeMoney®

[Darwin]

As a business grows its need for input grows as well. A whale consumes so much more than a sardine.

If you are truly starting over and have a business with partners or employees it means those partners and employees must start over too. Whoever relies on your for their livelyhood must find new resources to sustain their life.

You can never truly start over as you began the firs time. Everything is always different, your knowledge, the economy, friends, family etc.

Things always look differently from above looking down then from below looking up. I believe it's impossible to Start Over but it's totally possible to start a new chapter or a new adventure.