Taking a chance with a new business can be a real roller coaster. Of course that’s obvious and a cliché but it really hit me how one week, things are looking desperate, then next you feel you’re on the cusp of taking over the world! These aren’t mild ups and downs but violent peaks and troughs!
Surfing. Catching waves is just part of it but the ‘forced meditation’ as you sit out there and wait, in nature, is such a good way to disconnect from the stress of life and business. It also teaches you a lot about fear, commitment, patience, equality, chance, persistence… I could go on. Had a great surf this morning so it’s on my mind…
OK, this was quite some years ago – not sure it would work now. We did an Easter Egg hunt on our website and invited hundreds of thousands of people to take part. There were prizes if they found one of the 100 or so eggs hidden around the site but the site had over 4,000 pages. So each person was given a clue, being a search term they could put into Google. If they did that, then the first page on our website they found in the listings would have the egg. So all of a sudden, we have 1,000’s of people doings searches in Google and scrolling to page 2 or page 4 or wherever it was to click on our search listing. Hard to prove but I bet Google’s algorithm loved that engagement and CTR 😊
My wife – she’s a teacher with a much more emotional, human-focused point of view than my logical, business-focused outlook. As such she’ll grasp and understand things that don’t make sense to me. I’m complimenting her here but she probably wouldn’t like to be referred to as a resource! I’d never be without her anyway.
My first business partner in my first business. Unflappable, methodical, possibly too relaxed but a great one to bounce off when I’m worrying about something.
He who owns the leads controls the market. Or something like that – basically, if you have a product/service/idea that generates the customers you’re in the driver’s seat when it comes to generating a return. It’s harder for a good product to find a large market than it is for a large market to find a good product.
Google Ads. Not very exciting, hey? But I’ll hop on and tweak it several times a day as I have since 2003! And when I find a negative keyword that will save me $1.65 a month, it’s a reason to celebrate!
Leading a humdrum, comfortable life. That scares the s**t out of me and just visualising that is enough to give me an extra boost during the day and to take an extra risk or two. What’s the quote – ‘You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.’
Right now I’m wearing shorts, t-shirt and thongs as I work away in my co-working space near the beach. I think I’ve forgotten how to tie a tie – I’d have to ask my son to do it!
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