Monday, July 04, 2005
Creativity
On my way to see my wife's parents last week, we stopped to see our son Jon. As usual, we got into our usual conversation about his freelance art and acting and eBay work.
I had to chuckle as he talked about how much fun he was having building his eBay business. He was talking like an entrepreneur, which he had always sworn he would never become.
I had always urged him to add some affiliate links to his website to bring in a little income. But, no, that wasn't for him. He wanted to be creative, not a businessman.
So now he's carving out a niche for himself on eBay with mystery auctions and looking at ways to promote them and build his audience. I pointed out the incongruity with his long-stated desire to avoid thinking like a businessman. He laughed. "I just never realized that building a business is just another way of being creative."
I guess I had the same misapprehension when I was younger. I saw merchants as simply out to get my money while giving as little as possible in return. That's the way that TV and movies often picture businesspeople, as thieves in fancy suits, out to rip as many people as they can.
But while there are definitely some that fall into that category, I've found most entrepreneurs to be quite different. It really is a creative field, and a field you can't survive in for long unless you are willing to give more than you get.
So here's to the creativity of entrepreneurs, finding new ways to solve the problems others experience!
Jeff
P.S. The two SiteBuildIt websites I planned to buy on the special offer I described last week are now in my possession. The first one, I'll observe my son Joel develop a soccer-related site to see how easily someone with limited experience on the web can build a site with this all-in-one tool.
The second one I'll start on later this summer, most likely with a romantic theme that my wife and I can work on together. On that site, I'll focus on comparing SiteBuildIt's integrated tools to the individual tools I've always used to build my sites.
I'll keep you informed on my findings as I go along.
Jeff
On my way to see my wife's parents last week, we stopped to see our son Jon. As usual, we got into our usual conversation about his freelance art and acting and eBay work.
I had to chuckle as he talked about how much fun he was having building his eBay business. He was talking like an entrepreneur, which he had always sworn he would never become.
I had always urged him to add some affiliate links to his website to bring in a little income. But, no, that wasn't for him. He wanted to be creative, not a businessman.
So now he's carving out a niche for himself on eBay with mystery auctions and looking at ways to promote them and build his audience. I pointed out the incongruity with his long-stated desire to avoid thinking like a businessman. He laughed. "I just never realized that building a business is just another way of being creative."
I guess I had the same misapprehension when I was younger. I saw merchants as simply out to get my money while giving as little as possible in return. That's the way that TV and movies often picture businesspeople, as thieves in fancy suits, out to rip as many people as they can.
But while there are definitely some that fall into that category, I've found most entrepreneurs to be quite different. It really is a creative field, and a field you can't survive in for long unless you are willing to give more than you get.
So here's to the creativity of entrepreneurs, finding new ways to solve the problems others experience!
Jeff
P.S. The two SiteBuildIt websites I planned to buy on the special offer I described last week are now in my possession. The first one, I'll observe my son Joel develop a soccer-related site to see how easily someone with limited experience on the web can build a site with this all-in-one tool.
The second one I'll start on later this summer, most likely with a romantic theme that my wife and I can work on together. On that site, I'll focus on comparing SiteBuildIt's integrated tools to the individual tools I've always used to build my sites.
I'll keep you informed on my findings as I go along.
Jeff
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