Fly on the E-Commerce Cyberwall

Different directions
Sometimes I look back on the original intent of this blog and wonder if I've gotten off the subject I originally intended to cover. After all, my original intent was to give an inside look at the steps I was taking to start my business after building other people's businesses online.

A couple of things made that seem less feasible in retrospect, though. For one, I couldn't really give inside details of the consulting work I was doing on my client's sites, for confidentiality reasons. For another, as eager as I was originally to reveal all the inside info on my progress building my business, I quickly started to question whether it was really wise to reveal sensitive info like sales figures or specific traffic data. And for a third thing, detailing all the grunt work I was doing often gave me the feeling that I was doing nothing more than keeping a rather boring diary of mundane work.

So I've gradually shifted toward discussing those things in general terms. What's developed, though, has been something quite different than I expected. I've found myself largely sharing insights about starting a business rather than the nuts and bolts. Now, whether you find that useful or not, I don't know. But it's where my passion has been leading me, so I guess that's the direction it will continue to go.

I've been thinking a lot lately about how the skills needed to start and run an online business are remarkably similar to successful life skills in general. In the interest of brevity, I won't launch into that tonight, but starting tomorrow night, I want to take a few nights to share my findings on that with you. I hope you'll find it useful.
Jeff