20 February 2010

Still Crazy After All These Years

You've heard or read it all over the net, you have to switch to
all the new changes and adapt to the new thing or go out of
business. Bullsh**!

In the past couple hours, I did a copy and paste of all the blog
posts on this from 2006 through 2008.

Here's what I learned:
1. Technology may have changed, but the needs of small business
owners and especially Solo Entrepreneurs has not. Business is
still business.

2. Most of the tools and sites I referenced are still available.
A few have changed their business model, but they haven't gone
anywhere.

3. Static websites, ezines, building links and getting targeted
traffic is still the order of the day for marketing online. The
emergence of the current options to market a product or service
are nice and may in time prove to be evergreen. But they
haven't replaced anything.

Does that mean you can remain unaware of the changes? No, but it
also means you must make the business decision if using any of
them will matter whether you have a profitable venture or not.

No matter what comes out of the current or future bright shiny
package
, it will still come down to planning, adjusting and
taking action
that moves you forward in your business.
Period, no arguments.

I've beaten this horse since 2005, and from what I see in 2010
it's pretty much the same view.

There will always be people willing to suck on that illusion of
'something for nothing'...there will always remain the 'get
rich quick junkies' living in the fog and there's nothing any
of us can do about it.

That's my little history lesson for today and I leave you with
this:
Early to bed and early to rise - till you get enough money to do otherwise.
~Peter's Almanac