A Eureka! Moment

It's been a while since my last update but there is a good reason for that. I (rashly, perhaps!) made a promise that the next time I updated my blog, it would be with the news that my website was up and running. I am delighted to say that it is and provides a direct link to the blog to simplify matters. Hopefully. The address is www.thesouthwestbusinessdoctor.co.uk so please click away and see what you think. I asked a guinea pig to 'click on the links' and the immortal response was that they could not get past 'the Link' - having clicked on the 'Link' page instead of the other links like 'About Me' What I Do' as well as the Marketing and Staff Development pages. So much for Captains of Industry! The Link page is work in progress - the rest has been let loose upon the ether.

The whole exercise proved to be a very interesting experience in more ways than one. Plan A was to try and build the thing myself. I found out that there was help and assistance available via some pretty nifty looking software and having a clear idea of what I wanted to put on the site I ploughed on with verbage feeling very proud of myself for daring to embrace technology again and stretch myself.

However, when it came to the techie stuff, despite software inviting me to click on this and import that, allocate domain name, et al, I found that having invested a ludicrous amount of time to the project, the result was patently amateurish.

The moral of the story being that whilst it is good to broaden your horizons, it is equally important to recognise your personal limitations and be prepared to delegate the task to someone with the appropriate experience and skills. You cannot quantify the savings of stress, frustration, time (so much better directed at one's own particular area of expertise) and then in the quality of the finished product.

And in terms of the learning process, I was quickly reminded of the difference between learning how things are done and learning how to do them properly so a big thank you to Ron, my techie genius whose link will soon figure on the 'Links' page but in the meantime, you can always click here on www.doronron.com .

Heaven only knows what Benjamin Franklyn would have made of the internet but his wise words can be interpreted in a myriad of different ways:

'An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.'

Try investing in mine!