Being a small start up, unless of course being over the age of two no longer qualifies as a start up company, we are faced with many difficulties in our day to day operation. Money is always tight, productivity is not what we would like it to be, and the catch 22 is in order to increase productivity and expand and grow, it takes money.
Lately we have been working on our own projects outside the realm of actual paying clients and contracts. We have been trying to get these other projects off the ground at the expense of those paying gigs, actually turning work away. Why? For one reason, the other projects we are working on will generate income that we can then plow back into the company to expand and grow and continue to make this a prosperous venture. As any good entrepreneur knows, not all projects work out the way they were first planned. Still others become dead and merely fade away, while some thrive to a certain degree and plateau only to grow again, and still others take off like a rocket and require unlimited amounts of time, resources and effort. We have experienced every facet of this part of running our business. It has allowed us to grow, to learn, and to actually see some work come to fruition.
One of the things that has been learned recently by our company is not to rush into a project that sounds great on paper, but has not been thought through completely. Such is the case of our latest and greatest project. We have been trying to launch this project for approximately the last three months, each time having an issue that has popped up related to things not thought of before, it may have been related to a change in technology or the way we can be most efficient given that technology, and perhaps manpower changing as others matters popped up unexpectedly.
As I sat trying to generate a press release for the latest launch of the project, I could not help but think back on the last three months and see the amount of time, effort, sacrifice and money that has gone into producing this project. The only thing that was completely clear, is the project was a horrible representation of what I wanted. It never reached the pinnacle of pride I would have in presenting it to the world as a project our company would stand behind. It in essence was a failure or pure unadulterated crap. That is a hard pill to swallow for a business owner and entrepreneur, but a pill that is required to be taken. I’m not sure the future of the project, but for now we are going to approach it with a different vision. We will do this the old fashion way, we will not rush in and present an unacceptable product that will be a representation of our company and our work.
You will be seeing more effort put into what matters most to us at One By One Media, and that is blogging and making companies understand how blogging can help their company cross over to the next level in an online presence. Business like life, involves the learning of hard lessons, but a lesson learned nonetheless.
Thanks for this extremely honest discription of what seems like a bit of a balls up. It took guts to blog about it, and you seem genuinely upset. Just learn your lessons and move on. No need to beat yourself up. Chin up, ok?
Thank you so much for your honesty here. I have been going through the same stuff… having to be patient and sift through mounds of minor details to get to the next step in trying to accomplish a goal that keeps changing form. The technologies are always changing and it is njot easy to keep up! I am glad I am not the only one going through this right now.
Thanks again and blessings to you.
many thanks for the sincerity relative to lessons learned in your blogging business. I believe Thomas Edison had a saying he failed 10,000 times before getting the “light on”.
In our fast paced world, where we can get a meal in minutes, entertained at teh flick of a switch, commucicate locally or accross the globe in seconds, or travel with in a day to anywhere on the globe….we skew our day to day perspectives and expectations.
Blogging to many is still new. with Morre’s law…all changes in the tech world at mach speed.
So, business is an amalgm of facility, business machines, computers and the caveat of a team of people.
I am looking at your site here and sense an enormous commitment to excellence in design and function..
Yep, two years in a business is still in it’s infancy….and riddled with teh ever ongoing and changing learning curve.
Nothing ever takes the place of persistance…coupled with the integrity you aptly shared …here.
In the meantime…the best to you…