I always said the Entrepreneurship is about doing things a little better. And however, just realized how many opportunities to improve your work can miss a day.
I’m probably one of these guys with high expectations. I want the best customers, the best resources the best things. I also have the same expectations for my work: I want to do my best work, give best solutions and be the most efficient. And I’m still missing improvement opportunities, not because I think I already do the best, but because I fail to take note of the value of information I get from people. Strange.
Valuable things I’ve heard this week and didn’t take note until now:
- because of the spam blogging, I took out the comments and trackbacks capability on my blog. I didn’t realize the real implications of this until this week when a colleague said, ok you don’t have comments. So why do you write a blog? Nearly missed this one, until this evening when I remembered it and saw its importance. Blogging is a social thing, not a one way communication. I should put comments back.
- another colleague said, ok, so what’s with the sunflowers on your blog header? I’ve tried to explain him that the sunflowers are from a picture I took few years ago, and which I actually put on Istockphoto for selling.Also, back then, I thought it would be nice to do something more with it – cut it and made a header from it. Ok, but how does it help my readers? Or how does it promote that business/thrust feeling I need to send to my readers? Well, it doesn’t. In the beginning I though he just simply doesn’t like sunflowers. Nearly missed something to improve.
- took out the blog search. This really hurts. I can’t even find my own posts. How could the readers do it if it’s not possible even for me?
I’m a little bit afraid now. How many improvements I missed in the last 2 years? And that’s just for the blog, it’s even more scary if I’m considering it at the business level.
Even worse is to miss the positive things. How often your colleagues, friends or customers said you are doing something excellent and you didn’t really took it into consideration? Those are the things you are already doing ok, and you are maybe not doing them anymore, because you didn’t realize you should do them again. Shame.
Note to myself: should get back the comments and track-backs, the search, and find a relevant header picture. And maybe a domain that defines the blog subject.
PS: I’ve actually got to evaluate the improvements the blog needs while asking myself (and others) what do people think of my writings. Thought about the things people ever told about my blog and realized the value of the information I had in my hands and didn’t know I had. Added the thing about missing positive things when I received a nice feedback from BeckyMcCray from Small Biz Survival: “I can only tell you what I think of you: you are a young entrepreneur who expresses himself very well. You write about experiences that any entrepreneur can understand. I’m glad you share your thoughts with us.“
