Fly on the E-Commerce Cyberwall

So, Jeff, what do you want to do when you grow up?
Um, isn't 51 is a little old to be wondering that?

But I've been noticing lately that I'll set out to write an article and it eventually turn more into a personal development article than a technical article on specific techniques for Internet businesses.

Maybe a lot of that is that, after the wild, wild, crazy journey my life has been, personal development is a subject that I've been forced to confront to an even greater degree than the Web marketing I make my living at.

I've worked in some very unrelated careers and dabbled in a few others, and I've found some common threads through them all. And they come back to how poorly we often utilize the most valuable resource that any of us has: ourselves.

I guess I'm not going to be able to shake that focus and make this site a plain, vanilla, marketing advice site. What each of us has experienced in our lives shapes us in unique ways. And that's what distinguishes us and what we do.

I'm beginning to see that making itself felt in the way I approach this site. And, although it takes me in a different direction than I expected this site to go, I have to follow it.

And it promises to do something that makes this site different from all those plain, vanilla marketing advice sites out there. It gives it a personal voice.

I'm still pondering what all this means for the site, but I trust it will bring about a stronger site with greater value to its visitors. And that's what it needs to be.
Jeff