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I am watching CNBC and they are saying that Wal-Mart receives up to three new law suits per day. This puts things in perspective for a lone entrepreneur.
I find it interesting that Sam Walton took himself from the ground up. He built a business that is a giant in the retail industry. There were days where he probably doubted himself and nights when he lost sleep. Yet, he trudged on and made Wal-Mart what it is today.
Now that Wal-Mart is hugely successful- people want a part of that. Lawyers wake up each morning and ask themselves how they can get a piece of the pie. Employees drum up employment scenarios which might afford them their day in court. How different would the world be if people devoted their time to making others' lives better vs. figuring out how to make them struggle.
Sunday, November 16, 2008
Monday, November 10, 2008
Christmas Eve
Entrepsychologist is a blog made for entertainment purposes only. This is not intended to dispense psychological advice. If you need help, please seek the services of a licensed professional.
Entrepsychologist is a blog made for entertainment purposes only. This is not intended to dispense psychological advice. If you need help, please seek the services of a licensed professional.Ahhh...So after firing two previous web developers and frantically hiring a third over the weekend. I managed to pull my site together just in the nick of time. My huge ad was due to hit mailboxes today. Ironically, my site finally made it to the server around 5 pm, when most people are arriving home from work and checking their mail.I learned a very time consuming and costly lesson this weekend: There are WEB TEMPLATES that make life much easier. All the programming is already DONE! Yes, that means those nice little "forgot your password," and other programming conveniences are already written into the template. All you have to do is plug in your content.I could have been up and running months ago had I known this. In any case I am finally up and running with my first venture TONIGHT. All there is left to do is sit and wait. I feel like I did when I was a child, wondering what Santa would bring me under the tree in the morning.It is difficult for me to fall asleep because I want to hear the clicks come in on my inbox. Yet, I am also anxious to get to sleep quickly so I can see what awaits on the other side. This is the absolute thrill that entrepreneurism brings, and I don't think I will ever get tired of this.
Thursday, November 6, 2008
Who says Im not using my degree
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The entrepreneurial lifestyle is such a bipolar dynamic. Yesterday was such a great day. I was told by my webprogrammer for FreudTV that it would be finished by 5pm, and I was busy testing and debugging Aesthetic Genetics for its live date next week. I actually had a full work day and felt like I was finally gelling. I even had lunch with my mom and kind of smirked under my breath as I saw all the corporate herds coming in and out of their cages...er..offices.
I was up until 11:30 pm last night and my web programmer for FreudTV was still telling me that the site would soon be up. I could wait no longer, but woke up around 5 am in a cold panic, realizing I hadn't actually seen any product from the new guy I hired on Sunday. I thought "Colleen you dumb*&% ! What if this guy has completely taken the piss and is sleeping soundly with his family. " I had already paid him, so what motivation would he have?
I saw that he was online this morning and told him my thought and asked him to atleast show me something because I couldn't wait any longer. He became rather upset and told me to shove it. Ok, he didn't tell me to shove it, but he said that he was going to refund my programming fees and only charge me for design, because he was "bothered" that i was accusing him of scamming me.
I hired him at 12:30 yesterday to fix my programming. I felt like I had just been punched in the gut. I immediately called him, thinking that it might help to hear my voice. He was obviously ruffled but finally relented, and agreed to finish the programming.
Lesson Learned- Sometimes electronic communication is not the best method. Humans need to hear actual humans some time. Tone can be misinterpreted and it certainly was in my case.
I guess being trained as a psychologist doesn't hurt either. My first instinct was to jump down his throat and ask him how he possibly could think anyone wouldn't be skeptical after not seeing any product after four days. However, I bypassed this notion and instead told him I appreciated how he could feel after working on something so long and being accused of the opposite. I explained to him how I felt vulnerable as a rookie entrepreneur and didn't want my site to reflect that during my first opening. This resulted in a much better outcome (1) he didn't hang up on me (2) he did not shoot a virus through my phone and zap my computer (3) my programming and complete website will be finished shortly (fingers crossed)
all in a day's work...
The entrepreneurial lifestyle is such a bipolar dynamic. Yesterday was such a great day. I was told by my webprogrammer for FreudTV that it would be finished by 5pm, and I was busy testing and debugging Aesthetic Genetics for its live date next week. I actually had a full work day and felt like I was finally gelling. I even had lunch with my mom and kind of smirked under my breath as I saw all the corporate herds coming in and out of their cages...er..offices.
I was up until 11:30 pm last night and my web programmer for FreudTV was still telling me that the site would soon be up. I could wait no longer, but woke up around 5 am in a cold panic, realizing I hadn't actually seen any product from the new guy I hired on Sunday. I thought "Colleen you dumb*&% ! What if this guy has completely taken the piss and is sleeping soundly with his family. " I had already paid him, so what motivation would he have?
I saw that he was online this morning and told him my thought and asked him to atleast show me something because I couldn't wait any longer. He became rather upset and told me to shove it. Ok, he didn't tell me to shove it, but he said that he was going to refund my programming fees and only charge me for design, because he was "bothered" that i was accusing him of scamming me.
I hired him at 12:30 yesterday to fix my programming. I felt like I had just been punched in the gut. I immediately called him, thinking that it might help to hear my voice. He was obviously ruffled but finally relented, and agreed to finish the programming.
Lesson Learned- Sometimes electronic communication is not the best method. Humans need to hear actual humans some time. Tone can be misinterpreted and it certainly was in my case.
I guess being trained as a psychologist doesn't hurt either. My first instinct was to jump down his throat and ask him how he possibly could think anyone wouldn't be skeptical after not seeing any product after four days. However, I bypassed this notion and instead told him I appreciated how he could feel after working on something so long and being accused of the opposite. I explained to him how I felt vulnerable as a rookie entrepreneur and didn't want my site to reflect that during my first opening. This resulted in a much better outcome (1) he didn't hang up on me (2) he did not shoot a virus through my phone and zap my computer (3) my programming and complete website will be finished shortly (fingers crossed)
all in a day's work...
Monday, November 3, 2008
Treading Water...
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Well they say you have to "have the courage to lose sight of the shore if you want to discover new oceans." This quote pretty much sums up how I have felt the past week. I feel a bit like I am swimming in a huge sea without a life preserver. I am just treading water, waiting for something to give, something for me to grab on to, to keep me afloat.
Recently my dad expressed his doubts about what I am doing with my life and said that I needed to get a "real job." This is likely something many entrepreneurs have encountered. It's interesting how much more impact a parent's criticism can make. Ever since we've had that talk, I have noticed my thoughts becoming more negative about my career outlook. I find myself longing for the security that a regular job provides.
Yet, there is a bigger part of me that calmly states, "just wait." That is what I am doing tonight. I have a very expensive ad in an upcoming magazine that has been mailed out today. I asked for feedback about my website from craigslist and boy did I get it. I received at least 75 emails telling me what was wrong with it and how ugly it looked. I hired someone within the hour to redesign the site.
At the same time the original web developers still have not got the payment gateway to work. Images are not uploading correctly, and to register is a completely other mess. I feel like I am holding my breath and just praying that this all comes together at the right time.
Why is it that web developers jump to get your project, yet once you hire them, you never hear from them? or you hear from them on their own time (which by the way appears to be between the hours of 11pm and 4 am).
I know that this is part of what I signed up for, but the stress is really wearing me down tonight. I hope that I can sleep and wake up to a beautiful, well-programmed site.
Well they say you have to "have the courage to lose sight of the shore if you want to discover new oceans." This quote pretty much sums up how I have felt the past week. I feel a bit like I am swimming in a huge sea without a life preserver. I am just treading water, waiting for something to give, something for me to grab on to, to keep me afloat.
Recently my dad expressed his doubts about what I am doing with my life and said that I needed to get a "real job." This is likely something many entrepreneurs have encountered. It's interesting how much more impact a parent's criticism can make. Ever since we've had that talk, I have noticed my thoughts becoming more negative about my career outlook. I find myself longing for the security that a regular job provides.
Yet, there is a bigger part of me that calmly states, "just wait." That is what I am doing tonight. I have a very expensive ad in an upcoming magazine that has been mailed out today. I asked for feedback about my website from craigslist and boy did I get it. I received at least 75 emails telling me what was wrong with it and how ugly it looked. I hired someone within the hour to redesign the site.
At the same time the original web developers still have not got the payment gateway to work. Images are not uploading correctly, and to register is a completely other mess. I feel like I am holding my breath and just praying that this all comes together at the right time.
Why is it that web developers jump to get your project, yet once you hire them, you never hear from them? or you hear from them on their own time (which by the way appears to be between the hours of 11pm and 4 am).
I know that this is part of what I signed up for, but the stress is really wearing me down tonight. I hope that I can sleep and wake up to a beautiful, well-programmed site.
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