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“To Get Candor , you reward it, praise it. Most of all, you yourself demonstrate it in an exuberant and even exaggerated way”. — Jack Welch
I’m pleased to announce that SmallBusinessDelivered.com is launching a new business directory this week. This directory has been in the works for a little while and it is finally ready for its initial rollout. To get it started I’ve put together ten categories for people to use to find what they need. Each category contains outbound links to useful business related websites. And each link comes with a paragraph long description of the website to make choosing the best website for your needs that much easier. And as a final touch we’ve included the Google page rank for each website to help indicate popularity.
But just in case your wondering why we’ve put together a directory I’ll explain. For starters search engines like Google and Yahoo are great but they do have flaws. Often what you are searching for will not be included in the results. Or not within the first couple of pages at least. You get stuck searching through website after website trying to find exactly what it is you need. This can be time consuming and frustrating as well. With the paragraph description instead of one line I’m hoping to make it easier to find what you need. Each website is actually visited and reviewed so that the description is relatively accurate.
I also wanted to make sure that people that use the directories have an easy time navigating the pages. We’ve started with ten categories but it will be expanding rather quickly. we’ve started each category with the 5 most relavent websites that we could find for each category. But we will also be expanding the listings in each category as well. I’m hoping that 50 links now will become 250 or more before the end of the year.
Each category is of course business related. Here our initial list of 10 categories.
1. Bartering Excanges
2. Business Brokers
3. Business Franchises
4. Business Incubators
5. Chambers of Commerce
6. Ezine Article Sites
7. Factoring Companies
8. Freelance Opportunities
9. Inventory Liquidators
10. Traffic Exchanges
So look for the directory to launch before the end of the week. And if you have a topic to suggest please let me know.
I mentioned in a recent post that I’d read a business biography on Google. One of the things that was mentioned was all the tools Google has been developing over the years. For quit awhile now I had been looking for some better tools to track website traffic than those provided by my hosting service. Before I had read the book I had taken a quick look at Google Analiytics but didn’t really go indepth with it. I signed up for an acount but essentially forgot about it for a few months. You see one of the issues with the system is that the tracking code needs to be added to the html code of each page of a website so that you can fully track your visitors activity. Well www.SmallBusinessDelivered.com consists of hundreds of pages so you can see the obvious problem. It takes time.
I’d also taaken a look at a bunch of paid services as well but found many of them lacking. So I decided to revisit Google Analytics again and try a few pages as a test. Well once I did I was soon hooked. Google has done a really good job of providing an invaluable tool for website owners to get an accurate read on the traffic that comes their way. And knowing your traffic allows you too learn what works and what doesn’t on a website. The best part of it all is that Google Analytics is free. And every smart business owner loves free tools. So if you haven’t checked out this program and you own a website it might be time for you to take a look.
When someone chooses to become an entrepreneur they choose to follow a very different path than if they were to work for someone else. They have chosen to take the lead in building their own futures instead of allowing someone else dictate what their futures might look like. But business is about the future. Entrepreneurs are palying a game that is going to go on for a long time and because of this they need to be patient.
I know for a fact that having patience can be extrememly difficult. I’ve often been guilty of wishing that everything I was trying to achieve had already been accomplished. I’d get so caught up in looking towards the future that I would neglect the present. As an entrepreneur you have to set goals and be focused on achieving them but you need to be patient about it. Enjoy what you have going for yourself. Yes you may want you business to grow bigger and get better as fast as possible. If you stay focused on the present that will all take care of itself over the long run. So have a little patience because you will achieve your goals in time but for now enjoy the game that you get to play.
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