Firsts - The Obstacles When Starting a Business Venture - It's Just Like the Rest of Life

Published in Print Exclusively In the Windham Eagle, Windham Maine - January 22, 2016

 Starting a business and becoming an entrepreneur (for the first time) is not about taking one step at a time, it's about getting beyond the firsts - maybe many first or even a series of first (purposly left singular).  The advice here is when you encounter a first, don't consider the task, consider it as a first - you have done 100s of firsts before.

First Anything - Just Do It

Think about what scares us in life - it's not the doing of something over and over, it's about doing those things for the first time.  But those firsts are more than scary, they also become our most revered and treasured memories. Think about it - Here are some examples of our firsts.

• First Day of School - Elementary, JHS, HS, College
• First Date, first Dance, first Girlfriend/Boyfriend, first Kiss, first Time
• First Love, first Child

• First Job, first Sales Call, first Rejection, first Sale
• (Celebration of the first $Dollar$ pinned or framed on the wall)
• First Business, first Hire, first Office

What's common here?  It's the word first. When we are afraid or scared, it's because it's your first time.  It is not about being insurmountable or impossible - it's just that we have never done it ir been there before.

Remember, your first time at anything has an unknown element to it - the unknowns, by their very nature, at a minimum, cause us hesitation - at the most, cause us fear.

Any venture, any opportunity, any challenge, and much of life is about doing, and getting beyond, your firsts.

We celebrate firsts. We reminisce of firsts.

"When was the last time you did something for the first time". ~ John C. Maxwell

"What makes the Biggest Difference in ones chance of success - Doing It"  ~rel

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Getting your SEO / Ranking Possibilities Right from Day One - SEO Tips Series

So you are creating a website and your objective is to get found.  The first thing you do is go to the network registrars and get your domain name (URL).  From the beginning (NOW) lets do it right.  Let's get your website's SEO off to the right start.

One of the first things the search engines look at is how long the website has been around.  It's the first piece of information in establishing and setting a level of trust.  Think of it in terms of job hunting - recruiters look for stable people who have been stable in their job history (funny oxymoron their).  The search engines have been programed the same way; has this website been around a while?  This one is tough to control if you are just out of school or a new website.

The next thing they look at is how long you (your URL) plans on being around.  Again, like job hunting, planned stability counts; like buying a house or any root planting scenarios.  In the case of your website URL, if you bought it for one year verses buying it for 7 years speaks loudly to your plans and confidence.  One Year domain are many times just flyers - not a lot of confidence in its existence thus not a lot of trust given by the search engines in return.  Buying for 7 years is like saying: “I want to be taken seriously.

SEO Tip Bug

Start out on the right foot with your website - for the extra $100, the search engines will take you a bit more seriously from the get-go.

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Bob Leonard
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