DAY 125

Update:Friday, 15-Jul-2005 2:57 PM

It's the middle of July already and I need to reflect on some of the events during my blogging. I think it's a healthy dose of medicine to look back at some of the predictions, evaluate what was done and plan to do more or better at least for the future.

I think it helps greatly to look at what has worked and what has not and that in turn helps with future decisions.

Let me discuss some of the mistakes that I have made. Perhaps the foremost is trying to do too much. My focus has to be on building the Maxsimo Card Network via maxsimo.com --this is my primary project and it is suppose to be the "Grand Program" that paves the way for me to build the the middle steps of the 31-Step Success Plan.

One of the ideas that I put a "lot of stock" in was to have a full-blown sales area as part of this site. I haven't changed my mind on the sales area, but what I have made certain of is that I restrict the products to the best products that I have used or am aware of.

For example, instead of having a sales area with hundreds of products and services, why not have a sales are with the best products that can help users build business success? This then should be the thrust of the Business Success Center.

I can still sell a Business Credit Building Manual, however, I can keep the price low as possible. I can also offer a "private area" to people who want a summary of the site and the promotional techniques that I use. This I can actually give away free to those who are subscribed to my mailing list.

Looking at the main revenue generating ideas from P31.COM, I am satisfied with the tasks that I have done and the tasks that I have yet to do. That leaves me with two other projects to discuss: The nextsuperstock and the maxsimo.com site.

I have updated www.nextsuperstock.com and perhaps, I need to go thru the site about two more times to make sure that is 'as good as it can be'.

That leaves me with Maxsimo.com...

This was the project that is suppose to "elevate my work" to the next level and keep me busy most of the day. The problem was that the programmer that I had relied on to complete all the tasks has departed after doing 95% of the work. The problem with that is two fold. The 95% that is complete is after I had cut about 50% of the work in the first place. The second problem is that the 5% that has not been done leaves the other 95% of the work not working.

From about mid June to now, this situation has caused me a great deal of pain --the very notion that someone who I had trusted greatly and had paid ahead of time to get the work done completely lied to me and then has taken off from finishing the work. This kept me up some night in the beginning of July and then it consumed a lot of my day-time work hours.

Now I am thinking the benefit of going after this individual is not worth the effort, and it's not my style. The way I work is to *exceed* regardless of what other choose to do, and in this instance I need to show this individual that the cost of what he did is not on my end, but on his end.

In fact, I know that this individual will lose out on a lot of pay because he did not work full time as I was told nor did he complete the work. I know for a fact that this will cost this individual about $100,000 in pay over the next 12 months. Too bad. That is not my fault.

Nor is it my concern now.

My concern is to make sure that the maxsimo.com project is the best it can be regardless of who I work with. Having said that I spent about a week looking at people I have work with and I went back to an old organization that I had worked with in 1999. I had left their services to have some programmers in the Philippines get my work done. Well, that too didn't work that well. I should have learned from that, but I went on to find more offshore programmers.

Now I have come back to the Dutch company that I worked with earlier and they do quality work. It does cost a lot more, but again, I know I'll get what I pay for.

In this case I want to have two projects worked on: First maxsimo.com, which I have developed a complete "White Paper" --In case you are not familiar with a 'white paper', it is a detailed description of maxsimo.com and what different parts of it will do. It's a description from the first page to the ADMIN area to the advertising. The 'white paper' discuss all parts of it in non-technical English. What the programmers do is take that paper and make it "come alive" online to my specifications.

Anyway, the white paper will be done by the new Dutch company and I can rest assured that it will get done properly.

The second part of the operation is to completely overhaul the tools at maxsimo.com. I want to improve all the tools so that they are current to 2005 or even 2006 standards.

For example, robobanner.com can be a complete banner management system like Google's Adwords(R) or the type of ad program run by Yahoo(R). Furthermore, robobanner can be setup to run the ad programs for maxsimo.com.

So, each of the tools can be updated and enhanced to make a significant contribution to maxsimo.com's success. I want to make sure of that by making the tools better.

The only tool that does not need to be greatly improved is optinmax.com and the ezine subscription system. I feel that is done well and it does what is needed for the user.

All the other tools such as exitmax, omnileads and robobanner could stand a good dose of improvement.

All of these items then will get white papers and then get delivered to the new programmers to do their work.

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