I'm not sure if I can tell which it is.
Plenty of things are going on in my life, but I think I'm too lazy and then I cover it up by saying I don't have time because of the activity.
Aidan's now 2 and half years old. He's reading, running, playing with his bat and ball. He's an awesome kid and we are completely in love with him. As do other children, he learns at such a fast pace, and we love that about him. When we correct him on his speech, he's always making sure we follow our own rules. "Don't say 'Yeah' papa, say 'YES'"
Living in India has made us pay more attention to the English language. There are grammatical errors, missing words, misspellings, all over the place. So we've made a point to train our employees as well as Aidan about proper speech and communication.
We understand we're not perfect, but I guess we're doing our part of supporting some kind of etiquette and clean practices.
I'd love to be able to keep a consistent account of my activity and thoughts. But I suppose that concept gets tossed in the backseat with all the other things I'd like to do in my life.
So according to the date of the last time I wrote in here, we're almost up to a year since.
In the time passed, my Indian developer has moved on to a new job that brought him to London, so he's happy about that. Luis f***ed me over with a web project he was assigned to. I firmly believe he owes me like $10K. It would be easier to work up new business than to go chase his ass about it.
I won't be taking any new small development projects on anytime soon. My trust factor is pretty damn low right now. I don't think we can successfully motivate remote developers. If they don't work because they love it, and they don't work for money, then I have no time to go studying the psychology of it all. I'd rather continue on a different path, getting me closer to success than to drag my company down on BS paths that lead nowhere.
I do have some long term people that we can trust for large scale projects, but I think I'm done with the little stuff for a while. It's either a tough economy, or I'm attracting the wrong audience. People sign up for projects and then when it's nearly done they some how know everything about development and want to tell me how do my job, run my business and how to invoice. Unbelievable. It's times like those that I wish development companies had insurance claims to fall back on. Some kind of assurance that we'll get our money. Healthcare has it pretty nice. We heal you, we don't heal you, you still pay. Love it...
Anyway, Machus SEO is all fired up. And that's probably the only way I don't go crazy on those other topics on a regular basis.
We've got an excellent crew, solid packages, and a growing sales staff.
We're partnering up with a company out of New Mexico at the moment. He's all sales and he's looking to sell our packages as his own, and outsource to us at discounted prices. So far it's working out. He'll hit the streets next week with his updated material. So I'm excited to see how this works out.
Imran, Farrah, Aidan, and I attended Datta's wedding this week. He's our SEO manager that's doing an excellent job. Imran is one of his analysts. The wedding was my first non-christian wedding ceremonies that I've experienced, (that I know of). It was interesting. I'm white, and his boss, so people were surprised to see me there and were acting like it was the biggest honor for them. I certainly appreciated the hospitality. It was fun. They asked me to wear a turban called Pagadi, which was fine but it was PINK of all colors. People back home laughed it up when they saw the pics on facebook ;) but these guys see pink a different way. Not gender related.
