scrambledmindsMixed up thoughts on the web world, photography and life.

A piece of shameless self-promotion. I’ve finally managed to take the leap and launch my own business – One Zero One. It’s taken some time and I’ve still got a long way to go but it’s exciting (and challenging) times.

Anyone that know’s me personally knows that I’m always talking about “new ventures”. Read that as I’m always talking about new ideas to do my own thing. One thing that I noticed once you’ve taken that step is that you start identifying potential opportunities left and right. I have a list as long as my arm of potential opportunities for someone to solve a problem.

Now, I’d love to be working on all of these but there’s one problem. I only have about 16 waking hours in the day and they’re already full. I wish I had more more time as there is so much opportunity out there. Particularly as the Internet and Digital world grows and matures there’s going to be more opportunities than ever.

So where am I going with this? Well, I thought I’d start a series of posts that highlight some of the problems that I run across. Where a problem exists, so does and opportunity so I thought it would be a good idea to put the ideas out there. What if I shared some of the ideas i have? What if I could have more hours in the day? I think that last one was solved in Harry Potter with that Time Turner thing.

Stay tuned.

Image courtesy of Adreanna

Have any of your heard of The Flight of the Conchords?  They’re a comedy musical duo from New Zealand with a fantastic album and TV series.  If you haven’t, you should check them out.  Here’s some stuff on youtube.  They’re hilarious!

I’ve found some peculiar inspiration from their song Business Time (linked above).  I’ll let you listen to it, but towards the end of the song is a lyric along the lines of  “… and you know what time it is when I’m down to just my socks?  It’s business time!  That’s why they call them business socks…”.  Genius.

Apart from being genius, and referring to something else entirely, this line holds some truth for me in my career.  After quite a few years in the Enterprise IT space, I’ve been thinking for some time that I needed to do something else.  I wanted a change.  I needed to strip back to my socks and start again.  I came to the conclusion that it was time to merge my love of technology, particularly the web, and my love of helping people.

Great linkage, huh?  But wait!  There’s more!

As a result I’ve decided to start my own thing providing training and advice to businesses about how to bring the power of the web to benefit their business.  I get to talk about the web.  I get to meet cool people.  I get to help said cool people.  Enough?  I think so.

It’s time to give it a go.  I’ll be at least able to say I’ve tried!  So, as the song says – It’s Business Time.

ps. When I launch, which will be very soon, it’ll be called 101 (i.e. one zero one).  The first offering will be training for virtualising your business to work from anywhere, opening the doors of the web through search and getting your goods in an online store.  What do you think?

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