A few 2008 goals for my little business:
- Show more gratitude to my clients. I’m straight up terrible at this – I didn’t even send Christmas cards this year. I’m really not a grinch, and next year I’m going to aim to be more thankful and communicate that better.
- Attract two medium-to-large web projects (e-com, real estate, etc.) in the course of the year.
- Finally find a reliable web design contractor. I really don’t like web design, although with enough blood, sweat and tears, I can usually put something together that doesn’t seer the iris. I’d much rather concentrate on functionality, marketing and analytics. That requires outside help, but so far my attemps to partner with designers have failed miserably.
- Blog more! Ahhh….!!!
There…only four – that’s not intimidating. Here’s comes 2008!
I’m glad to be able to go to PubCon this December in Las Vegas! It should be a great conference, with plenty to learn from the sessions, speakers, keynotes and after conference chats. Last year I got to attend, but was only sent for about 16 hours. The sole purpose for my attendance was to join the Meet the Google Engineers session, where my employer thought I would learn some grand secret to the Google algorithm (yeah, right). It was fun nevertheless, but I’m glad to get to go all week this year. I haven’t really been to a search conference since SES NY in 2005.
I think several of my former co-workers will be there as well, like Tony Wright and maybe Jeff Martin of cardsdirect.com. Maybe I can steal some of their money to gamble. 
A co-worker introduced me to ConceptShare yesterday, and I’m definitely going to be using for my next web project. It allows teams of people to organize, share, discuss and collaborate on ideas.
Obviously this could be used for many different projects, as you can see here, but for a web design contractor, this is dynamite. Anyone on the team can mark up and make notes alongside the comp, providing instant feedback without worrying about versions flying across the email wires.
Anybody need a website? I’m dying to use this now…
