5 Ways Of Overcoming Website Blues

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Created On: 25 Jun 2007 11:02 AM

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5 Ways Of Overcoming Website Blues

You’ve been hacking away at your website but you’re no closer to completing the many tasks you have and there seems to be no end in sight. You don’t think that you’re doing things right and like clockwork, you’re not. Your visitors have reduced and you’re not selling.

What do you do?

  1. Take A Break
    One of the many reasons why things are nastily spinning out of control is that you are out of control. You are creating the situation. Take a break. Go out. Go for a walk. Take your family out. Go see a movie. Go to the pub. Get out and go someplace where you can just let your mind wander.
     
  2. You’ll Learn
    The feelings of doubt you’re having is normal. You’re not a failure, just a little burnt out. One of the greatest aspects of removing yourself from a situation and then returning to it is that you have fresh eyes. Dire straits now are opportunities because you had rest and you were able to put things into perspective. The reason why you’re successful is that you’re able to learn and implement what you’ve learned.
     
  3. You Can’t Do Everything At Once
    Websites are like anything else in life. You have to do things a step at a time. Creating content is time consuming. Maintaining your website can be time intensive especially if you don’t have in place a system that allows you to maximise your time while minimising each task. Doing everything at once will create a website that looks rushed and incomplete.#
     
  4. It’s OK To Make Mistakes
    With our success driven culture, we often forget that in order to attain the status that we see people who are branded as successful requires trial by error many times over. The reason why they were successful is because those individuals learned from those mistakes but more importantly also allowed themselves to make mistakes. Without those mistakes, they couldn’t have known what they know now and probably wouldn’t have been as successful.
     
  5. Ask For Help
    As a website business owner, you can get bogged down with all the details. Sometimes asking for help is the right and necessary solution to get out of the fog. People in similar positions such as yourself can give you ideas about what worked for them. It’s still up to you to test the ones that you think will work, however, you will now have information and a better way to assess your situation.

The website blues is a temporary condition. With these website builder tactics you will be on your way to creating and implementing a successful website builder campaign.