No More Clients Through 2007

25th October 2007

It’s official - Search Commander Inc. will not be engaging any new search marketing clients through the remainder of 2007, and possibly longer.

Those close to me know this has been coming for a while now, but I wanted to wait until the expiration of any pending proposals that were out there so this wouldn’t appear as some sort of sales tactic.

I am traveling to Los Angeles for five days in late November for SES, and I am speaking at Pubcon in Las Vegas in December. Throw in the Holidays that are fast approaching, and it makes sense to officially clear our plate now.

Another reason I’ve made this decision is because we have been launching at least two new wesbsites a month of our own, and over the next couple of months, extra attention needs to be given to those projects, and we’re just not going to hire even more people to do that.

Part of my inspiration for this decision came from Jeremy Shoemaker - a.k.a. Shoemoney - from a blog entry where he happened to mention this post.

You can see the development cycle of their new website go from from a concept in a chat conversation to reality in under two weeks, and much of that time was spent waiting for a programmer.

That’s the “fun” part of this business that attracted me in the first place, and something I really want to get back to.

By temporarily not accepting new clients, we can continue to build our affiliate network of sites and give them and other projects the attention they deserve.

The reason I decided to post this today is the news that yesterday, Facebook sold a very small percentage of their business to Microsoft for 240 million dollars. This this comes less than four years after founder Matk Zuckerberg started Facebook from his dorm room. That’s pretty eye-opening, huh?

I have dozens of domain names reflecting what I consider to be “great ideas” that are registered and parked, in need of nothing but a well optimized site and regular content additions.

Instead of pursuing those ideas and working on them for our own benefit, I find myself having discussion after discussion with potential new clients, customizing sales proposals, managing employee time, and basically not doing what I love anymore.

Perhaps this temporary client hiatus will turn into a New Years resolution and a complete new direction? Only time will tell…