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Seth Godin had a blog post today that answered the question<\/p>\nSeth Godin had a blog post today that answered the question<\/p>\n
It’s short and to the point and I encourage you to jump over there for a minute now to read what he said. It’ll help you better understand my list.<\/p>\n
1. Because until you’ve tried it yourself, you’ll have very little idea of (and appreciation for) what’s involved.<\/p>\n
2. Because until you’ve studied it yourself and have a clue of what’s involved, you won’t have any basis on which to evaluate a design or a designer.<\/p>\n
3. Because when you’re first starting out, it simply doesn’t make sense to invest hundreds or thousands of dollars in something like web site design before you have a clue whether or not your new product, service, or market niche stands a chance of success.<\/p>\n
You can easily get a basic web site and blog on-line for under $10. Use your web site and blog to find out what your target market wants (and what they’re willing to pay for it) before you commit a lot of time and money to something you think is a good idea but nobody is willing to buy.<\/p>\n
Like a lot of small business owners, I’ve learned this lesson the hard way.<\/p>\n
As Seth said, “Getting pretty good at things is merely a first step, but one that you need to take in order to be ready to spend the money to get great.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Seth Godin had a blog post today that answered the question<\/p>\n
“Why aren’t you (really) good at graphic design?“ <\/p>\n
It’s short and to the point and I encourage you to jump over there for a minute now to read what he said. It’ll help you better understand my list.<\/p>\n
1. Because until you’ve tried it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","tve_updated_post":"","tve_custom_css":"","tve_user_custom_css":"","tve_globals":{},"tcb2_ready":0,"tcb_editor_enabled":0,"tve_landing_page":"","_tve_header":"","_tve_footer":""},"categories":[95,40,27,21],"tags":[152,154,153,151,125],"class_list":["post-152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-planning","category-business-start-up","category-graphics","category-your-web-site","tag-blog","tag-graphic-design","tag-professional-design","tag-web-site","tag-wordpress","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherylschuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherylschuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherylschuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherylschuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherylschuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sherylschuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1701,"href":"https:\/\/sherylschuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions\/1701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherylschuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherylschuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherylschuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}