I’m a B-B-B-B-B-BAD Blogger

A couple days ago I had the privilege of being featured on Liz Strauss’ Successful-Blog BAD Bloggers series.

Liz had tracked me down via MyBlogLog [which, in a brilliant right turn of a business model, has re-invented itself into a pretty decent networking and social tagging site] and emailed me to tell me why, if I was serious about my Internet business, I needed her Perfect Virtual Manager service.

Now I’m usually highly suspicious when someone tries to tell me what I need, but a day later I was on Skype with Liz. In a few short sentences she comprehended what I was trying to do, analyzed my immediate needs and suggested a couple resources to fill in the gaps for my business.

The next day I received emails from both of the people she had referred me to saying that Liz had suggested to them to get in touch. In other words, she make it really easy for me [a shy procrastinator] to take an important step and get some much needed help with my business.

In the couple days since, I have hired the designer she recommended [rescuing me from the perils of eLance, where I had just posted my first project] to create a new theme for THIS SITE, finally! And have chatted quite a bit with Benjamin and I’m pretty sure we’ll do some work together too at some point soon.

I’m seeing the value in this Perfect Manager thing. Liz makes problems and bottlenecks go away, and that is good for business. These kind of steps require a leap of faith which is not always easy on a tight budget.

What I’m seeing lately is that when I ask myself how to solve a problem, the answer is more and more, “get help” as opposed to, “do it myself” which is how it used to be.

The most important factor in building a real business is the ability to scale large. Even if a task can be easily handled by me it still may not be the best for the business for me to do it.

My new rule of thumb is that if I’m doing something that is going to be done more than once, I’d better be writing an instruction guide or process design while I do it, otherwise I’m not doing what’s best for the long term of my business.

Oh, by the way, Liz has this cool blogging networking evening once a week on her site called Open Comments. It’s like the blogging version of “open mic.” It starts with a post with out a post…only comments, and a suggested theme. Good fun, check it out at 8pm Eastern time everyTuesday nightat Liz’s place.

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