Tumblr (3.0; @7geeks)http://blog.7geeks.com/<h1>Welcome Back</h1> <p>7 Geeks is back. Or should it be &#8220;are&#8221; back? Regardless, I have decided to jumpstart the company after countless clients praising the idea. What idea? Well, a completely custom website solution for a flat $100 a month. There will be some better marketing up on the site soon that will explain everything we do and do not offer, but honestly I expect most of my clientele to be referral or cold sales anyway.</p> <h1>So then why a blog?</h1> <p>And so comes the purpose of this blog. If I do not expect to gain many clients from the web, why spend my time writing for a blog? Well, there are two parts to the answer. First, to build up the web presence of the company for the off chance that I do land a client from the web. Just because I do not expect to draw in many clients from the website doesn&#8217;t mean I do not want to. It would be awesome if I could explain the one product/service that my company offers well enough on the site that it would drive money straight into the bank. Secondly, to document the struggle. Yes, I started 7 Geeks, Inc. back in 2005. Since then it has been a web hosting company, an incubator, a custom gaming computer maker, and even non-existent. This time, I am putting it out there for the world to see, and add public scrutiny to the consequence list of not succeeding. Luckily, there is pretty much zero investment, a huge market, and a pretty good product offering. While I do not expect this venture to retire me early, I do expect it to change the way I look at running a business.</p> <h1>Today&#8217;s challenges</h1> <p>The first challenge we have is to add a contact method to the <a href="http://7geeks.com/">website</a>. I spent a few hours putting the site up last night, only to reflect back on it and realize that there isn&#8217;t a contact method. Even if the content is provocative enough for a user to become curious, they wouldn&#8217;t have a way to ask me anything. Next, I need to add a page where I could send clients to sign-up. Clients that are already sold on the idea, know what they are getting into, and just need to provide me with the details of their project. In a later post I will detail how I am accomplishing this all for $0.</p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/7geeks/~4/GcqK_h4mImg" height="1" width="1"/>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/7geeks/~3/GcqK_h4mImg/391965202http://blog.7geeks.com/post/391965202Mon, 15 Feb 2010 21:53:57 -0500http://blog.7geeks.com/post/391965202