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Are You Making these Four Website Marketing Mistakes?

I screwed up.

I have hodge-podged this site together for a long time – writing blog posts and updating things whenever I could get around to it.  You may be familiar with the world-famous ’round tuit’  above…

But once I became interested in writing and developing educational programs about building better websites,  I needed to rework this site to correct the marketing mistakes I had made due to rushing through everything.

Like that old saying goes, “Doctor, heal thyself!”

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The Best Time to Avoid Small Business Website Mistakes is At the Beginning

Most of the articles you will read about common website mistakes to avoid involve either bad web design elements or SEO problems. This article is a bit different.

In this article I’m going to share with you why I feel that the most terrible websites disasters happen LONG before anyone hires a web developer or sets out to learn how to build a website on their own.

I believe that the worst website mistakes either start at a desk in your back office or around your kitchen table late at night.

A  NASA project engineer once wrote  “The seeds of problems [in a project] are laid down early.  Initial planning is the most vital part of a project.  A review of most failed projects or project problems indicates that the disasters were well planned to happen from the start.”

When I was in the Army an old sergeant put it more bluntly “Proper Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance.”

I strongly believe that piss poor planning can mess up even the most beautifully designed and constructed website.

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